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July 21, 2016 One of the things we have learned in the past decade is that soybeans respond to good management. Researchers and private companies have been validating methods and developing product strategies that help drive soybean yield and improve profitability. We now hear of growers who with some planning and effort break 100 bushels per acre—a ceiling we thought was impossible to break. One of the holdbacks in getting soybeans to yield is that... |
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July 20, 2016 Producing more pods and more seeds means more yield, so here is how you do it. Yield can be put into this simple equation: pods x seeds x plants = bushels. At this point in July there is no way to add more harvestable plants. So to increase bushels we need to adjust the equation to more pods X more seeds x fixed number of plants = more yield. The key to more pods is to save more flowers to turn into pods. Soybean plants act a... |
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July 19, 2016 We’ve all heard rumblings of extremely early Asian soybean rust (ASR) confirmations in the South and many are wondering if this may be the year tropical storms spread the disease into the Midwest. The truth is no one can know with certainty, but early presence of ASR, a few tropical storms and the right temperatures could pave the way for an outbreak in 2016. The NAOO’s 2016... |
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July 19, 2016 It’s after mid-July; do you know what your soybeans are doing? Here we sit either waiting on a rain or waiting for it to stop, most of the corn has tasseled and life is good as we wait for harvest. We have done all we can for this crop…..or have we? Have you scouted your soybeans fields lately? Have you checked for insect problems… any late weed issues… or maybe a disease popping up? And what does the crop look like from above, are... |
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July 18, 2016 It is important from time to time to review soybeans’ development system. The original Iowa State University (How A Soybean Plant Develops, ISU Special Report No. 53) staging system divides plant development into vegetative (V) and reproductive (R) stages. Subdivisions of the V stages are designated numerically as V1, V2, V3, through V(n) except for the first two stages, which are designated as VE (emergence) and VC... |
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July 15, 2016 Historically, many producers didn’t (some still don’t) fertilize their full-season and double-crop soybeans and left them to scavenge for nutrients the following year. High-yield soybeans require adequate fertilization, the same as a corn or wheat crop, and should be included in your fertilizer management plan. A soybean crop of 60 bu/ac can remove a fair amount of phosphate and potash. See the table below. ... |
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