Bean Leaf Beetles and Evaluating Risk in Early-Planted Beans
Early-planted soybeans can face greater risk from bean leaf beetles, but IL Soy Envoy Matt Montgomery explains how field conditions and economic thresholds determine when feeding warrants treatment.
What Old Wineskins Teach Us About 2025’s Dry Soybean Harvest
What do ancient wineskins have to do with soybean pods? IL Soy Envoy Matt Montgomery connects a timeless parable to a timely harvest challenge.
Cracking the Code: Why Drones Work in Fungicide Applications
Drones are proving to be a reliable tool for fungicide applications—Matt Montgomery digs into how coverage, canopy movement, and spray quality make it work.
Digging Into Soybean Nodulation
IL Soy Envoy Matt Montgomery shares a closer look at the biology behind nodulation—and how it impacts your soybean yield.
Early Soybean Planting in 2020: Some Old News & A Good Reminder
As winter creeps near, it is customary to analyze the previous growing season and tweak management for the better. Let’s do so here and [...]
Early Soybean Scouting Tips
We once again find ourselves in the early part of the growing season. With some fields still going in and other fields emerged to [...]
What Recent Experience Reminds Us About Raising Beans
The agricultural industry spends a lot of time contemplating which “silver bullets” or “golden inputs” should be used in soybean production. As an industry, [...]

