Arkansas soybean yield contest winners announced

The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the Arkansas Soybean Association are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest.  The contest divided state soybean producers into 8 groups, 7 geographic regions and 1 all state conventional (non-GMO) category. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top 3 in each division achieving a minimum of 60 bushels per acre at the annual meeting of the Arkansas Soybean Association on Jan. 16, 2019.  The meeting will be held at the Grand Prairie Center in Stuttgart.

We want to commend all of the 144 soybean producers who entered the 2018 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest and we are proud to announce that 1 of these producers reached and exceeded the 100-bushel-acre milestone in 2018.

The Race for 100 yield contest began in 2007 and in 2013, three producers reached the goal. In 2018, William Palsa from Tillar achieved this goal with Local Seed LS4565 and a yield of 107.394 bushels per acre. Palsa is the 18th producer to achieve 100 bushels per acre since 2013.

Congratulations to the following winners of the 2018 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest. We appreciate the participation of all the producers entered in the contest and the sharing of their production methods and management practices with the rest of the Arkansas soybean industry.  

1-Northeast Delta

         
   

Marty White

Poinsett

Asgrow 46X6

RR2X

95.194

   

Annette Wray

Poinsett

Progeny 4816 RX

RR2X

90.670

   

Mike Hook

Craighead

Pioneer P48A60X

RR2X

90.214

             

2-Northeast

         
   

Brad French

Randolph

Credenz 4222

LL

94.416

   

Judd Cunningham

Poinsett

Asgrow 46X7

RR2X

89.957

   

Brian Mack

Poinsett

Asgrow 46X6

RR2X

88.579

             

3-White River Basin

         
   

Terry Fuller

Monroe

Pioneer P47T36

RR

83.513

   

David Petter

Prairie

Pioneer P46A16R

RR2X

85.762

   

Justin Earls

Jackson

Progeny 4851 RX

RR2X

79.575

             

4-Central & Grand Prairie

       
   

Taylor Burdett

Arkansas

Asgrow Ag47X6

RR2X

93.088

   

Drew Counce

Arkansas

Pioneer P46A16

RR

90.321

   

David Strohl

Prairie

Asgrow AG 46X6

RR2X

90.234

             

5-East Central Delta

         
   

Michael Taylor Jr

Phillips

Asgrow AG 47X6

RR2X

87.809

   

Neil Culp

Phillips

Asgrow AG 46X6

RR2X

87.394

   

Blake Culp

Phillips

Asgrow AG 46X6

RR2X

86.624

             

6-Southeast Delta

         
   

William Palsa

Desha

Local Seed LS4565

RR2X

107.394

   

Caper Robertson

Desha

Asgrow AG 4632

RR2Y

87.403

   

Kenneth Robertson

Desha

Asgrow AG 46X6

RR2X

83.402

             

7 – Western

         
   

Greg Hart

Conway

Rev 48A76

RR

77.067

   

James Gregory

Conway

Pioneer P47T36

RR

72.269

   

Lewis Moore

Conway

Beck 494

LL

65.510

             

Conventional

         
   

Jon Carroll

Monroe

Ellis

Conv

70.764

   

Laura Stephens

Cross

Progeny 4910

Conv

70.309

   

Brandon Stephens

Cross

Progeny 4910

Conv

67.701

The Grow for the Green Yield Soybean Yield Challenge is funded by the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board using producer checkoff funds. The contests are administered by the Arkansas Soybean Association in cooperation with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

For additional information on the soybean yield contests in Arkansas, please contact the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board or Arkansas Soybean Association at 501-666-1418 or [email protected].  

Information will also be available on both websites at www.arkansassoybean.com and www.themiraclebean.com.