Farming Video | Managing Early-Season Soybeans Without Pre-Emerge Herbicides | XtremeAg

00:00:00 So one of the biggest things that, that we've always been a proponent of since we, we basically lost the ability for Roundup to kill some 00:00:06 of our broad leaves is our pre-emerge type, uh, herbicides we put out pre-plant to not allow some of the palmer pigweed and some of the morning glory 00:00:15 and different things to come up. What we've seen in the last couple years, this flip field was planted uh, March of 16th, 00:00:22 today's April the fourth. We have a little bit of trouble getting a stand for two different reasons. 00:00:26 One of 'em is, you know, we run the Twin Road 38 planter and that actually gives the soybeans less pushing power 00:00:34 'cause they're not in a row together. They're scattered out increases yield, hurts on pushing power. 00:00:39 The other thing that aids to that is when we're trying to plant these beans really early cool wet conditions, you know, these pre merges actually 00:00:46 with the rain will soak down on the seed when it germinates and it gives it a little bit of struggle coming up. 00:00:51 So the beans not only struggling trying to push through the crust, sometimes after rain, it's also cold and then it has a chemical that it has to metabolize 00:01:00 as it's trying to do its biggest thing which has come out of the ground. So what we've started doing on these earlier situations 00:01:06 where the summer weeds are not up as much is try to get away from that prem merch. What this allows us 00:01:13 to do is have a more healthier bean as it's coming up. You know, one of the single most influencers on soybean yield wise for us has been the earlier planting. 00:01:21 So we're going in there at March the summer. Weeds are not present yet. They will be coming, I promise you they're probably 00:01:27 gonna be coming the next week. But that gives that plant an easy time to get outta the ground. 00:01:32 We love dinging a plant up after it comes outta the ground. Once we got a stand established, we know we got a stand 00:01:37 during that vegetative state. We don't mind dinging that bean at all because we want it to kind of be in rough shape 00:01:43 that makes it actually stack nodes. You've heard of people putting out herbicides on 'em to, to just dang near kill 'em. 00:01:49 And we've done the same thing with some of the herbicides we put out. You know, if, if we've got a little crop damage when we're 00:01:55 in vegetative state, we're great. If it's reproductive state, we want everything to be rosy and the red carpet laid out. 00:02:01 So this gives us an opportunity to be able to let that bean come up in a more healthier state if we're going in more adverse weather conditions. 00:02:09 This is a little risky. This is something we started as we started moving these bean acres up. We actually started with this idea with the February beans. 00:02:17 Hey, there's nothing out here in February besides winter weeds. So can we, can we get that bean up and get it growing 00:02:23 and get a root system on it before we, you know, slap it with something that's got a metabolize that's not really intended to do. 00:02:30 So, like I said, this is a little risky and I'll show you some of the, basically what we got out here is henbit. 00:02:35 We've been outta the field now for really close to a week. So the risk part is if you start having pigweeds emerge, 00:02:42 if you get those over two inches, you know you're not gonna kill 'em. Especially with the technologies we're having to use now. 00:02:48 Uh, we have had some of our technologies that are not available anymore. So this is something you have to be real careful with 00:02:54 and you've gotta have enough sprayer power and dedicated sprayer to this When it's time to go. 00:03:00 Like I said, we've been outta the field now over a week. That kind of wear me a little bit. 00:03:04 I come out here today, look at it again, the hen beds steel, uh, half inch tall. 00:03:08 We actually want these beam to get a little bigger before we put our postop chem on here. Didn't use the pre merge just going with the post out chem. 00:03:17 If you go with something like, um, Anthem Max from, or Anthem Flex from FMC, it's got the UA piece in it, got the cadet in it. 00:03:25 There's a really good chance if everything gets acted activated, right? If I let these beans get a little bit taller, 00:03:31 it'd be a one trip program and I won't have to deal with any kind of underneath the canopy type spray prior 00:03:36 to the irrigation laying of the poly pipe. We've been farming these fields for several years, so we have 'em relatively clean. 00:03:42 Uh, I wouldn't advise this on a new farm or anything that you're, you know, you've recently picked up or you don't know the weed pressure on. 00:03:49 Uh, like I said, we've worked on this farm for 15 or 20 years as pig weed's got un killable. We've been able to, uh, you know, to control those. 00:03:58 And, um, sorry for the wind. It's blowing so hard now. It's blowing dust out from under my truck anyways, it's something you might wanna look at if you've got plenty 00:04:06 of sprayer power and you've got plenty of time to get back and get on these crop if you're planning them earlier in the 00:04:12 year, if you're planting 'em later in the year, I do not advise this. I don't advise this on your whole crop, 00:04:17 but there is situations where during those times, it's actually during those times when the being's harder to get outta the ground, is the times when you can actually 00:04:25 not use the pre-emerge. And I'm not advocating not using pre-emerge because that's the safest way to go. 00:04:32 I'm just advocating that if you're trying to get a bean up in adverse conditions, cool wet conditions without that pre-emerge soaking into 124 00:04:40.405 --> 00:04:41.885