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July 18, 2018 The Illinois Soybean Association has been sponsoring the Yield Challenge since 2010. The contest allows growers to compete for the highest soybean yield and greatest yield gain. And many of the entrants are “going for 100” in an attempt to break the 100-bushel ceiling.
Every summer we showcase some of the practices that a few growers are using to reach 100 bushels or record a personal best. It is always exciting to... |
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July 17, 2018 Five years ago, an Illinois Soybean Association Yield Challenge sparked our interest as a retailer. We were confident our growers could complete, if not win the side-by-side challenge. This challenge meant the grower would have an untreated check area and compare it to an area of treated products of their choice, with the winner showing the best increase in yield between the two. We had two growers entered and won our district! It was a... |
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July 16, 2018 Joel Gruver from Western Illinois University explains how soil organic matter helps improve soil productivity and health as part of the ILSoyAdvisor webinar series. |
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July 15, 2018 Originally published in the Illinois Field & Bean magazine How can we meet the world’s food needs while respecting the environment? With the population set to grow to more than nine billion by 2050, answering the question is becoming more urgent. Arable land is decreasing by 100,000 hectares per year, and global agricultural production needs to double in the next 30 years to cope with demand. Add to this the impact of climate... |
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July 12, 2018 In July, we have an opportunity to review the first half of the soybean growing season. Soybeans have moved into the reproductive stages and we can go back and look at the earlier stages, trying to gauge the potential of the crop and what may have taken us to this point.
The Soy Envoy team held a conference call recently to discuss what was happening around the state in soybeans. The topic quickly came around to... |
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July 11, 2018 We all know that soybeans are photosensitive plants. In other words, day length is what signals the plant to enter the reproductive growth stages (flowering and setting pods). While this is commonly referred to as ‘daylight sensitivity’, it is the length of darkness during the night hours that signals responses in the soybean plant. Therefore, we talk about soybean flowering around the summer solstice, June 21. However, it can begin sooner.... |