Managing Late-Season Soybean Crops: Strategies for Maximizing Yields
24 Aug 243m 20s

Matt discusses the strategies for managing a second crop of soybeans planted in July. The goal for this crop is a 50-bushel yield, a challenge given the late planting.

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00:00 Where we're at today, this afternoon is in the double planted soybeans that we planted after the crop we planted in February. 00:06 So when you're managing a crop like this, the first crop we managed for a 90 bushel Yugo, this second crop we're gonna manage 00:12 for a 50 bushel yugo, you know, 50. I think stretching it a little bit based on our, you know, research before about 40 ones of the most we've ever made. 00:20 Right? So, you know, you've been instrumental in our soybean yields and, and you know, we packed on bushels, we packed on seed, 00:26 you know, seed size, uh, a lot of four bean pods, five bean pods at times. You know, all those things impact 00:32 soybean yield to get the higher yield. Now we're looking at a crop that's planted on July the 22nd. What's our plan gonna be here? 00:38 Alright, so the plant in a lot of ways doesn't change from say what we've been doing in March, planted beans right across the road, 00:46 or the February beans that were right here, you're still going to need to keep the plant running. And one said nutrient that does that is potassium. 00:56 So you're K fuel bio okay. Type products. And if you look at this soil type here, sandy ground chalky, you're, I guarantee I, 01:07 and I don't know this for a fact, but I bet you're still gonna need a few select micronutrients. 01:13 Absolutely. And when you get to the end of the sea and get into flowering things like boron and manganese, molly, things that keep the plant running, 01:24 things that aid in photosynthetic capacity, basically you want to try to keep the plant healthy because it's, you know, 01:32 a hundred degrees today and that's a challenge. Yeah. And, and the thing about, I think about, you know, even if it's a double crop wheat bean, 01:39 you know, planted in June, right? What we've gotta do is get the bean as tall as we can, as fast as we can and get it into 01:46 reproductive as quick as we can. Right. To get the day link from there. Correct. So if we're going, you know, for a 50 bushel yield goal, 01:53 will we, we, we change our rates or we stay with the same rates, will we do the same rates and just do less amounts of, we use K Fuel, you know, 02:01 on about every application we go on, whether it's through the knockout product that you make, or whether it's just straight K fuel, 02:06 we're putting some kind of potassium acetate, you know, product on there, either coupled with a nitrogen or without the nitrogen. 02:12 Right. And in this situation, will there be any changes you think there'll be any changes on what we do there? 02:17 I don't know that, uh, the change in rates per se are really that big a difference. I mean, instead of going, you know, say a two gallons of a 02:27 K fuel or a knockout, okay, maybe cut it in half to one, depending on what the environment 02:32 and weather situation is, you're gonna need some help on any double planted crop. You're gonna need some help from mother nature. Right. 02:38 Uh, you know, natural rainfall, uh, cool nighttime temperatures, which is hard to come by, but you're gonna need a little help. 02:46 Micros. I mean, they're at small rates anyway, and people typically don't apply them in the proper amount, so I would leave those alone. 02:54 Yeah. So basically we'll go with the same plan as far as our micronutrients and our regular nutrients. Yeah, we'll go the same plan with the herbicides. 03:01 We just expect a little bit less yield because of the difference in the daily. Right. That's about it. 03:05 So guys, you heard it from one of the bean specialists that, that helps us on our farm on a daily basis with, 03:10 with what we got going on. So stay tuned, we'll see how these go and keep you abreast with 'em the whole time.

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