BIG CORN YIELDS

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bradley martin

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• Dec 15, 2021

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The National Corn Growers Association released the results of the annual yield contest....top 3 finishers in 9 categories. David Hula of Virginia once again showed the crop's potential with a yield of over 600 bushels per acre. A relative of his was in the high 5s, an entry or 2 started with a 4, with the majority in the mid to high 300s. These yields are from a minimum of 10 acres, all verified by independent judges. A lot of skill, a lot of inputs,some good luck and some heavenly blessings involved, no doubt. Hula has won multiple years, so he must have a near perfect program!

 

ADB-Ia

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New Sharon, IA

• Dec 15, 2021

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My hypothesis is that part of the recipe for the high yields we see today is the higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Of course seed technology, high fertility, sufficient and timely rain and sunshine, and excellent crop husbandry are the big players but CO2 levels do have an impact. Nature does a great job of balancing things if we let it. A google search will keep you reading for a while.

 

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NY 986

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• Dec 15, 2021

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Is Hula the one that has a field on the James River flats with several feet deep topsoil? Usually, that separates the top producers from the other contestants. There are farmers around here that break 300 bushel per acre yield but again it typically starts with very deep topsoil next to a creek or river.

 

Geo-TH,In

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• Dec 15, 2021

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Wouldn't higher CO2 help all farmer's yield?

 

Steve in VA

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Natural Bridge Virginia

• Dec 15, 2021

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Yes, down around Charles City.

 

ADB-Ia

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New Sharon, IA

• Dec 15, 2021

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I think all crop producers are seeing higher yields even with the same hybrids provided the weather cooperates. There are so many variables that it is hard to quantify differences and then to relate the differences to specific factors. DATA, DATA, DATA! We may all drown in data.

 

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roy prins

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• Dec 15, 2021

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I wonder what the profit level was - if there was any -- they do prove tho that it can be done -- I would like to see the inputs to do that -Rain - P and K ect. Hey Big T -- that in Your neck of the woods? Roy

 

544hydro

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• Dec 15, 2021

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At $4 per bushel, 600-bushel-per-acre corn would gross $2,400 per acre. Is that enough revenue to offset the added cost of shooting for the moon in a yield contest? Hula makes nine passes through the field, between strip-till, planting, fertilizer, and crop protection products. Not counting cash rent, I didnt quite net $1,000 per acre, but I wasnt far from it, Hula says.

 

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coonie minnie

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• Dec 15, 2021

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Great yields were found down wind of the ethanol plant in Monroe, WI.... lots of CO2 coming out of the stack there.

 

db4600

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• Dec 15, 2021

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Big corn makes big pigs. Big pigs make big pig bi products. Big bi products make big corn.

 

big tee

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• Dec 15, 2021

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No--We don't get yields like that around here--I thought when we bought our new picker this year our yields would go up, but they went down--60 bu. tops!!!---Tee

 

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SHALER

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• Dec 15, 2021

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Big Tee, I know you are slightly joking but were there not a couple brothers east of you near Manchester Iowa I beleive that were repeat winners of the big yield contest not many years ago? MAybe they passed on, I dunno.

 

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coonie minnie

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• Dec 15, 2021

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The guy from Manchester who supposedly broke the 400 bu yield barrier about 20 years ago was found to be cheating. If I remember right, he had two gravity boxes, and one had more weight hidden on it somewhere. He weighed the light one for an empty weight, and the ballasted one with the full load.

 

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fastfarmall

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• Dec 15, 2021

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Yea if they got topsoil 3 feet thick, that is a big plus for any crop !!!!

 

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Bill(Wis)

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• Dec 16, 2021

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I've sat thru presentations at the Commodity Classic 3 or 4 times where David Hula and Randy Dowdy of Georgia were the featured guests. Entertaining and informative and, yes, they proved that it can be done.

 

big tee

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• Dec 16, 2021

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It is said he had the wagon tires full of fluid on one of them-------

 

BarnyardEngineering

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Rochester, NY

• Dec 16, 2021

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What good would weighting down the wagon do? Bushels is a measure of volume. If you have a 250 bushel gravity wagon and weight it so it weighs as much as a 400 bushel wagon loaded, you fill it, and only 250 bushels come out when you empty it... Wouldn't that be blatantly obvious?

I mean, they sample the corn and get a test weight. Test weight says 56lb/bu, but the wagon weight says 85lb/bu? Gee, how did that happen? I dunnoooooooo...

 

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NY 986

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• Dec 16, 2021

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You are thinking of Francis Childs. I thought he had been cleared of cheating of which the accusation came from his ex-wife.

 

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4520BW

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• Dec 16, 2021

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Must of been a tractor pull to cheat like that!

 

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NY 986

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• Dec 16, 2021

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Around here the deepest spots are down grade for a creek or river where the ground levels out. Some spots historically were locations where the water body actually was held back until the water level rose to clear the given locations. Rare but in those isolated areas the topsoil is rumored to be dozens of feet deep. In this area the history of the land goes back 10,000 years or more so there were many cycles of soil carried down from upstream and deposited in a flood plain. Canaseraga Creek flats over by Dansville, NY would be an example.