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Ne Nebraska | The rye cover may have kept the ground cooler holding the beans back in growth stage all year. This year I had a similar situation with a different reasoning for the results. Last fall I bales off the stalks on a field, but didn’t bale the whole field. This spring made one pass aggressive with landoll vt before planting soybeans into it. You could tell all season the beans where it was baled and ground was mostly bare, those beans emerged faster and grew faster, during post spray late June could easily see a 4” height difference. Now late in the season the beans in the bare dirt turned yellow before the area with no stalks baled, visible to the row where I quit baling. That ground cover had to have slowed germination and early growth due to cooler soil temps. Don’t have any pics saved unfortunately. So maybe bare dirt vs ground cover is resulting in differing soil temps and germination/early growth speeds is causing later maturity in the one. | |
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anyone care to guess
