Six-Time Corn Yield Champ Disqualified After Errors

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Francis Childs, six-time winner of the National Corn Yield Contest, was disqualified from the 2003 contest because of procedural errors, according to a news release from National Corn Grow

The association's release said: "In the case of Francis Childs' entry, there was confusion over which wagons were inspected. The wagons checked were not the same wagons used to offload the combine. Francis thought four wagons had been checked and supervisors were aware that only two had been inspected. When they cross-checked their information the discrepancy was discovered, thereby causing the contest entry to become invalid.

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Six-Time Corn Yield Champ Disqualified After Errors

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