Agronomy: Watch Those Wheat Fields: Weeds and Rust
Down here in southern Illinois most wheat growers plan to plant soybeans after harvesting winter wheat. Their goal is to generate more profit from two [...]
Agronomy: Getting The Most Out of Your Acres
Another alternative to planting corn is double cropping soybeans after wheat. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, once said “Your time is limited so [...]
Agronomy: PODCAST: Double-Cropping Wheat and Soybeans
Kelly Robertson, ISA’s double-crop specialist, discusses the benefits of adopting a double-crop system, and explains that farmers have to be committed to the system [...]
Agronomy: Variety Selection for Double-Crop Soybeans
Sourcing quality seed—seed with the genetic potential to maximize production in a specific region, and adapted to modern management systems and other agronomic factors—is [...]
Agronomy: Late October Wheat Planting
Will planting wheat late affect the yield of wheat and profitability of the wheat double-crop enterprise? Not necessarily. With the later-than-normal planting this spring, [...]
Agronomy: Planning for Double-Crop Soybeans Starts Now
In spite of production-related challenges associated with the wheat/double-crop soybean system, favorable economics associated with two-crop rotation make it worthy of consideration for many [...]
Managing Wheat Is the Start to Successful Double-Crop Soybeans
Selection of your wheat variety is the first step for increasing your double-crop soybean yield. It all begins with selecting ultra-early and early-maturity varieties [...]
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 [...]