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: 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: 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: Evaluate New Soybean Production Practices on Your Farm
Continuing to improve soybean yields demands continued research to fine-tune production systems. That means a need to continue research at all levels − USDA, universities, [...]
Agronomy: Soybean Development
It is important from time to time to review soybeans’ development system. The original Iowa State University (How A Soybean Plant Develops, ISU Special Report [...]