ILSoyAdvisor Blog

Potash Corp. Director of Agronomy Robert Mullen discusses management techniques for phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) in soybean production. Mullen says it’s important to have a holistic plan that factors in all macronutrients.

Key Takeaways

• Understanding P...

Some growers roll soybeans, but should you consider it? This practice started in western Minnesota and the Dakotas. Growers would roll fields after planting to push rocks and stones back into the ground and level out the field. It made harvesting and hitting higher yields easier because the heads could be run close to the surface and cut more pods.

But over the years this practice has morphed into rolling beans a bit later, after...

A lot of soybeans are no-till in the U.S. and across the Corn Belt. However, in regions with flat, black dirt some growers are still utilizing conventional tillage to warm and dry the soil more quickly in the spring, before planting soybeans. Could these growers practice no-till on those soybean fields? Probably. But to do that will require tighter management and full utilization of the tools available to make it work—which is true for all no...

As Illinois growers finish soybean harvest, planning for the 2018 soybean crop begins. Overall, yield

reports have been positive across the state, but the perennial question in every farmers’ mind is, “How can I do better next year?”

There are a lot of factors that go into answering that question. Most of the time we think first about variety selection, fertility and weed control. I challenge that we need to look deeper into the...