Funded by the Illinois Soybean Association checkoff program.
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March 25, 2015 There is a lot of interest in planting cover crops. Obviously, the best time to plant them is after wheat, vegetables or silage because you have a long window of growth ahead of you before the next spring-planted crop. But if you are in a corn and soybean rotation you can plant covers in the fall either by plane or after the crop is harvested. But other options are late-winter frost seeding or spring direct seeding. There is time in... |
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March 25, 2015 Are seed treatments a necessary input expense in 2015? Seed treatment, depending on product combinations, can cost from a half bushel per acre to a bushel and a half an acre, so will you get enough from your acres in return? Seed dealers probably think so because they want their variety to perform and getting every seed out of the ground is an important goal. However, growers need to concentrate on cutting expenses to some degree to maintain... |
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March 24, 2015 Do soybeans respond to starter? When should a grower apply starter on soybeans? Is there a risk? There are growers who are successfully using starter on beans and will swear by its benefit. There are soil fertility specialists who say soybeans do not benefit from starter and there is a risk that nitrogen and potash could burn the seedling if placed with the seed. So, should growers use starter or not? It all depends on whether... |
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March 24, 2015 Watching out for disease is critical to keeping soybean stress low and to ensuring maximum yields. One of the biggest production constraints in 2014 was sudden death syndrome (SDS), with growers in some parts of Illinois losing up to 40 or 50 bushels per acre from the disease. To ensure growers go into the 2015 season with a plan to control SDS Jason Bond, Ph.D., plant pathologist with Southern Illinois University, and Mike McCarville... |
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March 17, 2015 The loss of organic matter and its nutrient value by erosion has significant effect on both the long-term sustainability of the soil nutrient pool and soil productivity. Nutrient availability in the soil to plants is inherently linked to the soil organic matter pool that is replenished through plant-animal-soil-atmosphere interactions, creating different pools of organic matter. These different carbon pools play a significant role in... |
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March 17, 2015 Sudden death syndrome (SDS) has come into its own as a major disease in Illinois and across the Corn Belt. Its occurrence is usually associated with early planting and wet and compacted soils that remain saturated during emergence. The only solutions have been to delay planting till later in May, plant when soil conditions are drier and warmer and plant a variety that tolerates SDS. The increase in SDS outbreaks in the past decade has... |
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