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Corn King Crowning Ceremony and Newest Corn Warrior

Seth Wood — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:16:05 +0000

It was a long and competitive Season 4 of Corn Warriors, and the farmers left it all on the field after a difficult battle to become Corn King. With a yield of 385.44 BU/A and a PWR Score of 9.08, our Season 4 winner Kevins Kalb celebrated in style at our crowning ceremony in Indianapolis, Indiana. Presented by Pivot Bio, the Crowning Ceremony featured a discussion with all of our Corn Warriors and the crowning of current Corn King Kevin sKalb.

In addition to the crowning of Kevin Kalb, we are also happy to announce the winner of the competition to be on the next season of Corn Warriors is Chad Henderson from Madison, Alabama! Chad is a fourth-generation farmer that is the current corn production record holder for Alabama with a yield of 355 BU/A. A proud family man and problem solver, Chad works with his father, cousin, and son at Henderson Farms on over 8,000 acres of land. We’re very excited to have Chad on the show and we look forward to seeing what sort of creative solutions he can come up with in his effort to win Season 5 of Corn Warriors. Learn more about Chad Henderson at his Warrior Page.

We appreciate all of our nominated farmers that fought to be on the next season of Corn Warriors, and our fans for participating in the voting process. We’d also like to thank our panel of experts that made the decision to have Chad on the show, and we’re very excited to see him compete alongside the other farmers.

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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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.