| At 180K pop on 7.5's, you have 3.5 beans per foot, at 120,000 on 15's, you have 3.5 beans per foot, and on 30's at 60,000 pop you have 3.5 beans per foot.
Since beans, especially a bushier ones adopt to their environment why would't one base your population on 7.5's ,15's and 30's off beans per foot, vs per acre?
Jimmy Fredericks from Nebraska who yielded 138 bu/ac DRYLAND this year on part of his field, and the rest darn near 100 planted 55,000 /ac on 30's. So this is what got me thinking...
Are we all looking at population wrong in thinking in terms of population per acre, instead of beans per foot?
Could this be the reason why 30's aren't as consistent in yielding in trials vs the 15's? Planting 30's at 130,000 would be like planting 15's at 190,000 or 7.5, at 250,000. Of course they would be less... or not?
Edited by OSUBucks 3/21/2019 09:16
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30's vs 15s vs 7.5 soybean pop thought
