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Teams Sought for 2010 Yield Challenge

Take part in our 2010 Yield Challenge - an event that will make a difference in your soybean fields for years to come! The Illinois Soybean Association is seeking teams that will help identify the innovative management practices used to produce the highest soybean yields and recognize the top soybean growers in Illinois.

Growers who produce soybeans within Illinois state boundaries are encouraged to participate. Each grower must be a member of a team including five to 10 participants, and each participant will set up two side-by-side plots. One plot will receive the grower's normal management practices, and the Challenge plot will receive the innovative, high-yield strategies. All production practices will be recorded and reported.

At harvest, all team members will conduct a yield check. For each team, the average of the five highest yielding plots will be used to determine the final Challenge yield for each team. Illinois will be sectioned into nine Yield Challenge districts and the teams with the highest average yield in each district will be rewarded. Sign up NOW!

February 2 & 3
Pork Expo
Peoria Civic Center | Peoria, IL

February  10-13
National Farm Machinery Show 
Kentucky Fair & Expo Center  |  Louisville, KY 

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February 14-16 
Illinois Grain & Feed
Crowne Plaza  |  Springfield, IL

February 27 & 28  
Western Illinois Ag Mech Farm Expo
Western Hall  |  Macomb, IL

The Varietal Information Program for Soybeans

Use the Varietal Information Program for Soybeans (VIPS) website (www.vipsoybeans.org) to help win the battle of maximizing soybean yields and profit per acre. Over 60 companies participate in the state variety trials with over 600 varieties spanning five maturity groups being evaluated. read more »

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Review Multi-Year Data for 2010 Soybean Selection

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Illinois Soybean Association Heads to Farm Shows with Valuable Information for Illinois Growers

The Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) is heading to area farm shows with information that will benefit Illinois soybean growers. Since the soybean checkoff plays a major role in research, ISA's new...read more »

Illinois Soybean Association Honors University Leaders

The Illinois Soybean Association recognized Gary Minish, former dean of agriculture at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and Peter Goldsmith, former executive director of the National...read more »

SOYBEAN WEEKLY UPDATE - February 5, 2010

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Selling Differentiated Soybeans can bring in Extra Revenue – Without Having to Expand Acres. The challenge for growers is finding companies that offer premium (specialty) contracts. Check out the soybeanpremiums.org website >>

 
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"Illinois Soybean Association" (ISA) is a "doing-business-as" (d/b/a) trade name for the coordinated operations
of the Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board and the Land of Lincoln Soybean Association. Funded in part by the soybean checkoff.