NewsMarch 13, 1991
CORN CONTEST
ADVANCE -- Richard Hitt of Advance averaged 175 bushels of corn an acre during the 1990 growing season. The production was good for fourth place in the Missouri "Irrigated Class" of the 1990 National Corn Grower's Yield Contest. "I used a new seed in 1990," said Hitt. "I tried McCurdy 7477, a 117-day corn."...
ADVANCE -- Richard Hitt of Advance averaged 175 bushels of corn an acre during the 1990 growing season.
The production was good for fourth place in the Missouri "Irrigated Class" of the 1990 National Corn Grower's Yield Contest.
"I used a new seed in 1990," said Hitt. "I tried McCurdy 7477, a 117-day corn."
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A grain marketer, Hitt said this was the fourth time he had entered the contest.
"I usually enter not to win, but to compare how my corn is doing," he said.
Hitt is pleased with his 1990 crop.
Hitt's corn crop finished third in the nation in a McCurdy-sponsored contest.
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