Root Management Vital for Healthy Soybeans

Some researchers say scouting below as important as scouting above.

Root Management Vital for Healthy Soybeans By: Leonor Leandro, Ph.D.; Andy Lenssen, Ph.D.; Alison Robertson, Ph.D.; and Greg Tylka, Ph.D., Iowa State University Poor soybean plant root health remains an unseen cause of yield loss for U. S. soybean farmers.  Often unobserved, the underground world does offer an opportunity to improve.  After all, quality soil leads the way to healthy roots, but additional management must follow. In addition to sustaining healthy soil, other important strategies also encourage strong soybean roots. These include rotating crops, planting disease resistant seed ...

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Planting Report Shows Decline in Soybean Acres

Soybean acreage and production for 2011 are hot topics in the United States this year. With the release of the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Planted Acreage Report, there is a little better idea of how many soybean ...

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Knowledge Is Profit

Knowledge Is Profit

By Harry Bormann, MaxYield Cooperative® Grain Team Leader Just because you get your check or other form of payment for your soybeans from the elevator doesn’t necessarily mean we’re your end-use customer. Elevators don’t set the price for your soybeans – ...

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Crop prices keep breaking records

Crop prices keep breaking records

By David Asbridge Editor’s Note: Farmer-leader Jimmy Sneed’s Mississippi soybean field (pictured) was one of hundreds across the United States this year where flooding delayed spring planting. Soybean prices have been in a relatively narrow trading range around $13.50 per bushel since ...

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Planting Problems, Weather Could Still Impact Soybean Outlook

David Asbridge operates NPK Fertilizer Advisory Service, an independent consulting firm that covers the crop and fertilizer markets, both domestically and globally. So far, 2011 has been a relatively challenging year for U.S. agriculture. Many parts of the western United States ...

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The Japan Effect

David Asbridge operates NPK Fertilizer Advisory Service, an independent consulting firm that covers the crop and fertilizer markets, both domestically and globally. The 2010 U.S. soybean crop is currently estimated at 3.33 billion bushels, making this the second largest soybean crop ...

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Second-largest soybean crop in U.S. history

David Asbridge operates NPK Fertilizer Advisory Service, an independent consulting firm that covers the crop and fertilizer markets, both domestically and globally. The 2010 U.S. soybean crop turned out to be a bit smaller than originally estimated earlier this year. The ...

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Outlook sunny for U.S. soybeans

USDA Chief Economist Joe Glauber, Ph.D., also served as Special Doha Agricultural Envoy for the United States. Glauber has served as deputy chief economist at USDA since 1992. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin ...

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Blogging 101: An Introduction to Successful Ag Blogging

Michele Payn-Knoper is a certified speaking professional and founder of Cause Matters Corp., whose mission it is to help give farmers a voice. Nominated as one of Mashable's Top 5 Twitter Users of the Year, Michele created #Agchat, a weekly ...

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DNA Marker-Assisted Selection May Speed Genetic Change

With the recent mapping of the soybean genome, soybean breeders have shown more interest in DNA marker-assisted breeding. Both conventional selection and DNA-marker-assisted breeding identify breeding lines of soybeans that carry the form, or allele, of a gene that codes ...

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