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...
View ArticleSoybean Replant Decisions
Deciding whether or not to replant can be a gut-retching decision. I readily admit that the choice to leave the present stand or replant is not a simple one. With the cost of seed and diesel fuel,...
View ArticleSoybean 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...
View ArticleSoybean 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...
View ArticleSteps to Estimate the Profitability of Replanting Soybean
Determining whether or not to replant is hard. To ease the pain, I’ve summarized some relatively simple steps to help in your decision. One should incorporate 2- to 3-foot gaps into your decision to...
View ArticleWet 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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