If you search around the net a lot, you'll find some info on him including his techniques. He gave a lot of lectures over the years but he didn't give away all of his secrets. He plowed deep, put down about 44,000 seeds per acre, applied 400+ lbs of fertilizer per acre, tended his fields meticulously, used pesticides, was lucky with rains,all-in-all spent about $650 per acre just getting his crops in the ground. Planted at about 2 mph. He would set a slightly consumed can of Pepsi on a planter box and watch it. If any Pepsi spilled he would slow down. He only had about 320 acres, all corn, year after year. "You have to be willing to change." His corn roots would go down 3 feet or so. With all that, he figured his break even price was $1.68. Not bad. But he said his neighbors couldn't do it because they had thousands of acres. They were spread too thin. He could spend a lot of time with his one and only crop. He said it took him 20 years to learn how to get yields of 400 bu per acre and it would take him at least 6 years to teach someone else what he had learned. He stated that he had pulled over 500 bu/acre in some fields but they weren't the test plots.
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