Dairyland Seed recently announced the National and State winners for its annual Corn and Soybean Yieldmaster Contests. 

The title of National Corn Yieldmaster was awarded to Doug & Dan Bush of Fulton, IL.  Doug and Dan had a yield of 263.46 bushels per acre with Stealth-1706.  Mike Thill of Lena, IL, was awarded National Soybean Yieldmaster with a yield of 83.59 bushels per acre with DSR-218.   

The Early Zone Soybean Yieldmaster was awarded to Bob Schefers of Sartel, MN, with a yield of 65.19 bushels per acre with DSR-130/RR, and the Early Zone Corn Yieldmaster was awarded to Tim Berntson of Buffalo, North Dakota, who entered Stealth-8194 with a yield of 242.85 bushels.  Individual state winners were also awarded.

According to Tom Strachota, CEO, “These are fabulous yields from outstanding producers.  Our goal is to develop improved genetics because I know these producers have the capability of hitting even higher yield levels.  With 15% of our revenues invested in research, I’m confident that together we can accomplish this goal.”

Dairyland Seed recently celebrated its 95^th Anniversary in 2002.  Dairyland spends 15% of its revenues on plant breeding and is the only family-held seed company with breeding in hybrid corn, alfalfa and soybeans.