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The Ohio Soybean Association (OSA) is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Ohio Soybean Yield and Quality Contest. This is the fifth year for the statewide contest with a total of 45 applicants.

There were four different yield categories available and the quality portion of the contest was based on highest percentages of oil and protein.

“Congratulations to this year’s Yield and Quality Contest winners,” said Tommie Price, OSA President and soybean farmer from Putnam County. “Every year, entrants reinforce how outstanding Ohio soybean farmers are at producing high soybean yields and high quality soybeans.”

The 2014 Overall State Yield Champion was Don Jackson of Preble County who recorded a yield of 86.1 bushes/acre with the Seed Consultants 9363 variety.  The complete list of yield and quality winners is below:

Yield Results

Conventional Tillage	Yield (bu./acre)	Variety
Don Jackson (Preble County)	86.1	Seed Consultants 9363
Andrew Baltes, Jr. (Mahoning County)	72.74	NuTech 7273
Bob Short (Miami County)	72	Asgrow 3832

No-till	Yield  (bu./acre)	Variety
Dan Uetrecht (Warren County)	84.8	Mycogen 5N342
Jason Groselle (Portage County)	83.3	Pioneer P32T25 R2
Doug Swaim (Greene County)	81.1	Asgrow 3533

Non-GMO – No-till	Yield (bu./acre)	Variety
Tom Schuffenecker (Ottawa County)	68.24	Beck 295

Quality Results

Highest Percentage Protein Content	Percentage	Variety
Joshua Yoder (Logan County)	37.1%	Pioneer P32T80PR
Andrew Baltes (Mahoning County)	36.6%	Asgrow 3034RR2
Jason Groselle (Portage County)	36.2%	Pioneer P32T25R2

Highest Percentage Oil Content	Percentage	Variety
Andrew Baltes Jr. (Mahoning County)	20.1%	NuTech 7273
Jack Groselle (Portage County)	19.2%	Pioneer P24T19R
Joshua Yoder(Logan County)	18.8%	Pioneer P32T80PR

OSA would like to thank Asgrow, Beck’s Hybrids, Channel, CROPLAN, LG Seeds, Ohio AgNet, Ohio’s Country Journal, Ohio Soybean Council, R Farm Seeds, Rupp Seeds, Seed Consultants, Shur Grow, Stewart Seeds, Stine Seed Company and Monsanto for sponsoring the 2014 contest.