Yield contests provide some value to the rest of us- the contestants often try different methods than what the average farmer is using, and it may turn out to work great. I'm thinking specifically of the soybean farmer Kip Cullers, who, on one plot, rolled over the young plants with a crop roller. Turns out the damage to the plant stem caused the plant to throw off additional nodes to produce more beans. It is very dependent on the exact plant growth stage, but it is something you can take directly to your fields. Cullers probably is not the originator of this method, nor has he perfected it, but it was the first I'd heard of it. We tried many different things the summer I interned for a seed corn company- we seeded one field to corn by airplane- no row structure at all. Harvest was a nightmare, as you can imagine. That was before "we" understood so much about sunlight, heat radiance, etc. Not every new method comes from scientific research, some is seat-of-the-tractor tricks.
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