National Challenge for Maximum Soy Productivity has record number of entries

Despite the rains, which affected the production process, mainly in Mato Grosso, the National Challenge for Maximum Soy Productivity, organized by CESB, received a historic record of registrations. This is because 6.500 soybean farmers and consultants, from all Brazilian regions, guaranteed their participation in this traditional CESB initiative.

According to Luiz Antonio da Silva, Executive Director of CESB, the participants are high performers and, with each harvest, they seek to surpass their own marks, with the use of innovative cultivation practices, which make it possible to extract the maximum potential of the crop, with sustainability and profitability.

"The Challenge participants are resilient and believe in CESB's purpose, to help increase the growth of average soybean productivity, through the propagation of teachings and techniques", he adds.

The big news this year is that all participants will be awarded one year of free access to the SKYFLD precision agriculture and monitoring software, which should provide an infrastructure for digital monitoring of the areas registered in the Challenge, planning and documentation of field activities, in addition to other functionalities and digital solutions that aim to optimize productivity.

According to the Global Manager of SKYFLD, André Salvador, the partnership with CESB will enable, in an agile and precise way, a greater number of soybean farmers to monitor their crops, plan their weekly activities and share information with their trusted team. “SKYFLD provides a digital infrastructure to manage fields, plan and document field activities, in addition to allowing direct and secure communication, driven by data and with a high level of reliability and transparency.”

Leonardo Sologuren, president of CESB, highlights that this solution is yet another example that CESB spares no effort to support good agricultural practices, encouraging a balance between high production rates and sustainability. “Consistent and solid data analysis is essential to overcome daily adversities in the field and also to preserve the ecosystem,” he notes.

After completing the CESB Challenge, all participants will receive a report/report of the audited areas, containing georeferencing of the audited area, description of the production field, technical management information, photographic records and additional information (if any...), in addition to a certificate of participation, with its classification in the CESB Maximum Soy Productivity Challenge.

Commemorative Edition - This edition of the Challenge will celebrate CESB's 15th anniversary, founded in 2008, when professionals and experts seeking to increase soybean productivity in Brazil met and created a group.

Over the 15 editions of the National Soybean Maximum Productivity Challenge, more than 48.000 registrations were made, showing the potential of the initiative and reinforcing CESB as a great ally of the national soybean industry.

Over the last 5 years, Desafio had a significant average productivity of 104,30 sc/ha, among the TOP 100 producers/consultants.

CESB's Marketing Director, Nilson Caldas, observes that the productivity evolution of the National Soy Maximum Productivity Challenge has some extremely relevant moments. "The first of these is breaking the barrier of 100 bags, in the 2009/10 harvest, with the champion reaching 108,40 sc/ha. Then, in the 2012/13 harvest, we had the winner reaching 110,5 sc/ha and surpassing the then important mark of 110 bags", he recalls.

The third moment, according to the Marketing Director, occurred in the 2014/15 harvest, with the champion surpassing 140 bags and recording 141,8 sc/ha, a number surpassed in the 16/17 harvest, when we had the record, until today not exceeded, 149,10 sc/ha.

Another indicator that deserves to be highlighted is the average productivity of the participants. "In the 2008/09 harvest, the top 10 producers in the Challenge registered an average of 77,8 sc/ha, with only 02 producers producing more than 90 sc/ha. In the 2020/2021 harvest, this number jumped to 119,75 sc/ha, with 381 producers surpassing the 90 sc/ha mark", analyzes the Marketing Director.

"Several factors contributed to this clear evolution of national soybean farming, such as the correction of the soil profile in deeper layers, up to 40 cm; the construction of soil physics through the use of cover crops; the speed of planting, while around 4 km/h, allowing better spatial arrangement; genetic materials with high productive potential; crop rotation and management using chemical and biological, applied at the right time in a preventive manner", analyzes Nilson Caldas.

In addition to the National Challenge for Maximum Soybean Productivity, CESB carries out several actions to strengthen national soybean farming. Among the actions, highlight is the EAD MTA Soja postgraduate course at Centro Universitário Integrado Campo Mourão, carried out in partnership with CESB and Elevagro, with the aim of promoting high-level technical knowledge, presenting data and productivity studies obtained by CESB, through strict protocols and a high level of transparency.

With highly experienced teachers, the course has a curriculum that provides a wide range of theoretical and practical knowledge about the entire soybean production chain. It is ideal for novice or experienced producers to stay up to date with market innovations and be more prepared for the challenges of the sector, applying best practices in their productions.