New soybean production guide offers yield-improving tips

GROWMARK agronomist Kevin Black assisted on development of the new production booklet.

John Hawkins

Published: Oct 31, 2012

A new soybean checkoff-funded booklet called "Illinois Soybean Production Guide-Systematic Strategies to Increasing Yields" provides soybean farmers with the latest applied research results and tips to improve yield potential at each stage of soybean development.

"There are so many decisions we make between planting and harvest that can affect soybean yields," says Ross Prough, soybean farmer from Greenfield, IL, and Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) vice chair for yield. "The booklet is a useful tool to guide decisions and management practices at each stage of production."

ISA and Illinois State University's (ISU) Department of Agriculture partnered on the project led by the United Soybean Board (USB) through the soybean checkoff-funded "tech transfer" program. The program works to share results from checkoff-funded production research with U.S. soybean farmers. Key production recommendations related to seed selection, planting, pest and disease control, harvest and storage are organized into the following stages:

• Preplant
• Planting
• Vegetative Growth
• Bloom to Pod Development
• Maturity

"We compiled information from a variety of sources to give producers a systematic view of how they can move their soybean yields up to the next level," says Dr. Rick Whitacre, professor of agricultural economics at ISU. "These sources included soybean checkoff-funded research at several universities, industry research and comments and ideas from a panel of industry experts."

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