Des Moines, Iowa
December 15, 2004
All nine classes won by growers
planting Pioneer hybrids
Growers planting Pioneer(R)
brand corn hybrids won 24 of 27 categories in the 2004 National
Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) Corn Yield Contest announced today.
Farmers growing Pioneer hybrids finished in first-place in all
nine national classes. Among second-place winners, those
growing Pioneer hybrids won eight categories and, among
third-place winners, growers planting Pioneer hybrids won seven
of nine categories.
The highest yield winner within the contest was David K. Hula of
Charles City, Va., who planted Pioneer brand 33M54 with a yield
of 339.48 bushels per acre. He won in the national A No
Till/Strip Till, Non-Irrigated category. This is the second year
in a row that Hula has placed first among all contestants in the
NCGA contest with a Pioneer hybrid.
The second highest yield in the NCGA contest was won by Francis
Childs, Manchester, Iowa, who planted Pioneer hybrid 35Y65 with
a yield of 331.95 bushels per acre in the AA Non-Irrigated
class. The third highest yield was posted by E&H Farms of
Dixon, Calif., with Pioneer hybrid 31N27, yielding 325.73
bushels per acre in the Irrigated class.
"Each year, we're excited to see
the continued success growers have with Pioneer products in this
contest," says Bill Fleet, Pioneer vice president for North
American sales. "We're especially impressed with the high
yields our customers have this year with Pioneer hybrids. We at
Pioneer are honored that, year after year, the overwhelming
majority of corn growers who win in the NCGA Corn Yield Contest
choose Pioneer corn hybrids as their entries.
That says a lot about the value Pioneer hybrids bring to the
bottom line of all growers."
The NCGA Corn Yield Contest is an annual national competition
among corn growers with the goal of producing the highest
yields. Growers compete in nine corn production classes,
including non-irrigated (A and AA), no-till/strip-till
non-irrigated (A and AA), no-till/strip-till irrigated,
ridge-till non-irrigated (A and AA), ridge-till irrigated and
irrigated classes.
For more information about Pioneer corn hybrids grown by contest
winners and the broad range of top-producing Pioneer products,
growers should contact their local Pioneer sales representative.
For a list of the national winners, yield totals and hybrid
numbers, go to
http://www.pioneer.com/pioneer_news/press_releases/products/ncga_national_results.htm.
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