Limited information has been collected in North Carolina and throughout the Southern USA to explain why growers are not reaching the maximum soybean yield potential of their fields. Recent work out of the North Central USA focused on identifying causes for yield gaps in the region (Conley et al, Key Management Practices that Explain Soybean Yields Gaps Across the North Central US) using producer data and a spatial framework. This work identified that the yield gap for rainfed soybean production was 22% of the maximum yield potential and that the major contributing management factors to that yield gap included planting data, tillage, and inseason fungicide and insecticide applications. This research seeks to quantify the yield gap in North Carolina and throughout the Southern USA and to determine the largest contributing management practices to that yield gap. Survey development and distribution have been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however we intend to move forward with the originally proposed plan in the latter part of 2021 and moving into 2022.