Take Your Seeds Off Before Entering
Common manners suggest that you remove your shoes before entering someone’s home as a guest. Does this etiquette apply to entering a farmer’s field? [...]
How to improve continuous soybean rotations
This past season farmers planted 10.9 million acres of soybeans in llinois, up 3% from the previous year, according to the latest USDA NASS [...]
There is an app for that…
Over the course of the 2018 growing season, I was challenged to review a few different soybean-scouting apps that are available on both iOS [...]
WEBINAR: Nitrogen Management Systems in Tile Drained Fields: Optimizing Yields and Minimizing Losses
Lowell Gentry will demonstrate annual nutrient losses from tile drained agricultural watersheds in east central Illinois and will focus on a replicated tile drainage [...]
Estimating Soybean Yield
It has been a pretty good year for corn and soybeans across the Corn Belt and many of you may be wondering about your [...]
Soybeans, White Mold and SDS – Oh My!
It’s early August in Northern Illinois and it’s time to start wrapping up the 2018 soybean crop. Granted, August rains can add some yield, [...]
Fungicide-Herbicide Compatibility
Fungicide applications can be viewed as a “free trip” for some herbicides, but make sure you are spraying on-label. If not, it could be [...]
PODCAST: Flying High with Aerial Imagery
Kris Ehler, sales agronomist with Ehler Brothers Co. in Thomoasboro, IL and 2018 CCA Soy Envoy, has recently had the opportunity to check out [...]
Top 5 Tips for Pushing Pod Fill
Over the past 5 years, soybean yields have increased to a new standard. These gains can be directly correlated to the success of modern [...]
Now’s an Opportune Time to Scout for SCN
Originally posted via University of Nebraska-Lincoln CROPWATCH July through August is a good time to check soybean fields for soybean cyst nematodes (SCN), the [...]
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