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June 07, 2019 This webinar provides up-to-date information on prevent plant decisions including how the 2019 Market Facilitation Program and other disaster programs will influence decisions. Additionally, the presenter, Gary Schnitkey, covers how market movements will impact decisions. Strategies for soybean prevent planting receive particular attention. Presenter: Gary Schnitkey, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the... |
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June 05, 2019 To keep or not to keep that questionable soybean stand? Soybean growers are facing the tough decision on whether or not they will replant after what has been an extremely wet spring. Many publications state 80,000 plants per acre population will get you 100% of a "normal yield", however it is important to take the increasing calendar date into consideration as well when looking at replanting or leaving the original stand. Nonetheless, we... |
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June 03, 2019 Pollination is mutually beneficial to both pollinators and plants, resulting in the production of seeds necessary for many plants to reproduce. However, today’s production practices can potentially lead to an unhealthy environment for pollinators to survive in and do their job: pollinate.
All too often, there is conflict between row-crop farmers and beekeepers. Beekeepers often see farmers as indiscriminate users... |
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June 01, 2019 How will soybeans respond if you accidently put down nearly 200 lbs. of nitrogen (N) prior to planting? That was the question a grower in eastern Iowa asked me early in May when he called and said his co-op applied 180-125-200 lbs. actual of N-P-K on cornstalks going to soybeans.
He explained that the mix was intended to go on soybean stubble in a field going to corn and was a 2-year spread for corn followed by soybeans. He... |