I’m not sure if it was a side effect of all the political ads or COVID-19 fatigue, but writer’s block has had me in a headlock lately. Luckily for me, editor Rod Swoboda came to the rescue, by asking what interesting questions have come up this fall. Suddenly, the challenge was trying to narrow down the focus since harvest generates a lot of good questions!

I received this interesting question from a farmer recently. “Our soybean yields on a newly rented farm were way off from what we expected in 2020. What is the first thing we can do to help improve yield? We have the farm rented for two more years. The landowner isn't sure when it was soil-tested the last time.”