Seeing is believing of what intensified management can do!
Current Happenings
Find about recent activities of the University of Illinois Crop Physiology Laboratory including current observations from the field. read more.....
Going to Commodity Classic 2020?
Hear Fred Below Saturday, February 29, 2020 8:15 AM on
Need for Narrow: The Future of Corn Production
Vogel, A.M. and F.E. Below. 2019. Residue and agronomic management to reduce the continuous corn yield penalty. Agronomy 9, 567. doi:10.3390/agronomy9100567
Butts-Wilmsmeyer, C.J., J.R. Seebauer, L. Singleton, and F.E. Below. 2019. Weather during key growth stages explains grain quality and yield of maize. Agronomy 9 (1) 16. doi:10.3390/agronomy9010016
Mastrodomenico, A.T., M.O. Bohn, A.E. Lipka, and F.E. Below. 2019. Genomic selection using maize ex-plant variety protection germplasm for the prediction of nitrogen-use traits. Crop Sci. (in press). doi: 10.2135/cropsci2018.06.0398
6 Secrets of Soybean Success: What five years of research has taught us. SPECIAL REPORT.pdf
Vogel, A.M., and F.E. Below. 2018. Hybrid Selection and Agronomic Management to Lessen the Continuous Corn Yield Penalty. Agronomy 8 (10) 228.
Corn Research
Learn about our research on the management and physiology of high yield corn and sustainable production systems:
- Seven Wonders of the Corn Yield World
Metric Version .pdf (NEW!)
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Soybean Research
What is the physiology of soybean, and how can we increase yields?
- The Six Secrets of Soybean Success- overview
- The Six Secrets of Soybean Success- results
- Soybean High-Yield Management
- 2019 Report .pdf
2018 Report Full: Yield and Characterizations .pdf
(2017 Report Part 1: Yield .pdf)
(2017 Report Part 2: Characterizations .pdf)
(2016 Report .pdf)
Soybean nutrient uptake and partitioning