Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 1/22/20


In 2019, the average non-irrigated yield in the North Carolina soybean yield contest was 77 bushels per acre, compared to the average statewide yield of 35 bushels. That’s a 42 bushel difference, and the challenge is to increase North Carolina’s attainable average yields to levels closer to the marks achieved by the yield contest winners. Certainly, all soybean growers can learn a few things from the 2019 yield contest winners. What exactly did they do to gain those strong yields?

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