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June 02, 2015 By now, your soybeans should be in the ground — and hopefully on a good growth trajectory. But even though your crop might look fine from behind the windshield of your truck, it’s important to scout your fields and dig up some roots to ensure your soybean plants are healthy. Early-season diseases such as Pythium, Phytopthora and Rhizoctonia could be lurking at or beneath the soil, undermining your crop’s success at harvest. Soybean... |
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June 01, 2015 It's often difficult to find research on double-crop soybeans in Illinois. OK, it seems like it is always difficult. What information is available is often a comparison study or treatment study which, in reality, is a side-by-side comparison. Yes, side-by-sides have their place in a research study. Yes, there is something to be learned from a side-by-side if done properly, but this information alone isn’t research. When I talk... |
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May 29, 2015 Soil health is defined as a balanced, fully-functioning soil system. Traditionally, farming has focused on managing nutrients to keep soils high in productivity. Now, the discussion has shifted to including soil biology. Soil labs are offering new tests, including soil respiration, to gauge soil health. Watch Will Brinton, Ph.D., owner of Woods End Soil Laboratory and inventor of the Solvita® soil respiration test, use his more than... |
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May 28, 2015 ISA is continuing its ILSoyAdvisor.com podcasts, connecting agronomy experts with Illinois farmers to share their insights, experiences and recommendations on growing high-yielding, profitable soybeans. Wheat-soybean double crop rotations are gaining attention due to commodity prices, environmental and economic benefits and new wheat varieties. In the most recent podcast, Kelly Robertson, owner of Precision Crop Services in Benton, Ill... |
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May 28, 2015 Interested in breaking your own soybean yield record, breaking the 100-bushel ceiling or just seeing if a new package of technologies improves your soybean yield over your soybean practices? Well the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) has a challenge that will meet your interests. ISA has been sponsoring the Yield Challenge since 2010. Over the last five years a thousand farmers in Illinois have entered the side-by-side yield challenge... |
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May 28, 2015 Soybean can be planted later than corn and not suffer the same level of yield loss. Nevertheless the ideal time to plant soybeans is the first 7 to 10 days of May. After that, yields losses increase exponentially with later planting. Planting date research conducted by Emersion Nafziger at the University of Illinois enabled him to construct a response curve showing the increase in yield loss as planting is delayed past May 10. ... |
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