A familiar name has the top yield in the National Corn Growers Association Corn Yield Contest. Virginia farmer David Hula has won the contest multiple times and this year had a winning yield of over 572 bushels per acre with a Pioneer hybrid. Among the state winners, Tony Meyr of Jackson, Minnesota, had the state’s top yield at over 325 bushels per acre with a Dekalb hybrid. In North Dakota, the overall top yield was 316 bushels per acre. It was a Pioneer hybrid grown by Chad Vander Vorst of Pollock, North Dakota. For South Dakota, Scott McKee of Hawarden was the overall winner with 317 bushels per acre with a Pioneer hybrid. The complete list of national winners can be found at this link. Click here to see the entire list of state winners.
