This has been a wet season for soybeans with frequent rains, water ponding, saturated soils, and cool and cloudy conditions, while being warm and humid. These are the sorts of conditions that let diseases flourish in crops. We have already been hearing about the need to spray fungicides on corn because of earlier than normal outbreaks of gray leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight. Will soybeans also experience heavier than normal disease...
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July 22, 2015 In just a few weeks we’ll be gathering in Benton to participate in the ILSoyAdvisor Field day. I want to invite you to attend and hear some new ideas on increasing soybean production. Jeff Staley and I will be presenting on early seedling vigor and stand establishment. We will look at a number of biological and nutritional seed enhancements as well as in-furrow row-starters in different combinations. Our main focus with these... |
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July 22, 2015 Numerous fields of soybeans appear yellow or bright green right now. The symptoms mimic nitrogen deficiency, but the plants are really starving for air to the roots and sun on the leaves. Everyone is thinking about applying some nitrogen to help make the plants greener. But what these plants really need is for sunshine to help partially dry the soils. Rains have saturated our soils and pushed air out of the root zone. That lack of... |
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July 22, 2015 Sap testing is a new laboratory test that measures the nutrient concentration in plant sap, which may be a better way to forecast nutrient deficiencies in soybeans. Last week I posted a blog on pulling tissue samples and running tissue analysis in soybeans. This is a tried and true method of seeing how much nutrients the plant has banked away in its tissue. Over the years guidelines have been developed to help interpret the results and... |
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July 21, 2015 Soybeans flowering is in full swing in many areas, which marks the tail end of when soybean herbicides can be applied. It is getting to point in the season where we hopefully have controlled our weeds in full season soybeans. Soybeans have moved into the reproductive phase with flowering in full swing in many areas, which is often the tail end of when soybean herbicides can be applied. The application of herbicides during pod set can... |
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July 21, 2015 The very long, wet June has caused many issues as we approached mid July. In many areas wheat harvest was delayed because of the heavy and frequent rains. An additional result was we began to see quality issues emerge in the wheat that also led to more harvest delays as producers tried to figure out what to do with lower-quality wheat. In working to get in the wheat harvest we were rutting up wheat fields in many areas due to the... |
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