Variety selection is one of the most important decisions a soybean farmer makes that will contribute to profitability, yet it is also one of the hardest. As soybean growers face razor-thin margins ...

Planting soybeans early continues to gain in popularity due to the yield-boosting potential of faster canopy closure, increased plant nodes, higher pod retention and more. However, risks do exist.

Using feedback from a farmer survey, the Illinois Soybean Association is investing checkoff funds toward research to address ...

Boyden, Iowa — Palle Pederson, Iowa State University Extension soybean specialist, presented no-till soybean research at the recent Northwest Iowa No-Till/Strip-Till conference in Boyden. Pederson’s ...

As April showers cleared over the village of Manhattan this week, John Kiefner got to work planting soybeans. He is not alone. Illinois farmers expect to plant about 10.5 million acres of soybeans ...

Recently published research in the journal Weed Science shows that planting soybeans in a green, living cover crop provides effective control for some of the nation's most troublesome weeds when ...

HAMPTON, Iowa — Long-time Practical Farmers of Iowa members Doug Alert and Margaret Smith have looked at organic no-till planting into cover crops, a system pioneered by Jeff Moyer at the Rodale ...

Research results from across 10 U.S. states found that planting soybean green is a feasible management practice to optimize cereal rye biomass production and provide effective Amaranthus species ...