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june 17th planted soybeans... oh boy. I'm in trouble?

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John_PA

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Here's a shot of June 17th planted soybeans. Let us hope I do not get a frost...

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Not sure if the beans will do any good. I have June 30th beans that are barely knee high. I see pods, but none are filled yet. If I get an early frost, I just planted a very expensive 55 acre garden!


Does this look ok for late planted beans? maturity group 2.7 through 2.9... should I just plow them down? how many pods per plant define the yield? They are 3 bean pods. I just am not a soybean person. I don't know what they do to calculate yield based on plant pods. I got a few 2 bean pods, but they are all still flat, no pod filling, just the outline of the bean in the pod... same as the 3 bean pods. Let us all pray for a very late frost. I took this pic today. I still have flowers on the plants. I'm just getting uneasy. This is really late. I don't know how you double crop guys stand the stress. $60 a bag, bag and a quarter per acre, 32 ounces round-up per acre. full chisel plow tillage with $4 diesel.... I figured that I need 18 bushel per acre to break even, assuming $10.50 beans.


any soy guys want to give me some pointers? thanks!
 
I would quit worrying about them just harvest when they are matured then you will know if it was a good deal hard to tell what kind of a fall you will have.
 
I planted some in central MI last year about that same time. They went 50 bu so I would not worry yet. I have about 100 acres this year that were planted around the 10th to the 15th of June look good so far.
 
There is a field on the corner planted the third of July. This is in Northwest Ohio. We need rain! Quite a few beans planted around the 15th of June here.
 
When I was about 10 dad planted corn and beans
together to make silage. He only did it a few
years. It was a nightmare chopping.

If we had corn that wasn't going to produce a good
yeild we made silage out of it.

I've never heard of anyone making hay out of
beans. Is that possible? Silage?

Until recently, I've never heard baling corn
stocks, but I actually saw a farmer do it.
 
Beans have a good way of making up for lost time. My beans were planted in early May and they are filling pods. The re plants were planted July 13 and they are just starting to bloom but do look very healthy. I'm in northwest Iowa.
 
They look good, it all depends on when the killing frost comes. I would plow them under if the frost kills them to early, they make great green manure.
 
beans go by the length of day. beans look fine and will make it. whatever you do, do not plow them under. the old green manure wives tale is just that! if you need more data start ding some checking in on 'covercrops'
 
There are some BTO's in Pa. who plant beans later than yours and have great success with them.
Don't worry about things you can't change, like an early frost.
 
The beans look nice and flush so I would wait until a killing frost before I made a move. As others have noted beans make a good plow down crop or have been used as ensilage. Just let them grow for now.
 
I would agree with no plow down on normal situation, but if they are not mature at killing frost I would do it.
 
All the beans look like that around here (North Eastern Ontario). Don"t do anything unless they freeze off. If they do freeze off you can make silage with them. The guys here cut and bale it and wrap the bales. I have never used it so I don"t know what it"s like. Ours were planted by the 1st of June but we will likely get frost way before you do. People here have gone to soybeans in a big way because swede midge has made Canola very unprofitable. There is going to be a lot of pain around here if we get an early frost.
 
Look like all the beans around here. We plant 1.6 to 2.3 beans
around here mostly.

Lot of beans were planted July 4th, I have 10 acres, some July
10th even.

Average frost is around October 1st here, would think you
have longer?

Beans adjust to the amount of sunlight, as days get shorter
they shut down and mature. Let them do their thing.

So, what's the problem? ;)

Paul
 
Like the one other poster told you beans mature by the length of the DAY not days in the ground. June 15th. Is not that late. August and Sept. is when soybeans GROW and fill pods. YOU should have flowers and pods forming in the top. They start at the bottom and work their way up. You should have pods filling towards the bottom of each plant.

Your in PA not MN. You have at least 30-45 days before any frost and I bet longer than that for a killing frost/freeze. It takes a HARD frost/freeze to kill the plant to where it will not finish filling the pods.

You may have some top pods that do not get filled but I have that on beans that are planted in April.

Most soybeans are a non determined plant. Meaning they grow until the day gets shorter. There are soybeans that are determined plants. They grow more like corn in that they do mature relative to the days planted. These type of beans are usually planted in the south.

So just watch something else and quit worrying about them. I will be that they do fine. They look healthy.
 
Are you serious? If I seen a lush bean crop around here like that I'd say it would be the best I've seen in a 100 mile radius from me here in NW Wisconsin. The crops around here are pathetic except for a few lucky ones who had sandy ground to get in the crops in on a normal schedule. With all the rain we had I couldn't even pick rock for fear of burying the tractor. Never seen such a tough spring & summer for farming here. It was an absolute miracle to get my hay baled with no rain on it but it's junk anyway because it's over matured but at least it's more valuable than cornstalks.
 
There is a field of beans planted in mid June a half mile from me that are so water logged they are barely 6 inches high yet. Don't know that much about beans, but I'd wager you'll be okay. The field next to me, however, hasn't got a chance.
 
They look the same as here, and its only the last few years I've ever seen soybeans planted anywhere in this area. Some of the corn got washed out last year and the large operator in this town, replanted in beans, so far the crops looked to have done well and some where definitely planted around the same time.
 
Beans have a later surge. If the leaves have not turned yellow they are still producing. An El Nino year is expected to bring a warmer, wetter (and slightly later?) winter.
 
Last year we had a wet spring and didn't finish planting beans until June 15th here in west central Iowa. They were a late group 2 variety, normal maturity for this area and made mid 40's for yield. Combined them with everything else. You should be fine.
 
I don't think I'd worry too much, John. I'm on the
Mason Dixon and we usually figure that July 20th is
the last day for short season beans behind wheat.
They don't usually yield as much,, and don't get
much height. But, you're a month ahead of that, and
those beans don't look bad at all.....
 
Bean stover baled happens yet, silage happens an the killing frost leftovers in field sometimes. Used to be common on fenced in general farms for cows or hogs, sheep to glean fields after harvest or do the harvesting direct in case of weather killed crops. Hogs will finish a downed bean field and get fat. Frost killed bean field will dry on the stalk and can be combined when dried a bit- have some shattered pod loss but still get fair yield in most cases. RN
 
I wouldn't worry at all about them. Rain now will help fill those
pods. You never know about beans sometime. I had the worst
looking 90 acre field during the drought, just terrible. Caught a
couple rains when I thought it would be too late, still made 52.
 
if frost comes too soon, cut them for silage or mix with cornsilage, cows love it. think you could bale them also, but havent tried it. after frost you have about a day to cut before the leaves fall off.
 
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