I began work as a field crop entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in September 2017, after having worked in a [...]

Nematodes are a fact of life whether you grow corn or soybeans or other crops. Today, in my opinion, nematodes are one agronomic issue [...]

SCN egg counts were surprisingly high in a Southern Illinois survey. The Illinois Soybean checkoff is funding an SCN (Soybean Cyst Nematode) study to [...]

Are you benchmarking your soil’s SCN population? Because SCN can impact yield, even without showing above-ground plant symptoms, it pays to know what is [...]

This article was originally posted by the Purdue Cooperative Extension. Numbers vary considerably from field to field. Recent cooler temperatures favored aphid development. Treatment [...]

The Illinois Soybean Association is seeking farmer partners for a study to validate the hypothesis that wheat straw can suppress soybean cyst nematode (SCN) [...]

Now is a great time to be out scouting soybean fields to better understand how the crop is interacting with your fields ecosystems. This [...]

Dicamba Symptomology and Yield Impact on Non-Dicamba Tolerant Soybeans In 2016, many states saw a rapid increase in acres planted to dicamba-tolerant soybeans.  Many [...]

In 2016 many states saw a rapid increase in acres planted to dicamba-tolerant soybeans. Many of these states experienced numerous cases of dicamba off-target [...]