Each year, corn and soybean performance trials are conducted at the Hundley-Whaley Farm to provide farmers with reliable, unbiased information on the comparative yield abilities of corn and soybean varieties currently on the market for use in Northwest Missouri. Varieties for these performance trials are entered by seed companies, which pay an entry fee for each variety.
Companies select which varieties to enter and which trial to enter.
Each trial is planted using a randomized complete block field plot design with three replications. Soybean plots were planted in seven 15-inch rows wide by 25 feet long and five rows are harvested. Differences smaller than the L.S.D. may be due to chance and are considered non-significant. Direct comparisons can not be made between varieties entered in different trials. The abbreviation N.S. in the yield tables means the results were insignificant.