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Yield contest provides valuable data
South Dakota soybean growers have until August 20th to sign up for the South Dakota Soybean Yield Contest. Kevin Scott, a farmer from Valley Springs, South Dakota, tells Brownfield the competition is important because it provides data to help improve the state’s soybean crops in the future.
“We’re trying to gather agronomic information from producers across South Dakota in their specific zones of growing, whether it’s Group Zero soybeans or to Group 3 in the south,” said Scott recently in an interview. “This contest will gather that information, we’ll compile the results, and after a year, or two, or three, we’ll have some template to give back to [growers] as to how they can possibly improve their yields on their farm.”
The winners in each of a dozen yield categories get $1,000 as well as up to $1,500 to be used to attend next winter’s Commodity Classic in Nashville. Smaller cash prizes are given to growers who place 2nd and 3rd in each category.
Growers can also enter the optional quality component of the contest, providing data that Scott says is just as important.
“The quality issues are very critical,” said Scott. “We get compared with other countries as to quality, so we need to know what we can do to improve the quality of our product to the end user and what agronomic things we can do to improve those quality issues.”
The fee to enter is $25 and each grower is allowed two entries. Entering and credit card payment can be done at sdsoybean.org.
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