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Randy Dowdy Calls No-Till Cult-Like & 3 Other Takeaways from Commodity Classic

By Michaela Paukner posted on March 1, 2024 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment, Nutrient Management

No-till and products for no-tillers were hot topics at the massive trade show and numerous educational events at Commodity Classic in Houston.

Is Your Mindset Causing a Yield Drag on Your No-Till Corn?

Taking an honest look at what is acceptable performance on your farm and challenging yourself to ask why can help you boost yields

By Dan Crummett posted on October 11, 2023 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

As a corn producer, are you satisfied with 185 bushels per acre, the average no-till corn yield in 2022 according to No-Till Farmer’s No-Till Operational Practices Survey

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Strip-Tiller Sets New Soybean World Record with 206-Bushel Yield

By Noah Newman posted on August 25, 2023 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Smithville, Ga., strip-tiller Alex Harrell has established a new world soybean yield record at 206.7997 bushels per acre, topping Randy Dowdy's 2019 yield of 190.23 bushels per acre.

4 Factors that Improve Your No-Till Corn Yield & Profits

By Laura Barrera posted on June 16, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Water Management

Yield record holders Randy Dowdy and David Hula point out no-tillers may have more control over certain factors that influence yield than they may think.

Hula & Dowdy's 5 Ways to Become a More Profitable No-Tiller

By Laura Barrera posted on June 12, 2023 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Water Management

An important part of maximizing profits is what David Hula and Randy Dowdy call being “a student of the crop.”

Analyze Planter Performance with Dowdy’s Simple Flag Test

World record yielder Randy Dowdy explains how he measures emergence & planter performance, which he says are the biggest contributors to the bottom line.

By Mackane Vogel posted on March 29, 2023 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Equipment

With all the money that no-tillers put into their fields, it’s important to know what they’re paying for is working.

UPDATED: No-Tiller Russell Hedrick Breaks 20-Year Dryland Corn Yield Record

By Brian O'Connor posted on November 9, 2022

Russell Hedrick turned in a harvest for the 2022 North Carolina Corn Growers Association yield contest totaling 459.51 bushels per acre for his no-till dryland plot, a new record.

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Yield Contests and No-Till

By Frank Lessiter posted on August 19, 2017 | Posted in Residue Management, Nutrient Management, Soil Health, Water Management

David Hula harvested the highest yield ever recorded in the national corn yield contest. The Charles City, Va., grower turned in a yield of 532 bushels per acre in the 2015 National Corn Growers Association contest.

In Search of High-Yielding Corn

Yield-winning corn growers Randy Dowdy and David Hula share practices that may help maximize corn production and fertility investments.

By John Dobberstein posted on March 11, 2017 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Crop Protection, Nutrient Management

Nearly every grower would like more grain in the bin at harvest, and for most there’s always a burning question at the end of the season — did they leave something on the table?

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No-Till Corn Takes Top Yield in 2016

By Laura Barrera posted on December 20, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

The results from the National Corn Growers Assn.’s annual Corn Yield Contest were just released this week, and once again dismiss the myth that no-till yields can’t compete with tillage.

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