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Grower Teams
Accept the challenge to test your soybean production skills and achieve the goal of Yield Challenge CHAMPION.
Why Are We Doing This?
- To reveal the management practices necessary to maximize soybean yields.
- To encourage use of new crop management strategies that help reach higher levels of yield and profit potential.
- To provide useful data that can be evaluated by researchers, agri-businesses, and growers for improving yield potential.
- To promote profitable and sustainable agricultural practices.
Who Can Participate?
- A grower (owner-operator, tenant, or tenant-landlord team) who produces soybeans within Illinois state boundaries is eligible.
- Growers participate as team members. Teams can be supported by a sponsor or can be independent (non-sponsored).
How Does The Challenge Work?
The Yield Challenge seeks to reward top soybean growers and identify the innovative management practices used to produce the highest soybean yields across Illinois. Working together, Illinois growers can lead in soybean yield and production in the United States.
- Illinois is sectioned into nine Yield Challenge districts, and winners are identified in each district. There is no overall state winner.
- The mission is to bring together teams of growers (five to 10 growers per team) to strategize and implement innovative management practices.
- Teams can be sponsored by businesses, or teams can be independent (non-sponsored).
- Each grower on a team sets up side-by-side plots. One plot receives the grower's normal management practices, and the Challenge plot receives the innovative, high-yield strategies. All production practices are recorded and reported.
- At harvest, all team members conduct a yield check. For each team, the average of the five highest yielding plots is used to determine the final Challenge yield for each team. The teams with the highest average yield in each of the nine districts are recognized.
What's In It For Me?
Everyone receives something for taking part in the 2010 Yield Challenge. This includes:
- Soil testing for nutrients in all plots.
- Soil analyses for Soybean Cyst Nematode egg counts and SCN Type testing.
- Protein and oil analyses of grain samples taken from all harvested plots.
We will also be offering several awards/recognition for outstanding results! Winning teams in each district will be recognized with the following:
- 1st Place Team Award - $500*
- 2nd Place Team Award - $250*
- Economic Development Award
- Data Completion Award
- Novel Practices Award
- Innovation In Electronic Data Collection
*For each team member
For more information, please email Jim Nelson, Yield Challenge Coordinator, or call 309-825-7542.
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