VERNON — Alfred Dunklee of Vernon recently won first place in the A Non-Irrigated division of the 2010 National Corn Growers' Association's (NCGA) Corn Yield Contest in Vermont.
Dunklee won with Pioneer brand hybrid P1173HR, which yielded 230 bushels per acre.
Dunklee earned one of the 359 state titles won by growers planting Pioneer hybrids. The NCGA awarded 522 state titles in this year's contest. Growers planting Pioneer hybrids dominated the contest and won 69% percent of all state awards presented.
The NCGA Corn Yield Contest is an annual competition among corn producers with the goal of producing the highest yields. In the contest, growers compete within a broad range of corn production classes, including non-irrigated, no-till/strip-till non-irrigated, no-till/strip-till irrigated, ridge-till non-irrigated, ridge-till irrigated and irrigated classes.
Pioneer Hi-Bred (www.pioneer.com), a DuPont business headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is the world's leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics, providing high-quality seeds to farmers in more than 90 countries.