Farming Video | Can You Push Bigger Yields on Double Crop Soybeans?

10 Jul 251m 55s

Johnny Verell with XtremeAg walks us through a July 4th update on his double crop soybeans planted behind wheat. After years of consistent yields but falling short on top-end results, Johnny’s working a new game plan with Finish Line and Detour. First, he applied Finish Line at the V3–V4 stage to push phosphate, potash, copper, zinc, and micros. Next, he’s coming back with Detour, a product known for enhancing lateral branching and stacking nodes. With plenty of rain and good growing conditions, Johnny’s aiming to push plant structure and maximize yield—even on 30-inch row, double crop beans. He's planning a second Detour pass before flowering and keeping a close eye on performance.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell the extreme Ag. I'm out here today looking at some soybeans that were planted, uh, about a month ago today. 00:00:05 They were planted on June 4th, today's 4th of July. So they've been planted a month kind of checking the growth stages. 00:00:10 You know, these beans were actually planted behind wheat. We harvested the wheat there at 00:00:14 the end of May, first part of June. Planted these beans back into it and we always seemed to, you know, 00:00:19 make about the same bean yield on our double crop beans. It's always like, we're running outta time. 00:00:24 We don't have enough time to make them top end yields. So I was talking to Tommy at Nature's asking him what I could do different this year. 00:00:29 And so he gave me a plan. He told me to come out there, you know, in that, you know, V three range, V four range, and run a finish line. 00:00:36 And so I ran a quarter finish line, uh, last week in this field. This will come out there in the next day 00:00:42 or two, probably tomorrow, and we're gonna run Detour Detour's. Been out for a couple years now. 00:00:46 Temple Road's, been using it for several years. It's got a high soil for content in it and it kind of helps stack those nodes. 00:00:52 You know, it's doing that by putting all the extra, uh, nutrition in those plants, giving all that micronutrient slug into that plant 00:00:57 and makes it start branching laterally. So we're planting 30 inch beans here. That's gonna be a big thing for us. 00:01:02 If we can get extra lateral branching, kind of shorten the nodes up even though these beans are planted as double cropped. 00:01:08 Beans planted a little later. Our beans can get extremely tall if the right growing conditions. 00:01:12 We've had a lot of rain this year, so we've had the right conditions so far. Just to circle back through it all, 00:01:16 we've done been out here one time with Aqua, uh, finish line and that has phosphate, pot ash, 00:01:21 several other micronutrients including copper and zinc in it. We put that out here last week. 00:01:26 We're gonna come back this coming week with Detour to try to stack these nodes a little bit more 00:01:29 and hopefully encourage this plant to do some more lateral branching. So we're gonna be able to do those two things 00:01:34 going into flowering. So I'm gonna say here in the next 10 days, two weeks, that'd be the last time we could actually run the detour. 00:01:40 So we're gonna run detour probably tomorrow and probably run it one more time. So we'll keep you posted on how these trials look. 00:01:46 We got 'em in full season beans. We're gonna try it. 00:01:48.025 --> 00:01:50.325