ILSoyAdvisor Blog

The battle to control weeds in soybeans in 2018 starts now, while the current crop is still green.

I can almost hear your response to the line above: We don’t have a handle on the weeds in this year’s crop and that Nelson fella is trying to get us to move on to next year!

That’s exactly right. While the weed species you’ve struggled with in the tortuous spring of 2017 are fresh in your memory, it’s time to begin the basics of...

Retailers commonly promote foliar feeding soybeans. But before deciding on foliar feeding, understand these 10 myths vs. facts.

The use and benefit of liquid foliar fertilizers has been questioned for many decades. Even though retailers and suppliers promote foliar feeding, past research from many universities and companies has not supported this as a common agronomic practice. However, research from the past decade,...

May was a wet month with frequent rains and very little drying and June is shaping up to be fairly similar. Of course, all this cool and wet weather is good for soybean growth and rows will canopy over. However, this wet and humid weather could be setting growers up for a risk of white mold.

White mold is a fungal disease that occurs infrequently and requires a unique set of conditions in order to appear. White mold is caused by ...

In 2016 many states saw a rapid increase in acres planted to dicamba-tolerant soybeans. Many of these states experienced numerous cases of dicamba off-target movement due to vapor-drift, physical drift, tank-contamination and/or use of an improper dicamba formulation. In this article we will focus on how to identify dicamba symptomology on non-dicamba-tolerant soybeans and the estimated yield impact of an off-target application of dicamba to...