The main output of this proposal will be a coordinated soybean research effort for the Mid-Atlantic USA. The immediate deliverable will be the development and submission of a 3-year research and extension project to the USB and/or other agencies. A future deliverable, after 3 years of research, will be the development of advances production practices that increase double-crop soybean yield. Other deliverables will include refereed research and Extension publications, and transfer of newly developed information and technologies to the soybean farmer and industry.

Achieving the objectives:
• Activity is generally moving toward fulfillment of the objectives. This is largely a planning and organizational effort, designed to bring together like-minded researchers to determine the best activities and strategies worthy of pursuit, which would aid double-crop soybean production. That work is progressing with several planning meetings being held and a larger plan for the remainder of 2015 and beyond, is taking shape.

Not achieving the objectives:
• While there is no immediate cause for concern, the search for a graduate student continues, and will soon be in danger of falling behind the original plan. We are confident the PI is personally taking care of the project in the interim.