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October 06, 2017 Ultra-early planting can work but there are risks
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October 04, 2017 October is here and it’s time for my final Soy Envoy blog of the 2017 Growing Season. Let’s look back on what has taken place this year. Just a bit of forewarning, I’m afraid my season recap will run counter to my colleagues. In a year of dry conditions in much of Illinois, our region’s challenges have mainly been due to excess moisture, rather than deficits. We started off talking about the advantage of planting soybeans early and my... |
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October 02, 2017 Are you benchmarking your soil’s SCN population? Because SCN can impact yield, even without showing above-ground plant symptoms, it pays to know what is going on below ground—how big the egg population is and if it is trending up or down. If egg population is going down, your management is working. If egg populations are increasing, your management isn’t. SCN is a microscopic roundworm that lives in the... |
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September 30, 2017 The ILSoyAdvisor Yield Challenge harvest is underway as growers begin combining their crops. In the first week of the Yield Challenge we have already received multiple entries breaking 100 bushels per acre! As we wait for all entries to be harvested and yield calculations to be verified by Illinois State University, it’s interesting (and exciting) to see such high yields from multiple Yield... |
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September 29, 2017 Volunteer wheat is probably the number one potential weed problem in double-crop soybeans. Most often in double-crop soybeans herbicides are needed to control existing weeds prior to or at planting in wheat straw. Often there will be broadleaf weeds or some grasses growing by the time the soybeans are planted. This burndown application frequently is made with a paraquat or glyphosate chemical. However, it only controls the weeds... |
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September 28, 2017 I am going to date myself but, when working at the University of Illinois Plant Clinic during graduate school, I can remember finding these strange brown/yellow blotches or symptoms near veins on soybean leaves submitted to the Clinic. After further investigation, we knew these symptoms were not caused by bacteria or fungus. Nancy Pataky, former U of I Plant Clinic diagnostician, would collect the leaves and take them to various specialists (... |
How early can soybeans be planted and have a yield advantage? Even with a yield advantage there is quite a bit of risk, or so it seems, to planting soybeans early. However, with new technologies on the...
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