In the Home Stretch Now

August 13, 2018

The Bean Brief

In the Home Stretch Now

If you’re like us, you know life gets busy. You blink, and the next thing you know, your growing season is getting close to harvest. And sometimes, we get caught up in routines, but when you’re a grower helping feed the world, going through the motions and following the steps on a label can do more harm than good.

That’s why Dr. Gus Lorenz, extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture, spent 3 years researching the impact of automatic applications on soybean yields throughout the state.

What he and his team discovered was making smart applications was more impactful than automatic applications, especially when it comes to pests and weeds building resistance.

If you haven’t had a chance to watch the Field to Film: Featured Research video sharing Dr. Lorenz’s findings, click play on the video below. But if you don’t have time for a video, you can listen to it through the Arkansas Soybean Podcast .

Field to Film: Featured Research | Improving Soybean Yield Potential with Smart Applications

To learn more about Dr. Lorenz and the other scientists conducting checkoff-funded research to help improve soybean yields, click here .

Good Stewards of Checkoff Funds

If this isn’t your first issue of the Bean Brief , you are aware of the survey we have included in the last couple of months. If you haven’t heard about the survey or filled it out, please do. The information you provide will help us improve communications. In other words, another one of our efforts to be good stewards of your checkoff dollars.

A recent look at the responses showed us 70% of Arkansas soybean growers use Facebook. That information helps when sharing information on social channels, so look for more research content on Facebook ! You can al

ways find tons of grower information through our Twitter account.

A look at the chart below reveals that approximately half of Arkansas soybean growers watch videos about agriculture information, which is why we produce the Field to Film: Featured Research video series and the Arkansas Soybean Podcast .

If you haven’t completed the survey, please do so. It only takes a few minutes, but the value of the information will last years.

Click here to take the Arkansas Soybean Producer Survey .

Soy Full with the Arkansas Influencers

Looking for healthy ways to start your day or switch up the usual dinner routine? Visit the Soy at Home section of our website. Over the last 10 months, Debbie Arnold, Lyndi Fultz and Kellee Mayfield have been developing recipes and visiting Arkansas-owned restaurants that support Arkansas’s soybean growers.

From appetizers, to smoothies, to entrees, to deserts, these three Arkansas influencers have been educating Arkansans one recipe at a time.

Click here to show support for Arkansas’s largest row crop. Your taste buds will thank you.

We can’t wait to see what other delicious items Debbie, Lyndi and Kellee dish up this year!