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Dec 21, 2017
If insects infest your soybean fields, you have options for control. If your crop is suffering from potassium deficiency, you can correct that. But if your fields aren’t getting enough rain or are facing other weather-related stresses, unless you are irrigating, you have much less of an ability to respond.
“You are at the mercy of what Mother Nature provides you,” says Tommy Carter, Ph.D., research geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS). “In those cases where you don’t have management options, the best thing to turn to is getting better genetics into the soybean and using that to control the problem of drought, heat or flood.”
Click here to read more from our partners at the United Soybean Board.
