In that time span, we've produced a higher winning percentage than companies like Pioneer, DeKalb and Novartis. Since 1990, Great Lakes Hybrids produced 501 entries in the NCGA Corn Yield Contest, with 93 achieving the yields necessary to become state champions. The Great Lakes' hybrid has won more than 18.6 percent of the time. Midwestern farmers demand performance, and the Great Lakes Hybrids lineup has proven itself in an elite, national competition for the past 10 years. The NCGA Corn Yield Contest is an annual national competition among corn producers with the goal of producing the highest yields.
Growers compete within a broad range of corn production classes.
Hybrids is affiliated with KWS in Germany, a seed-only company, and has research stations in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Puerto Rico. This strong, proven research program has been able to produce top performing conventional genetics for incorporation of the new transgenic traits.