'21 Good Soybean Growing Season For Louisiana

By Don Molino

Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Radio Network

This years soybean crop across Louisiana is looking pretty good so far, even with all the challenges growers faced early in the season.

LSU AgCener Soybean Specialist Dr. David Moseley reports we should be close to being 50 percent harvested.

“We’re a little bit behind the five year average and that kind of points back to the slow planting season we had, plus the two hurricanes really slowed down the harvest season.

“But the crop condition is looking pretty good. We were 83% good to excellent with only 4% reported as poor or very poor. But still that’s so much better than we were at the beginning of the season when up to 22% of the crop was poor to very poor.

“So we’ve really had a good growing season overall,” said Moseley.

(This report a service of the Louisiana Soybean Grain Research and Promotion Board)