Plant and Soil Health: Field Day Recap: Intensify Your Fertilizer Strategy
This post highlights material covered in a breakout session sponsored by Helena Chemical Company at the recent ILSoyAdvisor Field Days. To see other posts [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Summary of Illinois Soil Tests Shows Potential Loss of Yields
Agronomists and growers need to be aware soil test levels for phosphorus and potassium are declining, as today’s high yields are drawing down more [...]
Agronomy: Pay Attention to the Details
To make sure your crop is getting enough nutrients, use tissue testing to confirm. When we think about providing nutrients to our crops, most [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Phosphorus Management Webinar Series
In March 2016, ISA organized a phosphorus management webinar series. This three-part series focused on reducing phosphorus loss from growers’ fields, implementing the 4Rs, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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