Farming Video | Matt Miles Assesses Flood-Damaged Soybeans in the Mid-South

12 Apr 252m 1s

In this field update, Matt Miles responds to numerous calls from farmers across northeast Arkansas to southern regions regarding soybean fields impacted by prolonged flooding. Matt walks a field of soybeans submerged for nearly 120 hours, examining crop survival at the cotyledon stage. While he has prior experience with taller, more developed soybeans and corn under water, this situation with young plants is unprecedented.

00:00:00 Well, guys, I've gotten probably five or six calls a day from northeast Arkansas all the way to south of here about these beans. 00:00:07 You can see behind me, uh, great singulation, great stand of soybeans. They've been on the water for five days, so that's gonna be 00:00:17 what, five times, two, a hundred, 120 hours. Uh, that they've been underwater. They went under Saturday about four o'clock, 00:00:26 and, uh, stayed under five days. I've done a lot of walking, done a lot of looking. The problem is I don't have a lot of information to give you 00:00:34 because I hadn't been in this situation before, not with this small of beans. Now we've had beans, you know, 00:00:40 waste high, that's went underwater. They've lost 30 bushel. We've had corn, you know, water up to the ear leaf 00:00:46 and waterfall down. All the corn fall down. Being able to get this water, being able to be fortunate, I know this sounds crazy, 00:00:54 to get this water with these younger plants, corns in that growing point's, not outta the ground yet. A lot of the soybeans that have been underwater at 00:01:02 that coline area stage. So they're a lot tougher. Then these had their first like, I think it's called unico, come out. 00:01:08 You can see this bean, you know, the bud, you coline. Air leaves are good. The bud's pretty much covered with mud. It's about 85 degrees here today. 00:01:21 So we'll know in a couple of days. But if these beans make it, I'll be very surprised. But you know what, if they don't make it, 00:01:30 if this won't be my first rodeo on replant, we'll work on this. I'll keep the progress going on. What's going on? 00:01:36 I know there's a lot of guys in the Mid-South that's, that's under the same situation. A lot of guys, Jonesboro area west of us, 00:01:44 way worse than what we are. So, you know, I'm not out here complaining. I'm just trying to figure out 00:01:48 what do, where do we go from here? So hopefully in the next two or three days, I'll be able to come back to you and, 47 00:01:55.185 --> 00:01:56.645