Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy has established a new world record with a documented 171-bushel-per-acre soybean yield in the 2016 Georgia soybean yield contest.

The old soybean yield record was 160 bushels per acre grown by Kip Cullers in Missouri.

The record-breaking yield came from a 3.15-acre plot of UniSouth Genetics 74A74, a group 4 indeterminate variety, the Southeast Farm Press...