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In Spite Of It All There Are Some Soybean Yield Numbers

Dr. Jim Dunphy, NC State Extension Soybean specialist.
 
Last week we heard from NC State Extension soybean specialist Dr. Jim Dunphy about the plight of the region’s soybean crop.  In any given year we’d be discussing harvest numbers by now, and Dunphy says he’s heard a few:
 
“There’s not enough to really get an accurate handle on, I think.  Some of the real early ones that could have come out before the 12 days of rain, those are a matter degree of damage, more than actual yield.  Those that they’re able to market are catching some severe penalties, of course, and some of them aren’t marketable, and that gets very serious.”
 
Dunphy says this year a good soybean yield could go all the way back to the decision to plant full-season or double-crop:
 
“As we get into the double-crop beans, they’re going to be all over the board, there’s going to be some very good double-crop beans, and there’s’ going to be some very mediocre double-crop beans, particularly those that are very short in height.   The full-season beans are going to look pretty good, I think.  At least that’s my expectation.”
 
As far as North Carolina’s soybean yield contest, Dunphy says go ahead and enter, they’re looking at bushels-to-the-acre, not quality:
 
“Believe it or not we do nothing with that damage number.  The beans involved that are damaged, he did produce.   They’re still there, the weight is still there, it may be less weight than it would have been had they not had the damage, but he did produce at least that much weight.  So, we go ahead and count it in the yield, so he may go ahead and have a very respectable yield that he produced for the sake of the contest, and they may be unmarketable.  And a zero yield as far as the farm income is concerned.”
 
And in a odd way, that’s fair explains Dunphy:
 
“We gave it some thought…we ran that one by the state committee and made a conscious decision that that’s what we wanted to do and had thought it out. 
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