WinField United Technical Seed Manager. 12+ yrs in Ag industry. NDSU grad: Master’s-Weed Sci. Married with 5 kids. My tweets don’t reflect views of my employer.
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@mbcornfarmer I didn’t send in for those tests, the seed is what I scooped out of a bag a couple years ago and I will acknowledge vigor doesn’t improve with age so that could contribute to the differences but I still think it’s a valid visual demo of what something widely known to impact corn
@thekbaldwin In my experience, wheat seed seems to handle cold weather stress much better than corn seed. Although I can’t say how much better it handles it cause I haven’t researched wheat in this stress all that much.
@JasonSchley I have recently used the seed for other things with better consistency, the difference in this demo is I’m pressing the seeds against the plastic to be visible for video, the seed to soil contact is likely not equal between all the seeds and they might have imbibed water at rates
@CRNAfarmer@RocknRollAgrnmy I wondered the same thing...i have 2 thoughts on it: 1. I pressed the seed embryo against the plastic to try see the radical as it came out via time lapse so maybe that had an impact, 2. The seed I used was a couple years old and maybe there is a little bit of loss of vigor.
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