Seven Tips to Make Cover Crops Pay
While many growers realize the long-term benefits of cover crops for their soil, justifying an extra $30 to $35 an acre may be difficult [...]
How to Manage Volunteer Corn
With more acres of soybeans being planted and more dropped ears during corn harvest, volunteer corn is becoming a larger issue for Illinois growers. [...]
What does a cool, wet spring mean for soybean growers?
Early springs can create trying conditions for producers. In 2018, it snowed in Illinois on April 9. It was cool and wet through the [...]
Can Better Seed Singulation Improve Yield?
Will precisely singulating soybean seed down to 1-inch plant-to-plant spacing improve pod count and potential? Several agronomists, including me, think this could be true [...]
Adopting Starter Fertilizer
I have said that starters may be the next edge to growing high-yield soybeans after adopting early planting. Most starter trials show little yield [...]
Sulfur Becoming a Necessity
by Stephanie Porter and Stephanie Smith Why is there such interest in sulfur (S) now and why is it important for our yields? Sulfur [...]
Soybean Population Trends
There has been a lot, and I mean a lot, of buzz lately around lowering soybean populations. There are many studies showing soybeans planted [...]
LISTEN: Kevin Nelson on Rural Radio
2018 Master Adviser, Kevin Nelson, sat down with Shark Farmer Radio to talk about the honor of receiving the Master Adviser award, starting a [...]
Bringing Soil Back to Life
One-quarter to one-third of all arable land on Earth has been taken out of production due to soil degradation. Locations like Syria and Libya [...]
Benchmarking Soybeans in Illinois
U.S. soybean yields have been trending upwards and Illinois soybean yields are running 6.5 bu/A above the trendline, according to the University of Illinois [...]
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