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| Ed, while you're contemplating these matters, let me throw another curve into the mix.....last year, I had some irrigated what, intending to double crop with beans. Well, we had rain during wheat harvest, and and other complications, and I didn't get to planting those beans until about the 7-8 of July. Already had some short III's ordered for that location, but due to the lateness, and his experience, the seed rep suggested some group V's that he had. So I planted most of a circle to them....ran out of seed, and finished up with about 10 acres of the original III's. My crop consultant nearly came unhinged.......
Well, we were fortunate that we did not encounter any early frost--actual frost probably was a week or so after "average" date, but those group V's outdid the III's by about 7 bu./acre.......didn't set any records from either side of the field, but the V's surely did better than the III's.....I'm in south central Kansas, and the map above would certainly imply that we were NUTS to do that, but it worked THIS TIME. Showboat | |
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Soybean maturity map for North America
