Farming Video | Early Soybean Progress & Fungicide Timing with Johnny Verell
5 Jun 253m 24s

Johnny Verell and Brian Adams of Volunteer Ag Service walk through a field of soybeans planted on March 26th—early for their area—and share crop updates and agronomic insights. Despite record-breaking rainfall and unusually cool temperatures, the beans are progressing steadily, showing 11 nodes, solid lateral branching, and moving into R2. They're holding off on fungicide until 16 nodes, likely in the next 2–3 weeks if warm weather hits. It’s a good example of how early planting can pay off when managed carefully in tough conditions.

00:00:00 Johnny Verell at Stream Ag. I'm out here today with Brian Adams of Volunteer Ag Service and you know, we're out here looking at some soybeans 00:00:05 that were actually planted on March 26th. For us, that's pretty early, you know, historically that's a little bit early for us, right? 00:00:11 That's about the earliest, uh, we usually get in. If we get some favorable weather, then of March, we'll start then A lot of times it's really, 00:00:18 uh, 1st of April. But, but yes, that would, that would be definitely on the early side. And for us, this was probably the best planting 00:00:24 conditions we had all year. The first, first week, uh, April, the end of March, there was probably the driest conditions we've had. 00:00:30 We've had what record rain rainfall, probably 50 year record rainfall, I think. Yeah, We're, uh, we're in a 55 to 60 inch annual rainfall area 00:00:38 and as of what, two weeks ago we were up to 45 inches. Yeah. So I hope to God we're gonna go over that this year. Yeah. Um, we don't stop, 00:00:45 Uh, considering it's June 1st we're, we're Hoping Yeah, it's Last day of May here. So, you know, it's, it's a big deal for us to, you know, 00:00:52 to keep this rain coming and it's still cool. I mean, it was 60, about 60 degrees this morning. Yeah, I'm in shorts right now and I'm not, not very warm. 00:01:00 It's, it's not pleasant at the moment, But one thing we came out here to look at, these are the first planted beans we had 00:01:04 and we're just trying to see, you know, timing wise where they're at, how close they are. They're past R one. 00:01:09 They're going into what, R two, Brian? Yeah, They're, uh, they're pretty steady. R two. I mean, you look at this bean, I, I don't know 00:01:14 that you can really see it from, from your perspective, but to the terminal, from ground level, they're about 12 inches tall. 00:01:21 You know, probably 14, 15 inches to those uppermost, tri foliates. But these beans are 11 node right now. 00:01:27 They've been blooming for a while technically by the, uh, traditional scale. They'll be moving into R three here within the next week. 00:01:34 Not necessarily our three fungicide timing for us. Uh, for us, we're always looking for about 16 nodes down here 00:01:40 before we make that application. So, uh, we're still, um, two and a half, three weeks out if it doesn't warm up, 00:01:46 maybe even a little bit longer, but, uh, got a little warmer weather in the forecast. So I suspect, uh, two 00:01:52 and a half, three weeks we'll be out here making applications. But one of the good things about this is, is, uh, the branch 00:01:58 and the lower lateral branching, uh, fruiting branches, you can see it at three nodes on this plant. I think Johnny's got it at four or five on his plant. 00:02:05 Being able to take advantage of that with that early plant window, keeping it short, like I said, 11 nodes and, 00:02:10 and realistically 12 to 13 inches tall to the terminal. You can't really beat that. Especially we're in an area that traditionally has been a fairly lodge prone, uh, 00:02:20 don't expect to have much lodging problem now, starting to see these inner nodes elongate. Yeah. Uh, over the last couple that were put on. But, um, 00:02:26 And they started off, I think we were saying eight nine inches, had eight nodes. So they are starting to elongate, which is fine. 00:02:32 I mean, 'cause we're so stacked up, but they look good. The lateral branchings putting on flowers too. So I mean, they got great potential if we can keep the 00:02:39 rainfall and, you know, keep everything else out of 'em. So a Little, a little sunshine will go a long 00:02:43 way here at this point. Uh, I think it's 30 days. We've had what, seven, eight days of sun, of some sort of sun, not even full sun 00:02:49 Of, of anything of, of any sort of, yeah, you know, solar radiation value for sure. Um, in that last 30 days, there's been, uh, 00:02:58 a 14 inch rainfall event, uh, and I don't know how many others, uh, but It's been tough all 25 inches 00:03:04 or so in the last 30 days. So yeah, it's been challenging to even get in the field. We'll keep y'all posted on how these things, you know, 00:03:11 progress throughout the rest of this growing season, but they look good right now and hopefully I'd say here in the next three weeks, like Brian said, 00:03:17 probably get some type of fungicides. 00:03:18.245 --> 00:03:19.885

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