“Using inoculant generally provides a 2% to 3% yield advantage,” Pullins says. In some cases, where soil is poor or bacterial levels are low, he has even seen yields double from inoculant use.

One method of inoculating soybeans involves treating seed with powdered or sterile peat containing rhizobia, Conley said. The peat is mixed with the seed in the planter or drill box. Liquid inoculants ...

Ehler explains that for every 100 pounds of soybean seed, you can add about 8 ounces of product, such as fungicides, insecticides and inoculants. “Those are low-hanging fruit for yield,” he says.

Soybeans have matured past R6 (full seed stage) – The N requirement of soybean is greatly reduced and supplemental N applications past this point are wasteful. ... With the new liquid inoculants, the ...

Soybean plants that received the additional spray inoculation developed more root nodules. And more nodules led to higher yields. In fact, adding bacteria to seeds increased yields by 27% and 28%.

Lilongwe — The Malawi Oilseed Sector Transformation (MOST) says treating soybean seed with inoculants before planting is the best way of increasing the potential of the crop in realizing maximum ...