The March issue of Illinois Field & Bean focuses on weed and disease management -- timely advice as the growing season gets underway. We [...]

In comments submitted to the U.S. EPA, the American Soybean Association (ASA) disagreed with the conclusions of a recent report from the agency that [...]

Commodity prices are low and the outlook for significant increases is dim. So remaining profitable is the challenge growers will face in 2015. In [...]

Seed treatments can help protect soybean seeds and seedlings against a wide range of yield-threatening insects and diseases. At the critical early-growth stage, added [...]

Narrow-row beans once were going to revolutionize soybean production, but have we backslid? Personally, I think the evidence is clear that maybe 6 to 7 [...]

What you need to know when switching back to beans. Commodity prices favor growing more soybeans, and this could mean more producers in Illinois will [...]

Spring planting is still a couple months away, but inevitably, some farmers in Illinois will have to deal with a wet spring, which delays planting [...]

Recent research has found ways to produce soybean seeds that have improved yields under drought conditions. A group of researchers published their research in the November-December [...]

Soybeans can be planted deeper than you think and do better than you hope. Soybean planting will start soon, but will growers suffer from [...]

If you expect more from your soybeans… maybe they are expecting more from you?  If you can’t answer “yes” to all these questions, fertility [...]