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Are Your Beans “Feelin the Burn”?
Shawn P. Conley and Damon Smith Weed management has been a significant challenge for many farmers and retailers in 2018. The challenges range from short planting windows to shorter pre-emergence and post emergence herbicide application windows to early soybean flowering. As we approach the end of growth stage cutoffs for herbicide applications in soybean can […]
The Soybean Flowering – Summer Solstice Fallacy
Shawn P. Conley, Lindsay Chamberlain and James Specht Every agronomist has been ingrained with the Nowledge that soybean is considered a “short-day” plant and will not flower until after June 21st a.k.a. the summer solstice. This belief has held true for decades; however, with agronomists now preaching the virtues of early soybean planting, coupled with […]
Variable Germination and Emergence in Soybean: Which Seeds Are Still Viable?
Many of us, including myself, have planted under less than ideal soil conditions this spring. Often the ground was worked a little on the wet side leading to clods and variable seeding depths for our soybean crop. Reports of variable and delayed emergence in conventional (more common) and no-till soybean is raising replant and seed […]
Adjust Your Seeding Rate But Not Your Maturity Group For Late May Planted Soybean
Authors: S.P.Conley, J.M Gaska, S. Mourtiznis, D. Mueller, A. Varenhorst With only 10 days left in May and roughly 50% of the Midwestern soybean crop planted (WI:33%, IA:58%, SD:24%) what if any production changes should growers consider modifying? Do Not Switch Your Maturity Group….Yet: Do not consider switching to an earlier soybean maturity group until […]
Soybean Replant Decisions: Just the Facts Jack!
The Twittersphere is erupting with pictures of soybean beginning to crack and emerge. As we finalize #plant18 and start to assess our soybean stands here are a few items to contemplate. Get an accurate stand assessment. We are often drawn to the worst areas of fields and over-blow how bad the overall stand really is. […]
The WSMB Free Soybean Cyst Nematode Testing Program is Back in 2018!
Ann MacGuidwin, Damon Smith and Shawn P. Conley The WI Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB) sponsors free nematode testing to help producers stay ahead of the most important nematode pest of soybean, the soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Eggs of SCN persist in the soil between soybean crops so a sample can be submitted any time that […]
Wisconsin Industrial Hemp Production: A basic FAQ guide for growing an old crop in a new era
Authors: Shawn P. Conley, John Gaska, Adam Roth, Cheryl Skjolaas, Erin Silva, Loretta Ortiz-Ribbing, William Barker, and Patrick Robinson INTRODUCTION Wisconsin growers will be able to grow and process industrial hemp under 2017 Wisconsin Act 100, a law recently passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor. The law directs the Wisconsin Department of […]
Winners of the 2017 WI Soybean Contest are Announced
The 1st place winner in Division 4, RnK DeVoe Farms of Monroe, grew DuPont Pioneer P31T77R and harvested 93.15 bu/a. In second place, Bahr Farms Inc. of Darlington grew Asgrow AG2535 and harvested 90.19 bu/a. In Division 3, Steve Wilkens of Random Lake won 1st place with NK S21-M7 Brand at 89.39 bu/a, and in […]
Finalists for the 2017 WI Soybean Yield Contest are Announced
The 2017 soybean production year did not produce the record yields that we saw in 2016 but was above trend for most Wisconsin farmers. Changes to our entry form and rules led to greater interest and participation in the 2017 WSA/WSMB Soybean Yield Contest. The top two entries in each division (in no particular order) […]
