This article was originally published in the September issue of Illinois Field & Bean. View the article here.
Harvest has always been a crowd favorite. Whether it’s the humid heat of summer being replaced by crisp, autumn air, or the end of year holidays peeking out on the horizon, harvest tends to bring with it a sense of happy endings. But as any farmer knows, the work doesn’t stop even after the crop is out of the field.... Read More →
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Agronomy: 9 Basics for Top Soybean Yields
December 22, 2014
Producing 87-bushel soybeans despite a dry 2013 August comes naturally for three University of Wisconsin-Madison agronomy graduate students. “High yields are our job,” say Adam Gaspar, David Marburger and Ethan Smidt in Arlington, Wis. This year they reached 90 bushels.
They support state Soybean Extension Specialist Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as graduate research assistants. They apply small-plot research results from different management practices to large field-scale settings. The following, in order of priority, are the basics of their high-yield program:
Susan Winsor is a writer with Corn & Soybean Digest.
This article originally appeared in Corn & Soybean Digest and has been reposted with permission.
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