date:Nov 14, 2012
southern plots are in the 4.0 to 4.9 maturity range, and very few are shorter than a 3.6. There also has been some success in recent years with 2.9 in Kentucky.
We plant them about April 15, about a week after the corn planters start rolling. We stretch that vegetative growth window, and were kind of making a 2.9 acting more like a 3.6, Ebelhar said.
It will still come out early, still catch that early harvest market in August, but we get that many more weeks of vegetative growth and that mu