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Breaking the 300-bushel barrier

Two producers dominate corn yield records

By Dennis Nun
Mar 7, 2019
Mar 7, 2019 Updated Mar 8, 2019

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Herman Warsaw moved onto his McLean County, Saybrook, Ill., farm in 1941. He bought it from a lender who had repossessed it from the previous owner who couldn’t make it pay. It had an established corn yield record of 38 Bu/A. He thought it was a bargain when he bought it, but as he set out to produce corn on it, he soon realized that making it more productive was going to be a challenge. In hindsight, he was obviously up for the challenge.

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