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Later planting avoids blooming in high heat

Just about all the corn and most of the soybeans are planted, but some growers have better luck delaying their soybean planting.  Myron Luebbering, who farms in the middle of Missouri, doesn’t begin planting soybeans until it’s getting close to June.

“To kind of keep the bean from blooming in the hot, dry part of the end of July there and the first part of August,” Luebbering tells Brownfield Ag News.  “Wait till we tend to get the rains toward the middle of August and the blooms will still make it.”

Luebbering is catching up on soybean planting while he and his brother wait for a few sunny days in a row.

“Hay fields really thickened up and it looks like there’s going to be a good amount of hay there,” he said, “but the weather’s also more humid and there’s a lot of rain in the forecast for the last two weeks and everybody’s kind of holding off on cutting hay.”

The Luebberings also raise hogs farrow to finish on their farm near the town of St. Thomas, Missouri.

AUDIO: Myron Luebbering (4 min. MP3)