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Mar 10, 2021 8:10 AM (SPRINGFIELD) A Clark County farmer has finished first in the Illinois conventional tillage class of the National Sorghum Producers (NSP) 35th annual yield contest with a 174.9 bushels per acre yield. Allen Walters of the Clarksville area planted his 1.5 acre plot to basically deal with a deer herd problem, but it ended up with the winning yield. Overall, Walter’s entire 72 acres of milo averaged 147 bushels per acre with a test weight above 60 pounds harvested at 18 percent moisture. Other winners in the yield competition included Jim Stoecklin in Bond County, Illinois for top honors in the state’s dryland no-till category with a yield of 173.5 bushels per acre. Ella Johnston of Pennsylvania won the national with a record yield of 245.8 bushels per acre. U.S. Farmers overall planted 5.88 million acres of sorghum last year, up 12 percent from the year before in 2019 and a four year high. With an average yield of 73.2 bushels per acre, up two-tenths of a bush

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