Farming Video | How Do You Maximize R3 Soybeans?
21 May 253m 9s

In this R3 soybean update, Matt Miles shares how he manages soybeans for top-end yield by making the most of his R3 fertility pass. Despite rain delays, Matt explains how he piggybacks micronutrients like Knockout, Finish Line, and MoneyBall with his herbicide pass to stay efficient and effective. He emphasizes that treating soybeans with the same attention as corn or cotton—focusing on tissue levels and micronutrient sufficiency—can unlock yields well over 80 bushels. Even in tough weather, his high-yield soybean plot is holding strong thanks to this timely, strategic approach.

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00:00:00 So a lot of people ask me, you know, what, what do we do at R three on soybeans? And, uh, you know, one of the cool things about some 00:00:07 of these products that we use, we don't have to worry about extra applications. We're standing in our, uh, nature's high yield soybean plot. 00:00:14 And these beans are actually R three beans. So R three beans, if you count down or you count down four nodes and the pod is three sixteenths 00:00:23 or bigger, you call it R three. Well, you can, you probably can't see this pod right here, but it's probably close to a half inch. 00:00:30 So we're a full R three, if not a little bit past R three. We've had tremendous amount of range, 00:00:37 not all the time heavy range, just like this last, the last 12 days, we've been in the field one and a half days. 00:00:43 So timing's been a little bit of an issue, but we're still on time on this field. The cool thing about these nature's products is, you know, 00:00:50 they piggyback, they have a free ride. And so when we're putting out our, um, our post chem pass, you know, we're able to put a product in there to, uh, 00:00:58 just kind of build it up a micronutrient pack. On this R three application, we're fixing to run a, uh, gallon and a half a knockout. 00:01:06 We're gonna run a quar to finish line and a pint and a half of, uh, money ball. So those are three nature's products we've done 00:01:13 really, really good with. So all those products will be mixed in on this R three pass, which actually will have a herbicide in here too. 00:01:20 It won't be nothing major. It'll be just an application of glyphosate to uh, kind of control any grass that might come up in it, you know, 00:01:27 or might be some sprigs of grass up or something we missed on our po on our second post Chemp Pass. 00:01:32 So, free ride, very decent. ROI on on these products. Uh, we all need micronutrients. We overlook those sometimes where a lot 00:01:40 of the guys in the Midwest soybeans are kind of a means to a rotation for a corn crop. That's the way we were in the past with a means 00:01:48 for a rotation to a bean crop. We didn't rotate a lot of beans in the cotton because cotton was just 00:01:53 what you had to plant to make a living. That's one thing. If you'll treat these soybeans like you treat your corn crop or you treat your cotton crop, 00:02:00 pay attention to 'em, do the things to 'em, you know, make sure you've got the micronutrients there. You've got drainage, you've got, you know, 00:02:06 the right varieties and really pay attention to what a soybean crop can do. It can go upwards of 80 bushels pretty easy. 00:02:12 So we'll keep you posted on this field all year. We've got high hopes for it, even though we've had some really bad weather. 00:02:19 The beans have actually fared pretty good. Tissue samples are showing everything, you know, sufficient to above sufficient. 00:02:25 So if we can take this R three pass and load it up with fertility, we'll also apply fungicide for frogeye leaf spot. 00:02:32 But if we can take these fertility products from nature's and keep those tissue levels 00:02:37 above sufficient like we are now, you know, once you see a tissue sample and it says sufficient, you say, well, I'm okay. 00:02:43 It's just beans. But this, this crop will start tanking as it's putting on pods. We've got several pods at the bottom here, you know, 00:02:50 that are two inches long. These are gonna tank the, the micros and the nutrients in the plant 00:02:56 and the products like Finish Line Moneyball and Knockout will, uh, will keep that, that fertility up. 00:03:02.815 --> 00:03:04.455

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