Farmers rarely store many bushels of soybeans. If they have on-farm storage they want to use it for corn. Besides, there has rarely been [...]

Combining soybeans is about harvesting soybeans at optimal moisture to capture the most bushels while reducing harvesting losses. It is also about making sure [...]

Variable soil types, knolls, flooding and drought have left many growers with extreme in-field variability of soybean maturity.   There are areas in fields where [...]

ILSoyAdvisor.com is reaching out to farmers across the state to get their preseason harvest predictions and postharvest reflections.  Southern Illinois Preharvest Report Don Guinnip, [...]

Earlier this year SoyCam.com—funded by the Illinois soybean checkoff—started following five Illinois soybean growers.  These growers have been documenting this year’s farming operations and processes [...]

We’re following soybean farmer and repeat Yield Challenge participant Dan Arkels as he works toward winning the 100 Bushel Challenge. When we last checked [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]