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Ok, so I have already picked out our early beans to plant for this year, but I'm not so sure on what to try this year after wheat. The past two years we have planted a pioneer 95Y70 and a Progeny P5711RY behind wheat which were both recommend to us as good choices. Both were planted anywhere form mid June to late June. Both years these beans yielded in the low 30bu per acer.
Now each year I like to get online and look at local Test Plot yields for the previous year to see what they did. This year I found something interesting. For Beans planted after wheat, the same 5.7 beans I planted, yielded low too, however 5.2 to 5.4 beans yielded very high planted in mid to late June. So this leaves me wounding if I should try something in the 5.2 to 5.4 range after wheat this time. I also been looking at a 5.6 Asgrow seed that did well around here in the latter maturity groups.
Of course I seen similar things in the early bean groups as well. We planted some 5.0 and 5.1 beans in mid May two years ago, and last year we planted a 4.9 in early May and had much better yield than two years ago, 10 to 15bu per acer more. What I seen in the Test Plot data was similar with the pre 5.0 beans doing the best and the 4.6 range doing very well planted anywhere form early May to Late May and even some planted in mid June yielding High.
All this Maturity Group stuff always leaves me confused. I talked to one Farmer last year that told me he only planted 5.7 beans from April to July and it didn't seem to matter to him and was happy with his yields. I do all this research hoping to make a choice that will increase my yield somehow, and then talk to someone like that, and it leaves you wondering just how much all this Maturity Group Data means.
Thoughts?
Now each year I like to get online and look at local Test Plot yields for the previous year to see what they did. This year I found something interesting. For Beans planted after wheat, the same 5.7 beans I planted, yielded low too, however 5.2 to 5.4 beans yielded very high planted in mid to late June. So this leaves me wounding if I should try something in the 5.2 to 5.4 range after wheat this time. I also been looking at a 5.6 Asgrow seed that did well around here in the latter maturity groups.
Of course I seen similar things in the early bean groups as well. We planted some 5.0 and 5.1 beans in mid May two years ago, and last year we planted a 4.9 in early May and had much better yield than two years ago, 10 to 15bu per acer more. What I seen in the Test Plot data was similar with the pre 5.0 beans doing the best and the 4.6 range doing very well planted anywhere form early May to Late May and even some planted in mid June yielding High.
All this Maturity Group stuff always leaves me confused. I talked to one Farmer last year that told me he only planted 5.7 beans from April to July and it didn't seem to matter to him and was happy with his yields. I do all this research hoping to make a choice that will increase my yield somehow, and then talk to someone like that, and it leaves you wondering just how much all this Maturity Group Data means.
Thoughts?
