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Arkansas Soybean Harvest Update
November 18, 2009
(1 minute: 44 seconds)
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Audio/Video Script:
[Title Slide – Arkansas Soybean Harvest Update; Number 22, November 18, 2009
Your Soybean Podcast, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Arkansas
Soybean Promotion Board]
[Narrator. Video showing a combine harvesting soybeans.] Two weeks of
much-needed dry weather has allowed much of this year’s soybean crop to be
harvested as of November thirteenth. [Video showing harvested soybean being
loaded into a grain cart] Prices for soybean remain fair at more than nine
dollars a bushel, but many producers are being docked by at least a dollar per
bushel at elevators due to poor quality beans. [Picture showing low quality
beans]
[Picture of a flooded soybean field.] According to a report from the
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, losses to farmers as of November
thirteenth were more than 309 (m) dollars. [Slide – Reduced gross receipts from
soybean growers as of November 13th 2009 -$127,144,000] Of that amount, 127.1
million has been lost to soybean growers due to decreased yield, quality, and
additional fieldwork costs. [Slide – USDA estimated harvest soybean acreage
3,370,000. Per acre loss by total acreage -$38 an acre.] Division of Agriculture
economists were expecting the loss estimate to climb through the end of the
harvest. The report estimated that as of November thirteenth, eighty-two percent
of Arkansas soybean have been harvested. [Picture of a tractor stuck in a muddy
field.]
[Picture of soybean plants with soybean pods.] Soybean fields with later
maturity Group Five soybean varieties have resisted flooding and fungus better
than early maturity varieties. [Picture of diseased soybean plants.] Record
rains have caused split pods and in-pod germination in some of the earlier
maturing varieties. [Picture of a split soybean pod.] Some seed varieties may
have reduced vigor for next year and the Arkansas State Plant Board and the
Division of Agriculture will release seed vigor results this fall. [Picture of
soybeans, some low quality.]
[Narrator] Your Arkansas Soybean Podcast is a production of the University
of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and was funded in part by the Arkansas
Soybean Promotion Board. For more information on soybean farming in Arkansas
contact your local county Extension Office. [Title slide - For more information
contact your local county Extension office. Your Arkansas Soybean Podcast,
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Arkansas Soybean Promotion
Board]
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