Agronomy: Summarizing the Soybean Season from Northwest Illinois
Weather and weed challenges were the two main issues in 2016; however, yields will still be above average. After record warm and wet periods [...]
Agronomy: The Six Secrets of Soybean Yield
This post highlights material covered in a breakout session sponsored by Asgrow/DEKALB at the recent ILSoyAdvisor Field Days. To see other posts in this [...]
Agronomy: Dan Arkels’ Yield Challenge Approach
Dan Arkels, 2015 100 Bushel Challenge Winner, explains that growing 100 bushel soybeans does not occur from changing one or two variables; a successful [...]
Agronomy: Learning From Brazilian Soybean Yield Champs
The Brazilian yield contest winner routinely breaks 100 bushels per acre today. To reach the 100 bu/acre mark (6.725 t/ha or 112.1 bags/ha) requires strategy, [...]
Agronomy: Yield Challenge Update From Dan Arkels
Dan Arkels, 2015 100 Bushel Challenge Winner, provides an update on his 2016 Yield Challenge field. Aside from insect pressure from bean leaf beetles [...]
Agronomy: Field Day Recap: Piecing Together the Yield Puzzle
This post highlights material covered in a breakout session sponsored by BASF at the recent ILSoyAdvisor Field Days. To see other posts in this [...]
Agronomy: A Happy Soybean is a Healthy Soybean
What makes a healthy soybean plant? It’s about what you both see and don’t see. When you want to produce a high-yield crop, pay [...]
Agronomy: A New Soybean Record
I have to acknowledge there is a new national soybean record and it was in Georgia, not necessarily a soybean-friendly environment like Central Illinois. [...]
Agronomy: Part 2: What do you feel is the biggest challenge in raising soybeans?
Last month I switched things up and posed this question to some of my customers (twice) with the general consensus that weed control is [...]
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 [...]
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