4 more days of planting I think. Maybe 5. Just gotta keep wheels turning
2025 field work
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Yes. They’ll have to be willing to spend some money.
Yeah that’s the only thing we’ve come up with. Kicker is, that was supposed to be the variety with a better emergence score lol.
We’ve been planting beans in early April for the past 5 years with great results. Beans seem to handle the stress better, especially with treatment. Plus I’d rather lose population with beans than corn. Trying to have the beans flowering before the summer solstice.
Only thing we’ve come up with is the variety. Planted in the middle of our planting window and they’re the only ones not up.
North Central Iowa here. IMO I would plant corn April 12 instead. At least get past April 15. Drainage needs to be ideal.
I just don’t like putting corn through a tough day if I can help it. Usually try to hold off until the soil is warm enough and staying that way.
Heard some places got a fast inch. That isn’t going to be great for freshly planted fields. Hope crusting isn’t too bad
Yeah that’s what we’re looking into currently
IMO if the conditions are too tough to plant corn then soybeans won’t really fare any better. I would park the planter.
I had 1 round left in a field when it came down pretty good, I needed to get more beans so decided not to get everything all muddy and called it a day
Hearing ugly emergence issues with way early planted soybeans. Friend had agronomist take a look and expected a 12,000 stand. We have an alfalfa field that was seeded last year, 50% stand and I mean half the field is OK and the other half has no alfalfa at all. The orchard grass even looks sickly yellow. We had very cold weather this winter with no snow cover and I wonder if that’s what hammered the stand.
Only condition that wasn’t great was the temp. Gotta get the beans in early. That’s what the data suggest.
Soybeans are generally planted in mid April late April here. That’s early enough. Eliminates a lot of the emergence problems that you seem to be experiencing. Corn was planted here April 12 instead of soybeaans. That corn is absolutely perfect. Stopped planting on Wednesday April 16. For several days and let the cold front coming through so corn could get 48 hours of adequate soil temp to prevent imbibing. That works here. So if you have a stand of 110,000 are you going to leave it?
If your final stand is 110,000 you should absolutely let it be. I have customers that plant lower seeding rates than that. Have a handful of guys that have fields with terrible white mold history. They are planting at 100-110,000 in those areas of heaviest pressure
Here's the 2 weeks after planting at Ames. My not near informed enough opinion is that you should be questioning the seed quality and variety. Possibly planting depth, technique and field condition.
OOPS!! My source will only give me DSM, not CIA (Ames), so probably way off for temps and rain.
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