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Maryville, MO | It’s more than just variety
1) need to fully identify if it’s SDS. Send plants off to a lab and get it checked to make sure.
2) variety is important, there’s no arguing that. However, field history and farm enterprise history are worth noting also. Is this something you’ve had issues with on this field before? What about all of your acres.
3) treat for SDS. Honest to goodness, Victrato is like $11/ac. Saltro and Ilevo are roughly $9/ac. If you farm 1000 acres of soybeans, you’re talking $9000-$11000. Do the math - $11,000 / $11/bu soy = 1000 bu. 1000 bu / 60 bu/ac = 16.6667 acres. That’s not a lot considering 1000 acres of soybeans (just as an example). If you go with Saltro or Ilevo, it drops to 13.63 acres. Early treatment helps, there’s nothing that can be done in season to help.
3) pair your seed treatment with a strong variety. I have had great luck with Stine soybeans over the years. They have lots of options. That said, I had a 2.8 Stine bean get smacked hard with SDS last year; it’ll never be on this farm ever again. The 2.9 variety 1 mile down the road and the same soil type hung 18 bu/ac on it, and had 0 SDS. Planted within 12 hours of each other, same seed treatment, same weather, same soils.
There’s other considerations, but there are a TON of beans that get planted in April here. The vast majority have no SDS. We get 34”/yr rainfall, and it always seems like half of that comes between April 1 and July 1. Early planting seems to pay almost 100% of the time for us. Use a high quality treatment, add Saltro or Ilevo or Victrato, and find the right varieties, and you’ll be fine
P.S. - check the areas that are most affected for SCN and drainage issues. | |
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