Soy Power: The Protein of Choice
Look in the shopping cart or at the restaurant plate of today’s consumers. You’re likely to find more plant-based, protein-rich foods that promote health [...]
PODCAST: Soybean Flowering and Pod Development
Todd Steinacher, CCA Soy Envoy and west-central Illinois regional agronomist with AgriGold, discusses early soybean development, flowering and pod formation, how to detect pod [...]
Reaching for 100
The Illinois Soybean Association has been sponsoring the Yield Challenge since 2010. The contest allows growers to compete for the highest soybean yield and [...]
Data-Driven Farming can Help Transform the Agriculture Supply Chain
Originally published in the Illinois Field & Bean magazine How can we meet the world’s food needs while respecting the environment? With the population [...]
Soypocalypse 2018: An Envoy Discussion
In July, we have an opportunity to review the first half of the soybean growing season. Soybeans have moved into the reproductive stages and [...]
Help! What happened to my stand of soybeans?
Learn to diagnose field problems when they happen. Any agronomist would tell a farmer to scout each field multiple times a year. That is [...]
Factors Influencing Yield
As with corn plants, soybean plants have very defined reproductive stages. These stages are determined based off the size and development of the seed [...]
Dwarf Beans Anyone?
Growers want tall soybeans that canopy over the row and have lots of nodes and a few lower branches to produce a lot of [...]
Cover Crops and Herbicide Carryover
Planning to plant covers this fall? Plan your residual herbicide strategy accordingly. The increased adoption of soil residual herbicides in soybeans to control herbicide [...]
Tracking node count
Soybean yield is determined largely by number of seeds per acre. The more seeds the bigger the yield. Seed size and weight also plays [...]
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