Challenges in Second-Crop Soybean Stand After Heavy Rainfall

00:00 So guys, I'm out here today. It is August the second, and I'm in the second crop of soybeans that we planted for the 22nd, I think. 00:09 So planted these beans, you know, hoping that we, we had enough moisture when we planted 'em to come up. So we knew we were good there. 00:16 We knew, you know, as I said in earlier videos, we had to plant 'em that afternoon or we wasn't gonna plant 'em till probably today 00:22 because of, of the weather. Planted the beans, plant 'em at 165,000. We got about five inches of rain over a five day period 00:33 and it took its toll on these soybeans. So, you know, there, we've, we've gotta stand out here. We've got a really weak stand out here, 00:39 but we do have a stand. I haven't done a stand count yet, but they're gonna be pretty low. 00:44 You know, like I said, we planted 1 65, we're gonna be lucky if we end up, you know, with, with an 80 to 90,000 a stand at best. 00:51 I'll be able to tell that a little more when we come through here and do our stand counting. So with that five days of rain, cloudy, staying wet for 00:58 that five days, we come in here, like I said, and planted these beans, you know, right in the stubble. Combine went through planter, went through right behind it. 01:05 So, you know, we had a mat of, of stove there. You know, you take that, combine that with, with five days of rain and cloudy weather and, and heat 01:13 and it, you know, creates kind of a, almost like an oven, you know, or a steam room sayana. 01:19 So it would kind of create a sauna effect, you know, for those beans to have to come through. So, didn't get near the stand we wanted up, 01:25 but I think we've got enough for the research and, and what we're wanting to do to see if we can go further yield expectations are probably gonna be a little less than 01:32 what, you know, they would've been if we'd have had a, you know, a full population. The challenges we faced here, number one was we went 01:40 to get 'em treated and the seed treater was broke down. I was limited on time, I knew I had to get 'em planted. So we did not get a premium treatment on the soybean prior 01:49 to, you know, planting 'em in the dirt. So being under that thick canopy of, of the previous bean stove, you know, the, 01:55 the ground developed some pythium. So we have some pythium out here that we're gonna have to deal with. 01:59 We didn't run an infer in there. This was like a quick deal, let's get it done. Mistakes were made. I'll just say that mistakes were made 02:05 by me on how we've done this, but we think we've got enough out here to, you know, to at least have, you know, have a 02:13 representable yield at the end. Well, the challenges we face, you know, like I said, were the, were the disease we had. 02:17 We've also gotta think about fertility. So we've got to replace the fertility based on, you know, what we pulled off this last crop, we had enough 02:26 fertilizer out here, say for a 90 bushel bean crop, and we pulled our yield off. So now we've gotta replace that to have this second crop. 02:33 We can't just come in here and have a second crop of beans and hope that it makes it on, on the fertility 02:38 that we have for the first crop. Now, in, in that scenario though, our yield goal for this second crop is gonna be about half of 02:46 what it was for the first crops. If we were looking at pulling off saying, you know, 85 90 bushel yield here in, in 24 02:53 and then coming back in 25 with a, with another crop, then, then, you know, we would fertilize again 02:58 Say for that 85 or 90 bushels. As we're planting this second crop, you know, we're filling probably somewhere between 40 03:04 and 50 bushels is gonna knock this second crop in the head. So therefore we won't fertilize for 90, we'll fertilize 03:11 for 50, so that cost will be a little less than what it would be on a first crop. Granted, we're gonna get, you know, less yield too. 03:17 So, you know, that's one challenge we face, but we'll definitely face a lot of challenges with insects. And then, you know, this disease that we got 03:24 as these beans were coming up is, you know, is another something that we're gonna have to deal with. We'll monitor this all year 03:29 and see what, you know, kind of comes up with it, how it works. We do have a hopper throttle treatment on there. 03:34 We did throw that in the hopper as we planted these beans and that's basically all we did. 03:38 We put the hopper throttle out, run the planter, 165,000. I'm gonna guess we're gonna have somewhere 03:44 around 80,000 final population. So roughly half had it had we not got all that rain and cloudy weather and, and 03:51 that sauna effect on the, in the soil. You know, we, we were hoping to be somewhere around that 140, 150,000. 03:58 We need this plant to get tall and we need it to get tall quick to put the nose on. So when you're planting beans 04:03 or you got beans emerge on August 1st and, and you know, we're losing daylight hours ev every day from here on out. 04:10 So we need this plant to get tall height. You know, height is something we're not looking for so much in a, in a crop that we plant in March or April, 04:17 but we definitely need that height here to get the nodes with the short day link. 04:21 So we'll also come in here with a shot of ammonia sulfate along with our p and k that we put out to replace the, you know, 04:27 the rep replacement fertilizer for the yield we made on the first crop. And you know, like I said, 04:32 we'll also fight insects way harder here. If you look, look around me, you know, the rest of these crops are starting to mature now. 04:39 So this is gonna be the only young lush field, I don't know how many miles. So all the insects are gonna wanna come here and camp out 04:46 and we're just gonna have to do a real good job of taking care of'em. A lot of these beans out here are actually putting on 04:51 their first trian. So I mean this is gonna be a really fast a crop. This plant knows that it don't have the days 04:58 that it would have if it was planted in April. So we'll keep abreast of what's going on through the season on the second crop 05:03 and at the end of the year, hopefully we can, we can show at least a even ROI on the second crop, if not a positive ROI.