Agronomy: Meet Your Soy Envoy: The Agronomic Dream Team
We’ve assembled a team of Certified Crop Advisers who are passionate about soybeans from across the state to provide reports from the field, insight [...]
Agronomy: Soybean Yield Drivers
Management, more than inputs, is still the key to higher soybean yields, according to the latest USB-funded university research. “You can’t buy higher yields; you still [...]
Agronomy: Tips to Prepare for 2015 (Pt. 2): Key Takeaways from the Peoria Soy Summit
As temperatures rise and winter comes to a close, growers are beginning to make decisions for the next growing season. From variety selection to [...]
Agronomy: Know Your Limits and Start with the Basics
In 2014, Illinois farmers raised 547.7-million bushels of soybeans on 9.8-million harvested acres. The average yield was 56 bushels per acre. These yield gains were made [...]
Agronomy: Tips to Prepare for 2015: Key Takeaways from the Peoria Soy Summit
Illinois continues to make progress in soybean production, taking the title in 2014 of top soybean producer for the second year in a row. [...]
Plant & Soil: USDA Finds Cover Crops Can Reduce Nitrate Load Runoff
Using cover crops in between corn and soybean crop production in the Midwest could significantly reduce nitrate load runoff via subsurface drains, according to [...]
Agronomy: Does Variable Rate Seeding Pay in Soybeans?
The technology for variable rate seed has been around for about 15 years. Planters have hydraulic drives and row shut-offs and are coupled with [...]
Agronomy: Does Variable Variety Placement Pay
Variable rate planting technology has been around a long time now. We have the technology to create planting zones and deliver seed based on [...]
Agronomy: Variety selection: What’s Best for Your Fields?
One of the single most important decisions you can make as a soybean grower is selecting the best variety for your field. Historically, growers [...]
Agronomy: Climate Impacting Soybean Yields
A recent report in the scientific journal Nature said changes in climate are costing U.S. producers $11 billion in lost yield. The report, titled “Climate-induced [...]
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