The fourth generation in the Dairyland Seed company says farm cooperators help determine the viability of the company’s hybrids. TJ Strachota says about 400 Midwest farmers grow on-farm strip trials to evaluate Dairyland’s new genetics.
“We’re not just looking for the high-end yield in all the plots,” Strachota told Brownfield Ag News, “we’re looking for things that can hit the high end, those things that perform well on the low end and things that can kind of deliver consistent performance across acres and across geographies.”
A case in point, according to Strachota, is what was learned from 2018 and its high productivity, compared to 2019 with its production challenges.
