Kentucky Yield Contest Images are Available

Images from the Kentucky Yield Contests are available online. Feel free to download your images. University of Kentucky photographer Steve Patton took the images with professional equipment. The images are a service of the university. There are two pages of images. The first page begins with images taken during the conference. The contest winners are taken roughly in order of plaques presented during the banquet. If you don't see your images on the first page, click on the second page (bottom right corner of the screen). In case the link above does not work, you can copy and paste this address into your browser:  http://photo.ca.uky.edu/gallery/main.php/v/public/2017_Events/commodity/

The state winner images and links to all photos are also linked here.

The Kentucky Commodity Conference was held January 19, 2017 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The awards banquet honored those who served with distinction, the top CCA for Kentucky, and the yield contest winners for wheat, soybean and corn in 2016. Lists for all the state contest winners are available at: http://www.kygrains.info/yield-contests.html

Corn Yield Contest Winners

Chad Lee, Extension Agronomist, University of Kentucky

We all knew that 2013 was a good year for corn in Kentucky. That good year resulted in some great yields in the corn contest. The 2013 Kentucky Yield Contest experienced the highest yield for a non-irrigated entry and the highest yield for an irrigated entry.

Greenwell Acres of Union County had the highest non-irrigated yield at 297.22 bushels per acre. The Schwenke Brothers of Boone County recorded 365.11 bushels per acre, which the highest yield measured in Kentucky for irrigated corn.  The Waller Brothers of Union County had the highest white corn yield, which was 294.22 bushels per acre. This also was the second-highest yield for any non-irrigated corn category.

The state winners are as follows.