An agronomist encourages growers to resist the temptation to simply pick the top two or three local plot winners when choosing seed for next year.

Instead, Mike Smith with Stine Seed recommends looking at multiple years of data.

“Because every year is going to be different, so you begin to see how a hybrid responds in different environments.”

He also uses a process he calls cross-referencing.

“So maybe in southwest Missouri where I happen to live, it was wet early and then got dry late.

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