Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 11/20/17
With only a couple of glitches along the way, the 2017 growing season was just as about perfect a growing season for corn and other crops as we’ve ever seen.  That near perfect weather allowed growers and researched to learn a lot.  NC State Extension Corn Specialist, Dr. Ron Heiniger says one of the big lessons this year was to be pro-active about the weather:
“Yeah, that’s the beauty, I think we’ve seen yields coming up in corn, talked to a lot of growers that say that corn does a lot better than it used to. "

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