Stearns County, Minnesota | 1234 - 8/24/2017 14:27 Soybeans can vary between 1600 & 2600 seeds per lb so a rough average be 2100 seeds per lb. If you get 50 bushel beans that's 3000 lbs. or 6.3 million beans. Now an acres is 43560 sq ft or 4840 -3x3 plots or 1301 seeds per plot, (6,300,000/4840). If you have a 1000 pods in your 3x3 then you're only averaging 1300 seeds /1000 pods or 1.3 seeds per pod so something doesn't seem quite correct. Do that many pods abort or fail to fill? The way I figured it there is 4840 (3x3) in an acre of land (43560 sq ft.). There is 2.5 soybeans per pod. At 1230 pods per sq yd. will give you 14,923,086 soybeans per acre. If you take 200,000 soybeans in a bushel, that will mean your yield will be 74 bushels per acre. |
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