No till, no fertilizer, no plant soybeans!

[Deerherd]

I planted soybeans in the spring of 2013 where there was corn the year previously. This year, I decided to cut back on that field of soybeans and plant a couple of acres of oats in the fall.

This spring I ran my rotary cutter over the whole field, (about 6 acres) to cut the previous years stubble. I then planted about 4 acres in soybeans. The other two acres I didn't touch except for running the rotary cutter.

Due to all the rain we had been having and a couple of beavers, I had a hard time getting the sprayer out to the field. About 10 days ago I got out there to spray and imagine my surprise when I saw the two acres I hadn't planted, full of soybeans!

I sprayed them for the heck of it and when I went back there today, they are two feet tall. The deer must not have eaten all the beans from last year!

 

[efam3300]

What brand of soybeans did you plant and did you use a planter or just broadcast and disc them in?

 

[Deerherd]

What brand of soybeans did you plant and did you use a planter or just broadcast and disc them in?

It was Pioneer seed and that field was plowed, disced, dragged, broadcast seeded and culipacked.

It's the first time I have let a soybean field lay over and I'm amazed how well it came in considering it wasn't fertilized this year.

 

[efam3300]

Thanks, I've been wanting to plant soybeans but don't have a planter. I had good luck with corn by running a disc over lightly after broadcasting and want to try that with soybeans.

 

[AaronS]

Thanks, I've been wanting to plant soybeans but don't have a planter. I had good luck with corn by running a disc over lightly after broadcasting and want to try that with soybeans.

I've had good luck by tilling, broadcasting, then cultipacking beans.

 

[breadtrk]

We till, light disk to create furrows, broadcast, then drag with fence.

 

[vabiker23518]

What breadtrk said, X2! Has worked very well for us on our food plots.

 

[Deerherd]

Here it is two weeks later and the 4 acres I planted this year is 30"- 34" tall and beans are starting to form. You can see the area in the top right of the photo I was talking about in my first post.



A closer look at the area shows they are shorter than the soybeans planted this year but because of the head start they had, they already have lots of beans.