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Ovid, Michigan
December 30, 2002
The National Corn Growers
Association released the National Corn Yield Contest results on
December 20 and Great Lakes continued its winning ways with one
national and nine state champions in their 62 entries.
Since 1990,
Great
Lakes Hybrids has won 18.73 percent of the time its hybrids
have been entered. Pioneer is second at 17 percent. States
include: IL, IN, IA, MI, WI, OH, KY, MN, SD, KS, WY, NE, and CO.
The Great Lakes Hybrids champions will be honored at the
Commodity Classic this February in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"Our worldwide genetic research program has created
top-performing hybrids that have proven themselves in an
outstanding fashion in this elite, national arena in each of the
past 13 years," said Mike Stephenson, general manager of Great
Lakes Hybrids. "In that time span, we've produced a higher
winning percentage than companies like DuPont, Monsanto and
Syngenta."
Since 1990, Great Lakes Hybrids produced 694 entries in the NCGA
Corn Yield Contest, with 130 achieving the yields necessary to
become state or national champions. The Great Lakes' hybrid has
won more than 18.7 percent of the time. The chart below shows
how the rest of the top companies in the industry stack up by
winning percentage:
NCGA's National Corn Yield Contest Winning Percentage Since 1990
| Company |
Entries |
Wins |
Win% |
| Great Lakes Hybrids |
694 |
130 |
18.7% |
| DuPont (Pioneer)
|
9,458 |
1,605 |
17.0% |
| Syngenta (NK)
|
1,711 |
235 |
13.7% |
| Dow (Mycogen/Cargill)
|
329 |
36 |
10.9% |
|
Monsanto (Asgrow/Dekalb) |
3,145 |
310 |
9.9% |
| Golden Harvest
|
95 |
6 |
6.3% |
| NC+
|
87 |
5 |
5.7% |
| Garst/AgriPro/Gutwein
|
1,039 |
70 |
6.7% |
|
Channel Bio (Crow's/Midwest) |
664 |
14 |
2.1% |
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"Great performance in an unbiased national contest shows the
strength of
the breeding program we've been developing for years," said
Frank
Hardimon, corn product manager. "Midwestern farmers demand
performance,
and the Great Lakes Hybrids lineup has proven itself in an
elite,
national competition for the past 13 years."
"We were a whisker away from having 20 state champions, as four
of our
winners had already won in a previous class [each winner can
only win
one time], and six other farmers had 4th place finishes. We're
elated
with our performance," adds Tex Young, agronomic services
director for
Great Lakes.
2002 National and State Champions with Great Lakes Hybrids
|
National
Winner |
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|
|
|
| 3rd
|
Griffith Farms |
Mayfield, KY |
Ridge-till non-irr |
6631Bt |
214.8613 bu/A |
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State
Winners |
|
|
|
|
| 1st |
Griffith Farms |
Mayfield, KY |
No-till irrigated |
6317 |
224.2940 bu/A |
| 1st |
Griffith Farms |
Mayfield, KY |
Ridge-till non-irrigated |
6631Bt |
214.8613 bu/A |
| 1st |
Griffith Farms |
Mayfield, KY |
Ridge-till irrigated |
6631Bt |
238.0874 bu/A |
| 1st |
Reba Griffith |
Mayfield, KY |
Irrigated
|
6631Bt |
235.1788 bu/A |
| 1st |
Dan Vetter |
Hicksville, OH |
No-till irrigated
|
Quad-5 |
128.2129 bu/A |
|
2nd |
Chad Yaw |
Imperial, NE |
No-till irrigated |
6278 |
264.1700 bu/A |
|
2nd |
Kent Yaw |
Imperial, NE |
Irrigated
|
6113 |
268.5744 bu/A |
|
3rd |
Ternet Farms |
New Haven, IN |
No-till non-irrigated |
6259 |
191.7811 bu/A |
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3rd |
Nancy Reminger |
Chaffee, MO |
Ridge-till irrigated |
6301Bt |
180.0938 bu/A |
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The NCGA Corn Yield Contest is an annual national competition
among corn
producers with the goal of producing the highest yields. Growers
compete
within a broad range of corn production classes.
States included in the table above are: IL, IN, OH, MI, KY, WI,
IA, SD,
CO, WY, KS and NE. Minimum of 75 entries. Current as of December
20,
2002.
*Companies in the chart above include any brands that are now
part of
the listed company since 1990. Example: Syngenta includes
Northrup King, Novartis, Ciba, Funks G, Blaney, Wilson and
Zimmerman.
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