Farming Video | Soybean R3 Timing Gets Tricky After Cold Weather

00:00:01 So we're aging beans today, and we had a conversation with our consultant probably an hour ago, and he was out here and they were aging beans. 00:00:11 He said, "Man," he said, "I'm kind of in a little dilemma." He said, "The weather's been cold. We were at R1 last week, 00:00:19 and maybe having to do something to do with cold weather, the beans have caught up to the blooms and we're looking more like R3. 00:00:28 It's almost like we skipped R2." Which we know isn't necessarily the case, but when you come out here and look, and you count down the top four 00:00:36 nodes, we've got a little pod. I think it was this one. We got a little pod sitting right there. So we're looking like we're close to R3. 00:00:47 Are we really R3, or are we not really R3? We really don't know that. We look like we're R3 by the stage of the plant, but by the timing of where the 00:00:54 beans were five days ago, theoretically, we shouldn't be R3. Now we got to decide if we're truly R3. Are we fixing to go make our fungicide pass and our big 00:01:06 foliar pass where we feel like we got our money shot? We don't want to be too late for our money shot, but we don't want to be too low for our money shot. 00:01:14 So kind of weird situation, and you can see here we're stacking nodes. This is pulled out in the middle out here, and we're stacking nodes like, 00:01:23 honestly, I'm going to say like we never stacked before. We're looking at a VT10 plant. We've got, 00:01:30 I guess it would be VT10, 10 nodes on this plant, and they're tight. These aren't barely over your boot top tall, so we're looking at pretty stacked plants, which we love. 00:01:42 So an early R3 or a late R2, 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:47.679