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A Visual Guide To Soybean Growth Stages

Understanding and being able to correctly identify the growth stages of soybean is important for making sound agronomic management decisions.

This UW-Extension website offers the latest soybean research and information for growers.

The soy checkoff and Shawn Conley, state soybean extension specialist, created The Soybean Report blog to communicate research directly with growers.

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From the Blog

Thoughts on Transitioning a Cover Crop into a Cash Grain Crop

My grandfather (whom I nicknamed Fudd), left school after the…

Winners of the 2019 WI Soybean Yield Contest are Announced

The 1st place winner in Division 4, RnK DeVoe Farms of Monroe,…

Finalists for the 2019 WI Soybean Yield Contest are Announced

The 2019 season had below average growing conditions for many…

Dealing with Wet Frozen Soybeans

Like many farmers the UW BeanTeam still has soybean sitting in…

Cool Bean is part of the WSMB network of agronomy and research experts.