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12/27/13, 01:17 PM
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World Record corn harvest -- ORGANIC~!
This is awesome news for those of us who love organics & dislike chemicals! Also awesome for the farmer!!  
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Virginia, long known as tobacco country, has a new title: Corn king.
A farmer from near Richmond broke the 12-year-old Iowa record of 442 bushels of corn per acre with 454 bushels, nearly three times the average of 160 bushels nationally. It was declared the world record by the National Corn Growers Association.
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/record...rticle/2541046
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12/27/13, 01:38 PM
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Saw this this morning on Face Book, now lets see what the big chemical companies have to say about this. Organic, Hmmmmmmmm, new wave of the future I guess. National average is 160 bu. per acre, which I can do easy organically. Not going to hear the end of this for some time I can tell you. > Thanks Marc
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12/27/13, 01:48 PM
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awesome
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12/27/13, 01:54 PM
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It's certainly an attractive result. I just wonder if it's like growing those giant pumpkins- needing an extraordinary and uneconomic supplements.
Would be nice to get morevand really specific information about how it was done. If anyone hears more.
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12/27/13, 02:06 PM
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I've been told that I should try raising corn on my little spread, just to see what kind of bushels per could be raised on compost...... but my "acreage" is so cut up in terrain that I don't think there could be much of an accurate accounting for yield.
Now if a guy had a clean 20, with good drainage..... 
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12/27/13, 02:11 PM
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Mostly it is testing your soil and finding out what supplements it is lacking. Our soil is so run down from a couple hundred plus years of raping the ground of all of its nutrients. One of the biggest things missing in our soil is calcium, calcium is very important in making the proper sugars in the plants or crops you grow, the proper sugar content keeps the plant healthy and a healthy plant has less stress, thus less insect problems. There is so much to learn about biological farming it isn`t funny, soil needs so many different things. Boron, sulfur, iron, calcium just to name a few, and if your soil has too much of something it can also tie up nutrients of other sources.. Magnesium ties up Nitrogen, so if you have too much magnesium in your soil, all the Nitrogen in the world is not going to make your crop produce more. So you see there is so much more to growing a crop than there is just throwing seed out in the ground and praying that they grow. Years ago when we still farmed with horses and rotated our crops they did so much better because when you rotate and haul different types of manure on your soil. Different animal manures are also different degrees of nutrients in them. Chicken manure has more nitrogen in it and is a hot manure, where horse manure is also hot it has P and K in it, cattle manure is a good all around level manure that is great for anything. And of course it is best to compost all manure in order to kill the weed seeds that may happen to be in it. Spreading weed seeds across your fields only makes the problems worse. So I hope I have helped a little, and if you have more questions please post them. > thanks Marc
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12/27/13, 02:14 PM
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And yes I think Forerunner could grow some corn big time, he is the compost KING !!
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12/27/13, 02:16 PM
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......otherwise and oft-times referred to as the chief ****hauler. 
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12/27/13, 02:30 PM
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would be nice if it is sold for organic food or organic animal feed rather than used for fuel or something like that..
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12/27/13, 02:42 PM
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with the price organic commands over non you can bet it won't be going into the ethanol pipeline...
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12/27/13, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Forerunner
I've been told that I should try raising corn on my little spread, just to see what kind of bushels per could be raised on compost...... but my "acreage" is so cut up in terrain that I don't think there could be much of an accurate accounting for yield.
Now if a guy had a clean 20, with good drainage..... |
Do 1/10 of an acre and multiply by 10. 
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12/27/13, 03:06 PM
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That article is incorrect. The hybrid Mr. Hula used to grow that massive amount of corn was Pioneer P2088YHR which contains the RR2 gene and insect protection via the Herculex1 gene and the Yield Gard Corn Borer gene.
Mr. Hula may have use a substantial amount of technology from the organic industry, but the seed is most definitely a GMO so that crop could not be "Organic".
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12/27/13, 04:00 PM
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Oops......
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12/27/13, 05:03 PM
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Likely it was only an acre also.
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12/27/13, 05:08 PM
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When I read the OP's post I figured that it was probably a modified type of corn - that's the whole reason this modified stuff is out there - it produces more - is insect free - its super duper corn -
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12/27/13, 06:43 PM
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It is still a great accomplishment. Sounds like the combination of pest resistance in the corn variety combined with his soil building paid off. This is something that will make other farmers sit up and take notice. I wish the article would have said how many acres.
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12/27/13, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by FarmboyBill
Likely it was only an acre also.
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farms 4,000 acres....there picker hit over 500 bushels per acre before sttleing on average of 454 bu. this aint no joke one acre plot.
one test area was 373bu. without treatments
they do different test fields to find what will work best for them.
eastern va. is huge crop farm area.
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12/27/13, 07:33 PM
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/gallery/articleid/2541046
look what a stand of corn.
Virginia farmer David Hula harvests a record-breaking corn crop.
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12/27/13, 07:38 PM
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He didn't do it by just building up his soil, he used products produced by a commercial company. "He credited soil enhancing products from the firm Biovante."
www.biovante.com
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12/27/13, 07:39 PM
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Looks awful green to be harvesting. Around here they let it dry down more on the stalk before combining.
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