Cover crops planted after harvest can improve and maintain soil quality in today’s intensive corn-soybean rotations. Understand how different types of cover crops recover unused nutrients, retain soil moisture, suppress weeds and break up compaction.

Seed treatments can help protect soybean seeds and seedlings against a wide range of yield-threatening insects and diseases. Treatments can help to increase stand and vigor, promote earlier canopy closure and improve yield potential. The need for seed treatment depends on soil type, field history and pest pressure. Assess all factors before deciding whether to order seed treatment.

Seed treatments are valuable tools for protecting soybean genetic yield potential against a wide range of insects and diseases that threaten early growth. With so many seed treatment options, it is important to understand how each one works to protect your soybean crop.

Soybean growers can maximize the yield potential of their crop by ensuring it is planted at an ideal population. Plant populations vary by geography, so it is important to consider local conditions as well as the variety, row width, seed treatments and other factors.

Many factors can cause stand reduction in soybeans. Replanting may be one option to consider.

Excessive rainfall can accelerate stem canker development in soybean fields, causing devastating yield reductions of up to 90 percent. Effective field management and surveillance practices can preserve crop health.

Iron deficiency chlorosis (IDC) of soybeans is a physiological disease caused by iron deficiency capable of sizable reductions in yield potential. Know and understand how to mitigate your risks.