Johnna Ringkob, a new member of the South Dakota Soybean staff, oversees the South Dakota Soybean Yield Contest. “I am learning that [the contest] is a great opportunity that South Dakota Soybean uses to promote producers in exploring new practices to improve their soybean yield and soybean quality across the state,” said Ringkob, market development and research director at South Dakota Soybean.
Just like it sounds, the Yield and Quality contest is a chance for growers to determine who grows the most soybeans on each acre, but Ringkob says the purpose of the event goes beyond that.
“The yield contest is designed to encourage the development of new and innovative management practices,” said Ringkob, in an interview with the South Dakota Soybean Network. “We then, in the office, gather all the data that we collect from what [growers] send back from their yield contest submissions and then we make that available to producers across the state so that producers in other areas can know specifically what’s working in their areas, say doing a no-till soybean, or if irrigation is better for their area.”
Source: sdsoybean.org
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