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Beck’s manager in Upper Midwest sees large increase in corn acres

A regional manager for Beck’s Hybrids says farmers in the Upper Midwest are shifting more acres to corn.

Heather Morris is based in North Dakota and covers the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

“Sales never stop, and (earlier this month) actually a grower had decided to shift even more of his bean acres into corn. So we’re always looking at how we can accommodate that.”

She tells Brownfield Beck’s is growing its soybean footprint in the region this year.

“We’re definitely going to still be up slightly year-over-year in beans, but we are definitely seeing much larger increases in those corn acres.”

Morris says some soybean acres are going into other crops like sunflowers and edible beans this spring.