BAKER, Mont. – Fourth-generation farmer Derrick Enos was the Montana state winner in the National Corn Growers Association’s (NCGA) corn yield contest for 2025 in the no-till non-irrigated class (dryland) with 110.7432 bushels per acre with Pioneer hybrid corn seed P8639AM.
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