Soybeans this year

This year hear in SW Ohio Soybean (and corn) planting was done by most guys by the second week in May. Now the BTO who farms next to us planted beans May 3 and the guy across the road planted May 11 and I planted (had a friend drill for me) May 23. BTO;s beans were in the ground the week it went down into the low 40's at night. Guy across the road spread fert sprayed burn down and no-tilled them that day. Now I had worked some of my ground and the rest was no-tilled but after they were planted we only had maybe 3/10" of rain over the next month till the storm Bill came up from Texas and we have had rain about every other day sense so I haven't been able to get mine sprayed again so there looking hairy now. Anyway BTO"S are still yellow and about 6 to 10 inches tall, Guy across the road are looking good and are about 18" to 23" tall and mine are knee high and are not looking to bad just harry with weeds. I am starting to feel better about getting mine planted later than I wanted now as they are starting to look better now they have gotten rain and there growing now. How are they looking around you? 1st pic BTO's beans 2nd Gut across the road. 3rd and 4th mine. Bandit

I planted mine on May 1, the earliest ever. My own fault, but I didn't get the population as high as I wanted and I don't think they came up as good as other years. I sprayed round-up on May 30, and now they need it again. Hopefully we won't continue this rainy pattern so we can get it done, giant ragweed doesn't combine very well.

It was a mad dash in the third week of June. I was combining wheat and planting second crop beans at the same time I was planting first crop. They have been drowned out in some spots, but they are starting to look like something. Maybe 5-6 inches tall. I've gotten in to spray a couple of fields so they aren't too bad. The wheat had big rank Palmer in it bad. I am going to have to burn it with Cobra here shortly or I won't get that crop. I've never had every tillable acre in beans at one time. That's a pretty big risk! All but 200 of the acres are first crop so there's insurance, I guess.

Everyone has been in the same boat here. The BTO that has been stealing ground is still struggling to get his beans in. He doesn't have his wheat cut yet. It's sad, because it was some of the best looking wheat I've seen this year. Now most of it is going down.

My first beans were planted May 4. Planted 80 acres of a 174 acre field. It rained that night and then rained again so I didn't get back out there to plant the rest of the field till May 13. Yesterday when I looked at them the beans planted on the 4th had a ways to go to close the rows (30"). The beans planted 9 days later, on the 13th have darned near closed the rows. Go figure!

This year all the soybeans planted real early look bad but the later ones look real good. Everybody is scratching there heads this year and everybody says the same thing that the early planted beans will still produce more than the later planted beans, I don't think they will this year that's for sure. I was getting worried about mine being planted on May 23 and going a month with 3/10 of rain in that time now they are looking a lot better than the early planted ones. Oh the joys of farming, What's next? What is a normal year? Bandit

What was the soil temp when the two plantings were made?

I'm inbetween Columbus and zanesville along 70 these were planted conventional on April 1, went up to Lima van wert area for a pull last weekend crops are hurt bad up there!
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Here are my beans. Planted 20Apr, first in the township. Sprayed 5 June and need it again.Neighbor has a small 100 ft rig and he does mine after his and saves a rinse and leftovers going to waste.
I use on old JD 4RW planter. The narrowest it will plant is 36 inch rows. To get correct population I set it wat down for seeds and then plant the field twice. Once E-W, then N-S. Checkwire style.
I've had four different farmers stop in to see what I did. They can see the field from the gravel road and could not figyre out why there were no rows?

That should be 30 Apr.