How To Evaluate Your Treatment Plan
In modern soybean production there are a lot of products and a lot of research being done to help improve growers’ yields and profitability. [...]
What’s Your Fall Fertilizer Plan?
Harvest is moving right along, and some fall fertilizers have already been put on or are going to be applied as harvest ends. Usually [...]
Calculate Crop Removal Nutrient Rates
With harvest almost upon us, its time to start evaluating crop nutrient removal rates in preparation for the 2021 crop. There are a lot [...]
Potassium’s Critical Role in Soybean Production
Potassium is critical in determining soybean yields as it supports protein synthesis, turgor potential and stomatal function, and increases enzyme activation. Potassium deficiency starts [...]
Is It Time to Build Nutrient Plans for 2021?
Most soybean fields in Illinois are finally at a point where there is not much more a producer can do to protect top end [...]
R5 And R6 Growth Stages Determine Yields
Yield is a fixed number that soybean growers use to validate how well a particular variety performed or how well a treatment protected yield. [...]
Biological Products, What Are They and Where Do They Work?
What are biologicals? There has been an explosion of biological product offerings on the agriculture market purported to increase plant health, crop quality and [...]
All About Nodules
What do they do? Soybeans are self-sufficient in their ability to fixate a large percentage of their own nitrogen, a unique ability provided to [...]
Negotiating Nutrient Needs – Soybean Nodulation
Nitrogen nutrient requirements for soybeans are much less than they are for corn (total volume/acre). Why is that? Soybeans require every essential nutrient that [...]
Uncover Hidden Nutrient Deficiencies with Tissue Testing
Are you able to look at a plant and know exactly which nutrients might be limiting yield this growing season? In some cases, a [...]