Grow for the Green Increases Prize Yield

July 31, 2018

The Bean Brief

Put Your Yield to the Test

In the 2017 growing season, 118 Arkansas soybean producers entered the annual Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge . The challenge, which awards growers from eight divisions, added nine producers to the state’s 100 Bushel Club last year.

This year, the stakes are higher than ever . Sponsored by the Arkansas soybean checkoff, the Arkansas Soybean Association and the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture, the 8 ^th annual challenge is offering an additional $10,000 prize for 120 bu/ac. The prize will be split evenly if more than one producer reaches this historic goal.

The deadline to enter for the 2018 challenge is AUGUST 1 . You can download the application form here .

To learn more about the Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge and the 100 Bushel Club , visit our website .

More Bang for Your Checkoff Bucks

With each bushel harvested and sold, the Arkansas soybean checkoff supports more research, promotion and education. This includes sharing invaluable information with the state’s growers to help increase yield and profitability each year. We also educate Arkansas consumers about the value of the soybean industry.

In last month’s issue of the Bean Brief , we shared a link to a survey originally handed out at the Mid-South Farm & Gin show.

The results of this survey are used to prioritize checkoff dollars for research and education. We’re asking you, the Natural State’s growers, to help us understand how you prefer to receive agriculture information. This helps us when communicating how we, the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board, put your soybean checkoff dollars to work.

Based on the results received so far, we’re on the right track. However, your answers will help strengthen outreach tactics and develop new ones.

If you haven’t answered the survey question, please take a few minutes to tell us how you find the agriculture news and information important to you. Click the link below to fill out the survey. It takes less than three minutes to complete, but the value of the answers will last for years to come as we develop programs and resources with you in mind.

Arkansas Soybean Producer Survey

Battling Redbanded Stink Bugs

Dr. Gus Lorenz, extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture, is all too familiar with the Redbanded Stink Bug and the damage it inflicts on our crops. Thanks to a mild winter ahead of the 2017 growing season, Dr. Lorenz suspected this non-native pest would rear its ugly head. What he and other entomologists in the Mid-South didn’t know was just how destructive they would be for soybean growers.

Knowing soybean producers couldn’t afford to experience another dastardly run-in with the Redbanded Stink Bug, Dr. Lorenz and his team went to work. Funded by soybean checkoff dollars, Dr. Lorenz’s findings revealed the pest makes its presence known later in the growing season.

Whether you’ve been able to hold off the pest thus far in the 2018 growing season, or you’re starting to have problems, watch Dr. Lorenz’s latest video in our Field to Film: Featured Research series to learn how you can take a proactive stance against the Redbanded Stink Bug.

Field to Film: Featured Research | Battling Redbanded Stink Bugs

For the full findings by Dr. Lorenz and his team, click here .

To learn more about checkoff-funded research working to help maximize yields for Arkansas soybean producers, watch the full Field to Film: Featured Research video series .

Listen to the Arkansas Soybean Podcast and get the information you need without taking your eyes off the yield.