Estimating Soybean Yield
It has been a pretty good year for corn and soybeans across the Corn Belt and many of you may be wondering about your [...]
Top 5 Tips for Pushing Pod Fill
Over the past 5 years, soybean yields have increased to a new standard. These gains can be directly correlated to the success of modern [...]
PODCAST: Soybean Flowering and Pod Development
Todd Steinacher, CCA Soy Envoy and west-central Illinois regional agronomist with AgriGold, discusses early soybean development, flowering and pod formation, how to detect pod [...]
Mark Your Calendars: Double-Cropping Field Days
To learn about new opportunities to double-crop soybeans and the latest best management practices available, plan to attend one of four 2-hour events. The [...]
Reaching for 100
The Illinois Soybean Association has been sponsoring the Yield Challenge since 2010. The contest allows growers to compete for the highest soybean yield and [...]
Soypocalypse 2018: An Envoy Discussion
In July, we have an opportunity to review the first half of the soybean growing season. Soybeans have moved into the reproductive stages and [...]
Help! What happened to my stand of soybeans?
Learn to diagnose field problems when they happen. Any agronomist would tell a farmer to scout each field multiple times a year. That is [...]
Factors Influencing Yield
As with corn plants, soybean plants have very defined reproductive stages. These stages are determined based off the size and development of the seed [...]
Double-crop soybeans in the ground: What do I need to do now?
If you took Kelly Robertson’s advice from last month’s blog, you’re on your way to a successful double-crop season. The main drawback is having [...]
Dwarf Beans Anyone?
Growers want tall soybeans that canopy over the row and have lots of nodes and a few lower branches to produce a lot of [...]
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