By STACY CAMPBELL
Cottonwood Extension District
The 2022 Kansas Performance Tests with Corn and Grain Sorghum Hybrids and Soybean Varieties report is now online and in print form. In these crop specific reports, you will find a review of the 2022 corn, grain sorghum and soybean crop, with a detailed discussion summarizing the statewide growing conditions and impacts from diseases and insects for each crop respectively. More importantly, the results of the 2022 corn, grain sorghum hybrid and soybean varieties performance tests are also shown. Corn, sorghum and soybean performance tests are conducted each year by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. The results from these tests provide producers, extension agents, and industry professionals with unbiased agronomic information on many of the corn, sorghum hybrids and soybean varieties marketed in Kansas.
Performance of corn, sorghum hybrids and soybean varieties or brands varies from year to year and from location to location, depending on factors such as weather, management practices, and variety adaptation. When selecting varieties or brands, producers should carefully analyze variety performance for two or more years across locations. Performance averaged over several environments can help to provide a better estimate of genetic potential and stability than performance based on a few environments.
Producers, extension agents, and crop consultants can use this resource as an unbiased agronomic tool to help select corn, sorghum hybrids and soybean varieties for their operation and clientele by checking for varieties that show a consistently good performance in their region.
The online version of the corn, sorghum and soybean performance test results and many other crops commonly grown in Kansas can be found at: https://bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/SRP1174.pdf.
Stacy Campbell is a Crop Production Extension agent in the Cottonwood District (which includes Barton and Ellis counties) for K-State Research and Extension. You can contact him by e-mail at [email protected] or by calling 785-628-9430.
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