Agronomy: What To Do When Switching Back to Soybeans
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 [...]
Agronomy: How Soybeans Respond to Late Planting
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 [...]
Diagnostics: Understanding the Genetic Basis for Drought-Tolerant Soybeans
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 [...]
Agronomy: The Soybean Seed Depth Discussion
Soybeans can be planted deeper than you think and do better than you hope. Soybean planting will start soon, but will growers suffer from [...]
Agronomy: Your Beans Expect More
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 [...]
Agronomy: Top 5 Planting Factors for Increasing Soybean Yield
What are your top five factors at planting that can impact your 2015 soybean yields? Everyone can come up with their own list, but [...]
Agronomy: Top 3 Questions We Were Asked at the Northern Illinois Farm Show
ISA attends farm shows to better connect with farmers across the state. For us, farm shows are a great opportunity to converse and reconnect, [...]
Agronomy: PODCAST: Benefits & Risks of Early Planting
Finding the optimum planting date for soybeans is never easy and depends on a number of factors including soil conditions, weather outlook and some [...]
Agronomy: Soybean Planting Depth
Not too late to plant deeper! For a long time producers and agronomists believed that the correct planting depth for soybeans is 1 to 1.5 [...]
Agronomy: How Do I Decide Whether to Treat My Soybean Seed?
Treating soybean seed is a good risk management tool for a relatively small investment per acre. It is usually not done at a seed plant, [...]