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Wyoming, Iowa – 17 September 2024
1. Farmer Cameron Sorgenfrey standing with stalks of corn
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott McFetridge, The Associated Press:
“Farmers on about 30,000 acres throughout the Midwest are testing a new kind of corn. It’s called short corn, and you can see why. It’s about half the size is what we would normally see out on farms throughout the U.S. The short corn has some big advantages. The biggest one is you can withstand wind events better. We’ve been having a lot of those in the Midwest. The second thing is you can just grow more of it on the same amount of land. And that’s especially important at a time where farmers are getting some really pretty poor prices for the corn that they grow.”
3. Close up on ear of corn
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Sorgenfrey, farmer:
“The ear heights a lot lower on her short corn, which is where most of the way it’s at. So that’s keeping us a lot less chance of green snap or lodging, especially late season. We feel a lot more comfortable with leaving this hybrid out in the field a lot longer compared to this big, tall, lengthy one.”
5. Wide view of corn field
6. Wide view of grain bins
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Sorgenfrey, farmer:
“We had the derecho come through in 2020, it was you know, it changed a lot of people’s lives. The next morning, when you woke up or that afternoon when you saw it and drove around, it was a real mess. You know, there are a lot of buildings lost. There are a lot of grain bins, lost houses, trees, lot of stuff destroyed. And most of the corn crop was pretty well flat.”
8. Wide view of farmhouse
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Sorgenfrey, farmer:
“We’ve we’ve seen it in our last couple of years where it’s been out in plots where the green staff ratings and stuff. And Nebraska had an event last year where their short corn was pretty much 90 to 100% stand and the tall corns beside it were 30 to 40.”
10. Short corn sign
11. View of grain bins
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Leake, Bayer:
“With the smart corn system. It enables farmers to get in with machinery that they already have, not needing to purchase new machines and and make that precision application where they don’t have to rely on an aerial application, which is A: more expensive to their bottom line and B: is less prescriptive. So, they’re using more product in areas that they don’t necessarily need to.”
13. View of farmhouse
14. Close up of farm signs
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Sorgenfrey, farmer:
“I feel like the last two years it’s been so much better looking corn out of the gate. It it’s so much more denser with the extra population that, you know, it helps helps on that. And not only that, it grows the same till row closed. So it helps with weed control too, because you have more plants out there and less sunlight hitting the ground.”
16. Metal welcome sign
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Sorgenfrey, farmer:
“Because you drive across the Midwest, you know, maybe in another seven, eight, ten years, you’re going to see a lot more of this out there. You know, it’s just it’s protection is the biggest thing.”
18. Corn tassel
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Cameron Sorgenfrey, farmer:
“We’re in a real low corn market. I think, you know, some of our our best yields are probably gonna come off of our short corn where we push that envelope a little bit more on fertilizer and on population. We just have more ears out there, which is going to be great.”
20. Close up of Iowa windmill sign and grain bins
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