Checking the Pulse of Nitrogen Fixation
How much nitrogen is your soybean crop capable of fixing? Soybeans fix nitrogen. With soybean yields of 40, 50 or even 60 bushels per [...]
WET WEATHER AND EVALUATING SOYBEAN STAND
Original article posted on C.O.R.N. Newsletter. Saturated soils after soybean planting can cause uneven emergence and stand reductions of varying extent depending on the [...]
Checking the Pulse of your Soil
Have you checked the health of your soil lately? Checking respiration of your soil is like checking your pulse—indicating your health level, but not [...]
Webinar: Optimizing Crop Nutrition With Tissue Testing
Jason Haegele from WinField United explains the basics of tissue testing, including nutrient uptake and interaction, sampling methods, sufficiency levels, and how to interpret [...]
Ninth Annual No-Till Operational Benchmark Study
No-tillers hit new yield records across the board No-tilled soybean yields climbed to new highs in 2016, while most U.S. regions saw better yields [...]
Webinar: Role of Gypsum in Improving Soil and Water Quality
Warren Dick from The Ohio State University discusses what gypsum is, its benefits to soil, sources of gypsum, how it can be applied and [...]
Nitrogen on Soybeans: Here is What We Know
Soybeans require nitrogen and lots of it because it’s a protein crop and proteins contain 16% nitrogen. For decades we have relied on the [...]
Tricking the Soybean to Fix more Nitrogen
Growers and agronomists know that soybeans are legumes and fix most of the nitrogen they need in the nodules they carry and support on [...]
How trapped phosphate becomes dissolved phosphate
Last fall I wrote an article about using gypsum (calcium sulfate) to trap phosphorus on the landscape. And it is true that gypsum has [...]
Phosphorus Management and the 4Rs
Phosphorus (P) also impacts water quality and is a common cause of hypoxia in surface water bodies. Phosphorus can be lost as soluble P [...]
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