Joe Lauer, Corn Agronomist The Department of Agronomy will offer Crop Production and Management Meetings at eight locations during January of 2015. Joe Lauer, Dan Undersander and Shawn Conley will present the latest information on …
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Should We Be Using Soybean Maturity Group as a Tool for Variety Selection?
Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist Over the last decade I have noticed a subtle shift across much of the northern soybean growing region towards planting later maturity group soybeans. This shift, either conscious …
Finalists for the 2014 Wisconsin Soybean Yield Contest are Announced
Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist The 2014 growing season proved to be yet another challenging year for many WI soybean growers. Given these widespread challenges, we again experienced great interest in the 2014 …
2014 Wisconsin Soybean Variety Test Results
Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist The 2014 Wisconsin Soybean Variety Test Results are now available. Click on the link below to view the results. http://www.coolbean.info/pdf/soybean_research/variety_trail_results/2014_Soybean_Trials_FINAL.pdf
2014 Area Soybean Conference
Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist The Wisconsin Soybean Association and UW Extension are hosting Area Soybean Conferences on December 2, 3, and 4 in Janesville, Eau Claire and Ripon respectively. The program will …
Fall is Still a Good Time to Sample for SCN and Other Plant Parasitic Nematodes
The WI Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB) sponsors free nematode testing to help producers stay ahead of the most important nematode pest of soybean, the soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Eggs of SCN persist in the soil …
Harvest Considerations for Variable Soybean Maturity
Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist Variable soil types, knolls, flooding and drought have left many growers with extreme in-field variability of soybean maturity. There are areas in fields where the soybean seed is …
Do Not Plant Saved Wheat Seed This Fall!
Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist The race to turn the 2014 wheat crop into 2014/15 seed is on and early lab samples confirm that the percent germination from on farm sampled wheat is …
Top 7 Recommendations for Winter Wheat Establishment in 2014
Shawn Conley, State Soybean and Small Grains Specialist, John Gaska, Outreach Specialist David Marburger, Graduate Student Top 7 winter wheat establishment recommendations: 1. Variety selection: please see the 2014 WI Winter Wheat Performance Test 2. Plant new …
Wisconsin Winter Wheat Performance Tests 2014
Shawn Conley, Adam Roth, John Gaska, Damon Smith The Wisconsin Winter Wheat Performance Tests are conducted each year to give growers information to select the best-performing varieties that will satisfy their specific goals. The performance …