Farming Video | Boosting Soybean Bloom with PGRs and Sulfur
Temple Rhodes and Johnny Verell walk through an Iowa soybean field and talk crop strategy. Temple shares when and how he tweaks his nutrition plan to encourage flowering, branching, and pod fill. From understanding growth stages to getting your timing right on plant growth regulators, they cover how to shift your mindset from growing acres to growing strong, productive plants.
00:00:00 We're actually in Iowa looking at some soybeans, just trying to see what's going on up here. We looked at some really good looking corn. 00:00:05 They got beans coming up, you know, we're out here looking out and trying to see what growth stage they're at. 00:00:09 I was asking Temple, what products will he be putting on these beans right now? Because really, as far as knowing things to do 00:00:13 with soybeans, he's kinda my go-to person. So temple, these beans, you know, in that, you know, eight nodes, nine nodes stage right now, we're 00:00:20 Getting ready to Bloom. They just barely starting to bloom. So what kind of products would you have used, say, 00:00:25 last week versus what you're gonna use going forward because of the Blooms? Well, what I would've done 00:00:29 before the Bloom set in, I would've used, uh, nature's makes a product called Detour, and it's got software in it. 00:00:35 And I would've tried to kind of stunt the plants a little bit, maybe add another note or two. 00:00:39 Yeah, that's kind of the idea of it. So I'm trying to prolong, you know, just for just a minute. And it, and it also helps for branching. 00:00:46 But anyway, I, I'm, I'm trying to set up a stage, right? So I'm setting a stage for what I'm gonna do later on. 00:00:52 And then once I get to, uh, a point where I'm gonna set up for like, let's say it's blooming. 00:00:57 When it starts blooming, the first thing I do is pg r. Yep. I mean, I, I, I can't stress that enough. 00:01:04 Like if I went out here and I put on a big nutrition package, so like R one, my nutrition package is gonna be, um, phosphorus for energy. 00:01:12 I'm gonna go put sugar in there. That helps with energy. Kind of get me through that stage, A PGR. 00:01:18 And the first thing that's gonna happen, as soon as you put that PGR on, you're gonna have a massive bloom at the top. 00:01:22 It's gonna throw a big set of just Yeah. You know, and it really make like a flower, right? Not just like a little flower, but a cluster. 00:01:28 A cluster, yeah. So when we can add those clusters and that's everything, that's what happens every time that you, we go in there, we drop it in there, 00:01:35 and then I'm gonna file that up and I'm gonna put some potassium on there. Yeah. And when we put potassium on there, you know, they got 00:01:41 that one KPL max, which it's potassium, it's got a a, a humic in it, but it also has some sulfur in there. Beans love sulfur. A lot of people don't know that. 00:01:50 A lot of people don't play with sulfur on soybeans, but that's a huge yield advantage. So the kind of thing that I, so I switch around 00:01:57 and I kind of change in my program because what we're trying to do is, is we're growing plants, we're not growing acres. 00:02:02 Right. So we can make real valid, good, educated decisions on what we're doing on that stage. That's right. And, and I think that that's important. 00:02:11 Yeah. So, you know, you were talking about sulfur. A lot of people use soybeans as scavengers, right? Mm-hmm. Whatever's left out there from the 00:02:17 corn crop the year before, Or the wheat crop, Or the wheat crop lettuce, scavenge sulfur. 00:02:21 We realize how important that is and how it actually manipulates that plant or helps that plant with all kinds 00:02:25 of different processes throughout the year. Pgs, I'm a big believer in pg r. What's crazy, it seems like every time you put a 00:02:30 PGR out, you can get that cluster. Yep. So it's not like it's a one shot deal, it's multiple times you need to do it. 00:02:35 There's different PGRs you need to do when you're at the very early stage in that being's life versus at that R one too. So they're 00:02:41 Completely different and you don't wanna mix 'em up. No. Totally different products in them, because you can 00:02:44 Take it if you use the wrong one. If you use a vegetative PGR and you use reproduction, you can send it back, right back, 00:02:50 right back to vegetative. And that's what we don't wanna do. That's right. You know, we can't sell vegetation, we sell reproduction. 89 00:02:56.125 --> 00:02:57.685
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See All GrowersJohnny Verell
Jackson, TN
Temple Rhodes
Centreville, MD