https://www.google.com/#q=how+is+hybrid+seed+corn+produced' Great question Paul. Just understanding hybridization is an amazing thing to learn. I wish you could spend an hour with someone like Leon Bird. He's taught me a lot and I know little. He wanted me to try it to learn but I chickened out, I had a great 5 acre plot to do it on, perfect and isolated but I was busy with 3 jobs and raising 3 kids then, 1994. Click on some of the links, some info there more than I could explain in a post. I love hybridization, populations have sky rocketed since it was adopted. http://hymark.blogspot.com/2009/02/hybridization-of-corn.html This new seed chipping deal we saw in Hawaii at the majors is even more complicated. I imagine most farmers are planting chipped seed. I am not. My corn and the corn from your good company there in Minnesota do it the old fashioned way which I like. Happy learning and good question. Ed |