The Forecast and Assessment of Cropping sysTemS (FACTS) project was first launched in 2015 to provide yield and soil nitrogen predictions at individual fields. In addition to the field scale forecasts, in 2019 we added a regional scale component to provide coverage for Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. The regional scale tool provides the following information:
The deadline for farmers to submit data for the "Soybean Yield Benchmarking Project" has been extended to April 1, 2016.
The “Soybean Yield Benchmarking Project” is a collaborative effort and is funded by soybean checkoff funds through the North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP). Iowa State University Extension and Outreach specialists, Daren Mueller, extension plant pathologist, and I are asking soybean farmers to provide yield and agronomic data specific to their soybean production fields by April 1 for a three-year project to identify key factors that prohibit soybean farmers from obtaining yields that are potentially attainable on their respective farms.
By: Paul Kassel
The question comes up from time to time-‘is there an alternative to the Roundup Ready based seed and herbicide system for soybeans?’ Of course there is-we have conventional varieties with conventional herbicides and there is the Liberty Link seed and Liberty herbicide.
