Keep an eye out for red crown rot in Illinois soybeans in 2022
In 2018 I received some images on my cell phone. These images were of red crown rot, a soybean disease I had encountered while I was the field crop pathologist at the University of Delaware. The images clearly showed distinctive brick red, pinhead sized “balls” aggregated on the lower stems of the plant.
WEBINAR: Carbon Markets and the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund
1 CEU in Soil and Water Management
Brazil Drought Impacts Soybean Production
Early season drought issues across Southern Brazil (Mato Grosso Do Sul, Parana, and Rio Grande do Sul) robbed Brazil of a record setting soybean crop for the 2021-22 growing season. Stagnant high-pressure plus a lack of cold fronts moving north out of Argentina led to about 40% of Southern Brazil’s soybean growing area receiving less than 60% of normal rainfall through late January.
Protecting the Watershed: Is Collaboration the Key to a Sustainable Future?
Investments in sustainable initiatives are becoming mainstream since long term resilience is a priority for the marketplace. Leaders not only have to focus on [...]
The State of Carbon: Which Way is Up?
This blog post previews the content of Jonah Kolb’s presentation during the Carbon Track at ISA’s 2022 Soybean Summit on [...]
Considerations for insecticides in a post chlorpyrifos world
Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide in the organophosphate (OP) (IRAC-1B) group that has been in use since 1965. To put that in perspective, in 1965 [...]
WEBINAR: Soil Health Tests – What, Why and How?
1 CEU in Soil and Water Management
Better Late Than Never
For most of us, planning the 2021 crop year started in earnest over a year ago. We planned the work, then we worked the [...]
Viewing Your Yield Data Through Different Lenses
As harvest begins to wrap up and our minds shift towards next year, for many of us that brings opportunity, optimism, and perhaps a [...]
For carbon and ESG markets, one thing is clear—it takes a village
Contributed by Bradford Warner Vice President of Sustainability & Business Development, Farmobile The increasingly frenetic and frequent conversations around carbon markets, water quality, regenerative [...]
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