• Determine the optimum agronomic rotation for sustainable Mid-South soybean production.
• Build an economic database to describe the risk associated with each soybean rotation system commonly used in the Mid-South
• Define the influence of feed grain residue management on succeeding soybean yield and pest pressures.

Fundamental production questions that all farmers face include what crop to plant. In recent years mid-south producers have enjoyed great commodity prices that have led to crop selection decisions that were market driven. This has led to an increased number of acres throughout the mid-south that was historically cotton ground to be planted to corn. Many of these producers have also increased their soybean acreage and are now growing soybean in rotation with corn on light textured soils rather than in a monoculture on fine textured soils. Little is known about the economic and sustainable benefit of feed grain and soybean rotation in the mid-south. A thorough understanding of the shifting dynamics of the large scale integration of soybean based rotation systems with corn in the Mid-South is needed. The research conducted in this project addresses this real world situation we are currently facing and will provide producers with the necessary information to make well informed rotation crop selection decisions based upon data generated close to their operation origin.