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NEMO | Since he did a corn plot, I told my son he might as well do a soybean test plot also for his FFA SAE project. I think his advisor at the time was more excited about it than my son. Lol. Unfortunately, that advisor moved on to a better job teaching FFA in a larger school and my son sure misses him.
Like most bean plots yield comes down to maturity and when the rains hit. I feel like the late September rain helped the longer season beans just a little as they weren't quite ready to cut yet when it did finally rain. Except the shortest season bean did come in second!
BURRUS and our regional rep. Jake donated the Burrus and Don Mario beans except the 4134E bean that came out of our seed shed. The 3.2 through 3.9 from Burrus would of had an extra treatment for SDS, but being planted the end of May, I don't think it mattered. The 4134E bean used as a check would of had the regular Burrus seed treatment without the extra SDS treatment.
The Pioneer bean had a regular insecticide/fungicide treatment. Thanks to the Nelson's for the donation.
LG Seed had the AgriShield Max treatment. Thanks to LG rep Brad for the beans. I forgot to mention in the corn post that Brad also came out after the corn was up and gave my son a hands on agronomy corn lesson in the field. So a special Thanks to Brad!
The Don Mario line of beans has been a stellar product the last few years. With any new number that shows a lot of promise one year, the next year can present some challenges. Well the 36E94 bean fell on its face this spring. It came up fine but shortly after it turned yellow and was visually noticable from the road on a couple fields we had it in. Excess rain didn't help it and it exhibited symptoms related to Iron chlorosis (I hope I got that right). Even though it grew out of it the damage resulted in a 5 bushel loss on yield.
This rough lesson shows the reason to add new varieties slowly into a lineup, or to have a good diverse package of multiple varieties. We try not to plant more the 25% of our acres to any one bean or corn number. I've often been tempted to push a certain variety or number to 30 or 40% of the acres but I know that 15 to 20% is more ideal, especially on a new release. So this has been a good reminder.
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Son's FFA SoybeanTest Plot Results - Burrus/Pioneer/LG
