DuPont Pioneer announces the 15 winners of  the 2015 Western Canadian Proving Ground Yield contest, and five Alberta farmers are among them.
The highest canola and corn yields recorded as part of the 2015 contest were an impressive 116 bushels per acre for canola in Saskatchewan and 200 bushels per acre for corn in Manitoba, but Alberta farmer Jim Herder of Sylvan Lake attained a yield of 84.3 bushels of canola, putting him in first place for Alberta.
The other Alberta canola winners were as follows:
- Ron Krywko, Sturgeon County, 81.3 bushels (2nd place in Alberta)
- Ridgevalley Colony, Crooked Creek, 69.2 bushels (3rd place)
- Arnold Beusekom, Fort Macleod, 63.6 bushels (4th place)
- Kevin Taschuk, Two Hills, 69 bushels (5th place)
Each winner wins a trip for two to the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier in Ottawa, Ont. from March 10-14, 2016.
