Maryland honors record ‘B4 crop production
The Maryland Crop Im
provement Association saluted last
year’s new state yield records for
both com and soybean production
under non-irrigated conditions
during its 78th annual meeting in
the Tidewater Inn at Easton.
But the over-all com yield
winner-for the fourth consecutive
year-is an irrigation farmer from
Caroline County, on Maryland’s
central Eastern Shore. The
perennial champion is William G.
Greenage, operator of Beechwood
Farms at Preston.
Greenage’s winning 1984 yield
was 215.78 bushels per acre. He
had state champion yields at 227.87
and 227.47 bushels per acre in 1983
and 1982, respectively. His 1981
winning mark of 244.8 bushels per
acre still stands as the all-time
Maryland record.
Greenage planted last year’s
championship field on April 13,
using DeKalb 789 hybrid com at a
final field population of 27,000
plants per acre. As in the previous
, year, he used a center pivot
irrigation system to apply 12 in
ches of water during the growing
season.
His son, Billy Greenage of
Preston, placed third in the over
all state corn yield results for 1984
with 207.18 bushels per acre. The
younger Greenage planted DeKalb
TllOO hybrid com at a final
population of 22,500 plants per
acre. All other management
factors were the same as those
used by his father.
Edward Hancock of Snow Hill
(Worcester County) was runnerup
in the over-all Maryland corn yield
results last year with 212.11
bushels per acre, using a Pioneer
hybrid variety.
His achievement broke the
previous state record of 207.59
bushels per acre for com grown
under non-irrigated conditions.
The old mark had stood since 1965.
It was set by a Talbot County farm
partnership.
Another Worcester County
farmer, Oliver J. Smith, Jr., of
Bishopville, placed fourth in the
1984 over-all Maryland corn yield
contest with 205.369 bushels of corn
per acre. He used DeKalb XL 61
hybrid under non-irrigated
cropping conditions.
ITie Taylor brothers of Preston
(Caroline County) applied sue tons
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of poultry manure per acre to
place fifth in the standings with
204.54 bushels per acre of irrigated
com. They planted Pioneer 3320 on
April 13. The brothers had placed
third in the 1983 state contest with
an irrigated yield of 204.81 bushels
per acre.
Balvin B. Brinsfield, Jr., of
Reids Grove (Dorchester County)
moved up to sixth place in the 1984
over-all Maryland com yield
placings with 204.2 bushels per
acre, using an Agway hybrid
variety. He received a plaque from
the Chevron Chemical Company
for placing first in the state among
no-till growers using irrigation. In
1983 he had placed 15th in the state
com contest with a yield of 182.22
bushels per acre.
Another Dorchester County
farmer, Dennis A. he ' or
Brookview, placed seventh in last
year’s over-all Maryland com
yield standings with 202.6 bushels
per acre on no-till, irrigated
cropland. In 1983 he placed fifth
with 197.92 bushels per acre.
E. Kenneth Stonesifer of Still
Pond (Kent County) repeated his
1983 achievement as Maryland’s
top producer of no-till com grown
under non-irrigated conditions.
Last year’s mark of 200.26 bushels
per acre with Pioneer 3320
qualified for eighth in the over-all
standings. In 1983 his winning non
irrigated, no-till yield of 180.6
bushels per acre was good for 16th
place.
Ninth through fifteenth placings
in the 1984 over-all Maryland com
yield contest were as follows:
9. William V. Riggs of Bloom
field (Queen Annes County), 199.92
bushels per acre; DeKalb TllOO
hybrid com, non-irrigated. Riggs
placed first among Maryland
contestants in the non-irrigated
division of the National Com
Growers Association yield contest
for 1984.
10. Robert J. Bassett of Ironshire
(Worcester County), 198.717
bushels per acre; DeKalb TllOO
hybrid com, non-irrigated.
11. John M. Cohee, Jr., of
Preston (Caroline County), 197.17
bushels per acre; DeKalb TllOO
hybrid com, irrigated; chicken
manure applied.
12. James F. Hall 111 of Church
Hill (Queen Annes County), 195.49
bushels per acre; DeKalb XL 71,
non-imgated.
13. Robert W. Clark, Jr., of Still
Pond Creek (Kent County), 193.18
bushels per acre; Gutwein 698,
non-irrigated.
14. Mason Farms, operated by
William I. Mason and son of
Ruthsburgh (Queen Annes
County), 193.14 bushels per acre;
DeKalb 6060, irrigated. The
Masons placed first among
Maryland contestants in the
irrigated division of the National
Com Growers Association yield
contest for 1984.
15. George Gunther of Starr
(Queen Annes County), 190.09
bushels per acre; DeKalb TllOO
hybrid com, non-irrigated.
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the com growers cited from
Caroline and Dorchester counties
were participants in irrigation
education projects conducted by
agricultural agents from the
University of Maryland’s
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Average yield for the top 15
growers in the 1984 Maryland com
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