Plant Health: Applying Boron on Soybeans
While farmers don’t think much about applying boron, a micronutrient needed in small amounts, it is the most common micronutrient deficiency in soybeans, followed [...]
Plant & Soil Health: Importance of Potassium in Soybeans
Soybeans have a big appetite for potassium, so ask yourself, are you feeding them enough? Soybeans require potash and plenty of it and remove [...]
Disease: Watch Out for Yield Effects of Foliar Diseases
Keeping a close eye on yield-robbers is critical to maximizing on-farm profits and yields. Even in high production years like 2014, foliar diseases can [...]
Insect Management: Examining the Value of Neonicotinoid Insecticides
On October 16, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report on the use of neonicotinoid productsin soybean seed treatments in the [...]
Plant & Soil Health – Availability of Phosphorus in Manure Applications to Soil
The total phosphorus content in manure varies depending on the animal species, age, diet, and how the manure has been stored. Concentration of phosphorus [...]
Agronomy: Thinking about Nitrogen Fixation
Are your soybeans fixing as much nitrogen as possible and how much nitrogen can a soybean plant fix? Soybeans are a legume and take [...]
Plant & Soil Health – Reducing Gully Erosion in Crop Fields
With the intense rains this past season, some areas of the state had considerable gully erosion cutting up the fields, bounced across and made [...]
Agronomy: Managing Crop Residue
Producers plant soybeans either back into cornstalks or wheat stubble—both very high residue crops that can present some special challenges for the next crop. [...]
Plant & Soil Health: Know How Treatments Protect Against Early Season Threats
SITUATION Seed treatments are valuable tools for protecting soybean genetic yield potential against a wide range of insects and diseases that threaten early growth. With [...]
Agronomy: Soybeans Require Sulfur
Do soybeans respond to sulfur? That is a question that has been on my mind recently. Do we really know if they do, and [...]
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