Warm, dry September cuts state’s soybean crop down from 2020

Soybeans, a major cash crop in Oklahoma valued at more than $163 million last year, produced smaller-than-projected yields this year. According to ag experts at Oklahoma State University, warmer and drier than normal conditions in September across much of the state disrupted soybean development. Actually, 2021 will likely be remembered by soybean producers as a tale of two outcomes. More quickly developing double-crop varieties were less affected by the September weather than slower developing full-season varieties.