Soybeans Can Handle Mid-Summer Stress
So, what happens to soybean plants that are stressed during the summer? The 2017 season has been stressful and July looks to be warmer [...]
Nodules on Soybean Roots
Soybean plants have the ability to form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia bacteria, which cause the small swellings on the root system called [...]
Path to Higher Yields
Combining strategies will produce higher soybean yields. Obtaining higher soybean yields is a great goal. However, the true challenge is doing it sustainably and [...]
Learning How to Produce High-Yield No-Till Soybeans
“No-till, no yield.” Ask any farmer who uses no-till in his management system, and he’ll probably tell you that one of his conventional-till neighbors [...]
Soybean Development – Reproduction Phase
Soybeans are flowering, so it’s a good time to review reproductive stages. Soybeans begin to flower around June 21 or summer solstice. A few [...]
Are Your Soybeans Nodulating?
Non-nodulating soybeans in 2015, in 2016 and again in 2017. I have received a deluge (pun intended) of questions regarding the overall lack of [...]
Double Cropping Soybeans – Follow These Five Tips
Whether planting soybeans late or double-cropping soybeans early, management is similar. Here are five tips to consider adopting: Plant as soon as the soil [...]
Selecting Double-Crop Soybean Varieties
Wheat harvest will be early this year, so now is the time to think about what soybeans varieties you want to double-crop after wheat. [...]
PODCAST: Managing the 2017 soybean crop
It’s another record year for soybean acres planted, as 10 - 15 percent of planned corn acres were shifted to soybeans due to 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 [...]
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