Yield Numbers

We have some preliminary yield numbers on a few of the fields in the program. There will be many more details and an economic analysis in the official publication, but here are some initial numbers:

Field A

UK

Planting Date: June 3

Seeding Rate: 120,000

Plant Stand: 97,000

Pods per 10’ of row: 1720

Herbicide: Glyphosate; Glyphosate + Select

Insectidide: None

Fungicide: None

Yield: 73.8 bu/a

Farmer Practice

Planting Date: June 3

Seeding Rate: 140,000

Plant Stand: 114,800

Pods per 10’ of row: 1550

Herbicide: Glyphosate; Glyphosate + Select

Insecticide: Warrior

Fungicide: Stratego

Yield: 74.4 bu/a

Field B

UK

Planting Date: June 25

Seeding Rate: 140,000

Plant Stand: 112,700

Pods per 10’ of row: 1312

Herbicide: Extreme

Yield: 46.2 bu/a

Farmer Practice

Planting Date: June 25

Seeding Rate: 176,000

Plant Stand: 126,800

Pods per 10’ of row: 1406

Herbicide: Extreme

Yield: 44.7 bu/a

Field C

UK

Planting Date: June 25

Seeding Rate: 140,000

Plant Stand: 99,900

Pods per 10’ of row: 1164

Herbicide: Extreme

Yield: 40.1 bu/a

Farmer Practice

Planting Date: June 25

Seeding Rate: 176,000

Plant Stand: 122,700

Pods per 10’ of row: 1406

Herbicide: Extreme

Yield: 40.5 bu/a

Harvest continues

* Today, we will harvest two more fields, leaving only one yet to be cut.

* We have definitely been blessed with the driest period so far this year. Combines have been running day and night over the past couple of weeks. This has been an odd weather year to say the least.

* Although it was hard to get beans in the ground, and up until a couple of weeks ago it was hard to get them out, yield data is looking very encouraging.

* Considering the conditions, I'm interested to see fungicide test results from this year. Preliminarily, we are seeing no differences in our SoyMVP plots for treated v. untreated.