Maturity Group Ratings
Are the Maturity Group (MG) ratings we are accustomed to still accurate and do they reflect the maturity of the varieties we should be [...]
Optimizing Plant Establishment
A smile at harvest starts with the good decisions you made before and at planting. Like many row crops, soybeans yields will start to [...]
Barley Is Not Just for Beer
Barley is not just for making beer, it is also an excellent cover crop to put in your mix. Why are we hearing more [...]
New Traits Don’t Automatically Translate to Highest Yield!
Last week’s announcement by the EPA to register Dicamba formulations for use on Dicamba Tolerant Crops has the soybean world abuzz and for once [...]
Maybe you can grow 100 bushel soybeans?
We all know now that 100-bushel soybeans are in the realm of possibility. Kip Culler did it first and repeated it three times, topping [...]
What Happened to the Double Crop Soybeans This Year?
2016 was a good year for double cropped soybeans. For those that had double crop soybeans this year the question is “What happened?” In [...]
Include a Legume in Your Cover Crop Selection
Oftentimes growers limit themselves to planting only cereal rye after harvesting soybeans or corn. Rye is always a good selection because it will germinate [...]
Agronomy: How to Grow Soybeans
Soybeans are a major crop in countries including the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, India and China. It is also grown in some Canadian provinces and [...]
Agronomy: Soybean Yields Are Improving in Illinois
I recently read an article by Gary Schnitkey on farmdoc in regard to the relative decline of soybean yields in Illinois compared to corn [...]
Agronomy: 2016: Another Year of Learning
In Northern Illinois we have had another interesting year with soybeans. We have had some great soybeans, some good soybeans and some fields that [...]
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