By Tom J. Bechman
Delta Farm Press
“Moneyball” was a popular movie released in 2011 that revealed how baseball teams relied on numbers and analytics to decide which players to keep. You could make the case that a decade later, corn breeding is following a similar path at an increasing rate.
Beck’s, Atlanta, Ind., and Computomics, Tubingen, Germany, recently expanded a collaboration that Beck’s plant breeders say will help them deliver high-yielding, region-specific products faster.