A soybean specialist recommends a few management tips for farmers adding more soybean acres this year. Shawn Conley with the University of Wisconsin says farmers need to plant different soybean varieties than they did in 2016.
“Mostly likely you as a farmer planting a high yielding which probably had not a lot of resistant traits in it, chasing after yields. So make sure you plant a different variety that has genetic resistance to those disease problems that you have in the field if possible,” says Conley.
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