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Boyd, WI | I hear you, Mark. It's been relatively dry up here in WC WI, but I've got a lot of lodged beans too. They're mostly on my group 1.2's and some 1.4 conventionals. I'm not sure why they're so big, but most are at least chest high, and still flowering like crazy. Annually we can average a little better than 50 bu on all non-irrigated ground.
I learned last year that counting pods, beans, etc isn't all that accurate. With a pile of aphids last year, my beans sprayed with insecticide yielded a much larger seed than those not treated. Needless to say, with the dry and heat this year, I felt good running them down to kill a pile of aphids again, along with a big crop of grasshoppers.
I hope you're right on the 75bpa, as other years wherever the beans were 4'+ we would spike up to 70 or 80 on the combine monitor. I too have a stand at 200 to 210 thousand ppa on 7" spacing. Apparently too much for some varieties? | |
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5 foot tall soybeans, 75 bpa?
