Have you checked your grain bins lately?
Managing soybeans doesn’t end with combining. If you have stored them on-farm, you need to continue to manage them. As the winter weather continues [...]
Understanding Test Weight
When we deliver grain, the elevator runs moisture and test weights. For corn and wheat, these measurements can impact price and lead to price [...]
2017 Soybeans: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Every season brings new challenges and opportunities, and the 2017 soybean season certainly had its share. Compared to our surrounding soybean-producing states, Illinois soybean [...]
Understanding Yield Gaps to Improve Yield and Profitability
Understanding the yield gaps in soybeans is one of the first steps in improving yield and profitability. Everyone wants to know what is causing [...]
ILSoyAdvisor Yield Challenge: Growers’ Pursuit of High Yields
The Yield Challenge is in its eighth season since launching in 2010. Over the years, a lot of Illinois producers have participated in the [...]
Late Season Soybean Productivity
Soybeans are moving from flower to pod development and fill. So, what’s happening? As our soybeans are currently in the reproductive stages – most [...]
Are you ready for harvest?
As the weather gets cooler and the beans start to brown, harvest creeps closer and closer. In this latest podcast, CCA Soy Envoy Kevin [...]
Planning Soybean Harvest
Assessing soybean maturity and predicting harvest strategies for harvesting most acres at 13.5 to 14 percent moisture. Beans bouncing off the windshield are just [...]
Time to think about harvest preparations
Summer will be quickly turning to fall and the cool weather this month has slowed crop development and given it a break from the [...]
Raising High-Yielding Soybeans Can Be A Challenge, Part 2
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three articles on the role of hormones in soybean plants. Soybean reproduction is all [...]