WEBINAR: Making Soil Health Practical for Fertility Management
Soil health is defined as a balanced, fully-functioning soil system. Traditionally, farming has focused on managing nutrients to keep soils high in productivity. Now, [...]
PODCAST: Wheat-soybean double-crop rotations
ISA is continuing its ILSoyAdvisor.com podcasts, connecting agronomy experts with Illinois farmers to share their insights, experiences and recommendations on growing high-yielding, profitable soybeans. [...]
Join the Race: Enter the Yield Challenge
Interested in breaking your own soybean yield record, breaking the 100-bushel ceiling or just seeing if a new package of technologies improves your soybean [...]
Managing Late Planted Soybean
Soybean can be planted later than corn and not suffer the same level of yield loss. Nevertheless the ideal time to plant soybeans is [...]
Agronomy: PPO Chemistry & Weather Conditions
This past two weeks have produced environmental conditions which have led to problems in our soybean fields. The use of PPO herbicides for control [...]
Plant & Soil: Impact of Saturated Soils on Soybeans
How do soybean seeds and seedlings fare when soils become saturated or water ponds on a field? It isn’t uncommon to get a heavy [...]
Agronomy: Thoughts on Wheat Harvest Part-2: Residue control
Once your combine is clean inside and out and you’ve done your due diligence to insure that we are not spreading unwanted weed seed [...]
Weeds: Is Your Waterhemp not Going Down?
The University of Illinois Plant Clinic is excited to be providing a new service to Illinois soybean growers. The Clinic is now offering molecular [...]
Agronomy: 2015 Brings New Challenges to Illinois Soybean Growers
My name in Jim Nelson and I am ISA Yield Challenge Marketing Coordinator. I have been with the Yield Challenge since the beginning, but [...]
Agronomy: Planting Progress in West Central Illinois
I live and farm out in West Central Illinois and the spring got off to a good start for both corn and soybeans. Soybean [...]
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