Agronomy: Harvesting Soybeans – Combining Basics, Sources of Harvest Loss
Combining soybeans is about harvesting soybeans at optimal moisture to capture the most bushels while reducing harvesting losses. It is also about making sure [...]
Agronomics: How to Prevent Soybeans from Shattering During Harvest
Don't forget to pay attention to potential shattering as you get ready to harvest. Harvestability of soybeans means the combination of when the vegetative [...]
Agronomics: When to Harvest Soybeans
It’s fairly easy to predict corn maturity and harvest since development follows a calendar determined by temperature. Soybeans aren’t as easy, and with some [...]
Agronomics: Harvest 2014: Understanding Moisture
Soybean harvest has already commenced in Southern Illinois in some fields with early Group 2 varieties, but most fields aren’t ready yet. Because some [...]
Agronomics: “100 Bags per Hectare”: Learning from Brazilian Soybean Growers
Brazilian yield challenge winners now routinely break 100 bags per hectare, a unit of measure close to 100 bushels per acre (100 bags per [...]
Diagnostics: Top Dressing Nitrogen on Soybeans
There is a lot of interest in applying nitrogen on soybeans as more growers are willing to go to greater lengths to improve soybean [...]
Tracking Pod Count to Build Higher Yields
Strive to understand how soybeans produce pods and track pod count per plant as a tool to build more yield. We are into July, [...]
Disease Management: Conditions are Right for Sudden Death Syndrome
Be on the watch for Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) this season. Conditions have been right so far for an outbreak. SDS is a serious [...]
Diagnostics: Soybean Scouting in July: Disease and Insects
While June is the time to scout for weeds and perhaps a few pests, July is the time to scout for diseases and insects. [...]
Insects: Inoculate or Not?
Inoculate or Not? How do I sort out whether to inoculate my soybean seed? Today when you decide to treat your soybean seed you [...]
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