The way we use soybeans always scares me but our yields are always pretty good.....
Under sprinkler irrigation,,,, Hobby says we waist a little seed,,, drilled in 10 inch spacing,,,,, 200K... planted in late May normally stay green until mid Oct. longer season varieties usually 4-4.6---- this one was a 3.4 for some odd reason...
Thicker to hold sandy top soil in winter winds..then notil back to corn the next spring.... good soil below....low organic..high K
These got good water.... half mile sprinkler,,,, 1500 gal/min with 183 acres beans and 183 acres corn...
Corn gets favored until peak use in early August ----- Corn 1.25 inches every 6 days,,,, beans 4/10 every 6 days....and rainfall(this year rain in may and June, dry and hot in Aug/sept.)
then beans get favored water Aug/Sept... 1.5 inches every 6 days.
beans curl up and struggle in heat but seem to like it more than corn does... They definitely get stressed early.... some fields been as low as 1/4 inch every 5 days Until corn use peaks....
if we have less water for them we get 45-55. But if we can get good water (one inch/5 days) to them late we get 60-80... 70 not uncommon...
This field will have 226 corn and 70 beans......corn done, beans this next week will get the other 120 acres in the bin. If we planted 366(full acres) to corn yield would be 180+- depending on rain help.
As ks looses good water we see more beans in areas.... The market is not good here--- basis -70 or lower elevator, corn +20
but they have been a tougher crop than I expected....... had them for 10-15 years now....
closest crusher is 220 miles one way...
Problem for us is we can't spread harvest out enough to have sizeable acres planted...the harvest window is small in our dry and windy climate...
