Aeschliman wins award

John Aeschliman of Colfax, recently won first place in the A division of the No Till/Strip Till Non-Irrigated of the 2010 National Corn Growers’ Association’s Corn Yield Contest in Washington. Aeschliman won with Pioneer brand hybrid 39D95, which yielded 96 bushels per acre.

Aeschliman 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.