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October 17, 2018 By Gary Schnitkey and Dan Davidson
Today there are two certainties – corn and soybean prices are depressed and corn and soybeans both will yield if fed and managed intensively. Here is the dilemma growers are faced with - do they cut back on inputs to reduce cost and at same time reduce yield potential, or do they continue to invest in yield, albeit smartly based on return on investment?... |
October 15, 2018 Coming out of the 2018 winter meeting series, several soybean producers from around Illinois were prepared for one big management change - PLANT EARLY.
This was a very common message from Universities, seed providers and industry agronomists. Even though planting early traditionally presented challenges, these producers felt that the reward outweighed the risk. In doing so, many of these early planting innovators... |
October 14, 2018 Tillage is a popular practice across Illinois and it still seems to have its place in a high yield soybean production system. It also simplifies decisions that no-tillers must consider such as handling residue, cooler and wetter soils the spring and more potential for seedling diseases and nutrient tie up.
Farmers know that tillage provides two main benefits:
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October 12, 2018 You have all probably heard the term “Breakout Season” for an athlete. This is a season when they put up big numbers and catch everyone’s attention. I think soybeans had their breakout season in 2018! For many growers 2017 was good, but after a long winter filled with educational meetings... |
October 10, 2018 A corridor of the Midwest stretching from Nebraska through Iowa and into Northern Illinois has been receiving almost continuous rainfall for an extended period this harvest season. This pattern has made it difficult, if not impossible to harvest soybeans. The current scenario doesn’t fit what we might think of as a typical situation of repeated wet/dry cycles where the soybeans get wet in a rain event, then dry out, rain again, dry,... |
October 08, 2018 October has arrived and the 2018 soybean growing season is wrapping up in Northern Illinois. It’s always interesting, as well as a good idea, to look back over the past six months and see what was in the forefront of our minds as the growing season developed, what we worried about that didn’t impact the crop as much as we thought it might, and what surprised us.
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