The National Wheat Foundation (NWF) and Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board are proud and excited to announce the state winners of the 2016 National Wheat Yield Contest; Donald Lippy, Bradley Rill, and Edward Lippy. Sponsored by Monsanto, BASF, John Deere, Winfield, and seeing nearly 170 entrants, the 2016 National Wheat Yield Contest is the first in twenty years and encouraged farmers to innovate, exchange knowledge, and utilize available technology.
The top yield in the state for dryland winter wheat was Donald Lippy of Lippy Brothers Farms from Hampstead, MD. On a field in Baltimore County, he reached a final yield of 116.81 bushels per acre, 88.4% above the county average. Following his lead were his partners, Bradley Rill who reached a final yield of 117.36 bushels per acre in Carroll County, 63% above average; and Edward Lippy who reached a final yield of 109.11 also in Carroll County, 51.5% above average.
“The Foundation believes that the National Wheat Yield Contest will be the catalyst to driving innovation among growers, and communication with competitors and colleagues to facilitate productive discourse on successful practices and techniques,” says NWF Chairman Phil McLain. “We are thrilled that the 2016 Contest saw a robust level of participation, and we hope that the 2017 Contest will see even higher levels of enrollment from wheat growers. We are at a point, as an industry, where farmers are capitalizing on modern and innovative growing techniques to produce the surpluses that we are seeing today. The Wheat Yield Contest will allow those hugely successful growers to share those techniques to bring the whole industry to the forefront of cutting-edge technology and practices.”
With the announcement of the 2016 winners, the National Wheat Foundation would also like to announce the opening of the 2017 National Wheat Yield Contest. Registration for the fall wheat sector will end on May 1, 2017, and registration for the spring wheat sector will end on August 1, 2017. Growers should look ahead to the coming year to enter the contest and join their fellow growers in achieving the objectives of the National Wheat Yield Contest.
For more information, contact the Maryland Grain Producers.
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