Tips & Guides
Grain Handling & Storage: An Art or a Science?
By GROWMARK, Inc. Grain harvest and conditioning prior to storage is as much of an art as it is a science. Those of us who have been farming long enough have...
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Fall Armyworms & Management Considerations
By GROWMARK, Inc. Recent reports of fall armyworm (FAW) have increased in Southern Illinois. FAW is an erratic pest of relative concern to several crops throughout the Midwest. Most often we...
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Late Season Pests in Soybeans
By GROWMARK, Inc. Figure 1. Bean leaf beetles feeding on soybean pods. Although many management decisions are usually applied by R3, we should continue to monitor our fields through crop...
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Japanese Beetles on Corn and Soybeans
By GROWMARK, Inc. Skelotonizing feeding pattern of Japanese beetles. (Source: GROWMARK, Inc.) Description and Life Cycle Japanese beetles are starting to become more evident in fields. This publication goes over this...
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Herbicide Tolerant Soybean Traits
By GROWMARK, Inc Soybean traits have become more complex, having multiple herbicide tolerances in a single trait. Good record keeping on what seed is planted where is highly encouraged if...
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Which Situations Require the Use of a Soybean Inoculant?
By: GROWMARK, Inc. Soybeans form a symbiotic (mutually beneficial) relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in the soil (Figure 1). In this relationship, Rhizobia bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen into a...