Why 15 or 21 row beans?

Fritz Maurer · Aug 5, 2012

All this looks like this would do is cut down the yield. I saw this on my 5100 I.H. drill sowing chart. How is this useful? Thanks, Fritz

Fritz Maurer · Aug 6, 2012

15" or 21". The inches got lost somewhere.

paul · Aug 6, 2012

15 inch can be a little better than 30 inch beans, certainly better than drilled beans.

All depends on how much white mold you get, your weed pressures, and your moisture.

No one way is right for everyone, but I'm sure happy with the 16 inch planted beans I've been doing the past 10 years or so. Sooner canopy than a 30 inch row would give, but not the white mold or population problems a drill would give.

--->Paul

JMS/.MN · Aug 6, 2012

Rows that width, in some soil conditions, would reduce the damage from white mold......in 7 inch rows. 21 inch rows would also allow cultivating with proper equipment and tire widths. Like the beet farmers that plant, cultivate, harvest 22 inch rows, running 14 inch wide tall tires on sprayers and tractors. (google Kelgten tall tires).

Curt Cooke · Aug 6, 2012

Here's my reason for 21". I spray my own beans and have but a 26' sprayer and I have to markers. With 21" rows, I can spray my beans without running over any of them. I can count rows so that I know where to come back with the sprayer and thus, not miss anything and there's no guess and by golly while spraying.

buickanddeere · Aug 6, 2012

Divides into 3

Harold H · Aug 6, 2012

Does anybody still use 38" or 40" for beans and corn anymore.

Why 15 or 21 row beans?

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