Each year, we like to take a closer look at the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Corn Yield Contest to identify farmers who used any of Agricen's diverse plant health technologies in their winning programs.
In the 2024 NCGA Corn Yield Contest, five national and 44 state winners used one or more of Agricen's commercialized technologies in their winning programs. Products that were part of the winning programs included ACCOMPLISH MAX, EXTRACT, PROLOGUE, TERRAMAR, and TITAN XC. All of these products are part of the Loveland Products plant nutrition portfolio available through Nutrien Ag Solutions retail locations across the United States.
2024 National Corn Yield Contest Winners
Among the five national winners who used at least one of Agricen's plant health technologies in their winning programs were David Hula and Craig Hula of Virginia, who had the highest overall yields of any growers in the 2024 contest. They respectively won first and second place nationally in the Strip, Min, Mulch, Ridge-Till Irrigated category with yields of 490.63 bu/acre and 461.30 bu/acre. David and Craig work with Nutrien Ag Solutions crop consultant Jimmy Ward.
Heath Cutrell, who works with Nutrien Ag Solutions crop consultant Fenton Eure III, is another national winner from Virginia. Heath placed second nationally in the Conventional Non-Irrigated category with a corn yield of 350.19 bu/acre. (You can learn more about Heath in our short video from a few years back, Striving for Record Corn Yields.)
Pictured (left to right): Agricen's Scott Lay, grower Heath Cutrell and Heath's Nutrien Ag Solutions crop consultant, Fenton Eure III.
Rounding out the list are two more Virginians: JR Newcomb, who won third place nationally in the No-Till Irrigated category with a corn yield of 367.92 bu/acre, and Robbie Newcomb, who took third nationally in the Conventional Irrigated category with a yield of 352.29 bu/acre. Both work with Nutrien Ag Solutions crop consultant Eugene Longest.
Congratulations to all of the 2024 winners and their Nutrien Ag Solutions crop consultants, and we wish the best of luck to all who plan on entering the contest in 2025.
Learn more about the technologies used in the winning programs by downloading our Sustainable Plant Health Technology Overview.
