West Bend, Wisconsin, USA
November 16, 2015

Dairyland Seed recently announced the National and State winners for its inaugural Corn Silage Yieldmaster Contest. 

The title of National Corn Silage Yieldmaster was awarded to B & K Acres of Cascade, IA with a yield of 42.53 tons/acre with HiDF-3510SSX. 

Iowa Corn Silage Yieldmasters:

• First Place: B & K Acres of Cascade - 42.53 tons/acre with HiDF-3510SSX. 
• Second Place: Butikofer Cattle & Grain, Farmersburg - 34.43 tons/acre with HiDF-3510SSX
• Third Place: Bruce Buddenberg, Decorah – 32.94 tons/acre with HIDF-3510SSX

Minnesota Corn Silage Yieldmasters: 

• First Place:  Keith Speltz of Altura - 37.75 tons/acre with HIDF-3510SSX
• Second Place: Doug Brown, Nordrum Dairy of Pine City - 30.48 tons/acre with HIDF-3197SSX
• Third Place: Lyle Schefers, Schefers Dairy of Rice - 29.92 tons/acre with HIDF-3702-9

North Dakota Corn Silage Yieldmasters: 

• First Place: Van Bedaf Dairy of Carrington - 22.79 tons/acre with HIDF-3702-9

South Dakota Corn Silage Yieldmasters: 

• First Place: Bill & Eric Mueller of Big Stone - 38.46 tons/acre with HIDF-3510
• Second Place: Harlan Maag of Watertown - 31.73 tons/acre with HiDF-3108RA

Wisconsin Corn Silage Yieldmasters: 

• First Place: Rochelle Holthaus of Fennimore - 32.80 tons/acre with HIDF-3510SSX
• Second Place: Moravits Farms, Inc. of Bloomington - 32.71 tons/acre with HIDF-3510SSX
• Third Place: Scott Gaedtke of Luxemburg – 32.19 tons/acre with HIDF-3702-9

“Congratulations to all of these winners.  This is our inaugural Silage Yield Contest, and the yields and productivity are outstanding,” stated Dairyland Seed General Manager Tom Strachota.  “In particular, the folks at B & K Acres attained terrific yield levels.  They used their ingenuity and their inputs wisely, which combined with good growing conditions, resulted in substantial productivity.”

Dairyland Seed launched its HiDF (highly digestible fiber) hybrid corn breeding effort due to customer feedback on one of our proprietary hybrids released in 1993.  Customers informed Dairyland management that “the cows milk better on 1203”.  As a result a focused breeding effort was begun and a number of HiDF hybrids today trace back to genetic lineage from 1203.

Dairyland Seed was founded in 1907 and focuses its business on providing world-class hybrid corn, soybean and alfalfa genetics to American farmers.  Now part of Dow AgroSciences, the plant breeding efforts initiated by Dairyland have since expanded and products offered include SmartStax and Refuge Advanced.  Dairyland Seed is headquartered in West Bend, Wis.

Website: http://www.dairylandseed.com

Published: November 16, 2015