Funded by the Illinois Soybean Association checkoff program.
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November 17, 2015
“Farmers are going to see more financial stress in the next six months... |
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November 16, 2015 One of the founding fathers of the United States is often credited as the source of the phrase “in this world nothing can be certain, except death and taxes.” Scholars and pundits alike have added other “certainties” to this relatively short original list, so perhaps we can enjoy a sense of serenity to suggest another: weeds. Even with all the time and resources expended to control weeds in 2015, one can be reasonably confident this... |
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November 13, 2015 As I type this we are ending the first week of November. And as one drives the countryside there are still fields of double crop soybeans that remain unharvested. Many acres were not ripe before the frost and as such the frost helped to ripen them. But weather since then has not been favorable to help cure the beans and most certainly has not been fit to harvest on many days either. While the leaves have mostly fallen off the plants... |
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November 12, 2015 ISA hosted its first regional ILSoyAdvisor Field Days this year. From August The Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy (NLRS) was released on July 21. The document provides a framework for reducing nutrient losses from all sources—industry,... |
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November 11, 2015 Saving a potential $60 per acre requires impeccable management In the vast sea of southeast Arkansas soybean fields, Jason Smith’s Desha County acreage is an island perched in agronomic isolation. Smith is a crop maverick, growing 3,000 acres of remarkably clean conventional soybeans. The path to Smith’s conventional soybean conversion was dictated by economic necessity—the need for a young farmer to save money. “I didn... |
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November 10, 2015 Anyone who thought last year’s 104-bushel record soybean yield was a fluke may be eating crow as harvest results come in throughout the state. Champaign County farmer Jason Lakey and his father, Robert, have set a new verified state soybean yield record with an astonishing 108.3 bushel yield. Lakey’s achievement was part of the ISA Yield Challenge, a checkoff-funded program established in 2010 to ... |
According to the USDA Economic Research Service, U.S. net farm income is set to decline by 36 percent in 2015, and commodity prices are not expected to improve in the foreseeable future.
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