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Virginia Small Grains: High Yields Across the State
The Virginia Grain Producers Association is proud to announce the 2018 Virginia Wheat and Hard Wheat Yield Contest Winners. This year’s winners come from counties across the Commonwealth and have […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Finishing Out the Crop – What’s Needed for Good Yields?
In general, we’ve had a good, but not great year for soybean in Virginia. Although many areas were hit with a 3 to 4 week dry spell during July, August […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Early Harvest Reports – Seed Quality Not Good
We appreciated the rainfall this year. It should lead to some very good yields in many parts of Virginia. However, the same weather conditions for high yields has led to […]
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Virginia Soybean Yield Contest Applications Open
The purpose of the Virginia Soybean Yield Contest is to emphasize and demonstrate the practices necessary to produce maximum economic yields, to recognize those producers who grow high-yielding...
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Virginia Soybeans: Variety Selection – What Maturity Is Best?
Variety selection continues to be one of the most important decisions that we can make. It is also one of the first steps to take that insure success. It’s a […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Would Planting in Early April Increase Yields?
April planting is thought to have an advantage over May planting because we can shift the development of soybean to an earlier time of the year where there is more […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Full-Season Seeding Rates – Maximize Yield, Reduce Risks
In general, high seed costs have resulted in a reduction in the number of soybean seed planted per acre. For our full-season production system, most have reduced their seeding rate […]
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Virginia: Harvest Wheat, Plant Double-Crop Soybean ASAP
The recent hot and dry weather is really drying the wheat down quickly. We harvested our first wheat today (the moisture was ranging from 16 to 20%) and planted soybean […]
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Virginia Soybeans: To Plant or Not To Plant Into Dry Soils?
Now that the weather has turned hot and dry, and with limited rainfall in the forecast over the next ten days, we are starting to get questions about continuing to […]
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Virginia Ag Expo, Ruther Glen, Aug. 1
The Virginia Ag Expo is the largest agricultural field day held in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As an educational, marketing and social event, farmers and agribusiness look forward to the […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Yield and Quality – Predictions, Cautions
I’ve been very hesitant to write this article and I’ve held off for several weeks, hoping to have more yield results in before saying anything. But I’ve seen enough so […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Full-Season Planting Dates, Maturity Groups, Seeding...
Best Planting Dates & Maturity Groups (MG). If you’ve seen some of my presentations in the past, the best maturity groups will largely depend on location, but also on field […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Planting Tips for Cool Weather
It looks as if we have come out of the unusually warm pattern we experienced during late-March thru early-April and fallen back into a cooler one. I’ve watched unusually warm […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Will Cold Weather Harm my Crop This Weekend?
The weather reports of near-freezing temperatures in some parts of Virginia has many concerned about their wheat, corn, emerged and non-emerged soybean. I’m one of them, but we must try […]
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Virginia Soybeans: Cooler Soil Temperatures = Delayed Emergence
The upcoming weekend rainfall (our meteorologists seem assured that it’ll be widespread) should greatly help parts of Virginia that are short on or getting short of topsoil moisture and position […]
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