Agronomy: Podcast: Buffer Strips
Steve Baker, president of Springfield Plastics Inc., reviews saturated buffer strips in this podcast. He explains the difference between a traditional and a saturated [...]
Agronomy: Podcast: Organic Matter in Soil
Ivan Dozier, state conservationist for the Illinois Natural Resources Conservation Service, delves into the basics of organic matter, including short-term versus long-term organic buildup. He [...]
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 [...]
Plant and Soil Health: Soil Health Takes Time, but is a Worthy Investment
Farmers are showing increasing interest in learning how improvements to soil health can benefit both the environment and the economic bottom line. While many questions [...]
Agronomy: Yellowing of Soybeans
One of the things we may observe in soybeans in June is yellowing, generally not field wide like nitrogen-deficient corn but more spotty and localized on [...]
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