With planting off to a slow start across much of the Midwest, many Iowa farmers are starting to worry about losing yields when harvest comes around. The Wyffels Agronomy Team has been getting calls and messages about planting dates how it will correlate to overall average yield in any given year. Dr. Brent Tharp, technical product manager for Wyffels Hybrids, has a deep dive into the correlation between planting dates and final yield.
If planting dates did directly correlate to yields, then the data would create a neat line on a graph. However, Dr. Tharp said that the data doesn?t even come close to that- in fact, it just creates a scatterplot.
All in all, Dr. Tharp said it?s not time to panic just yet. There?s still plenty of time to get the crop in the ground, and it?s better to plant into ideal conditions later instead of mudding in corn right now.
Dr. Tharp added that producers shouldn?t worry about switching their seed and should stick with their hybrid lineups until at least the last week of May. For more information, visit www.wyffels.com.
