Over the last 3 days my phone, email and twitter account has been blowing up with questions surrounding poorly nodulated soybeans and my thoughts regarding applying foliar nitrogen to alleviate those symptoms. I have been reluctant to write this article for two reasons:

DuPont Pioneer is launching its new Encirca„  Yield services platform and enrolling growers today to help them improve timing, placement and management of critical inputs to enhance the overall productivity and profitability of every acre.

Scientists working with data from NASA's Aquarius instrument have released worldwide maps of soil moisture, showing how the wetness of the land fluctuates with the seasons and weather phenomena.

Hopefully, most of our full-season soybean crop has been managed for weeds by this time of the summer and some growers have planted or are still considering double-crop. There is still time to ensure your soybean weed control programs worked by scouting those full-season soybeans for escapes and by selecting effective herbicides to control weeds in double-crop soybeans.

Corn is all over the board in terms of growth and development, ranging from V6 to R2. Late-planted fields are usually at greater risk for foliar disease development, and reports coming in indicate that gray leaf spot is already present on the lower leaves in some areas.

Corn has the potential to yield 500 bushels per acre. But according to the USDA, the average corn yield lands short at 158.

This year, there is a very high degree of variability across the state with regards to soybean height, canopy coverage and overall crop condition.

Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. continues progress on the world's first electric multi-hybrid planter, with six planters having successfully been used for planting on test plots in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana this spring.

Fox Lake, Wis., strip-tiller Jonathan Gibbs, shares how strip-till has helped save operational costs over conventional tillage practices, while maintaining as good or better corn yields.

Reduced and modified tillage systems, including strip-till, represent strategies to reduce soil degradation and erosion and protect water quality.