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Illinois Yield Challenge
The purpose of the Yield Challenge -- funded by the Illinois soybean checkoff -- is to provide a platform that encourages soybean growers to try new yield-enhancing practices and share the information learned through those innovations. By welcoming challenging conditions such as pests, government mandates, difficult weather patterns, yield-limiting soil types and more, participants can explore a wide variety of methods and products to realize higher yields and ultimately improve their bottomline profitability.
"This program provides growers with an extraordinary opportunity to try new approaches in crop management," explains ISA Production Committee Chair Dan Farney. "Typically, growers would have to test new practices and wait until harvest to see what happens. With this program, their control plots allow them to review data and make comparisons throughout the growing season."
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In 2011, participating teams reported an average increase of 3.5 bushels per acre... that's an average yield increase of 6.45 percent! Plus, approximately 10 percent of our 2011 growers achieved yields of at least 80 bushels, which is well above the state average of 51.5. Another group -- comprised of 15 individual growers -- attained increases of at least 10 bushels per acre, contributing heavily to their teams' overall results. Check out all the 2011 winners here.
Now it's time for growers, students, and every major crop input supplier and manufacturer in the soybean industry to put their methods to the test.
Sign up for the 2012 Yield Challenge today!
Register for the ISA/Farm Journal Soybean College! Sharpen Your Skills.
Attention Illinois Soybean Growers: Do you want to advance your production skills, increase your yields and improve your profitability? If so, we have the event for you! Farm Journal’s Soybean College -- sponsored by ISA and funded by the Illinois soybean checkoff -- offers you a full day of practical, hands-on learning right in the field. It features Farm Journal Agronomist Ken Ferrie, who will be leading all of the general sessions as well as one of four breakouts and an agronomic Q&A. Plus, Gary Schnitkey from the University of Illinois will be speaking during dinner on markets. Soybean College, located on the Corn College Campus in Heyworth, Ill., runs from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25. Registration includes lunch and a steak dinner, and you get it all for only $100. But act fast... seating is limited to the first 200 growers to sign up.
Stay Current on Yield Challenge News!
You can keep up with all the latest Yield Challenge developments by following us on Twitter. Simply visit www.twitter.com/ilsoyyield and click "Follow" in the top, right corner. While there, we encourage you to check out ISA's other Twitter pages, including @ilsoy_news and @soycam, too!
