Source: John Hart, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 1/17/17

At last year’s All Commodities Conference in Durham, NC, Ron Heiniger boldly proclaimed 2016 as the “Year of the Corn” because it would be the year North Carolina would make a record average statewide corn yield of 150 bushels per acre with at least one farmer making 400 bushels per acre. At this year’s conference, Heiniger, North Carolina State University Extension corn specialist, said the state fell just short of achieving his prediction. 

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