Desperate times lead to long lasting mistakes
After 60 to 70 day high rainfall, farmers in many area were significantly delayed in getting back into the field to spray soybeans. Even [...]
Record wet weather causing problems.
Record-setting spring rains have really put a lot of producers and their crops between a rock and a hard place. Here at our farm, [...]
What is better, the planter or the drill?
We have moved away from drilling soybeans in favor of planting. Planting soybeans is really nothing new, and you can say the whole thing [...]
Double-crop Soybean research, observations and making it all work.
It's often difficult to find research on double-crop soybeans in Illinois. OK, it seems like it is always difficult. What information is available is [...]
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. [...]
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: Thoughts on Wheat Harvest Part-1: Weed Seed Control
I can’t plant soybeans in the rain, so I am thinking about planting my double-crop beans. That job is still far off in some [...]
Agronomy: Set up success of double-crop soybeans by controlling weeds in winter wheat
Last week I spent time talking with a client about corn planting. But for the most part we really just talked about the weather [...]
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