For many years, soybeans have played second fiddle to corn, but expanding market opportunities have heightened attention on the oilseed. Nick Frederking, an agronomist with Westfield, Indiana-based ...

When it comes to row crops in the United States, soybeans are a major player. In 2024, farmers harvested these legumes from 86.1 million acres—that’s more than the area of Indiana, Washington, and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Look up "early bird" in the dictionary and you might find a picture of an Indiana soybean farmer. A survey of Hoosier soybean producers by Purdue University found that growers ...

At the same time downstream seed treatments have helped build new product and service portfolios for ag retailers, there’s another growing opportunity. The list of products to be applied in the seed ...

Unfertilized soybean fields with lower soil fertility should be planted earlier than high fertility fields, according to a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study that re-evaluates long-time ...

AMES, Iowa -- Organic soybean growers are concerned about the prospect of Asian soybean rust showing up in Iowa in 2005, says Kathleen Delate, who heads the organic agriculture program at Iowa State ...

Research results from across 10 U.S. states found that planting soybean green is a feasible management practice to optimize cereal rye biomass production and provide effective Amaranthus species ...

As planting dates get closer, particularly for corn and soybean farmers, they have much to weigh in 2026, Ken Eriksen writes.

This week on AgweekTV, we'll take a closer look at the future of soybean crushing in North Dakota with two big plants on the horizon. We'll visit the southern Red River Valley, where corn planting is ...