seed quality

• By Angela McClure • Harvest and delivery delays this fall can be blamed partly on the weather and partly on the continued impact of Hurricane Ida on grain movement through the system. I have received a number of calls...

• By Dominic Reisig, Lindsey Thiessen and Rachel Vann • Soybean seed quality issues are widespread across the North Carolina Coastal Plain and parts of the Tidewater region this year in indeterminate varieties planted prior to mid-May. We do not...

Heavy moisture and temperature extremes can affect soybean seed quality. Not only can these seed quality issues potentially cause dockage at the elevator, but they can also alter soybean seed composition and affect germination if these are seed beans. Soybean...

Keep these 4 things in mind to narrow the field. Harvest may seem like a distant memory, but many growers started thinking about the next growing season and selecting the following year’s seeds as they were sitting in the combine...

• By Carl Bradley, Daren Mueller, Shawn Conley, Damon Smith and  Kiersten Wise • Seed quality from the 2018 soybean harvest was below average across the majority of the soybean-producing areas of the United States. Several factors led to poor-quality soybean seed,...

• By Angela McClure • Most farmers had their fair share of seed quality issues during fall 2018, including many seed bean producers. The commercial seed supply is expected to be affected some by weathering at harvest, with severity depending on...

With approximately 20 percent of Arkansas soybeans still left to harvest, producers were struck in mid-November with a cold snap that neither sped nor hindered progress; it just made things slightly more miserable. “It’s not helping anything,” says Jeremy Ross,...

Although soybean seed quality issues seen during 2018 aren't as bad as 2009, they are more widespread and extend beyond the Mid-South and Mississippi River Delta. Dr. Bobby Golden, Mississippi State University Extension rice and soil fertility agronomist, and Dr....