By Jeff Brown
Healthy soybean varieties deliver the nutritional benefits Americans demand.Nearly 90 percent of Americans consider nutrition a key factor when buying food, according to a soybean checkoff survey from earlier this year. Because of this, scientists and the soybean value chain...
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By Dave Vincent
Research finds soybean yields are keeping pace with those of cornHave soybean yield increases kept pace with those of corn? University of Nebraska research comparing irrigated corn and soybeans shows yield trend lines have remained parallel for both crops from 1972 to the...
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By Keith Warden
When it comes to fighting yield loss due to drought or flood, identifying soybean lines with genes that provide tolerance to either or both remains the focus of a group of USB supported researchers. In early November, checkoff-funded researcher Tommy Carter, Ph.D., with U.S....
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By Karen Pfautsch
The more you know about your soil, equipment and market options, the better you can farm. The more researchers know about soybean genetics, the better they are able to deliver improved varieties to the market. A new soybean genomics project, led by Drs. David Hyten and Perry...
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By Karen Pfautsch
Without research, lowlinolenic, SCN-resistant or glyphosate-tolerant soybeans might not exist. No doubt research is invaluable – and through their checkoff, soybean farmers are ensuring that vital research will continue.“A number of soybean researchers are nearing the end of...
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By Tyler Kelley
The weather is always a challenge, but recent research may give soybean farmers another tool to manage one of the most devastating weather effects – drought. Two new soybean lines offer a genetic advantage for yields in drought conditions. These lines are better able to fix...
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By Mandy Heth
There may be a downtime for growing soybeans, but soybean research doesn’t take a break. You may not be thinking about soybean cyst nematode or Asian Soybean Rust right now, but your checkoff is doing just that. Research labs throughout the United States focus on improving...
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By Kent Martin
Few brighter spots exist for U.S. soybean farmers than the global outlook for biodiesel and industrial products. In the past, soybean meal was the primary value driver of the soybean, but observers believe that will switch as soybean oil usage soars for biodiesel and industrial...
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By Keith Warden
Fierce competition from Brazil and intense demand for high oil and protein soybeans deserve immediate attention from U.S. soybean farmers. Customers are buying based on quality measured in oil and protein content, not bushels per acre. But yet you still need yield! Fortunately,...
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By Jeff Brown
Oil and protein levels tell the story of your soybeansEvery year, 9,000 U.S. soybean farmers receive kits in the mail inviting them to submit a sample of their crop for analysis. The results constitute the annual U.S. soybean crop quality survey, which helps to demonstrate the...
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By Laura Schafer
Soybean oil is getting healthier with the debut of a high-oleic soybean variety anticipated in 2009, pending U.S. regulatory approval. Food companies will have another option for producing healthier foods when higholeic oil becomes available by 2010. “High-oleic soybeans help...
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By Keith Warden
Battling soybean pests and diseases calls for the best tools. One great tool is the Pest Information Platform for Education and Extension (PIPE). It includes rust-monitoring assets such as www.sbrusa.net and the rust sentinel plot network – great for integrated pest management...
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By Karen Pfautsch
Soybean rust entered new territory last fall, with rust finds as far north as Iowa. Fortunately for most Midwest farmers, the disease showed up too late to impact yield. For Southern producers, like Ike Boudreaux of Lebeau, La., rust is just another foliar disease to manage...
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By Karen Pfautsch
Your fields may be infected with soybean cyst nematode (SCN) and not show a symptom until harvest. In 2006, SCN caused more yield loss than any other disease with losses of more than 123 million bushels of soybeans, according to a national yield suppression study.“Farmers need...
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By Karen Pfautsch
In recent months, companies like Kellogg’s® and KFC® have begun using low-linolenic soybean oil to help reduce trans fats in their products. Researchers at Iowa State University (ISU) have built on the low-linolenic variety to also include mid-oleic oil content. The new...
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By Mandy Heth
One of the largest customers for U.S. soybean meal is the pork industry, where producers demand more efficient and healthier soybean meal. To help maintain and build on this market, the soybean industry and pork industry have joined forces to meet the feed needs of swine...
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By Karen Pfautsch
Thanks to preparation and Mother Nature’s gentle hand, U.S. soybean farmers made it through one year of soybean rust without significant damage. But rust isn’t going away. U.S. farmers must remain diligent to protect their yields from rust. Sentinel plots, fungicides and...
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