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It’s Time to Start Increasing Soybean Seeding Rates
Small grains are maturing rapidly and soybean planting will soon follow. While there is little benefit to having more than 70 to 80 thousand uniformly-spaced soybean plants per acre when planted in...
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Do we need to bump up our soybean seeding rates?
It’s hard to believe, but June is here and we need to start thinking about increasing our soybean seeding rates. I’ve been recommending only 100 to 115 thousand seeds per acre for full-season...
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Soybean Seeding Rates – How Low Can We Go?
It seems that everything that you read about soybean seeding rates is that we are planting too many seed. In general, I agree – at least for full-season soybean. We still seem to have that mindset...
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Soybean Seeding rates for June and Later
Due to the rainy weather over the past two weeks, we are still planting full-season soybean in some areas. In addition, it appears that wheat harvest is not far off (some wheat at the Tidewater AREC...
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Greater Yields are Possible for Double-Crop Soybean in 2017!
It appears that wheat harvest will be 1 to 2 weeks ahead of schedule this year. We actually harvested some high-moisture wheat and planted soybean plots behind it today (May 31) in northeast N.C....
View ArticleSoybean Planting Dates, Seeding Rates, Re-planting, Weeds, etc.
June is usually the time of the year when full season soybean is kicking into high gear and we begin planting double-crop soybean. And like always, various issues are beginning to arise, whether its...
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Wet Soils, Poor Stands – Do I Replant?
The decision of whether or not to replant arises every year; however, the wet soil conditions seem to have worsened the problem this year. There of course will be areas that the decision is easy –...
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Full-Season Soybean Seeding Rates: Maximize Your Yield and Reduce Your Risks
In general, high seed costs have resulted in a reduction in the number of soybean seed planted per acre. For our full-season production system, most have reduced their seeding rate to 140,000 or less....
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Full-Season Soybean Planting Dates, Maturity Groups, Seeding Rates, and Seed...
Best Planting Dates & Maturity Groups (MG). If you’ve seen some of my presentations in the past, the best maturity groups will largely depend on location, but also on field productivity. Still, we...
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Seeding Rates for Late-Planted Soybean
The cool and wetter weather earlier in the month has delayed some soybean planting into June. In addition, some cotton growers have switched to soybean due to the same reason. The question that came...
View ArticlePlanting Tips for Profitable Double-Crop Soybean
Before I get into tips for soybean, I must emphasize one must focus on the entire double-crop wheat-soybean system. Both crops must contribute to profit; one crop cannot carry the other. You will...
View ArticleSoybean Planting Tips
Many may have already planted. Some have stopped planting other crops such and peanut and cotton due to cool soils and started planting soybean instead. Regardless, an advantage of soybean is that it...
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