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Kettle Moraine, WI | Crop is priced per bushel, not paid for quality and only deducted for light crops that take more storage space (test weight). Seed breeders have had one metric to achieve (yield) alongside agronomic traits. They have gotten real good at that one thing. Do that for 100 years with those blinders on and you get that one trait to perform.
Plant some open pollinated corn and see high likihood in many varieties of 12% protein shelled corn with high methionine. Give up yeild versus racehorse hybrids but many op corn will hit the nutrition metrics from research I have seen. Now who will pay for the higher nutrition and who will grow the lower yields?
Dr Goldstein formerly of Micheal Fields Institute and now Mandaamin has worked with high nutrition corn. Interesting speaker and I heard him talk years ago a few times.
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