What are your soggy fields telling you?
I just checked out the 7-, 14-, 30- and 60-day rainfall accumulation maps on the National Weather Services website and observed amazingly extensive blue [...]
Still Time to Enroll in the Yield Challenge
It’s been another challenging crop year–and a compelling reason to consider new technologies and ideas. In a five mile radius from where I live [...]
Do I need to add nitrogen to my soybeans?
Should you be applying nitrogen (N) on soybeans? The quickest answer is no—soybeans are a legume and have the ability to fix their own [...]
Late season herbicide applications
Under any sort of normal conditions we would have been done spraying herbicides long before July 10. But delayed planting, replanting and a limited [...]
Conditions Favorable for Early to Mid Season Soybean Diseases
With consistent moisture in many parts of the state, we continue to see some fields developing disease problems. Fields vary significantly in growth stage with [...]
Don’t Forget to Tissue Test
Soil testing is the primary way growers plan fertility applications for their crop and they usually use this information to decide how much phosphorus [...]
Video: Mike Wilson Soybean Crop Stress
Mike Wilson, CCA Envoy discusses crop stress in southern Illinois.
PODCAST: Soybean Emergence and Early Growth
Unfortunately, this years soybean planting dates have ranged from mid-April to ongoing. Regardless of your planting date we have all had issues with emergence [...]
Soybean Nitrogen Management for southern Illinois
It has been debated for many years, the need for supplemental nitrogen (N) on soybeans. Things have changed recently in soybean management to the [...]
Impact of Fertilizer on Nodulation
In-furrow soybean fertilization’s impacts on nodulation and reduction in nitrogen fixation. Because soybeans are a legume and have the ability to fix nitrogen (N), [...]
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