Agronomy: Variety Selection
When making next year’s soybean variety decisions, know your fields, recognize potential disease issues, do your variety homework and optimize your agronomy to get [...]
Agronomy: Prepare for wheat planting
If you are a double-cropper, the rotation all begins with the wheat you plant this fall, so it is important to do everything you [...]
Agronomy: Illinois Council on Best Management Practices – Fall Newsletter
IOWA NUTRIENT TOUR REVEALS UNITED FRONT Members of the Illinois farm community traveled to Iowa in August, as part of an Illinois Farm Bureau [...]
Agronomy: When will soybean harvest begin?
September is here and we are counting the days till soybean harvest. It will be a good harvest with above average yields. So, what [...]
Agronomy: Podcast: A Look at Conservation Tillage
Rachel Cook, Ph.D., North Carolina State University assistant professor/co-director of the Forest Productivity Cooperative, provides an in-depth explanation of conservation tillage practices. She covers the [...]
Agronomy: How is the soybean crop maturing?
So how is the soybean crop faring in Illinois? The USDA has its annual yield predictions coming out in August and September and this [...]
Agronomy: The Top 10 Quotes an Agronomist Does Not Want to Hear a Farmer Say About Soybeans
10. “Soybeans are just a crop that I use to rotate and plant after my corn.” The average soybean yield in Illinois is 55 [...]
Agronomy: Wrapping up for the ’16 season
As we start to wrap up the 2016 growing season it’s time sit back and reflect on what we learned this spring and summer. [...]
Agronomy: Is it Possible to Estimate Soybean Yields?
Many people do yield checks of corn and feel they can get relatively close (+/- 10 percent) to the actual yield. On the other hand, [...]
Agronomy: Webinar: Strategies for Finishing Out the Soybean Season
Mike Wilson, Soy CCA Envoy from Southeast Illinois, explains why managing soybeans through Labor Day can help increase yield and ultimately improve growers’ bottom [...]
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