by BERNARD TOBIN
Whenever you plant soybeans no-till into first-time soybean ground, there’s a high probability that nodulation will not take place. That’s a message that agronomist Paul Sullivan preaches every spring.
It certainly was a key point for Kelvin, an Ottawa area grower who converted a long-time hay and pasture farm to soybeans in the spring of 2011. In his conversations with Kelvin, Sullivan emphasized the need for scouting first-time soybean fields in early July and checking the roots for nodulation.