EC Nebraska | IALTO - 10/23/2017 09:56
100% agree. Everyone wants to talk about genetics. I can take you to guys that were dry late July through August and their beans were in the 30s. Why did the genetics not bail them out? Weather has been extremely kind July through September basically since 2013. That is why we have had better yields nationally.
In 2003 we were dry July through August and the dryland beans made 8-9 bpa. That would have been some old conventional numbers we were still using then. In 2012 it was similar weather here, and the new RR numbers made 30-40 on the dryland.
I would say there has been some genetic improvement.
The biggest reason you don't see the yield increase overall is that beans now have a lot more disease and insect pressure now than they did 30 years ago. It's the Red Queen stealing your yields.
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