By Sherry Collins – Progressive Farmer. Ronnie Sloan knows firsthand that a lot of effort goes into picking the right hybrids. “It takes me a month to make my final decisions,” says the farmer near Assumption, Ill.
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The Great Lakes performance in the 2006 F.I.R.S.T. Trials has been posted. Click here to download the PDF of our our outstanding achievements!

Just wanted to pass along the latest on soybean aphid over-wintering.
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Here’s the latest from the home of Joe Pa!
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Here’s four more FIRST soybean summaries. Only one remains (Illinois South).
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Here’s the final FIRST Summaries from Indiana, Ohio, NCTS and Michigan!
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Just wanted to pass along the latest on soybean aphid over-wintering. Bob O’Neill and Dave Voegtlin (the fellow who runs the suction trap network at Univ of IL) did their annual fall buckthorn survey at the end of October.
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Extension Update is a weekly summary of news from Extension, government, and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management, and other issues that are of interest to Midwestern farm owners and operators.
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