Re: Iowa Farmers

Posted by JD Seller on July 26, 2013 at 12:09:55 from (208.126.196.144):

In Reply to: Iowa Farmers posted by NY 986 on July 26, 2013 at 10:55:28:

Francie Childs has been dead for over 5 years now. His ex-wife has been having fun running him down ever since she caught him cheating on her. I hate a cheating spouse too but she has taken it to a new level. She caused him to have to quit farming. She has HALF the ground he farmed on. She does not understand that the more she runs him down she is running her kids down too. Enough on that.

Here are some facts:

1) I have met him and he has been on this farm.

2) He had knowledge that very few in the world have on growing corn.

3) He never farmed very much ground. Maybe a few hundred acres.

4) He had weaknesses that many people have. Fame magnifies these for the world to see.

5) The cheating she described could not have happened. There are on site inspectors while you harvest. They ride with you and every load. They watch every step of the harvest. She said the had wagons with loaded tires and switched them around to gain weight to make his high yields. Even if they where filled to the brim they would only have gained him maybe 30 bushels on the load/acre. So he still would have been in the High 300. After she stated this he still won his class. You can bet that he was watched like a hawk after she threw out he cheated.

6) He had very good ground to grow his record breaking crops on. There is just as good of ground right around him that others own. They never did get as high yields. They also never worked a field like he did. HE checked the record breaking fields twice a day at times. HE never let anything go before correcting it. So the neighbors that did not work it like that like to say he "cheated" to beat them.

7) The year he set the record we had weather like you would not believe. I had lower producing ground that yielded over 200 BPA that usually did not average 150 BPA.

8) Yes he cheated on his wife with a woman that was employed by Pioneer Seed. She lost her job and he lost half of his farm. I think that they both got punished enough. Do we need to keep beating the guy down years after he died just because we can????

9) The simple fact is the public built him up and then enjoyed tearing him down. He was basically driven from his community. People enjoyed doing it too. It was their "payback" for him doing something they could not or would not do.

10) We know more about raising high yielding corn because of Francis Childs. His ideas and practices have been studied and adopted WORLD wide. I would bet that if you plant corn you are effected by some of this knowledge. If you grow any modern hybrid corn then you are. All the companies studied his fields with a fine tooth comb.

May he rest in peace. His life was filled with ups and downs. His personal failing did not include not knowing how to grow a high yielding corn crop.

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