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northeastern Ohio | Is that cold germ or warm germ? If warm, I would recommend running a cold germ or a saturated cold germ test: https://www.seedlab.iastate.edu/testing-methods
If you can find an alternative hybrid with better germ, you might be ahead. Probably going to give up 20 to 30 bushel with that low of germ.
Back in 2005, I compared the yield results to the emergence and plotted the results from the 2004 OSU trials. For each 1% increase in emergence, the hybrids gained 2.22 bushel. So if you compared a hybrid that had an emergence of 85% to the same one with 95%, you would likely see 22 bushel difference. Emergence is generally related to the cold germ score. Anyhow, here is the resulting graph:
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Low germination seed question
