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Central Iowa | The earlier harvested soybean fields in my area of central Iowa are turning green from volunteer soybeans. It seems like more than usual this year. Mine are turning green too but it's not from beans but from the cereal rye.
I went out yesterday and did some bean counting. I used a one foot square hoop and tossed it randomly 25 times. Here's what I found; 13 with zero, 8 with 1, 1 with 2, 2 with 3 and 1 with 4 beans/sq. foot. This works out to .8 beans/sq. foot.
This is ridge tilled soybeans harvested with a row crop head (with manual header control) at 12% moisture, I saw almost no shattering. I would think .8 bushels/square would be an acceptable loss.
Edited by cardinal farms 10/23/2017 09:00
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How many soybeans on the ground is acceptable?
