2025 field work

[geewago]

Where is this?

20 miles south of Waco TX

 

[Die4Cy]

20 miles south of Waco TX

When did you get that in the ground?

 

[geewago]

When did you get that in the ground?

I think this field was planted on February 24th. We try to plant between Feb 20 and March 5th. If we get held out of the field till the last week in March we seldom do any good here. It gets too hot in June to make corn unless it just rains every week. A few wheat patches have been cut already.

 

[dafarmer]

All I know is beans can’t stand a freeze, corn growing point below ground will. Although on the ground will pretty much kill all. Mostly the BTO’s around here put in beans first, mainly to cover all the acres they farm.

 

[Stormin]

All I know is beans can’t stand a freeze, corn growing point below ground will. Although on the ground will pretty much kill all. Mostly the BTO’s around here put in beans first, mainly to cover all the acres they farm.

Planting soybeans into a tall cover crop would make a difference. And would skew results versus soybeans planted into sparse residue in field cultivated ground. That needs to be considered.

 

[Iastfan112]

Soybean stands a little worse than I'd like for our stuff planted end of April into early May. Dry, hot weather caused some crusting. Not too bad in the main part of the field but some of the ends where there was more traffic looks rough.

 

[Stormin]

Soybean stands a little worse than I'd like for our stuff planted end of April into early May. Dry, hot weather caused some crusting. Not too bad in the main part of the field but some of the ends where there was more traffic looks rough.

Soybeans likely in dry dirt. It will rain and it will fill in.

 

[JEFF420]

Watermelon trials went in well (southern Indiana)

 

[Hoggins]

Great day to power wash a planter as long as you stay up wind

 

[NWICY]

All my corn fields are rowable and beans are pushing through but not quite rowable tomorrow or Sat. I don't feel too bad about missing the early April window.

 

[Stormin]

All my corn fields are rowable and beans are pushing through but not quite rowable tomorrow or Sat. I don't feel too bad about missing the early April window.

Early April corn is ready to spray. Things are growing fast. Need a rain.

 

[Iastfan112]

Days like this past one really show why I'm not a fan of rolling ground. You get the big winds and those fields just blow like crazy.

 

[Stormin]

With the cold fronts moving in. Watch temperatures and forecast. Maybe not spray for a week

 

[Turn2]

Watermelon trials went in well (southern Indiana)

Seedling transplants? Holy crap, that has to be fun.

 

[Turn2]

Great day to power wash a planter as long as you stay up wind

You don't power wash after each field?!? With SCN and such I'm surprised it isn't a company mandate.

 

[JEFF420]

Seedling transplants? Holy crap, that has to be fun.

It’s not bad. Planting is much easier than harvest and eval

 

[JEFF420]

Small plot sweet corn trial (bicolor) installed in Collinsville IL. Now I get to drive 8 hours home!

 

[Hoggins]

You don't power wash after each field?!? With SCN and such I'm surprised it isn't a company mandate.

Never have in almost 20 years of plots at ISU and Pioneer. Never seen a problem either

 

[Turn2]

Never have in almost 20 years of plots at ISU and Pioneer. Never seen a problem either

While often ignored or impractical, it WAS policy in some places ~1990ish. No, you would not see a failure. SCN is almost ubiquitous now so, probably no biggie. Never had a cooperator mention it.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

You don't power wash after each field?!? With SCN and such I'm surprised it isn't a company mandate.

I think that cleaning equipment would help. But there are things that can’t stop the spread. Wind, 4 legged critters. And a few things I will leave unsaid.