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 [...]
Disease Management: Green Stem Soybeans
The challenges for 2015 continue to develop. Another issue growers are facing is green stemed soybeans. There are two distinct types of green stems, [...]
PODCAST: Soybean Emergence and Early Growth
Unfortunately, this years soybean planting dates have ranged from mid-April to ongoing. Regardless of your planting date we have all had issues with emergence [...]
Impact of Seed Size on Seed Rate
Does seed size make a difference when deciding on what plant population to seed? A pound of soybean seed can range from a low [...]
Evaluating Soybean Stands and Determining Replant
Rain has been abundant in Illinois during the month of June. With the large amounts of rain over the last 2 weeks it is [...]
Agronomy: Soybean Planting Progress
As I am writing this update it is 55 degrees and cloudy with 33 mph gusts. It sure does not feel like spring and [...]
Insects: Scouting for Early Season Insects in Soybeans
A number of insects can attack soybeans early in the season, either at aphid or during the early vegetative stages. It pays to be [...]
Agronomy: Meet Your Soy Envoy: Lynda Anderson
Hello, I’m Lynda Anderson and I’m your 2015 Northwest Illinois Soybean Envoy. I live in Galva, located in southern Henry County, with my husband, [...]
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