Competitive Yields

Oct 14, 2022

Competitive yields are a reality and High Oleic (HO) soybean varieties consistently perform as good or better than conventional numbers. With seven years of commercial trait development and a mature seed pipeline in place, growers have access to the varieties they need to raise trend yields with the added financial incentive of premiums up to 75 cents/bushel.

In field trials from 2018 to 2020, Pioneer^® Plenish HO soybeans showed in-field performance on par with conventional varieties. High oil soybean varieties in Maryland trials showed a yield range between 76.2 and 103.2 bushels/acre, with trials in Pennsylvania yielding between 81.4 and 91.3 bushels/acre. Double-crop yield trials in Delaware showed a yield of 68.3 bushels/acre. Average soybean yields for those three states ranged between 46 and 57 bushels/acre in 2020, according to USDA-NASS data (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania).

High oleic soybean varieties have the same germplasm as conventional soybean varieties, which means they offer the same agronomic attributes.

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Video: Cleaning Sheep Barns & Setting Up Chutes

Indoor sheep farming in winter at pre-lambing time requires that, at Ewetopia Farms, we need to clean out the barns and manure in order to keep the sheep pens clean, dry and fresh for the pregnant ewes to stay healthy while indoors in confinement. In today’s vlog, we put fresh bedding into all of the barns and we remove manure from the first groups of ewes due to lamb so that they are all ready for lambs being born in the next few days. Also, in preparation for lambing, we moved one of the sorting chutes to the Coveralls with the replacement ewe lambs. This allows us to do sorting and vaccines more easily with them while the barnyard is snow covered and hard to move sheep safely around in. Additionally, it frees up space for the second groups of pregnant ewes where the chute was initially.