Death comes to us all. Life's but a walking shadow | We're kind of used to thinking of a bag of soybean seed containing 140,000 beans as a rough bushel. So a bushel or 60 lbs is roughly 140,000, more or less which means 2,333 beans per lb, again more or less. That is consistent with our ideas that beans can vary between 1700 and 2600 beans per lb. The USDA's 2017 soybean yield is 49.7 bushel so let's round it off to 50 bushel per acre or 3000 lbs. Now 3000 lbs times 2333 beans per lb is 6,999,000 beans per acre.
Furthermore given that there are 43,560 square ft per acre and a 3x3 area is 9 square ft. then there are 4,840- 3x3 plots per acre or 1446 beans per 3x3 plot (6999000/4840).
The Profarmer Tour is reporting values in the range of 1100 to 1300 pods per 3x3 plot, correct? Let's just say 1200 pods per plot. Well, 1446 beans per 1200 pods is only 1.2 beans per pod. We're used to thinking of 2-3 beans per pod.
Is it possible that more than half the pods never fill? What am I missing here?
Edited by 1234 8/26/2017 20:41
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Can somebody please check my work, I don't know if I believe it.
