Results in the 2017 South Dakota Soybean Yield Contest reflect the challenges of the state’s growing season. None of the contest entries broke 100 bushels, although Kory Standy’s soybean yields came the closest. The southcentral South Dakota grower claimed the top yield spot with nearly 92-and-a-quarter bushels per acre.
“Where I was at we had so many 105 degree days,” Standy told Brownfield Ag News, following the award presentation in Sioux Falls. “I had hail come through; I had to 8 to 10 percent hail damage through it and everything else.
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