Minimizing In-season Yield Loss
Summer is a season of fun; but for soybean plants, summer can be anything but pleasant. July and August often bring a variety of [...]
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK AND ROLL. A 1970’s version of Soybean production!
As we all know, the average American Farmer is 57 years old; this means those growers graduated high school in 1976, a very uninhibited [...]
ILSoyAdvisor Field Days: Coming to a Field near You
You know and follow the ILSoyAdvisor.com blog—now mark your calendars because the experts from ILSoyAdvisor.com are coming to a soybean field near you. ISA [...]
Factors Affecting Early Season Growth
Growers, or the agronomist they work with, should have a plan to scout fields each month of the summer. This includes walking a field [...]
Double-crop Soybean research, observations and making it all work.
It's often difficult to find research on double-crop soybeans in Illinois. OK, it seems like it is always difficult. What information is available is [...]
PODCAST: Wheat-soybean double-crop rotations
ISA is continuing its ILSoyAdvisor.com podcasts, connecting agronomy experts with Illinois farmers to share their insights, experiences and recommendations on growing high-yielding, profitable soybeans. [...]
Join the Race: Enter the Yield Challenge
Interested in breaking your own soybean yield record, breaking the 100-bushel ceiling or just seeing if a new package of technologies improves your soybean [...]
Managing Late Planted Soybean
Soybean can be planted later than corn and not suffer the same level of yield loss. Nevertheless the ideal time to plant soybeans is [...]
Agronomy: Thoughts on Wheat Harvest Part-2: Residue control
Once your combine is clean inside and out and you’ve done your due diligence to insure that we are not spreading unwanted weed seed [...]
Agronomy: 2015 Brings New Challenges to Illinois Soybean Growers
My name in Jim Nelson and I am ISA Yield Challenge Marketing Coordinator. I have been with the Yield Challenge since the beginning, but [...]
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