2016
Achieving 100 bushel/acre soybean yields: Developing, testing, 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
(n/a)
Institution Funded:
South Dakota State University
(n/a)
Brief Project Summary:

The project builds the infrastructure where locally led production and management questions are tested. Activities include: conducting high-yield field studies at four sites; developing soybean nutrient budgets as impacted by three planting rates and two planting dates; expanding on-farm studies for variable rate seeding and varieties, cover crops, high yield protocols, and farmer-identified treatments; training for on-farm research, sponsoring the Soy100 and summer field tour; using genetic markers to better define high yield treatment impact on gene expression at early growth stages; developing an on-farm research database; reviewing the soybean best management practices manual; and organizing an advisory board meeting to identify priorities and assess project successes.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension specialists

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

We will help increase South Dakota soybean yields by:
1) conducting high yield field studies at 4 sites;
2) improving our understanding of soybean nutrient removal by developing nutrient budgets for soybeans seeded at 3 sites as impacted by 3 planting rates and 2 planting dates,
3) providing farmer training for on-farm research,
4) sponsoring the Soy100 and summer on-farm study field tour;
5) using genetic markers to better define the impact of the high yield treatments on gene expression at early growth stages when applicable,
6) expanding the on-farm studies to include variable rate seeding and varieties, cover crops, high yield protocols, and farmer identified treatments,
7) developing a searchable on-farm research data-base,
8) continuing the review of the soybean manual, and
9) organizing an advisory board to help identify on-farm research priorities and assess project successes.
Last year we sponsored between 25 and 30 on-farm studies. Our goal for 2015-2016 is between 40 to 60 on-farm studies. If possible we will attempt to integrate UAV into the scouting protocols. This project will allow us to better match solutions to problems; create locally based flexible high yield roadmaps, which will be validated in research conducted in producer’s fields when appropriate.

Final Project Results

Updated November 1, 2019:

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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.