12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday Jan. 26, 1974
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never planted corn this
early." he said, "so we
planted this corn about an
Inch deep. Dr. Rossman told
us that the University
recommends shallow
planting with early planting
to take advantage of heat in
the find inch or so of soil."
Montri described the
weather as perfect for fast
early growth for com. He
stated that his com came up
so fast that there was barely
time to get into the field and
spray the herbicide and get
the anhydrous on. “We were
going to cultivate," he said,
"but the com grew so fast we
just couldn’t get in to do it.
We applied 125 pounds of
actual N and Aatrez 4L.
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"I didn't Keep track of our
rainfall in inches during the
season but it stayed warm
and rained fairly often. I was
afraid the com would root
shallow and that we would be
in trouble when the rain
slacked off. It stayed wet
until the first of July and by
July 4th, you could see the
comstart to poke tassels out.
I guess the com was ad
vanced far enough because
in August, when we hit dry
weather, we were in good
shape.”
When asked by Dr.
Rossman whether he had
any idea during the season
that he had a potential world
record yield in the field,
Montri said, "None what
soever. I never even thought
of such a thing. My father-in
law had walked around in the
field more than I had and he
said we had an awful good
crop of com coming. I said, I
hope so and we settled for
that."
The Montri entry was
taken from the middle of a
40-acre field. The entire field
averaged better than 240
bushels per acre.
The record setting field
was opened up on September
19 and 4.4 acres actually
harvested on September 20.
“The ground conditions were
perfect,” the new record
holder states. “As far as I
could see, every stalk was
standing right there. We
estimated that we had 27,000
harvest population.
“We shell all of our com
and took what we got from
the combine. We didn’t glean
the field but it was mighty
hard to find an ear after we
went through the field.
“We had a semi and two
stake body trucks. We ran 30
rows and filled all three with
the 4.4 acres of contest com.
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Elevator, dumped, cleaned
and weighed by them. Our
weigh ticket read 88,470
pounds from the 4.4 acres.
“Our moisture test was
27.5 percent for the
Project:2oo com and for the
entire 40-acre field.
Corrected to No. 2 com, this
gave us the new world record
of 306.6 bushels per acre.”
Montri has participated in
the Funk’s-G Project:2oo
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district winner in 1970 with a
yield of 198.7 bushels per
acre from the same held.
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