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June 30, 2015 Rain has been abundant in Illinois during the month of June. With the large amounts of rain over the last 2 weeks it is important to evaluate your soybean plant stands. Once a soybean crop is planted, there are many things that can affect your crop’s emergence and plant stand. These include: field conditions at time of planting, planting depth, soil type, fertility, herbicide crop response, rainfall, temperature, crusting, hail,... |
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June 29, 2015 These images of flooding look familiar to you?
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June 29, 2015 Lower commodity prices have growers monitoring their inputs more closely than in previous years. Soybean weed control is one of the areas that farmers have invested more money into due to increased weed pressure and herbicide resistance. With this increased investment, a question that arises is, “Do I need to control volunteer corn in my soybean fields?” Volunteer corn enters a field through kernel loss during harvest. This kernel loss... |
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June 26, 2015 Illinois has been plagued with frequent, heavy rains for the past thirty days. Planting was delayed, soybeans had to be replanted and some farmers had to take preventative planting. These frequent rains have kept the soil saturated and ponded water in fields—to the point that some fields truly looked like ponds. Excess soil water caused by heavy rains and flooding is detrimental to soybeans. Saturated soils, whether ponded or not, have... |
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June 23, 2015 Late planting, excessive rainfall and wet soils have slowed down soybean growth. And when soybeans are slow out the gate, particularly when soils are wet, they can exhibit yellowing. One of the things I am noticing this summer is how soybeans have lagged in development and their vegetative canopy has a yellowish hue. I refer to this condition as a malaise that gives them a sickly, yellowish appearance, limits growth and sets the crop... |
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June 23, 2015 We have moved away from drilling soybeans in favor of planting. Planting soybeans is really nothing new, and you can say the whole thing has come full circle. Planting soybeans has gone from 30-inch rows to 7.5-inch rows with a drill back to 15-inch rows with a planter. We prefer the planter for a number of reasons, most of which have to do with precise metering and depth control. Let’s face it, the grain drill has been more of a “... |
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