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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

Just the Facts Jack: Soybean Planting Date, Seeding Rate, Pre-Herbicide Timing, and Seed Treatment Recommendations

Blog article updated 4/3/2024 with pre-emergence herbicide information…
Image 4. WI Drought Map 2023

Where in the Deuce Did this Soybean Yield Come From?

Shawn Conley, Spyros Mourtzinis, John Gaska and Adam Roth: UW…

Know Before You Sow!

Background on Notice to Trade: On March 6, 2023, USDA-AMS…

Winners of the 2023 WI Soybean Yield Contest

Division 1: 1st           Todd Poeschel, Buffalo…

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