MEET MR. BEAN...: THIS VETERAN OF USB'S $100 MILLION RESEARCH BUDGET ALLOCATION COMMITTEE FUNDS BEAN RESEARCH AS PUBLIC RESEARCH WANES

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The quirks of a year like this one - or just about any year, in fact - point out the need for well funded and focused ag research, Jason Bean says. He just finished a term as the United Soybean Board's (USB) production committee chair, after serving nine years on the committee and 12 years on the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council. He's walking soybean rows in a field not far from Holcomb, Mo., counting seeds per pod. Why, for one perplexing example, would flood-irrigated, lush, perfect-looking plants like these not set more pods? Why couldn't they push on to 75, 85, even 100 buVacre? What curbed their potential?