JEFFERSONVILLE, Ohio \u2014 James Jacobs, sales manager, announced the winners of Seed Genetics Direct\u2019s 2025 Wheat Yield Contest.<\/p>\n
\u2022 First place \u2014 credit on $2,500 of seed from Seed Genetics Direct and $2,500 of herbicides and fungicides from Herbicides Direct: N.S. Farm Services, Nathan and Steve Birkemeier, of Columbus Grove, Ohio, with AGI 114, yielding 131.9 bushels per acre and a test weight of 58.7 pounds per acre.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Second place \u2014 credit on $1,500 of seed from Seed Genetics Direct and $1,500 of herbicides and fungicides from Herbicides Direct: Davis Seed Farms, Kannon Jones, of Greens Fork, Indiana, with AGI 114, yielding 116.2 bushels per acre and a test weight of 59 pounds per acre.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Third place \u2014 credit on $1,000 of seed from Seed Genetics Direct and $1,000 of herbicides and fungicides from Herbicides Direct: Randy Leib, of Prospect, Ohio, with AGI 217B, yielding 116 bushels per acre and a test weight of 59.1 pounds per acre.<\/p>\n
Jacobs said entries averaged 110.5 bushels per acre, with an average test weight of 58.7 pounds per acre.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile entries were off a little from previous years due to the excessive rainfall prior and during harvest, Seed Genetics Direct is very proud of its participants and entries \u2014 and with wheat sales up, we anticipate more entries in 2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEFFERSONVILLE, Ohio \u2014 James Jacobs, sales manager, announced the winners of Seed Genetics Direct\u2019s 2025 Wheat Yield Contest.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[73373,815,159,40346,67,132,68,313,122643,51996],"class_list":{"0":"post-226868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-fungicide","9":"tag-genetics","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-seed","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-weather","16":"tag-weeds","17":"tag-wheat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115204294084346498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}