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Bay Farm provides soybean research

By Benjamin Herrold, Missouri Farmer Today
Oct 27, 2016
Oct 27, 2016 Updated Oct 31, 2016

Greg Luce is the director of research programs and the superintendent for the Missouri Soybean Association's Bay Farm. The farm is used for a variety of research.
MFT photo by Benjamin Herrold

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By Benjamin Herrold, Missouri Farmer Today

COLUMBIA, Mo. — On a sunny mid-October day in Boone County, with unseasonably warm temperatures, a strong south wind raced across the test plots and fields of the Bay Farm, the Missouri Soybean Association’s research farm located east of Columbia.

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