Variety selection is one of the most important decisions a soybean farmer makes that will contribute to profitability, yet it is also one of the hardest. As soybean growers face razor-thin margins ...

Planting soybeans early continues to gain in popularity due to the yield-boosting potential of faster canopy closure, increased plant nodes, higher pod retention and more. However, risks do exist.

Over the typical two-year rotation of corn and soybeans most Iowa farmers use, 40% of nitrous oxide emissions are in the soybean year, according to a new study by an Iowa State University research ...

Climate change may bring a strange twist to one of the world’s most important crops. A new study suggests that soybeans exposed to higher carbon dioxide, hotter temperatures, and drought could produce ...

In efforts to better understand how soybean plants capture and use light, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign investigated how leaf size and shape affect light distribution ...