Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Are They Profitable?
With today’s soybean yield expectations, will planting some fields back to soybeans be more profitable than planting a field back to corn? Just might be [...]
Weed Management: Considerations for Weed Management in 2016: Part 3
Multiple or EffectiveThe continuing and expanding challenges imposed on agronomic cropping systems by weed populations resistant to various herbicides has led to renewed interest in [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Beans: Variety Selection
Want to plant back to soybeans after the last soybean crop? Start with selecting the right variety. With everyone looking for ways to trim [...]
Growing Continuous Beans: Seed Treatments – A Key to Successful Continuous Soybean Rotation
Growers have been contacting the Illinois Soybean Association asking about growing continuous soybeans. Soybeans require few inputs and have a lower product cost per acre [...]
Agronomy: Profitability Matters: Maximizing Crop Insurance Opportunities
Lower commodity prices pose a unique challenge of staying profitable in a tough market. Crop insurance provides farmers with an important risk management tool, and [...]
Agronomy: Growing Continuous Soybeans
Is 2016 the year to grow more soybeans in rotation? Commodity prices are low, production of corn and soybeans is high (particularly for corn), and [...]
Agronomy: Lessons from the 2015 Crop
The biggest question I get asked now that all the soybeans have been harvested is, what lessons did we learn and what can growers do [...]
Agronomy: New Soybean Management Discoveries
Wow, what a year the 2015 season has been! From the start, farmers were challenged by weather events that staggered early season growth. We were [...]
Agronomy: Soil Sampling
Hopefully there are no soybeans still in the field at this point in Illinois. Even the double crop soybeans should be out by now. So [...]
Agronomy: Profitability Matters: Staying Ahead of the Curve in 2016 Finances
According to the USDA Economic Research Service, U.S. net farm income is set to decline by 36 percent in 2015, and commodity prices are not [...]
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