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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

Delayed Planting: Top Three Considerations for Switching Corn Acres to Soybean

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Strong genetic differences noted in winter wheat winterkill assessments

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Crop development of the WI winter wheat crop continues at a snail…

Watch for Imbibitional Chilling Injury to Soybean in 2013

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Imbibitional chilling injury is an annual issue associated with…

2013 WI Soybean Yield Contest is Announced

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The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board launches the 4th annual…

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