Latest U.S. Soybean Field Trials by Texas Crop Science Deliver Average Yield Increase of More Than 20%
March 28 2024 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
The 2023 U.S. soybean field trials conducted by Texas Crop
Science (TCS) demonstrated an average yield increase of 21% in
soybean lines incorporating the TCS yield trait. This breakthrough
in performance would generate approximately $121 per acre in
additional revenue for an average U.S. soybean grower.
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US trial results show an average 21%
yield increase for plants with the Texas Crop Science's trait. The
2023 yield trait trials were conducted at four locations in Iowa
and Illinois, with yield increases ranging from 15% to 27%.
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TCS develops cutting-edge sustainable crop performance traits,
as well as chemistry that enhances the efficacy of crop protection
products. High-yielding technology from TCS has been under
development and tested in more than 70 field trials carried out
across 10 growing seasons at locations in North and South
America.
“Soybean yields have grown at an approximate 1% compound annual
growth rate over the last 10 years in the United States, even with
prior technology advancements. The performance of the TCS yield
trait leapfrogs this trend to deliver dramatically superior returns
to the farmers cultivating the roughly 330 million acres of
soybeans grown worldwide,” said Simon Hiebert, CEO of TCS. “As we
enter the 2024 growing seasons, our focus at TCS is to advance our
technology into a broader range of genetics and to provide
continued validation through additional field trials.”
In March 2023, TCS and GDM, a leading company in soybean
genetics, announced a strategic collaboration to develop
higher-yielding soybean varieties based on the TCS yield trait
using gene-editing and advanced plant breeding techniques. Forty
percent of worldwide soybean production is made using GDM genetics,
stemming from innovative technologies that combine data science,
biotechnology, and agricultural management for the continual
genetic improvement of soybean crops.
The TCS yield trait data also has been described in Nature
Scientific Reports, available at:
https://texascropscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/soy-field-trial.pdf
About TCS
Texas Crop Science, Inc. is focused on creating technologies and
products that add significant value to farmers while also
benefiting the environment and consumers. TCS has two related but
distinct platforms for doing this – one focused on plant yield
traits, and one focused on environmentally-friendly chemistry
products that enhance the efficacy of crop protection
chemicals.
Products from the TCS chemistry platform have demonstrated
increases in the efficacy of fungicides by 20 to 30 percent,
providing the ability for growers to achieve greater pest control
with lower rates of fungicide application while also addressing the
evolution of resistant pathogens.
Learn more at: https://texascropscience.com/
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