SLAY THESE STRESSORS IN 2016:water hemp, nitrogen deficiencies, and soybean diseases ravaged 2015 fields. here's how to head them off next year.

摘要

Waterhemp to soybean farmers is akin to that obnoxious guest who arrives early at a party and won't leave as he downs your drinks and gobbles your food. Rather than beer and brats, though, this pigweed family member guzzles soybean yield potential while leaving up to 250,000 seeds per plant for future infestations.Waterhemp showed up again in 2015. "Driving across the Midwest during August, I rarely saw a clean field," says Dawn Refsell, field market development specialist with Valent.Unfortunately, nitrogen (N) deficiencies in corn and white mold and sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soybeans also joined the party. Here are some ways to savage these stressors in 2016.