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Near Lansing, MI | Maybe I wasn't clear on exactly what I was thinking.
I'm not thinking a "boost" during grain fill for added bushels, but getting the things out of the ground and some vegetative growth going early in the year so they can start absorbing sunlight. We plant no till / fall VT so the ground is cool and moist and covered with corn trash. Our best beans are almost always the earliest planted.
This year they were 6" tall for a month, they took forever to start nodulation. The beans on beans were doing much better, because they could pull a little N from the soil and keep growing in the poor weather. The stunted beans after corn we weak and couldn't take advantage of the scant sunlight we got.
I was thinking 5 gal per acre of 28% in the spray water to give 15lbs of in right at planting to "wake the ground up" and help the microbes start eating corn residue.
If nothing else I'll do half a field or something.
The neighbours that hit the stalks twice with a joker had much better beans, but I'm not exactly a fan of disking up the ground any more than necessary. | |
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add 28% pre spray on soybeans
