How to Make Soil Testing Work Smarter for Your Farm
Soil samples provide landowners a gauge or a trend of the potential nutrient availability for the coming crop. Typically, this information signals areas of [...]
Unlocking the Secret to Sulfur in Soybeans
Sulfur is one of the essential nutrients that is required by all plants to live and successfully complete their life cycle. Just like any [...]
Western Illinois University Evaluates Impact of Pennycress
In 2019, Western Illinois University (WIU) announced the reception of a 10 million dollar USDA-NIFA grant. WIU will be the lead institution for this [...]
Understanding Crop Nutrients
Let’s take a trip back in time to 6th grade science – and class, today we’re going to review the Periodic Table of Elements. [...]
Potassium and Soybean Production
Having spent my time as a CCA Soy Envoy writing about micronutrients, sulfur, nitrogen and phosphorus, it seems appropriate to close out the year [...]
PODCAST: Soil Compaction Restoration
CCA Soy Envoy, Dave Rahe, looks at soil compaction caused by planting in less than ideal soil conditions and what soybean growers can do [...]
Soil Sampling Considerations
When should I test soils? For years, fall soil sampling was the standard practice. However, it became a challenge to collect samples, get a [...]
Are You Neutral?
If asked, most people can tell you their Social Security number and maybe their spouse’s birthday, but how many producers could accurately tell you [...]
Seeing is Believing
In modern production agriculture, sometimes we need to see proof before we can believe. Every year growers perform on-farm research trials to search for [...]
Evaluation of Nodulation
Illinois producers spend a lot of time developing a strong corn nitrogen program and implementing it throughout the growing season. We know that nitrogen [...]
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