South Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy says some of his neighbors have remarked that if he had good dirt, there's no telling what he could do.

What he has done, on mediocre soils, is to break Georgia's state corn yield record by more than 60 bushels, with an astounding 364 bushels per acres this past season. He also was the state's corn yield champ in 2010 and winner of the National Corn Growers' Yield Contest for Georgia with a high of 279 bushels per acre.

"My heart is in corn production," says Dowdy, who farms in Brooks County, Ga. "I really enjoy it - you might say I'm a student of growing corn."

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