NEW - David Hula World Record Corn Yield (542 bu/a, 2017) 

You won't be eating this corn in a bowl. It's field corn...for ethanol or animal feed

thanks for this information.

It has to be >1.25 acres skipping 3 passes if more than one pass is needed for 1.25. Then a recheck for the next >1.25 check with 2 NCGA approved witnesses. If this second check is lower, then it is the average. If the second is higher the second is the official. The harvest rules are on the contest site. ncga.com

I think they were probably lucky to film any of his corn or even spend time with him. That guy David Hula is a legend and super famous now. He breaks all the world records. I heard someone call him the King of Corn once.

Swood Media You make it sound like he has paparazzi following him around.......OMG! It's David Hula! *faints

shelled kernels only, dry weight. 15.5% moisture.

It is not dry weight. It is what corn weighs with 15.5 % standard moisture. The dry weight is 28.75 MT/Ha. + 5.25 MT moisture. To sell corn by dry weight would be too simple for most farmers and grains men to understand. We have to cling to tradition. In the contest the yield is lbs grain harvested * (100-moisture)/(100-15.5). I learned this in 10th grade Vocational Ag. The NCGA contest started using this concept about the year 2000 before they used a chart that was a stair-step result.

I did the same conversion, and i don't know if the calculations are good but that seems impossible

i use www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app19/calc/crop/bushel2tonne.jsp 1 Hectare = 2.47 acre sop its 542.27 X 2.47=1339.40 Bushel per Hectare with is according to this site 34 ton.

I thought the bushels are not correct, not the equation. Don't you think that this is a little bit too much?

it seems like "too much" because it's a new world record.

Around 25 kilos give or take.

There is not much farm corn storage around here. In this country farms run 1 to 3 combines in a field so if each combine is harvesting 3,000 bu per hr., the on farm storage is overwhelmed when 8 semi trucks go to dumping. Our Coop has storage for 68 million bushels. They are equipped to dump in a few minutes, most farmers are busy harvesting.

Have you actually done the math? I think you might be missing some numbers. Half of that yield makes good money, even with high cost inputs. Plus, I heard they only spray the competition stuff with the chopper. You gotta spend it to make it. #gobigorgohome

it's a common question. he went over his cost per bushel on his last world record with me on video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UWCLF0xzFho.html haven't had a chance to go over this latest with him on video yet.

This corn is GMO corn. Only used for consumption in the US. Other countries do not allow it imported because of the residue of the heavy chemical application and the health issues associated with that.

Jack Palmer Yanks will eat anything .

Jack Palmer I’m sorry but this is a false statement. The entire world uses GMO plants and chemicals and there is nothing wrong with making more with less. GMOs are not harmful whatsoever. They only change the genetic structure of the plant in order to deal with conditions such as drought, Ect. These chemicals do not stay in the plant for long periods of time whatsoever. Without GMOs and chemicals, we would not be able to keep up with the demand for agricultural products

Griffin Farms The entire world does not use GMO ,a lot of countries will not even import them.Show me a long term INDEPENDENT study on the effects of gmo foods, say 30 years etc not just a 3 month study on rats and cows . GMO seeds were only produced so Monsanto etc could sell their own chemicals to spray on their own chemical resistant crops ie roundup ready soybeans for example ,you are locked into a system and you don't even realize it. Just check out who runs the FDA and passes all this shit ,half of them on the board are shareholders in these companies ! If the labeling laws got passed and people had a choice whether to buy GMO food it would be the end of it .Please do some study on the subject .

interman 77 You are illiterate toward this entire concept. People like you are going to eventually get these GMOs outlawed, and then you can watch people starve to death. Cause like I said beforehand, there is no way to supply enough food for the current population without the use of GMOs.

i guess enough of anything could be considered toxic. serious question: would you wear a respirator to handle compost tea? humic acids?

i am just saying set the right example if you want everyone to watch! i don't care what it is, if it splashes in your eyes it won't end well. one trip to the emergency room pays for lots of PPE! and that is time not spent spraying during peak time. congrats on the outstanding yield!

Roger that. I understand what you're saying. I think they are sensitive to fact that people are watching...but from my perspective I prefer they just show what really happens -- with all of the warts. So people are getting the real deal -- the unvarnished truth is more relate-able and usually more a lot more interesting. p.s. all of this footage and the interviews were taken from the corn wars documentary that followed five growers who entered crops in the the 2017 NCGA yield contest.

@a man Glyphosate: Hold my beer(cancer).