{"id":138717,"date":"2025-09-12T22:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:22:06","slug":"refining-roi-why-seeding-rates-and-genetics-matter-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138717\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining ROI: Why seeding rates and genetics matter more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"page_title\"> News <\/p>\n<p class=\"post_title\"> Refining ROI:  Why seeding rates and genetics matter more than ever <\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">September 12, 2025 By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownfieldagnews.com\/author\/mdorenkamp\/\" class=\"entry-author-link\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Dorenkamp<\/a> Filed Under: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownfieldagnews.com\/news-cat\/crops\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crops<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownfieldagnews.com\/minnesota\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownfieldagnews.com\/news-cat\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/220119_seth_naeve_md.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Many soybean growers expect profits to be hard to come by next year.<\/p>\n<p>University of Minnesota Extension agronomist Seth Naeve encourages a risk-averse approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe give a lot of talks with P values and all the statistics that said that this treatment was better than that treatment, but what farmers really want to know is how can I maximize yield on every acre?  Because I can\u2019t give up 10 bushels on 10 acres, I need to make sure that I\u2019m maximizing my yield everywhere in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says variable rate seeding and selecting the right genetics for key pests could result in favorable returns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think those are all kind of refining these things a little bit more and getting down into that nitty gritty just a little bit more in terms of helping farmers with those last few dollars on their farms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naeve tells Brownfield this is the time in the economic cycle when looking at the value of seed treatments and seeding rates becomes increasingly important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Refining ROI: Why seeding rates and genetics matter more than ever September 12, 2025 By Mark Dorenkamp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[64,63,336,128],"class_list":["post-138717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}