Agronomy

In recent years there has been more interest from livestock producers in applying manure to newly planted soybeans to provide moisture to help get the crop to emerge.

Double crop soybeans usually need some type of weed control program, although how weedy they get depends upon weeds surviving down in the wheat that can take off once they receive light; how much rain we get in July, which drives additional weed emergence and rate of soybean growth; and how fast the soybeans grow and develop a canopy

When a nutrient cannot be easily absorbed through the soil, foliar feeding may be a possible solution.

As long as soil temperatures don’t stay too high for too long, plants should be OK.

Plants grown in high soil organic matter soils have more soil microbes and plant available nutrients for optimal healthy plant growth.

By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Ohio Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and soybean checkoff. While it seems as though we just got …