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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

Soil Temperatures and Soybean Emergence

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In our soybean seed size experiment we have been monitoring …

Wheat Diagnostics: Tan Spot and Septoria Leaf Blotch

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For those who have been scouting wheat this spring and also read…

May Wheat Rust Outlook

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In checking wheat around the state, I have found no evidence…

What About Soybean Rust?

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I have been monitoring reports from the southern U.S. to determine…

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