REAPING THE HARVEST: Arab farmer finishes third in national corn yield contest

Published 1:14 pm Friday, February 17, 2017

Gregory Key of Arab placed third in the 2016 National Corn Growers Association’s (NCGA) National Corn Yield Contest for Alabama.

Key competed in the A No-Till/Strip-Till Non- Irrigated division and finished with a high yield of 166.2493 bushels per acre. Key worked with his Corn Specialist Chad Stanfield and Regional Agronomist Mitch Holmberg.

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