The biological process of fixing atmospheric nitrogen and converting it into a form that the plant can use is sensitive to low soil moisture. Now, research is underway to accurately identify soybean lines that continue to fix nitrogen even when the weather turns dry.

The latest genetics from DEKALB offer farmers the ability to choose the soybean seed that best suits their agronomic requirements.

This nationwide, five-year study is providing farmers with a better handle on current and emerging root diseases in soybeans.

Season after season, DEKALB seed controls the diseases that are threatening farmers’ yields. Through amazing yields, incredible storms and getting the last acre of seed in before the weather turns, DEKALB has been there for farmers for over a hundred years. And that’s not about to change anytime soon.

Two-spotted spider mites are small – very small, at one fiftieth of an inch or so in length – but mighty. And symptoms in soybeans can pass for drought damage or early senescence.

In this episode of Inputs, Owen Wally, research scientist with Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, discusses how sudden death syndrome and soybean cyst nematode start below the surface but lead to above-ground impacts to soybean yield and economic returns.