PROFITABILITY MATTERS: Cover Crops
Fighting soil compaction, keeping nitrogen and phosphorous in your soil, and increasing your yield potential. Every farmer aims for these things, but how can [...]
PROFITABILITY MATTERS: Tips to Manage Nutrients
Farmers have been bringing food to American tables for generations. But we have a new challenge—there will be 2 billion additional mouths to feed [...]
PROFITABILITY MATTERS: Powerful Nutrient Package Boosts Yields
No longer dismissed as a waste byproduct, manure is now considered a high-value nutrient package that boasts a number of soil-enhancing benefits. With the [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Year of Soil Coming to an End
We will soon be leaving 2015 behind us. As a reminder, 2015 has been the International Year of Soil. It is a tribute to our [...]
Agronomy: Soybeans: Responses to Nitrogen Unpredictable
Do soybeans need supplemental nitrogen? Will they ever respond if you apply fertilizer nitrogen? To apply or not apply nitrogen on soybeans is a question [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Cover Crops
Planting cover crops can lessen the risk of yield drag on second-year soybeans, and planting them after soybean harvest gives you an opportunity to plant [...]
WEBINAR: Getting the Most out of Your Soybeans with Good P and K Nutrition
Providing adequate amounts of phosphorous and potassium nutrition can help soybean plants reach their potential yield. When these nutrients are deficient in the soil, [...]
Agronomy: Updates on the Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy with IFCA
ISA hosted its first regional ILSoyAdvisor Field Days this year. From August4 – 6, we brought soybean experts to fields around the state to share [...]
Agronomy: Understanding Foliar Nutritionals
Finally, harvest 2015 is about over. During this past season we have discussed what worked, what didn’t, what we need to look at next year [...]
Agronomy: Soybeans – Fall Fertility Plans
Growers are harvesting corn and soybeans and experiencing surprisingly good yields for a summer plagued by too much rain, too little rain and wacky [...]
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