NCSRP: Delivering research and information

The North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) enables the country’s top university scientists to mobilize quickly to solve the biggest soybean production and management problems. When NCSRP’s proactive producer board spots an emerging soybean disease or insect problem, it moves fast to marshal the right forces and focus on a solution.

NCSRP also communicates and coordinates with scientists to prioritize research needs, makes sure there’s no duplication of effort, and quickly notifies you of any new research discoveries or updates.

That’s the NCSRP’s other job – making sure you can access the latest multi-state research and production information – helping you manage soybeans from the ground up. This information is provided through the NCSRP’s education and outreach arm, including this Plant Health Initiative website.

Delivering Results. When we say it, we mean it

Here are just a few of our successes that benefit you:

  • Enabled scientists to build a “genetic library” of more than 300,000 pieces of genetic information used by public and private labs to decode the mysteries of the soybean defense mechanisms. Checkoff funding by NCSRP and the United Soybean Board leveraged more than $5 million in federal funding for this novel research program. As a result, plant breeders can further identify genes and plant material to breed soybeans with better disease and insect resistance.
  • Coordinated an effective checkoff/university response to the arrival of Asian soybean rust in the United States. Helped develop and distribute a unified set of management/response recommendations to U.S. soybean producers.
  • Provided resources, through the Plant Health Initiative, to train thousands of “first detectors” to accurately identify Asian soybean rust.
  • Funded the development of educational materials for soybean producers to manage Asian soybean rust.
  • Created awareness of the need for more SCN-resistant soybean varieties and founded the SCN Coalition, a visionary effort to deliver those varieties, involving seed companies, universities and checkoff partners.
  • Developed greenhouse and field techniques to screen soybean varieties for resistance against sudden death syndrome and white mold.

Your soybean checkoff. Delivering results.

 

Since its inception in 1995, NCSRP has invested more than $21 million in soybean production research.
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