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Wikert wins FFA corn contest master corn growers yield
Leroy Wikert of Emmetsburg topped a field of participants with a 147.79 bushel per acre yield to win the master corn growers contest. Other top yields listed include Edmund Herke and Win Voigt of Graettinger and multiple Graettinger and Wallingford entrants, with numerous 100 plus bushels per acre scores noted. The document also records Board actions from January and February 1973 including salary adjustments, reimbursements, and utility payments for the Light Plant and related entities.
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Leroy Wikert
Emmetsburg
Edmund Herke
Voigt Graettinger
Doug Herke
Jerry Schacherer
Wallingford
Roy Luhman Graettinger
Tony Alesch” Graettinger
Orville Nicol
Arnold Bisgaard
Graettinger
George Twait Graettinger
Eugene Voigt Graettinger
Jim Spies Graettinger
Robert Ressell Wallingford
Lloyd McCombs Graettinger
Richard Herke
Maxwell Jamison Graettinger
Robert Ruetter
Estherville
Jim Voigt Graettinger
Willard Herker Graettinger
Paul Joyce Graettinger
Bernard Elsenbast Graettinger
Iowa
Graettinger Re Chapter
Myrtle
Omer Gjerde
Francis Heidecker
Russell Jones
Bushell
Arnold
Say- Bisgard
LeRoy
Wikert
George
Twait
Richard
Herke
Orville
Nicol
James
Spies
Arnold Norman Bisgaard
Wegener
Bernard
Neilsen
Maxwell
Don Jamison
Johnson
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