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MAX YIELD MAX PROFIT SOYBEAN RESEARCH NETWORK

Applied Research

Wm. Bruce Clevenger
Associate Professor and Field Specialist, Farm Management
Ohio State University Extension
Napoleon

Abstract

Soybean growers and the agricultural industry are in search of ways to reach the next level of profitable soybean production. Farmers use a variety of field designs to evaluate agronomic cultural practices and crop input applications. Many of the methods used are easy to implement in the field but lack the design requirements to reduce external variables that unintentionally influence the research results. In 2009, 3 on-farm plots and 3 university research station plots were established to evaluate several products in both single response and combination response to soybean yield and profit. All plots were established in a randomized complete block design with a minimum of three replications per treatment. The treatments included foliar macro-nutrients applied during vegetative and reproductive growth stages, foliar micro-nutrients, foliar insecticides, foliar fungicides, and antioxidant with growth enhancing co-factors to sustain crop health as a seed treatment and foliar application. Research plots were coordinate by the Ohio State University Agronomic Crops Team with financial incentive payments to cooperators made possible by the Ohio Soybean Council. Results of the 2009 MaxYield MaxProfit soybean plots indicated nearly all (87.5%) the products showed no significant response on soybean yields. The cost of these input products and the cost of application reduced soybean net profit per acre.

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Authors: J.K. Yost, G.A. LaBarge, R.P. Leeds, A.P. Sundermeier, W.B. Clevenger, M.J. Estadt, M.L. Gastier
  1. Yost, J. Extension Educator, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 43160
  2. LaBarge, G. Extension Educator, Associate Professor, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 43567
  3. Leeds, R. Extension Educator,, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 43015
  4. Sundermeier, A. Extension Educator, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 43402
  5. Clevenger, W. Extension Educator, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 43512
  6. Estadt, M. Extension Educator, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 43113
  7. Gastier, M. Extension Educator, Ohio State University Extension, Ohio, 44857