Will not need the I states corn much longer

[Hobbyfarmer]

532 BPA: Another Corn Record

By DTN Staff

NCGA announced winners of its 2015 corn yield contest on Friday. David Hula of Virginia once again breaks the contest record with 532 bushels per acre on irrigated land.

OMAHA (DTN) -- Another year, another corn yield record.

David Hula of Charles City, Virginia, recaptured bragging rights to the world record corn yield with his 532.0271 bushels per acre entry into the 2015 National Corn Growers Association Yield Contest. That mark beat the 2014 yield of 503.7910 produced from Valdosta, Georgia, farmer Randy Dowdy, which marked the first time a U.S. corn yield contest entry topped the 500-bushel mark.

Hula's record yield came in the no-till/strip-till irrigated category. Dowdy had the top yield in the regular irrigated category, and the second- highest yield overall, with 486.1594 bushels per acre. NCGA officials said there was a record five entries that topped the 400-bushels-per-acre mark.

The national average corn yield for the 2015 crop year, according to current USDA projections, was 169.3 bushels per acre.

NCGA released results from its 2015 contests Friday. It was the 51st year of the corn contest, which saw 7,729 entries.

"The National Corn Yield Contest drives so many corn farmers to initially join NCGA," Patty Mann, chairwoman of NCGA's Grower Services Action Team, said in a press release. "While they may initially join to gain contest entry, these members become increasingly involved and supportive as they learn more about the breadth of activities NCGA carries out on farmers' behalf.

The 2015 season isn't Hula's first world record. He broke previous marks in 2013 with a 455-bushel-per-acre yield.

For the complete list of national and state winners, visit http://www.ncga.com/…

[timetippingpt]

It would be real nice if the environmental cost of these yields were deducted from the total. Sure, the impacts are all non-point source and thus, since ag gets exempted for some ridiculous reason, the impacts are non-economic to the farmer. So, we can ignore them.

All this fall tillage in the east is going to put a few million tons of topsoil in the gulf after this rain event.

[unlgrad]

What  agency of the government should be watching this free pass the farmer gets?   I hope you are not serious, but if you want more regulation, I imagine the EPA or the USDA would be quite happy to oblige.

[sw363535]

Time I am a little nervy on that entry as well.

Are we reading from the manuel on "confiscation of private property for the good of society "  

I am sure if regulatory agencies took over that field they could whittle that yield down to 30 or 40 bu per acre in short order.  With a cost of less than $2500 per bushel.  The peasantry will be excited to buy their pound of corn for only $45.

Or you infering that the producer poluted his soil or "our" water in the process..... I bet the same spot is back in the contest in the future..........

OOOr... Is it just bad advertising on the part of the seed company?    What's the BEEF?

[BA Deere]

What I noticed is the biggest brands of seed in these contests is Pioneer and DeKalb 🙂  to hear alternative seed brand dealers talk "Oh that pioneer is #%@* !"   but like I`ve always said if I was in a yield contest money no object, I`d be planting DeKalb.

The "I states" should always be a player because we can raise corn cheaper mostly without irrigation.  But these contests that get the 500 bu yields, they really have to baby it, they plant 2mph, spoon feed N, have the Holy grail of P and K and micros and Quick Roots.  And you`re going to put your yield contest on the "old feedlot" portion of the farm that always got manure. 

I`d like to see whole fields of 500 bu corn (100 acres and 50,000 bushel over the scale at the elevator) when that happens then we`re in a new ballgame.

[OKdon]

Less than half a crop indeed! That is hardly acceptable!

[hardnox]

I was interested in that comment as well but waited to see what sort of responses it flushed out.

I recently got an earful from some Iowa folks (who aren't directly involved in ag) when I made a comment on the Des Moines waterworks suit that I thought there were reasonable steps that could reduce the nutrient load.

My take on that was that they'd read some op eds to the effect that it was an unreasonable overreach by the enviros and whatnot and basically just landed in their tribal wheelhouse.

You can bet that if stuff is showing up in the small amount of flow that is diverted by the city a whole bunch is on the way to the gulf, one of  hundreds of accumulation points.

Adam Smith never said it was OK to pee in your neighbor's well but I suppose Ayn Rand did.

[tractor12]

just a note on the contest corn , when i was in it both pioneer and dekalb both paid the entry fee and i am sure others do as well. so it always looked like farmers entered more pioneer and dekalb because it did not cost them to enter. they both have some good corn but all the seed companies do if you compare equal genetics. it is a good program.

[ECIN]

What I would rather see is a contest that the winner won the most economical acre of corn - not taking anything away from Mr Hula - But what is this kind of info worth ? It's worthless for most that raise corn - So If  " Time " or I have irrigation - chicken or any kind of manure - or what ever - then we would give Mr. Hula a run for his money as well as anybody from IL or Iowa - But as BA said - we do it with normal conditions - well what ever normal is any more . The NCGA are just promoting bad practices to me .

btw - it keeps staying this warm here in the Hoosier state and it won't surpise me to see somebody pulling out there planter in a week or so -

Time - You have the boat ready ??

[timetippingpt]

Why should ag be exempted from all the laws protecting the public's interest in clean water? No need for new agencies, IDEM already exists and brings the hammer down on animal ag when it is deserved. Grain ag is exempt? What makes you so special? Nothing except you had a powerful political lobby to create a special set of rules for a privledged classs, grain ag.

You might note that alot of the companies exploiting the exemption are hardly a family living on 400 acres anymore (as was normal when the exemption was passed).

The data collection is becoming quite sophisticated and the discharge from ag fields is quite condemning. Especially when there are established and data proven ways to greatly minimize discharge that are only being implemented by very few. The data is being completely ignored for a whole lot of pretty weak reasons by most.

Yes, you can shoot the messenger, and yes, regulation has costs, but you see, the farmer's actions are the cause of the forced regulation. You have been given 40 years of a chance at voluntary compliance but rather have chosen to exploit your exemption.

I was merely requesting that the context yields be adjusted for environmental impact to their neighbors, basically a golden rule kind of request.