Friday, November 14, 2025

Seeding Rates & Row Spacing

Maximizing returns from double-cropped soybeans

Double cropping is a practice where farmers harvest one crop, and then plant and harvest a second crop in the same field – all within the same year. It allows farmers to make the most out of the limited...

Make the most of late-planted beans with narrow rows, fungicides

Several management practices may add a little extra yield to late-planted soybean, says University of Missouri Extension soybean specialist Bill Wiebold. Record-breaking wet weather set back soybean planting greatly in May. Wiebold’s research shows average yield for soybean planted in...

Georgia grower sets new soybean record of 171.8 bushels/acre

Randy Dowdy, owner of Randy Dowdy Farms in Pavo, Ga., not just set a new world soybean production record this year but blew it out of the water with 171.9 bushels per acre. The previous record of 160.6 bushels per...

Webinar examines seeding rate influence on yields

With high seed prices and low commodity prices, you may be tempted to reduce seeding rates. Unfortunately, there isn't much data to back those decisions. A group of studies conducted in Iowa from 2009-2015 found that planting date was a...

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