The University of Minnesota soybean variety trials faced weather-related losses. UM Professor of Agronomy and Plant Genetics Aaron Lorenz was still able to get data from the surviving plots. “Yields were down overall this year because of the very wet spring and early summer and the dry end of the season.” Lorenz said the number of commercial varieties entered into university trials is down dramatically. “I think we need to make a really good effort here this wintertime to figure out what we can do to entice more companies to enter more varieties into these trials.”
