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May 15, 2017 Variable-rate seeding is a practice you should adopt with today’s precision farming technology and hydraulically driven planters. Considering high seed costs, erratic weather conditions and low commodity prices, you can’t afford to overseed and lose money or underseed and lose yield. Changing seeding rate on the go based on soil type and yield history is an important way to improve farm profitability. When planting soybeans into... |
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May 12, 2017 What to consider if rain delays soybean planting past May 15. As we progress later into the soybean growing season, you may be asking yourself how to reach the full yield potential for late-planted soybeans. A University of Illinois soybean planting date study discovered that the soybean crop is not able to reach 100 percent yield potential if planting moves past May 10 (Figure 1). However, this is not the time to give up on the crop.... |
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May 11, 2017 Article originally posted on the Bulletin. Decades ago it was very common for the majority of corn and soybean acres in Illinois to be treated with one or more soil-residual herbicides before crop/weed emergence. During the 1980s, commercialization of broad-spectrum, postemergence herbicides began the shift away from... |
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May 10, 2017 How much nitrogen is your soybean crop capable of fixing? Soybeans fix nitrogen. With soybean yields of 40, 50 or even 60 bushels per acre, fixation, residual nitrogen and nitrogen mineralization provide more than enough nitrogen to produce bushels and pounds of protein per acre. But today many scientists and agronomists are beginning to question whether nitrogen is becoming a limiting factor in soybeans as we move into the 70-, 80-... |
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May 09, 2017 Original article posted on the Burrus Buzz. Seeding rate, actual plant population, and row spacing are all tied together. In the past, a higher soybean population was used for faster canopy to intercept light and reduce weed competition. With greater use of residual herbicides, increased populations... |
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May 08, 2017 Now that your soybeans are up, take time to evaluate your soybean stand. Once a soybean seed is planted it’s in the hands of Mother Nature. We rely on her to provide the moisture and heat needed for emergence to start. To insure optimum stands, it’s important to protect emerging cotyledons. These plant parts are storage structures that provide food the emerging plant needs through the first week of its emerged life cycle. ... |
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