The saying “It’s better to be proactive instead of reactive.” holds a lot of weight for soybean growers when it comes to managing weeds [...]

Weeds are biological structures that are formed from a seed with a sole purpose to grow, reproduce with at least one successful offspring. Wow, [...]

Marestail is very challenging to control in central and southern Illinois. Because it’s a winter annual, marestail germinates in the fall and starts to [...]

With a late harvest and very minimal tillage accomplished this past fall, there could be a strong case for spring herbicide burndown to allow [...]

The agricultural industry spends a lot of time contemplating which “silver bullets” or “golden inputs” should be used in soybean production. As an industry, [...]

With all the challenges we have faced in 2019, I figure we’ll see a few more before December gets here. One that particularly concerns [...]

Many soybeans across the state of Illinois approached the R1 to R3 stage in early August and many growers questioned whether to apply a [...]

Even though the 2019 season got a late start and seemed to drag on forever, we’re reaching the point in the season where things [...]

After this last round of post applied soybean herbicide, I’ve received multiple calls about herbicide damage. There are a multitude of reasons that cause [...]

Early tissue test results for V4 corn in central Illinois are coming back low on boron—between 6 to 10 ppm. Sufficiency levels are between [...]