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June 22, 2018 Are your soybean plants nodulating and fixing nitrogen or do you just assume they are?
Nitrogen is 1 of 17 essential elements that all plants need to grow and reproduce, however, soybeans and other legume crops can produce a large percentage of their total requirements. Most producers invest a substantial amount of time planning, calculating needs and applying nitrogen for a corn crop, which needs about 1.1-1.2... |
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June 21, 2018 Post applications to promote soybean growth should be timed for optimal efficacy. As growers, we often look for the application timing that is convenient, or most cost effective, and can apply multiple products in a single pass. For many of the products on the market, there are recommended timings to optimize their efficacy. Soybeans will determine their number of branches between V2 and V3. Some growers have done a form of... |
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June 20, 2018 “Ephemeral gullies” are small channels that are formed in natural, concentrated water flow areas. They are generally shallow, yet visible, and are normally easily filled in by annual tillage. They will typically re-develop again in the same location after additional runoff events and continue to erode valuable topsoil.
In contrast, “classic gullies” are deeper channels that are not easily filled by normal tillage... |
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June 20, 2018 Article originally posted on the Bulletin. With the storm that moved through the state the past week, it is not surprising that we are seeing more seedling diseases in soybeans. In many cases Rhizoctonia has been identified as the causative organism, alone or in combination with other soil issues such as compaction... |
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June 19, 2018 The number of acres planted to LibertyLink® soybeans has grown significantly in 2018 and I want to thank all of you who plant LibertyLink beans as an alternative to traditional glyphosate beans. Here is a list Bayer uses to help growers be successful with Liberty herbicide application technology.
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June 18, 2018 Why helping with the Illinois Yield Challenge, since its inception in 2009, interested me and why Illinois needed this initiative. After a career in the fertilizer industry I have been doing contract agronomy work with chemical companies, primarily BASF, and have always been interested in increasing soybean yield. I attended the first Soy Yield Challenge organizational meeting in 2009. At that time many farmers were frustrated with... |