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Northeast central NE | Lol it doesn’t matter, not trying to argue. I’ve been growing this stuff for the better part of my 60 years and have seen a lot of changes in corn genetics. Two basic styles of corn genetics exist, an agronomist teacher dumbed it down as deep kernel vs hard kernel. My experience lately has been the majority of the major brands have the latter in their core lineup. A hard kernel that doesn’t finish fully suffers more lost yield potential, that’s been standard belief since I was a kid. You seem to be caught up with the air space between kernels and pack factors. Fact is there are only so many kernels, you don’t get more if they get smaller or lighter. If you have 100 gold nuggets that weigh 1 ounce and 100 that weigh 3/4 of an ounce the lighter nuggets aren’t a better deal because you can pack them tighter with less air space. You still only have one hundred of each. Substitute corn kernels for gold nuggets. The kernels of the same variety were all supposed to be heavy, half got lighter. Not sure if you’re kidding but of course they breed corn for higher test weight and of course there will still be large and small rounds. I personally don’t give a crap what style kernel a hybrid has it’s all about yield for me. Just don’t tell a farmer that has been planting a corn with 60 pounds printed on his settlement sheet that he didn’t take a yield hit when it shows up at 56 pounds after it died young because he did. You can argue kernel weight vs test weight but the number on the tickets are listed under test weight so that’s what we call it. | |
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