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The information can be downloaded from an Arkansas extension web site. It's all in the timing. Planting soybeans earlier could relieve some growers of insect pressures. Called Early Soybean Production System, research from 1997 to 1999 showed the system yields as well as conventional soybeans and helps growers avoid yield losses associated with summer droughts. When weather delays soybean planting past June 15 in southern states, yields take a hit.