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OB farmers, is it time to harvest soy beans?
Posted on 7/26/18 at 10:30 am
Posted on 7/26/18 at 10:30 am
seems kind of early, but there are a bunch of soy bean fields that have been sprayed (obviously) around the house. Seems like they usually harvest in September. Or am I wrong?
What do they spray the beans with? Roundup or something else? Cause they killed the shite out 'em.
What do they spray the beans with? Roundup or something else? Cause they killed the shite out 'em.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 10:50 am to tigerinthebueche
seems a little early but it all depends on when they were planted. spray gramoxone to kill beans
Posted on 7/26/18 at 10:56 am to tigerinthebueche
Your post got me a little curious so I looked it up and it seems they spray to kill the foliage and this helps ease the harvesting process by having the foliage dried out and more beans are harvested that way, so there's less crop loss.
I'm assuming these are feed crop soybeans. I grow soybeans in my small vegetable garden to use as edamame and usually harvest a 5 gallon bucket worth after about 90 days from planting the seeds.
Nothing like you are talking about with what sounds like a huge commercial operation.
I'm assuming these are feed crop soybeans. I grow soybeans in my small vegetable garden to use as edamame and usually harvest a 5 gallon bucket worth after about 90 days from planting the seeds.
Nothing like you are talking about with what sounds like a huge commercial operation.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 11:03 am to tigerinthebueche
Could be early beans, could be droughty beans, possibly sprayed gramoxone or Aim, could be others. Sodium chlorate is an "organic" solution, use it primarily in open grain heads like milo.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 11:15 am to White Bear
When my father-in-law was alive and living in Mansura I'd head up La.1 to go visit him and loved looking at all the fields of crops. Sugar cane, milo, soybeans and corn mostly, but I hated driving up on my motorcycle when they were harvesting the cane. Those trucks would carry tons of clay and mud out to the highway and if it was rainy, or even damp, that shite was slick as snot under my bike tires, especially in turns------and thankfully there weren't that many of those.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 11:15 am to tigerinthebueche
Probably some late March planted beans
Sprayed with gramoxone- supposed to wait 2 weeks before harvest so they won’t be cut for a while
Sprayed with gramoxone- supposed to wait 2 weeks before harvest so they won’t be cut for a while
Posted on 7/26/18 at 11:16 am to tigerinthebueche
I noticed this the other day and thought it was early myself.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 11:19 am to GREENHEAD22
Beans were always in the fields during dove season so yeah it's early for harvest
Posted on 7/26/18 at 12:11 pm to nevilletiger79
Not really that early. August though early September is pretty common here in Avoyelles parish for harvest. Thing is this year there will be a wide range of harvest. Lots will be cut in August then we had the long drought so many farmers waited till the rains started and plated way later than normal so there will be beans cut in October this year around Avoyelles parish also. Could make for some good bow hunting if you can catch them for a few weeks before they are sprayed in October.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 12:19 pm to tigerinthebueche
Pretty early for here. Even if they’re group 4s. Everybody is still watering around nela
Posted on 7/26/18 at 12:30 pm to LSUballs
These are in Ibberville (Rosedale to be exact). I was more impressed with whatever they're sprayed with. I mean these things look deader than shite.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 12:52 pm to tigerinthebueche
Gramoxone. It don’t play
Posted on 7/26/18 at 12:57 pm to tigerinthebueche
Worked for a bean farmer in west central Alabama years ago.
We would usually start the of first of September and if it stayed dry would finish the first of Oct. About 2500 ac. Back then we sprayed very little.
One of the largest deer I have ever seen alive was run up by my combine in the middle of a field we were combining. He let me get within 10 feet and came up and scared the hell out of me. I still don't know how something that big can hide in three feet of cover.
We would usually start the of first of September and if it stayed dry would finish the first of Oct. About 2500 ac. Back then we sprayed very little.
One of the largest deer I have ever seen alive was run up by my combine in the middle of a field we were combining. He let me get within 10 feet and came up and scared the hell out of me. I still don't know how something that big can hide in three feet of cover.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 4:23 pm to tigerinthebueche
Probably defoliating.
Also, with all the muh soybeans trade war talk, there are probably more than a few farmers aiming to get their crop in and sold early.
Also, with all the muh soybeans trade war talk, there are probably more than a few farmers aiming to get their crop in and sold early.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 4:27 pm to Clyde Tipton
Planting earlier and earlier is a trend in farming.
Prob group 3 beans
Be mid August before a combine rolls through them
Prob group 3 beans
Be mid August before a combine rolls through them
Posted on 7/26/18 at 9:27 pm to tigerinthebueche
Yeah, it’s getting close for some down there I’m sure. We’re planting beans earlier than ever. It’s a little risky on the front end because of a possible frost, but it usually pays off. More predictable & higher yields, easier to manage, require less water, and you can dodge a late August early September hurricane due to an early harvest.
Harvest will still run well into October for some group 5’s and later planted beans though.
We use to just let them dry down naturally and then nuke them if they had green stems to make them feed better. Some will still dry down naturally, but spraying a few on the front end will help you kind of stage the harvest.
Gramoxone and Sodium Chlorate are the most popular methods.
Harvest will still run well into October for some group 5’s and later planted beans though.
We use to just let them dry down naturally and then nuke them if they had green stems to make them feed better. Some will still dry down naturally, but spraying a few on the front end will help you kind of stage the harvest.
Gramoxone and Sodium Chlorate are the most popular methods.
This post was edited on 7/26/18 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 7/26/18 at 9:57 pm to tigerinthebueche
I drive all over Mississippi and Louisiana and it is way early from what I have seen. I see a little corn starting to turn, but the beans everywhere I frequent are still dark green.
Posted on 7/26/18 at 10:35 pm to tigerinthebueche
We only been cutting rice a week so yes it’s historicallt speaking early for beans although everything is getting earlier these days
Posted on 7/26/18 at 10:40 pm to jimbeam
How are yall going to shake out this yr? Prices still down?
Posted on 7/26/18 at 11:03 pm to Spankum
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drive all over Mississippi and Louisiana and it is way early from what I have seen. I see a little corn starting to turn, but the beans everywhere I frequent are still dark green.
Well drive Rosedale Road into Rosedale across from Duphill Pipeline and tell me what you see. Lots of green sugar cane, but acres of brown beans as well.
NBD. I was more interested in what they sprayed em with. I thought it was some new form of Roundup I might be able to get and wage jihad on my fence lines and ditches.
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