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Top Story for Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Variety selection key to successful farming

Don Day searches for a particular variety of corn seed in the University of Georgia Variety Testing Program laboratory in Grifin, Ga. Day leads the program that focuses on testing seed varieties annually and ranking them for farmers.
Sharon Dowdy

Variety selection

By Sharon Dowdy
University of Georgia

Selecting the best crop variety to plant can determine whether farmers make a profit. One wrong selection can result in acres of nothing to harvest. In farming, no harvest means money lost.

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