The North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) recently released its Annual Report which includes 2020 research project summaries. Projects this year covered topics such as sclerotonia stem rot, soybean cyst nematode resistance, soybean gall midge, sudden death syndrome, and more.

NCSRP is a farmer-led organization that invests soybean checkoff funds in university research and Extension programs to better understand and manage plant stressors that reduce soybean yield and farmer profitability. It involves 355,000 soybean farmers from 13 states including North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

It is recognized as a leader in multi-state collaborative research and outreach efforts to support soybean farmers and drive the soybean industry forward. The focus of NCSRP is soybean production research and extension outreach.

The projects below were funded for fiscal year 2020:

• An integrated approach to enhance durability of SCN resistance for long-term, strategic SCN management (Phase II)
• Boots on the Ground: Validation of Benchmarking Process Through an Integrated On-Farm Partnership
• Comparison of Non-Chemical Control Methods as Part of an Integrated Weed Management Strategy in Soybean
• Developing an Integrated Management and Communication Plan for Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome
• Multi-pronged strategies to provide efficient, sustainable, and durable control of Sclerotinia stem rot – Year 3
• Non-transgenic generation of herbicide resistance in soybean using CRISPR base editing
• Soybean Entomology Research and Extension in the North Central Region
• Soybean Gall Midge: Surveying the North Central Region, Adult Monitoring and host Plant Resistance
• SOYGEN2: Increasing SB genetic gain for yield & seed composition by developing tools, know-how & community among public breeders in the NC US
• The SCN Coalition: Advancing Management

The report and project summaries can be found online here.