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The Corn King Keeps The Crown

Seth Wood — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:35:06 +0000

In the 2021 NCGA contest, every single Corn Warrior came in 1st Place for their farming category by state, so the competition was the closest one we’ve had yet. But thanks to a record breaking yield of 409.19 BU/A and a PWR Score of 9.82, Kevin Kalb successfully defended his title and became Corn King of Season 5! All of the Corn Warriors put up stellar numbers, and you can actually vote for you favorite Warrior on our brand new website, and get an in depth breakdown of everyone’s PWR Score. We will continue to update the website with never before seen bonus footage and exclusive behind the scenes content from Season 5, so sign up for a Yellow Gold Season Pass to be updated when we release extra content. Thank you to all of our sponsors, farmers, and fans for helping us put together an amazing season of Corn Warriors, and we’re already planning the next one!

2022 Audience Contest Entry Form

Seth Wood — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:53:20 +0000

Are you interested in having your PWR Score featured on our website? This is your chance! Submit your yield info and get it posted on our “2022 Leader Board.”

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Warrior Training – Farming 101 and Beyond

Seth Wood — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:36:41 +0000

Corn Warriors has started something very exciting this year! We launched an educational portal for farmers like nothing that has ever existed.

Sign up for online education, field reports, and updates from ALL the Corn Warriors and The Podfathers. Get access to in-person growers meetings with your favorite Warriors!

Get access to old educational content from our Warriors and get access to all the tips, tricks and secrets that these Warriors are using to make the crops pay and yield.

Do want to see an increase in ROI? Are you ready to move the needle? If you join, watch, and keep an open mind, you WILL increase your profits and yields.

Don’t take it from us, watch Eric Reed below and hear what our newest Corn Warrior has to say about it! #GrowBigOrGoHome

New app allows you to adjust your Deere from your desk

Seth Wood — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:56:40 +0000

By: Justin Roberts Nov 26, 2018

John Deere, as ever, is pressing ahead with the application of digital technology to daily farm operations.

Its latest endeavour is known as ‘MyOperations’ and comes as a free app for smartphones.

This download allows users to see machine and field data remotely – from their mobile phones or tablets.

According to John Deere, this means that farmers and contractors can experience less downtime, as well as reduce operating costs, by always knowing where machines are and what they are doing.

Use of the MyOperations app requires an online John Deere ‘Operations Centre’ account – connected to a machine’s JDLink telematics system. It’s suitable for use with any internet-connected smartphone (equipped with iOS system 10.0 or Android system 4.4 or later).

The personalised Operations Centre in MyJohnDeere.com can be used (anywhere and, apparently, at any time) to look up both historic operation information and current data coming off the field.

Initially trialled on John Deere S700 Series combines this season, the app enabled users to remotely view and change basic combine settings.

Once settings have been altered, the operator can confirm the adjustments on the in-cab display.

On-Screen Data

Information available within the app includes location history. This feature shows where all machines (within the business) have driven that day.

In addition, machine measurements (including engine utilisation and fuel level), field maps and productivity data can also be accessed.

Remote Display Access (RDA) is also available within the app. MyOperations users can also view machine notifications, such as curfew alerts, low fuel alerts and diagnostic codes.

NCGA Meets with Agribusiness to Discuss Issues

Seth Wood — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:33:14 +0000

National Corn Growers Association officers, senior staff and high-level representatives from agribusiness stakeholder groups gathered last week in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. for the biannual NCGA Agri-Industry Council meeting. Over three days, the representatives of 11 leading agribusinesses discussed vital issues facing agriculture, shared information on their companies and sectors, heard from recognized speakers and learned about NCGA’s current initiatives. Established in 2007, the Agri-Industry Council facilitates dialogue between agribusinesses and NCGA to collectively address issues of mutual concern..

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE – by USAgNet – 08/21/2018

Yield contest champs: How’d they do that again?

Seth Wood — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:26:13 +0000

BALTIC, S.D. — Meet Eric Watson, a Guinness World Record holder for winter wheat yield.

Watson achieved a whopping 247 bushels per acre (16.79 metric tons per hectare), and was one of more than 20 national and international yield winners attending the Ag PhD field day on July 26 near Baltic.

The winners were celebrities in their own right, meeting the public on a small plot on which they’d directed care, and attracting crowds.

Kevin Kalb, 43, from Dubois, Ind., had a 150-acre cornfield that last year averaged over 340 bushels per acre. Within that, they have 10-acre parcels of land identified for the contests.

Kalb and his wife, Shawn, helped by their kids, have been national winners in the National Corn Growers Association contest nine times, including five first-place and four second-place. They compete in the 2A non-irrigated contest.

A seed corn dealer encouraged Kalb to get into the contest in 2007 and that “kind of hooked us on it,” Kalb says. “We’ve always grown good corn, but we didn’t know how we’d be against Iowa and Illinois. Lo and behold, the first year we were good enough to get second place in 2007.”

In addition to corn and soybeans, they raise turkeys apply turkey manure for fertility.

In 2017, the family had by far their best year, turning five entries over 350 bushels per acre. They had 150 acres that averaged more than 340 bushels per acre — on non-irrigated land in the river bottom. “Normally, we’re pretty happy if those two river bottoms make 250,” he says. He says the farm had an unusually cool August, which made it more competitive with northern Illinois or Iowa.

Kalb starts with a so-called “two-by-two-by-two” fertilizer — banding it with a planter on both sides of the row. “We feel that’s one of the biggest yield-influencers you can have,” he says. He pulls tissue samples when the crop hits 300 growing degree units. “If everything is growing at a normal pace, we try to ‘Y’ drop it,” he says, describing an applicator that puts supplemental fertilizer close to the roots of growing corn plants.

John Deere Helps Iowa Boy With Rare Disease

Seth Wood — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:21:40 +0000

A special gift for Reed!

Reed Havlik is a young boy in Jesup with a rare terminal genetic brain disease known as Vanishing White Matter.

According to the Facebook Page Team Reed, “At the age of two, Reed was a normal developing boy running around, happy, healthy and loving life. On November 1st, 2014 Reed woke up from his nap struggling to walk. After months of testing, and no answers, Reed was diagnosed with Vanishing White Matter Disease. Reed is one of less than 200 people in the world with VWM, odds of having VWM are one in 40 million,”

John Deere gave Reed a special morning earlier this week! The day started with a tour of tractor assembly operations. Workers also let Reed go through training and made him a certified assembly tech.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

The History of Corn

Seth Wood — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:08:30 +0000

It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall stalks with ears ripe for picking by late August.

Corn is much more than great summer picnic food, however. Civilization owes much to this plant, and to the early people who first cultivated it.

For most of human history, our ancestors relied entirely on hunting animals and gathering seeds, fruits, nuts, tubers and other plant parts from the wild for food. It was only about 10,000 years ago that humans in many parts of the world began raising livestock and growing food through deliberate planting. These advances provided more reliable sources of food and allowed for larger, more permanent settlements. Native Americans alone domesticated nine of the most important food crops in the world, including corn, more properly called maize (Zea mays), which now provides about 21 percent of human nutrition across the globe.

Full Article by New York Times

Corn Warriors featured at Hefty Field Day

Seth Wood — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:28:07 +0000

PRINCETON — More than 500 farmers and agribusiness representatives from this part of the Midwest gathered Monday for the first annual Field Day event hosted by Hefty Seed Company — Princeton.

The gathering was planned to take place at the Denton farm on Route 26, just north of Princeton. However, because of rain, it was moved to the Hefty Seed Company — Princeton business location on 1800 North Avenue, just east of the Holland and Sons John Deere dealership, on the morning of the event.

The rain, however, didn’t put a damper on the anticipation many had to hear from America’s top producers of corn and soybeans.

Hefty Seed Company — Princeton hosted the country’s highest-yield farmers who have been featured on the popular documentary television show, “Corn Warriors.”

READ FULL ARTICLE – by Goldie Rapp at BCR News