AREA FARMERS WINNERS IN CORN YIELD CONTEST

Mike and Nancy Reiminger are looking foward to the 1992 corn-growing season.

"We'll be among the hundreds of entries in the corn yield contest again in 1992," said Mrs. Reiminger, who finished third in the yield competition last year. "We've had a high finish the past two years, and will be trying for an even higher finish this year."

That means the Reimingers are shooting for the number one position.

"We finished second in 1990," she said. "Last year, we finished third. Our goal is to win it."

The Reimingers farmed more than 600 acres in the Chaffee area in 1991 and will be farming about 800 acres this year. They produced a yield of 147.82 bushels per acre to finish third in the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Missouri Yield Contest.

"We were in the No-Till Irrigated Division," said Mrs. Reiminger.

Winner of last year's Missouri contest in the same division was another Southeast Missouri farmer, Paul Lanpher of Lanpher Farms at Advance, who produced 224.69 bushels an acre. The 1991 runnerup was Nancy Sampson of Bonnett Mills, Mo.

Contests winners received trophies and were honored at the 1992 NCGA Corn Classic held in Orlando, Fla.

"We have already entered the 1992 contest," said Mrs. Reiminger.

Reiminger said her husband and the bulk of the corn-raising work, but that she pitched in when she could.

"We both worked with the irrigation of the fields," she said. "That can be a lot of work."

The Reimingers used Northrup King N7789 for their 1991 entry.

Lanpher used Pioneer Hybrid 3245 seed corn for their winning entry. The corn was planting April 2 and harvested Aug. 23.

"We had 3,124 entries from 44 states in the contest," said Wayne Ryan, chairman of contest. "We launched the contest in 1965, with the intent of encouraging development of new and innovative management techniques which will improve the profitability of U.S. corn production."