PROFITABILITY MATTERS: You Want Higher Yields
Most growers invest in managing their corn crop, unaware that similar practices can achieve higher yields and profits for soybeans, too. While management matters [...]
PROFITABILITY MATTERS: Seed Selection
The 2013 soybean harvest is coming to a close, and it’s time to think about where crops are headed beyond the elevator—to soybean processors, [...]
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: 2015 ILSoyAdvisor Webinar Series
Soybean experts shared their knowledge and insight throughout the year to help Illinois soybean farmers improve their bottom line. Find all of the webinars [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Cover Crops
Planting cover crops can lessen the risk of yield drag on second-year soybeans, and planting them after soybean harvest gives you an opportunity to plant [...]
PODCAST: Harvest Report from Central Illinois
Despite low expectations, many growers saw above average yields this season, usually between 50 and 70 bu/ac. Lance Tarochione, CCA, provides an in-depth explanation [...]
WEBINAR: Lessons from a Surprising Season
Emerson Nafziger, Ph.D., professor of crop sciences and extension agronomist at the University of Illinois, highlights the weather patterns that producers saw throughout Illinois [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Are They Profitable?
With today’s soybean yield expectations, will planting some fields back to soybeans be more profitable than planting a field back to corn? Just might be [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Variety Selection
Want to plant back to soybeans after the last soybean crop? Start with selecting the right variety. With everyone looking for ways to trim [...]
Growing Continuous Beans: Seed Treatments – A Key to Successful Continuous Soybean Rotation
Growers have been contacting the Illinois Soybean Association asking about growing continuous soybeans. Soybeans require few inputs and have a lower product cost per acre [...]
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