By John Buckley
David Moseley
LSU AgCenter
Relatively new, compared to many of Louisiana’s crops, the soybean was initially adopted in the United States more than 100 years ago as a forage crop. At the time, to find suitable varieties for forage production, university soybean breeders selected varieties out of introductions from Asian countries. Time marches on, and through the decades the LSU AgCenter has helped Louisiana soybean producers adapt to major transformations to production through breeding and variety testing here at home.