This "Cool Bean" blog features agronomic insights about soybean planting date, seeding rate, pre-herbicide timing and seed treatment recommendations.

In a continued effort to support the American farmer, Direct Enterprises, Inc. announced  the official launch of Reclaim, an industry-leading biological technology designed to improve soil health while simultaneously aiding in crop residue breakdown and nutrient release timing.

The new soybean seed treatment pre-mix from Syngenta, CruiserMaxx APX provides the highest level of performance of Pythium and Phytophthora protection. Every seed is granted the same amount of active ingredients to help prevent major seed-borne diseases and early-season insects and give the soybeans every opportunity to thrive.

Vice President of Production Strategy Aaron Kelley details the growth that NewLeaf Symbiotics has achieved over the past few years, while expanding their seed treatment product lines. Their new offerings include the biological product line, Terrasym, microbial inoculants which use a pink pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs) also known as M-trophs, to benefit crops in a multitude of ways from planting to harvest.

Legion Bio Chem recently announced the launch of its newest product, EnduraSeed, adding to the EnduraGro biologicals product line. Legion’s GroWell Solutions include FasGro starter fertilizers, ZenaGro micronutrients, FortiGro foliar nutrients and EnduraGro microorganisms and bio-stimulants.  

If we could predict or know that the planting season during 2014 would be like it was in 2012 (the dry spring), then we would say don't treat your seed at all. But if the season is like this past year, wet, the combinations of seed treatments did a much better job and at the higher rates. There have been lots of questions over the past few days on what fungicides to apply; what rates to use; and are insecticides always necessary. Here we try to parse it all out for you.