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| I am in central Illinois, this will be the third year we have been on 19" beans. We used to use a 750 Deere drill on 7.5" spacing. My grandfather and uncle still use the 7.5" and 30" spacing and my best friends dad uses 15". Over the past two years we have consistently beat their yields by a minimum of 2 bushels to the acre. We are planting a population of 165000. The drilled beans are still on 190000-200000. I believe the 15" are in the 160000-170000 range depending on soil type. Another farmer in the area is planting as low as 125000 on good ground and says he is having good results. He is on 15" rows. The reason we are using the 19" rows is that we are still on 38" corn rows and purchased a kinze interplanter. We have very good luck on the wide rows and wanted a faster way to plant beans is why we chose to go to the 19" spacing for beans. As far as all of our records show, the 19" row seems to be working out very well. | |
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Soybean Row Spacing
