For the 2000 growing season, the company is offering 27 new varieties. While farmers may feel uncomfortable planting a new variety, that seed has been grown in Iowa and in Argentina, Bissinger says. It could be a boon, too. They are probably saying, 'The varieties we selected and inserted this into initially isn't the best variety. It may go as high as 50 percent, depending on your willingness to take on that risk.
Yield is the culmination or the end result of that genetics by environment relationship.
Not just a single year, try it a couple of years. Yield seems to be better with non-Roundup Ready . . . After selecting Roundup Ready varieties for weed control, Hora then considers the maturity. These early and late-maturing beans spread harvest time. Fortunately, there are few diseases to deal with.