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Below says avoid extreme changes

As the season grows shorter, a well-known crop specialist has been recommending against drastically changing maturity.

Fred Below at the University of Illinois tells Brownfield Ag News he got many questions about shifting to faster maturing varieties.

“If they would be normally growing a 114-day corn hybrid, do they go to a 95,” said Below in an interview with Brownfield Ag News, Wednesday, at the Leaders in Farming Technology Media Summit in Champaign, Illinois. “My advice is that wasn’t necessary.”

Below says he told growers in those cases to maybe go to 108 or 110-day corn, but to avoid extremes.

“There’s still a lot of season that’s left,” said Below, “and we could fill this crop into the middle of September.”