Cornbelt Grower Records 306.6-Bushel Yield
A new chapter was added
to agricultural history
recently with the an
nouncement that Orville
Montri, a LaSalle, Michigan,
com grower had established
a new world record com
yield of 306.6 bushels per
acre.
Announcement was made
to a group of agricultural
communicators by D. D.
Walker, Chairman and
President of Funk Seeds
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International, Inc. “In the
process of establishing a new
world record, Mr. Montri
also established himself as
the 1973 champion in the
Funk’s-G Project: 200
national corn growing
contest. His hybrid was
Funk’s 04444.
“His yield of 306.6 bushels
per acre was made on 4.4
acres, machine harvested
and delivered to the
elevator, cleaned and
weighed. Even more im
pressive is the fact that Mr.
Montri did not glean his
field,” Mr. Walker stated.
Dr. E. C. Rossman, Crop
and Soil Sciences Depart
ment, Michigan State
University, who visited the
Montri farm, had this to say,
“We in Michigan are very
pleased that one of our good
farmers, Orville Montri of
Monroe County, has grown
the new world’s record yield
of 306.6 bushels per acre in
the Funk’s-G Project:2oo
national corn growing
contest. We congratulate Mr.
Montri on achieving this
record yield.
“One thing I would like to
say, farmland in that comer
of Michigan, particularly
Dr. E. C. Rossman, right, professor of plant breeding
and genetics, Michigan State University, talks with
Orville Montri, LaSalle, Mich., commercial grain far
mer, about Mr. Montri's new world record corn yield of
306.6 bu.-A. machine-harvested from 4.4 acres of 40-
acre field.
Monroe and Lenawee
Counties, compares
favorably with good com
land in any other part of the
Com Belt. We can grow
some very good com in
Michigan.”
This is the first recorded
breakthrough of the 300
bushel per acre barrier by a
commercial farmer. The
previous record of 304.38
bushels per acre was
established m 1955 by Lamar
Ratliff, Prentiss County,
Mississippi. Ratliff’s record
was made on a measured
single acre of land, hand
picked and gleaned prior to
weighing. Ratliff, a
vocational agriculture
student, grew his yield as an
FFA project. He also used a
Funk’s G-Hybrid.
Montri farms 1,100 acres
near LaSalle with his
brothers Marvin and Lyle.
“When weather permits, we
follow a rotation,” he says.
“The field with the record
yield is about 40 acres in
total. It was in wheat in 1972,
soybeans in 1971 and com in
1970. We had planned to grow
beans there in 1973 but
weather conditions made us
change our plans and I’m
glad we switched to com.
“When Dr. Rossman came
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down to talk about the record
yield, I told him we had also
taken a 100 bushel per acre
wheat yield off this same
field last year.
“Before we switched from
beans to com on that field,
we had plowed down 200
pounds of 6-24-24 per acre. In
the winter, when we changed
our minds, we put 500 pounds
of 6-24-24 on top of the snow.
“Last spring was cool
and we ran over the field
with a cultivator. It didn’t
ram and the field seemed to
be in perfect condition so we
put the drag and roller on it
and put the drill right
behind. We planted on April
25. We set the drill to drop 8.3
and wound up with about
three acres out of each bag.
We put an additional 300
pounds of 6-24-24 per acre on
at planting.
“We planted small rounds,
the smallest seed we could
get. As a matter of fact, I
used to be against using the
small seed but our dealer
told us we got more seed for
our money with this size and
we have found it works just
as well as large seed.”
Normally, Montri plants
his seed at a depth of two to
two and a half inches. “We
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vested more corn per acre than any man in history On September
21 1973 Montn harvested a new world record yield of 306 6
bushels per acre No 2 corn, from 4 4 acres His documented yield
won him the title of National Champion in the 1973 Funk's G
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