FIRST managers report on 2022 field conditions before harvest

Andrea Johnson
Sep 23, 2022
Sep 23, 2022

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About the cover: Dusten Williamson, Montevideo, Minn., is a new FIRST farmer-member hosting a corn plot this year. He is holding Gold Country 95-day corn with the FIRST plot behind him. Photo by Andrea Johnson.

FIRST manager Luke Brendemuhl, Red River Valley.

George Amaya

FIRST manager Ed Dahle, central Minnesota.

George Amaya

FIRST manager Mark Querna, southern Minnesota.

George Amaya

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Andrea Johnson

After a slow start to the 2022 planting season, Farmers Independent Research of Seed Technologies (FIRST) managers and farmer-members in Minnesota hope that frost holds off until October.

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