Delta Center Announces Release Of Five Soybean Varieties
Limited Supply For 2014
REGINA LAROSE
MidAmerica Farmer Grower
PORTAGEVILLE, MO.
Dr. J. Grover Shannon, University of Missouri Delta Center, announced the release of five soybean varieties, four of them are conventional. The varieties will be available in a limited amount in 2014 and a larger amount in 2015.
The release of five soybean varieties, four of them conventional, was announced by Dr. J. Grover Shannon, University of Missouri Delta Center and will be available in a limited amount in 2014 and a larger amount in 2015.
Photo by John LaRose, Jr.
The first conventional is a 4/7 maturity. “SO9943 is a 4.7 with moderate cyst resistance and has excellent yield. It actually yielded better, like four bushels better than say a lot of the Roundup® yield checks. It is a conventional,” said Shannon. Growers can expect SO9943 to yield well on about any soil type.
Shannon has released three conventional varieties that are sulfonylurea-tolerant (STS). “What that amounts to is these varieties are tolerant to like Harmony®, Glean® and Classic®, or similar chemistries. A lot of people want STS varieties after they plant wheat because they’ve used these herbicides on their wheat and may get a carryover in the soil. We have a 4/8, a 4/9 and 5/1. The 4/8 is SO910871, the next one is a 4/9, SO913608 and the SO913635, STS which is a 5/1. They are all excellent yielding. They are comparable to the RoundupR 2’s that the growers are growing now. They do well on about any soil type, they’re really a nice attractive looking soybeans, they’re all indeterminate and have been excellent yielding.”
The last variety Shannon will be releasing is a RoundupR Ready SO9-6201RR. “It has yielded equal to RR2Y cultivars of similar maturity and stands extremely well. It has an excellent frogeye resistance, 2013 has been a really bad frogeye year. This one has a RCS3 gene which is resistant to all races of frogeye. It has stem canker resistance and it’s been an excellent producer. It is a very attractive variety. It is a 5/1 maturity.”
Shannon explained many growers like conventional varieties because planting seed is less expensive and may be eligible for a $2. per bushel premium for growing a conventional as some countries do not want to import a GMO variety.
“RoundupR One is going to go off patent in a couple of years. By the end of 2014 there will not be any kind of technology fee, so that seed is going to be less expensive,” added Shannon.∆
REGINA LAROSE: Associate Editor, MidAmerica Farmer Grower