Albion farmer wins corn contest for top yield in state
File photo: Adam Kirby holds the trophy for winning the 2019 corn yield contest in New York.
ALBION – An Albion farmer has again topped other corn growers in the state for the highest yield.
Adam Kirby finished first with a yield of 293.1075 in the strip, min, mulch, ridge – till non-irrigated category. Kirby used Pioneer seed PO947Q.
Some other nearby farmers won in the New York contest. Henry Everman of Dansville won conventional non-irrigated with a yield of 290.3780 and Tom Jeffres of Wyoming had the top yield, 263.4521, in strip, min, mulch, ridge-till irrigated
Kirby has now won the past three years. In 2019, he finished first with a 277.0 bushel yield in the strip till, non-irrigated category.
He won another category in 2020 with a 271.8 bushel yield in the conventional irrigated category. In 2020, he also was second in the strip, min, mulch, ridge-till non-irrigated category with a 273.6 yield.
Kirby and other winners around the country will be honored in March 2022 during Commodity Classic in New Orleans, La.
