Sunday, January 18, 2026

grow for the green

Phillips County, Arkansas, soybean grower sets record of 130+ bushels per acre

• By Tracy Courage • Phillips County soybean producer Neil Culp has set a record for soybean yield, recording 130.784 bushels per acre in the annual Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge. When the contest began several years ago, the...

Application period opens for Arkansas’ 2021 Grow for the Green yield contest

The application period for the 11th annual Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge is officially open. All soybean producers in Arkansas are eligible to participate in this contest, which is administered by the Arkansas Soybean Association and funded...

Matt Miles again tops Arkansas Grow for the Green yield contest

The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the Arkansas Soybean Association recently announced the winners of the 2020 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest. The contest divided state soybean producers into nine groups, seven geographic regions, one all-state conventional (non-GMO)...

Arkansas Soybean Board sponsors 2020 Grow for the Green contest

The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board is once again sponsoring the Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge this season. In 2019, Matt Miles, who farms near McGehee, broke the record with 120.533 bushels per acre with Pioneer P48A60X. Miles is...

Arkansas Soybean Board names 2018 Grow for the Green winners

The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the Arkansas Soybean Association recently named the winners of the 2018 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest, and one of those producers topped 100 bushels per acre in a trying year. The contest...

Test your skills with Arkansas Grow for the Green yield contest

Think you have what it takes to grow more than 60 bushels per acre, and do you farm in Arkansas? Then the Arkansas Soybean Association and the University of Arkansas want you. The two are partnering on the annual Grow...

Nine Arkansas growers top 100 bushels/acre in Grow for the Green contest

Nine Arkansas growers topped 100 bushels per acre in the 2017 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest sponsored by the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the Arkansas Soybean Association. The contest divided Arkansas soybean producers into eight groups, seven geographic...

Seven Arkansas soybean growers have topped the 100-bushel mark so far

The father-son team of Matt and Layne Miles are among  a group of seven Arkansas soybean producers who so far have broken the 100-bushels-per-acre yield mark this season, with others possibly to come. Four of them, including the Mileses, are...

E-News Sign Up

Connect with Soybean South