The ILSoyAdvisor is a website focused on soybean management with content provided by experts. While it is focused on Illinois, its reach is global and we have readers from around the globe. And they often ask specific questions about production and how to make it work for them. I have posted a few blogs addressing their questions. In December I got two questions from commercial farmers in Nigeria and Afghanistan asking about the feasibility...
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March 30, 2018
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January 06, 2017 Many soybeans got off to a seemingly slow start this past season. I remember soybeans in some no-till fields seeming to take forever to get taller than last year’s corn residue. Cool temperatures in May and unusually dry conditions that persisted until late June in many areas slowed vegetative growth. Once the growing environment went from cool and dry to warm and wet, soybeans made up ground in a BIG way. By mid-August it was obvious that... |
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January 04, 2017 We are all familiar with the Twelve Days of Christmas. Well, we should all be just as familiar with the twelve best management practices (BMPs) for managing weed resistance. The ‘Take Action’ website listed these 12 BMPs that are useful to remember. Below is a link to the ‘Take Action’ website and a PDF of the BMPs. The... |
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January 02, 2017 Before we start, we fully acknowledge our title “Best management practices for growing second year soybeans” is a bit misleading as we do not advocate this practice (its not a BMP!) but we thought we could sucker you into reading this article if it had an enticing title! Our main reason for writing this article stems from growers questioning their 2017 bottom line. This issue was highlighted in the article written by Gary Schnitkey and... |
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December 29, 2016 As one year ends and another begins, we all look back at the past year—and forward to the next one. Our team of soybean experts has been writing timely articles throughout the year as growers faced the challenges in each stage of the growing season. Here are the year’s top five articles:
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December 28, 2016 Is it time to reduce seed costs by adopting variable-rate seeding? This practice has been accepted in corn, but instead of lowering the rate you push up the rate in areas with high yield potential. Well, in soybeans you do the opposite—you lower the seed rate in race horse areas and increase the seed area in marginal parts of the field or even push up the rate in marginal soil areas. The key to why this works this is understanding the... |
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