Agronomy: Podcast: Cover Crops
Kris Reynolds, CCA and resource conservationist for the Montgomery County Soil and Water Conservation District, reviews the fundamentals of cover crops in this podcast. [...]
Agronomy: Podcast: Organic Matter in Soil
Ivan Dozier, state conservationist for the Illinois Natural Resources Conservation Service, delves into the basics of organic matter, including short-term versus long-term organic buildup. He [...]
Agronomy: Good Things Come in Fours
As leaders in sustainability, Illinois soybean growers have a long history of increasing productivity while reducing negative environmental impacts. However, there is a need for [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Phosphorus Deficiency in Soybeans
Everyone knows what phosphorus (P) deficiency looks like in corn—purplish color leaves. So it would be easy to expect similar symptoms for soybeans. But it [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Genetic Controls of Nitrogen Fixation
Scientists have longed dreamed of transferring the nitrogen fixation trait found in soybeans and other legumes to grain crops. Just imagine for a moment all [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Be a Good Neighbor: Reducing Nutrient Loss on Your Operation
It’s a long way from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico—but out of sight cannot mean out of mind when it comes to managing nutrients [...]
Agronomy: What does tissue testing tell us?
This past weekend I was scrolling through Twitter and came across a feed that had been started by a well-known and respected Illinois agronomist posting [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Are your soybeans thirsty and will yields suffer?
We can easily see corn showing drought symptoms, but signs of soybeans under drought stress may not be as evident. When soybeans suffer from heat [...]
Plan and Soil Health: Identifying and correcting manganese deficiency in soybeans
Manganese deficiency is the most common nutrient deficiency seen in soybeans in Michigan. The manganese deficiency symptoms depicted in photos 1 and 2 are likely [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Soil Health Takes Time, but is a Worthy Investment
Farmers are showing increasing interest in learning how improvements to soil health can benefit both the environment and the economic bottom line. While many questions [...]
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