This year’s National Corn Growers Association yield winner put up more than 470 bushels per acre and broke record soybean yields despite extreme wet and dry conditions in Michigan.
Don Stall entered his first yield contest in 2003 with 218-bushel corn, this year he harvested 477 bushels to the acre. “It’s everything from the equipment and calibrations, fertility, and we assembled a team of a couple of agronomists that we work with and our seed representative.”
The Mid-Michigan farmer grows nearly 2,500 acres of corn, soybeans and wheat, but dedicates plots each year specifically for yield contests.
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