New World-Record Corn Yield
By Dan Miller and Karl Wolfshohl
Progressive Farmer
The new world record for corn yield is 503.7910 bushels per acre and it was produced in 2014 by Randy Dowdy of Valdosta, Ga. In fact, four certified yields produced for the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) National Corn Yield Contest bested the yield record set just last year, in 2013. All four of these entries were produced in the South under irrigation.
The results of the annual contest were released Friday morning by the NCGA. The 2014 Corn Yield Contest drew 8,129 entries. A record six national entries surpassed the 400-plus-bushel-per-acre mark.
"While this contest provides individual growers a chance for good-natured competition with their peers, it also advances farming as a whole," said Don Glenn, chairman of NCGA's Production and Stewardship Action Team. "The techniques and practices contest winners develop provide the basis for widely used advances that help farmers across the country excel in a variety of situations, including drought."
"Disbelief," is what Dowdy recalls when the record yield emerged last August from a continuous-corn, twin-row field. "But I knew it was a good one." Dowdy had set a long-term yield of being the first U.S. producer to top 500 bushels in the contest. He did not expect it to happen this year. His production accomplishment is nearly 49 bushels per acre more than the 454.9837-bushel mark set one year ago by David Hula of Charles City, Va. Dowdy hit 500 bushels with his irrigated entry in this, the 50th year of the corn yield contest
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man o man are we ever slacking off up here in the I states
USDA will probably be able to use at least 250bpa or next year's projections.
