2022
Achieving 100 Bu/A soybean yields: on-farm research and sharing high yield protocols with South Dakota soybean producers
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Contributor/Checkoff:
South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Field management Nutrient managementSoil healthTillageYield trials
Parent Project:
Achieving 100 bushel/acre soybean yields: Developing, testing, and sharing high yield protocols with South Dakota soybean producers
Lead Principal Investigator:
David Clay, South Dakota State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
$156,050
Institution Funded:
South Dakota State University
$156,050
Brief Project Summary:

This project will create datasets for precision agriculture applications. With this project, hyperspectral data will be collected from selected fields and researchers will evaluate the ability to identify yield limiting factors to help determine barriers to precision farming technique adoption. On-farm studies provide information for producers to reduce economic risks, test the efficiency of components within their operation, and test innovative ideas. A producer chooses treatments based on interest and SDSU agronomists assist in experiment design, treatment application, scouting, and analysis. Farmers use results to identify treatments for their farm and reduce the economic risks associated with new products.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension specialists

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Some the deliverables produced by this paper are short term and some are long term. Short term deliverables include information provided to farmers can use to reduce their costs and improve their profitability and graduating students who have an improved understanding on how to integrate on-farm studies into the decision process. Findings from these studies are shared with the collaborating farmer, and loaded onto the web page that was created in 2016, as quickly as possible. Long-term impacts are improved understanding on how to improve soil health for soybean production and the development of UAV tools that improve our ability to identify yield limiting factors. In addition, this database is being used to train the next generation of agronomists. These agronomists will improve production efficiency for their entire careers. These future agronomists are trained in the SDSU Capstone class, PS475 and Sensor, PRAG 428 where they use the posted experiments to create economic and environmentally sustainable management plans. This year, we will prepare hard copy of reports that will be available at SD Soybeans Research and Promotion headquarters and other farmer events.

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.