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