2021
NW Minnesota Soybean Research and Tech Transfer (2021)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
Field management Nutrient managementSoil healthTillageYield trials
Parent Project:
NW Minnesota Soybean Research and Tech Transfer
Lead Principal Investigator:
Angie Peltier, University of Minnesota
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
10-15-44-21229
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
$28,972
Leveraged Funding (Non-Checkoff):
The investigators sought and obtained funding from the Minnesota Wheat Research & Promotion Council to provide student interns a more well-rounded summer internship experience. Briefly, before commencing survey work for this soybean-focused project, student interns surveyed spring wheat fields for insects and diseases.
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Institution Funded:
University of Minnesota
$28,972
Brief Project Summary:

There are two main objectives with this project. First, UMN Extension will continue to conduct the Soybean IPM Survey, which was done the first time in 2015. Expected outcomes are timely alerts for crop managers to assist in making sound economic management decisions. The survey provides a weekly summary of pest and crop status from late-June through mid-August. Second, plot tour tech-transfer summer programs will be held at two UMN Soybean Breeding program sites on fields of long-time farmer cooperators and at three variety trial locations. Variety trials provide an ideal backdrop for summer tech-transfer plot tour-type programs that highlight current management challenges and research-based solutions.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension specialists, ag retailers

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Please see attached PDF document for this project's final report.

Final Project Results

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View uploaded report PDF file

View uploaded report 3 PDF file

The 2021 western MN IPM survey program visited 285 soybeans, scouting them for insect pests and diseases. Through online newsletters (6,149 page views) and radio interviews in-season and at winter meetings post-season, the results of this survey were shared with crop producers. In-season information could be used by producers to better focus scouting efforts or make treatment decisions. Post-season meetings provided a season-long summary of survey results and additional information about the most widely observed soybean pest in 2021: two-spotted spider mite. Events were held in: Warren on Dec 2 (25 people), New York Mills on Jan 21 (29 people), Ada on Jan 26 (40 people), Roseau on Jan 31 (29 people), McIntosh on Feb 1 (17 people), Thief River Falls on Feb 15 (29 people), Ada on Feb 21 (27 people) and Crookston on Feb 25 (30 people). A summary of survey results was also included in the printed “Northwest & West Central Minnesota Research Booklet” distributed at the 2021 Prairie Grains Conference and mailed to 810 farmers and is online.
A mid-project re-budgeting and change of scope related to Objective 2 allowed us to create re-usable, collapsible banners for display at winter meetings held throughout Minnesota focused on a new or expanded geography of production challenges. We chose to highlight soybean gall midge (SGM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ge121KK0hjJT3RwcUxcuwl_5gcIYlBPe/view?usp=sharing) and sudden death syndrome (SDS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgqkRQyEZZ8tYZQDTC4FOR__Sb9NVOyU/view?usp=sharing) by creating multiple copies for deployment throughout the state through large, high quality pictures.

These banners were deployed at a minimum of 18 UMN Extension winter meetings for more than 657 farmers and the SGM banner is on permanent display at the UMN Southwest Research & Outreach Center in Lamberton.

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.