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Author: Horst Bohner

Cropside: Where did all those beans come from?

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

December 2011 - A RECAP OF THE 2011 SOYBEAN SEASON THE 2011 GROWING season started out painfully slow. Many fields were not planted until late May or even June. This is usually a bad sign for yields. Photo…
Low potassium is limiting soy yields

November 2011 - ONTARIO SOILS ARE LOW IN POTASSIUM AND YIELDS ARE SUFFERING this past growing season, hundreds of thousands of soybean acres showed potassium deficiency in the province and there is no doubt that this deficiency is…
Do high yielding soybeans need nitrogen fertilizer?

September 2011 - CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH ON SOYBEANS AND FERTILIZER SOYBEANS REQUIRE A tremendous amount of nitrogen to achieve high yields — a 50 bushel per acre crop will remove 200 pounds per acre of nitrogen. Despite…
Cropside: Be on the lookout for Bean leaf beetle

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

June 2011 - DAMAGE TO A SOYBEAN crop from bean leaf beetle (BLB) can be significant. The good news is that BLB numbers appear to be declining in most of Ontario probably due to the use of CruiserMaxx…
Cropside: Do longer maturity beans really yield more?

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

February 2011 - USING YIELD-MATURITY GRAPHS TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CROP A GOOD WAY to look at the information presented by the Ontario Oil and Protein Seed Crop Committee in the Soybean Performance Trials is on…
Cropside: Slug management starts in the fall

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

December 2010 - Slug damage can be one of the biggest challenges to achieving a good soybean stand. In severe cases replanting may be necessary. Feeding can resemble hail damage, but damaged leaves have more of a “skeleton”…
Corn residues challenge no-till operations

FINDING BALANCE BETWEEN NO-TILL AND RESIDUE MANAGEMENT

September 2010 - CROP RESIDUE MANAGEMENT has always been integral to successful no-till soybean production. However, over the last few years, no-till soybean growers seem to be combating more corn residues than in the past. Unfortunately, this increase…
Cropside: The right seeding depth?

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

May 2010 - KEEP DEPTH IN MIND WHEN PLANTING SOYBEANS A NEWLY PLANTED soybean seed is completely dependent on its reserve of energy to push through the soil. In general, larger seeds contain more energy and can be…
Precision Seeding

March 2010 - FINDING THE RIGHT IMPLEMENT, THE IDEAL RATE AND A GOOD TREATMENT TO MAXIMIZE SOYBEAN YIELD although traditional seed drills do a poor job of distributing seed evenly, it has been widely accepted that this has…
Cropside: Appearances are deceiving when it comes to soybeans

AGRONOMIC INFORMATION FROM ONTARIO'S CROP SPECIALISTS

February 2010 - KEEP YIELD IN MIND WHEN MAKING TILLAGE DECISIONS THE 2009 GROWING season was cool and for much of the province it was also wet. Under these slow growing conditions no-till soybean production can lag behind. …