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Kansas Soybean Harvest

By Kansas Soybean

09/26/2013

With soybean yields and quality in Kansas expected to rebound from the drought of 2012, the annual Kansas Soybean Yield and Quality Contests should see some lively competition this fall. Those entries must be postmarked by Nov. 30.

Thanks to the Kansas Soybean Commission, the highest dryland and irrigated yields in the state each will receive a $1,000 award. In each district, first place will win $300, second will earn $200, and third will receive $100. No-Till on the Plains will supply additional awards in the no-till categories.

Managed by the Kansas Soybean Association, the contests are open to anyone involved in farming, but there is a limit of one entry per field. Farmers may enter multiple categories -- conventional or no-till, dryland or irrigated. All entries in a single category must be from the same district, however.

Farmers may enter the quality contest without entering the yield contest and vice versa.

The complete rules are available at http://KansasSoybeans.org/contests on the Web, from the Kansas Soybean office (877-KS-SOYBEAN), and in K-State Extension offices statewide.

K-State Research and Extension is a contests sponsor. Gary Kilgore, Kansas State University professor emeritus of agronomy, coordinates the project.

"The contests provide fun incentives for Kansas farmers to share information that will help everyone raise higher-yielding and more-profitable soybeans," he said.

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