2022
PA Soybean On Farm Network
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
DiseaseField management Pest
Parent Project:
On Farm Network
Lead Principal Investigator:
Paul Esker, Pennsylvania State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
PSB-R2022-04
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Pennsylvania Soybean Promotion Board
$255,490
Institution Funded:
Pennsylvania State University
$255,490
Brief Project Summary:

In areas like Pennsylvania, cover crops are commonly drilled in soybean fields after harvest. However, raising either full-season soybeans with longer maturity or double-crop soybeans limits time to plant and establish cover crops before temperatures stop growth. Heidi Reed, an agronomy educator with Penn State Extension, worked with farmers through the Pennsylvania Soybean On-Farm Network, funded by the Pennsylvania Soybean Board, to learn if planting cover crops into standing soybeans would expand the species they could use. Cooperating farmers chose cover crop species or mixes from a group of nine options and planting methods. The goal was to time broadcast seeding as soybean leaves yellowed, just before leaf drop.

Key Benefactors:
farmers

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Results will be summarized and reported on the PA Soybean Board website and the National Soybean Checkoff Research Database. We will also write year-end summaries for the PA Soybean Board Research booklet and as part of summary extension articles in Field Crop News. We have proposed summer and winter workshops to present new results from the on-farm network. These results will also be presented at annual crops conferences and crops days and meetings like the Keystone Crop and Soil Conference and professional society meetings. This project strongly emphasizes education and training, whereby graduate students and summer research assistants receive training in soybean research and extension, extension educators trained in on-farm research, and soybean production practices and problems related to pests diseases, and abiotic issues. We will continue to promote research results at regional and national levels to leverage our local efforts to secure additional funding for research and extension. In all cases, we will work closely with the Pennsylvania Soybean Board to promote these results and other PSB programs during all events and will recognize PSB contributions at all field trials, events, and publications.

Final Project Results

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.