One of the consequences of the warming climate is that the growing season is getting longer. This provides producers with the opportunity to try to get two crops from a field in a season instead of just one. Of course, some farmers are already doing this to improve their income, but this may become more widespread in the future as the economic benefits become more valuable. Here is an interesting story on double-cropping soybeans after irrigated corn in South Carolina and how it is now being used to increase double-cropping in the Mississippi Delta. The trick is to harvest the corn when it is still high moisture so that you can get a soybean crop into the ground quickly and grow it to maturity before the first fall frost. You can read more at Delta Farm Press here.
