Seeding Rates

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Seeding Rates
Roundup Ready
Conventional
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Maturity Group Use
of Farms Surveyed
Maturity Group
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Variety Selection
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Use of Multiple Maturity Groups by Farmers
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Top Five Requests

• 25, Improved weed control
• 18, Nematode-resistant varieties
• 16, Higher yielding varieties
• 9, Drought tolerant varieties
• 7, Clemson Roundup Ready varieties,
  Insect-resistant varieties, Drilled soybean
  populations

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Seeding Rates
Narrow row (lt 20 inches)
Wide row ( gt 20 inches)
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47 of Roundup Ready soybeans received1
glyphosate application
67 of wide-row Roundup Ready soybeans received
2 or more glyphosate applications
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What percentage of Roundup Ready soybeans were
planted in narrow rows (lt 20 inches)?
48
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What percentage of narrow- row Roundup Ready
soybeans were treated twice?
48
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What percentage of Roundup Ready narrow-row
soybeans received a soil-applied herbicide?
39
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Single glyphosate application in narrow-row,
Roundup Ready soybeans
without soil-applied herb. - 44
with soil-applied herb. - 70
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List two most troublesome weeds
69 sicklepod (coffee weed)
61 Palmer amaranth (pigweed)
33 mornningglory spp.
5 nutsedge spp.
lt5 Texax panicum, common cocklebur, common
ragweed, common lambsquarters,
redweed, johnsongrass, Pennsylvannia smartweed,
broadleaf signalgrass, arrowleaf
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