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2022 On-Farm Grain Plot Data

BY Dairyland Seed Agronomy Team
2022 Corn

This week's agronomy newsletter will take a break from the PAR plot agronomy research projects to look at our on-farm product trials. These plots are important for learning about local product performance and offer an opportunity to get hands on experience with the latest and greatest seed. From North Dakota to Indiana, we put our seed to work. We learn where one product might succeed and where another may not be a good fit. We have discussions about management practices and agronomic challenges. Observations are carefully recorded, and we anxiously await end-of-season results. If you are like us, harvest day is like an early Christmas present!

Thank you to all the customers, dealers, and district sales managers who take time during the busiest of seasons to plant and harvest these plots. We really appreciate the effort! While you might be intimately familiar with plot trends in your local geography, here is a fun overview of the broader season that was 2022. For specific plot results, go to dairylandseed.com.

Grain Corn

2022 Top Performance Awards

Top 5 products

(Percent of location mean, min 40 reps)
  1. DS-4219AM
  2. DS-5095AM
  3. DS-4917AM
  4. DS-4018AMXT
  5. DS-5250AM

Highest yielding individual plot entry

              DS-5250AM: 301.3 bu/ac, Evansville, WI

Highest yielding individual grain plot by a HIDF product

HIDF-4073Q, 284.2 bu/ac, Cleveland, WI

Highest yielding location average

280.6 bu/ac, Mentone, IN

Most successfully harvested plot locations by district

              Karl Steckelberg, southern MN, 21 locations

Most successfully harvested plot entries by district

Karl Steckelberg, southern MN, 304 entries

Highest yielding district averages
  1. Michael Thompson, northern IN, 8 locations, 249.8 bu/ac
  2. Don Irwin, northern IL, 8 locations, 246.3 bu/ac
  3. Monty Burns, eastern IA and southwest WI, 13 locations, 240.2 bu/ac

 

State Breakouts

State

Avg Yield (bu/ac)

Number of Locations

Number of Entries

IA

248.4

16

106

IL

233.3

8

95

IN

227.9

45

577

MI

202.0

57

715

MN

209.0

63

899

ND

174.7

11

118

OH

211.4

2

37

SD

151.8

12

199

WI

208.8

97

1270

Total

208.2

311

4016

 

Grain Corn Planting Date

 

 

Corn Agronomic Breakouts

 

 

 

SOYBEAN OVERVIEW

2022 Top Performance Awards

Top 5 products

(Percent of location mean, min 20 reps)
  1. DSR-3499E
  2. DSR-2717E
  3. DSR-2562E
  4. DSR-2040E
  5. DSR-1290E

Highest yielding individual plot entry

              DSR-2424E, 87.5 bu/ac, Poynette, WI

Highest yielding location average

83.7 bu/ac, Poynette, WI

Most successfully harvested plot locations by district

              Karl Steckelberg, southern MN, 17 locations

Most successfully harvested plot entries by district

Karl Steckelberg, southern MN, 180 entries

Highest yielding district averages

(Min 5 locations)
  1. Luke Bird, eastern WI, 5 locations, 70.7 bu/ac
  2. Chad Butts, southern WI, 7 locations, 70.1 bu/ac
  3. Kevin Naze, northeast WI, 5 locations, 69.4 bu/ac

 

State Breakouts

State

Avg Yield (bu/ac)

Number of Locations

Number of Entries

IA

69.5

1

8

IL

69.5

7

78

IN

65.5

15

151

MI

60.8

31

372

MN

62.8

36

409

ND

59.4

5

46

SD

55.5

5

72

WI

66.7

36

434

Total

63.6

136

1570

 

Soybean Planting Date

 

 

Soybean Agronomic Breakouts

 

 

 

 

Brian Weller Dan Ritter Branden Furseth Mark Gibson Amanda Goffnett
Brian Weller
Western Region
507.456.3034		 Dan Ritter
Central Region
219.863.0583		 Branden Furseth
Northern Region
608.513.4265		 Mark Gibson
Eastern Region
260.330.8968		 Amanda Goffnett
Eastern Region
989.400.3793
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