Soybeans

Little Planting Progress Last Week

Jun 23, 2009 10:39 AM | Source: Brock Associates

Because of persistent and often generous rains in the southern Corn Belt and Midsouth, only another 4% of the soybean crop got planted last week. USDA reported Monday afternoon that 91% of the crop had been planted as of this past weekend... More

Water Is Standing In Many Corn Belt Fields

Jun 23, 2009 10:14 AM | Source: University of Illinois

It is mid-June and throughout the Corn Belt corn is waist to shoulder high with early planted fields beginning to reveal tassels. Soybeans are all ankle to knee high and early planted beans are beginning to bloom. In a typical year those conditions all might be true, but 2009 is not typical and those descriptions of corn and soybean fields... More

Interactive Soybean Exhibit Unveiled At Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo

Jun 11, 2009 4:20 PM | Source: Illinois Soybean Association

Now, children in the Chicago area have a hands-on opportunity to learn more about soybeans in a new exhibit at the Farm-in-the-Zoo Presented by John Deere. Soybeans: Growing Food, Growing World was unveiled to... More

Rainfall, Ethanol Growth Are Welcome

Jun 9, 2009 9:36 AM | By Kent Thiesse

After one of the driest May’s in recent memory in many portions of southern and western Minnesota, some welcome rainfall was received across much of the region from June 6 to 8... More

Satisfactory Crop Conditions

Jun 2, 2009 4:35 PM | By Kent Thiesse

Nearly all corn and soybeans across southern Minnesota were planted by June 1, with a large majority of the corn and soybeans emerged... More

Soybean News

Asian Soy Rust Slow To Develop

Jun 18, 2009 9:16 AM | Source: Farm Press

Nearly a week after Asian soybean rust was located in south Louisiana and Alabama soybeans, the fungal disease hadn’t been found elsewhere. It was not from lack of looking, though. “We’ve continued to scout and make (leaf) collections, but nothing has been found since the St. Martin Parish outbreak,” said Clayton Hollier, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist on June 12. “Having already found rust in south Louisiana kudzu, “my associate looked at several ... More

Subject: Soybean Aphids Arrive in Ohio, and in Big Numbers

Jun 17, 2009 4:28 PM | Source: Ohio State University

The soybean aphid has arrived in Ohio. Ohio State University Extension entomologists have found the sapsucker on early planted soybeans, and in some fields at numbers higher than expected... More

Soybean Rust Stirring in the South

Jun 16, 2009 11:39 AM | By Daren Mueller, Iowa State University Extension

Soybean rust is starting to catch the attention of plant pathologists this year. If you peruse the USDA ipmPIPE Soybean Rust Web site, the distribution of soybean rust may not appear much different than in years past. Like before, soybean rust has survived the winter in the South on kudzu... More

Biotech traits

Interest In Non-Biotech Soybeans Growing

Apr 14, 2009 2:14 PM | Source: Purdue University

Cheaper seed and lucrative premiums are driving more crop producers to plant non-biotech soybeans this year.... More

Future of Ag Biotechnology

Sep 3, 2008 3:11 PM | By Kent Thiesse

Within the past couple of years, USDA released a report about the future of biotechnology in agriculture that is quite interesting. This report, “Opportunities and Challenges in Agricultural ... More

Brazil Soybeans

Lower South American Grain Production

Jun 8, 2009 2:50 PM | By Forrest Laws

Robert Wisner says he’s never seen the kind of drop that occurred in grain production in South America this spring. Farmers in Argentina and Brazil are expected to harvest 675 million... More

Winding Down

Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Tyler Bruch

It seems like yesterday we were fighting the spring rains here in Bahia. Planting timelines and my patience were both being tested to the limit. But now,... More

The Transport Advantage

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By James Thompson

For years, freight was one of the main factors keeping U.S. farmers competitive with their South American counterparts, whose fixed costs were often far... More

Conservation tillage

Carving A Competitive Niche

Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Barb Baylor Anderson

Value-added production is that edge that allows us to always look for ways to do things better and more efficiently. That motto has guided Matt and Connie... More

Disease

Asian Soy Rust Slow To Develop

Jun 18, 2009 9:16 AM | Source: Farm Press

Nearly a week after Asian soybean rust was located in south Louisiana and Alabama soybeans, the fungal disease hadn’t been found elsewhere. It was not from lack of looking, though. “We’ve continued to scout and make (leaf) collections, but nothing has been found since the St. Martin Parish outbreak,” said Clayton Hollier, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist on June 12. “Having already found rust in south Louisiana kudzu, “my associate looked at several ... More

Asian Soybean Rust Found In South Louisiana Soybean Field

Jun 8, 2009 2:44 PM | Source: Louisiana State University AgCenter

Asian soybean rust has been found in a soybean sentinel plot maintained by agricultural consultant Blaine Viator in St. Martin Parish near Coteau, according to LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Dr. Clayton Hollier. The infected soybean plant was discovered on June 4 and verified by Patricia Bollich, an LSU AgCenter research technologist, by a field test, Hollier says ... More

Glyphosate tolerance

Glyphosate Nonperformance Issues And Glyphosate-Resistant Biotypes

Jun 16, 2009 11:31 AM | Source: University of Minnesota Extension

Glyphosate-resistant biotypes of giant and common ragweed and common waterhemp have been confirmed in Minnesota and are listed on the International Survey of Resistant Weeds Web site. Both species appear to be resistant to approximately four-times the labeled use rate of glyphosate (4X). In the short timeframe presented to us during the growing season, separating glyphosate nonperformance... More

In Weed Control Vs. Planting, Experts Choose Weed Control

May 26, 2009 4:58 PM | Source: Purdue University

Weed specialists at Purdue University and Ohio State University are worried farmers will put weed control on the back burner in order to get their crops planted, and it could come back to bite them later in the growing season... More

Pests

Subject: Soybean Aphids Arrive in Ohio, and in Big Numbers

Jun 17, 2009 4:28 PM | Source: Ohio State University

The soybean aphid has arrived in Ohio. Ohio State University Extension entomologists have found the sapsucker on early planted soybeans, and in some fields at numbers higher than expected... More

Soybean Rust Stirring in the South

Jun 16, 2009 11:39 AM | By Daren Mueller, Iowa State University Extension

Soybean rust is starting to catch the attention of plant pathologists this year. If you peruse the USDA ipmPIPE Soybean Rust Web site, the distribution of soybean rust may not appear much different than in years past. Like before, soybean rust has survived the winter in the South on kudzu... More

Seed

Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ Soybeans Planted on 1.5 Million Acres This Season

May 26, 2009 12:07 PM

More than 16,000 farmers are planting Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans this season, many saying they are excited about the higher yield and profit potential this second-generation technology demonstrated last year in test plots and production fields... More

Interest In Non-Biotech Soybeans Growing

Apr 14, 2009 2:14 PM | Source: Purdue University

Cheaper seed and lucrative premiums are driving more crop producers to plant non-biotech soybeans this year.... More

Strip-till

Strip-Tiller on a Budget

Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Greg Lamp

When you talk to Todd Martin about the benefits of strip-till, you almost see him light up. I'm always trying to maximize efficiency and yield with the... More