(ND Ag Connection) – Farmers and crop advisers needing crop variety information to make decisions for the 2024 crop season now have available the North Dakota State University Extension 2023 soybean and dry bean variety guides. These publications can be accessed online at ndsu.ag/varietytrials23. Printed copies are available at NDSU Extension county offices and Research Extension Centers.

“Crop variety selection is one of the most important crop management decisions to be made to optimize seed yield and quality,” according to Greg Endres, NDSU Extension agronomist and lead author of the two variety guides.

Endres encourages farmers to spend adequate time doing their homework to select the very best variety choices for their fields. NDSU crop breeders, research agronomists and numerous support staff have devoted substantial resources to generate this data to aid in making decisions regarding variety use.

The soybean 2023 variety trial results and selection guide contains 33 tables of agronomic, and seed yield and quality data from 28 NDSU research sites across the state. The trial tables are identified based on the general categories of herbicide-resistant or conventional.