What Drives Pod Count?
Soybeans yield are increasing over half a bushel per year now. Some of that increase is from genetic gain and the rest is from [...]
Testing Tech
Soil Health Action Plan: Technology plays an important role in nutrient and water management at Schroeder Farms Water control structures improve field drainage and [...]
Managing Micronutrients in Soybeans
There are 18 essential nutrients in plants: Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are the most likely to be added as fertilizer. Water, carbon and oxygen [...]
Spring Soil Sampling
Soil sampling has traditionally been done in the fall, after crops are harvested. The objective is to know how much fertility the soil already [...]
The Row Spacing Conundrum
What is the best row spacing for soybeans: 7.5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 inches? That is a question I got one morning in [...]
Can Better Seed Singulation Improve Yield?
Will precisely singulating soybean seed down to 1-inch plant-to-plant spacing improve pod count and potential? Several agronomists, including me, think this could be true [...]
The Power of Data – Farm Progress Tech Forum
I recently attended the Farm Progress Tech Forum 2018, in Iowa City, Iowa. This event was designed to bring producers, academics and the industry [...]
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This article was originally published September 25, 2018, in Corn & Soybean Digest. Click to read the original article online. Midwest farmers and row-crop [...]
There is an app for that…
Over the course of the 2018 growing season, I was challenged to review a few different soybean-scouting apps that are available on both iOS [...]
PODCAST: Flying High with Aerial Imagery
Kris Ehler, sales agronomist with Ehler Brothers Co. in Thomoasboro, IL and 2018 CCA Soy Envoy, has recently had the opportunity to check out [...]
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