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SC Kansas | The last couple years we've been planting 4.5-4.9 maturity beans. What would planting 3.5-3.9's do for yield? Does a longer maturity give you more potential like with corn? How much difference in maturity is there between a 3.5 and a 4.5? |
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Southern Missouri | We’re a typically 4.1 to 5.1 area ,a few years ago started being a lot of 3.5 maturity planted here, we’re kind of hard to model after because of everything in this area is precision leveled and furrow irrigated, the biggest difference we see in the two maturity ranges is you can not let the fast maturing varieties hurt any at all especially during their vegetative period which only lasts an incredibly short period here as they start blooming very fast, we have our irrigation in place by the time they are half knee high and don’t hesitate to run the water down the furrows. We typically start harvest of the 3.5 varieties the first of September, we plant about half our soybeans in 3.5 and then plant the other half in 4.8 varieties, we pick our corn in between the two maturity ranges . The 3.5s are in full bloom swing around the longest day of the year which we like, they also don’t seem nearly as susceptible to nearly all the soybean production problems as far as nematodes all the way to the fungal diseases. We are very guilty here of turning the water on to everything we grow as soon as it looks like it might like a drink, our water table is very plentiful and very cheaply pumped and once we lay out the flexible tubing there’s virtually no maintenance outside the turbine pump and energy source for it , electrical or diesel , so we don’t hesitate to turn the water on and some times we probably hurt the late maturing beans by growing them too tall, you don’t have that issue with the short season varietal, they won’t get too tall. We plant twin rows on top of 38 inch wide beds effectively giving us 19 inch row spacing population, hope this helps , just how it is here . |
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Cherokee iowa | Would you mind me asking what aph is on them 3.5 bean with irrigation? Understand if do. |
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Southern Missouri | March planted 3.5 s , 2021 were low 80s, 2022 were upper 60s, 2023 were lower 80s,
The late group 4s were 2021 upper 70s, 2022 low 60s, 2023 mid 70s
We can’t plant the early maturity varieties on all our acres as corn gets in the way and we also plant double crop soybeans behind wheat and they nearly have to be full season varieties. Since we’ve started doing it this way we have an easier time waiting on our corn to dry down to about 20 percent before we quit the beans and jump into the corn ,everyone’s operation is different but so far we like having the 3.5 s involved |
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Cherokee iowa | very interesting other parts of the states. thanks for sharing. Not much double crop here. |
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| Morningdew - 12/1/2023 14:05
very interesting other parts of the states. thanks for sharing. Not much double crop here.
Any double cropping here involves taking at least one of them for cattle feed, usually both.
The growing season just isn’t long enough to take 2 crops to maturity and most years there isn’t enough water either.
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Stoddard Co. SEMO | Don’t know zactley where you’re at, Slough but I’m NW of Dexter and only 1/3 of my acres are ridge till, with the other 2/3’s being on Crowley’s ridge. What variety of bean are you planting in the 4.5? I typically plant, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8 XtendFlex Pioneer. This year my early May planted 4.8’s really shined, with yields around 68bpa. The 4.7’s were good as well but I had alot of them on hills and between the drought and deer they took a hit. The 4.6’s and 4.5’s were the weakest but the same factors were at play with them. Gonna try some group 5 DynaGrow flex beans, this coming year. |
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Cherokee iowa | Got 500 bags of 1.7 stiens today. Most bags of all the numbers we plant. |
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NCKS | I've been told for good irrigated yields plant short season early. I don't have a lot of experience with irrigated beans but our best ever were 3.6s and our gravy range is 3.7-4.1 on dryland.
I've tried to go longer on dryland, but after 4.3 take a nose dive here. They finish, but just don't yield.
The long season beans may fill later into the fall but the shorts start earlier when the days are longer. I haven't messed with short season much because I don't like it to interfere with corn harvest. |
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Soybean Maturity selection
