Show Famed Acre Produces Record Bushel Corn Yield Laying claim to the world record corn yield for 1960 are Paul and Lindon father and from It has been announced by Prentiss County Agricultural Taylor that bushels of corn were harvested from a measured acre on the Katliff Smith supervised weighing and harvesting all of the corn from the acre and yield figures were verified and released by the Agricultural Extension Service of Mississippi State Since this same acre has bushels of corn for a nine-year average of Lindon Katliff produced U.S. record corn yields in 1957 and In his made the all- time world record corn yield of According to the boys' shown atop one of the six wagon-loads harvested this key factors in the amazing yield were careful soil management and the use of Funk's a new hybrid developed especially for growing conditions in a broad band across the Increasing interest turned this year's harvesting into a field More than seed agricultural worker's and businessmen from five states attended the Since both boys will be in Paul is on his own next think I've learned enough from the boys during the last 10 years to beat their he |