Jul 20, 2021
He is known on RFD-TV as the “Beast.” Cory Atley has emerged as a dominant name in high yield farming competitions. Atley is a multi-year state champion and has competed on the RFD-TV reality shows Corn Warriors and The Podfather. Atley will be the featured speaker for the Ross Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual meeting and banquet on August 19th.
Tickets are $12 per person. You can make reservations at the Ross Soil and Water Conservation District website www.rosscountyswcd.org or call 740-772-4110 extension 3. The RSVP deadline is August 12th.
Atley placed second on the most recent season of Corn Warriors and this summer is competing in the current season of The Podfather, a soybean yield competition. The shows air on the cable channel RFD-TV as well as Amazon Prime and other streaming outlets. Contestants try to outdo each other by harvesting the most crop.
Jul 20, 2021
He is known on RFD-TV as the “Beast.” Cory Atley has emerged as a dominant name in high yield farming competitions. Atley is a multi-year state champion and has competed on the RFD-TV reality shows Corn Warriors and The Podfather. Atley will be the featured speaker for the Ross Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual meeting and banquet on August 19th.
Tickets are $12 per person. You can make reservations at the Ross Soil and Water Conservation District website www.rosscountyswcd.org or call 740-772-4110 extension 3. The RSVP deadline is August 12th.
Atley placed second on the most recent season of Corn Warriors and this summer is competing in the current season of The Podfather, a soybean yield competition. The shows air on the cable channel RFD-TV as well as Amazon Prime and other streaming outlets. Contestants try to outdo each other by harvesting the most crop.
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By Matt Reese
The weather was just not cooperating for planting in 2020. It was time to start filming Season 4 of the reality show
Corn Warriors and Greene County farmer Cory Atley was preparing for potential failure on national television.
Corn Warriors airs on RFD TV and features six farmers from around the country trying to grow record-setting corn yields. Atley (nicknamed “Beast” on the show) farms more than 8,000 acres of leased and family ground and has won the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) yield contest for Ohio numerous times.
“I was nervous. I thought the first year being on
Corn Warriors was going to be a complete flop. The weather just did not work with us. We were wet early and we planted until June 15, which is not common for us. The biggest chunk of the corn acres went in the last week of May and beans were planted after that,” Atley said. “Then we turned hot and dry. We could not buy a rain. With the products and the hybrids we have
Photo credit: XtremeAg XtremeAg Lee Lubbers, Dan Luepkes, and Chad Henderson are getting ready for the spring weather. As planting season is about to begin, shop time is finishing up and vacations are wrapping up.
Lee Lubbers - Gregory, South Dakota
Lee and his brother began farming in the 1980s during some of the toughest times for farming, but the lessons they learned still shape them today. It’s been a wild weather ride. On March 9, we hit 76°F. The next day it snowed 5 inches. Then we go right back into the 30°F. to 40°F. range, which is normal for this time of year. The winter wheat is just starting to break dormancy with the recent warm spike. It looks like it survived the winter even though it has been unusually dry since last August.