Seeding

Manitoba trials put numbers on soybean seeding depth: 14% lost too shallow, 9% too deep

University of Manitoba researcher Kristen MacMillan's six site-years at Carman and Arborg found yields within 5% of the maximum from 1.9 to 5.1 cm; at 0.6 cm only 41% of seed established as it dried out, and at 5.7 cm seedlings struggled to emerge — evidence now in the scientific record behind exist