OB farmers, is it time to harvest soy beans?

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.

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.

I noticed this the other day and thought it was early myself.

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.

Gramoxone. It don’t play

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.

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.

We only been cutting rice a week so yes it’s historicallt speaking early for beans although everything is getting earlier these days

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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.

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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.