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WC IA | This is a great post with some good feedback. Thanks for starting it.
I was in seed for 25 years. 5 years ago, I didn't sell any Liberty beans. The demand wasn't there and the yield wasn't keeping up. Not because there was a yield drag in Liberty, but there was a genetic lag in Liberty. Not a lot of research being done on a product with very little demand.
That changed. Over the last several years, some very outstanding Liberty beans have been put on the market.
I don't sell seed at all anymore and don't have a dog in the hunt. I see no yield drag in Liberty beans.
That said, of course there are differences in genetics and one Liberty line may not be keeping pace. But don't let that mean that all Liberty beans have a yield drag.
As for your Xtendimax spray question: if you have a weed problem, I'd go with the Liberty this year and sit out one year on the dicamba. There are too many unknowns, crazy spraying rules, too many sprayers don't want to touch it, and on and on. If I didn't have a weed problem. I'd flip a coin.
Edited by IowaSeedsman 2/9/2017 12:39
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Dicamba vs Liberty soybeans
