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Manage double cropped soybeans for greater profitability
Farmers in Illinois have enhanced their profitability by planting soybeans after winter wheat has been cut. Crop consultant Kelly Robertson says soybeans following wheat cannot be treated as an afterthought. It has be managed just as corn, wheat or full season soybeans are managed.
“The difference a lot of times between having a yield, a mediocre yield, and having a high or above average yield in double crop soybeans, is taking a systems approach and approaching it as a crop and managing it like one instead of an exercise,” Robertson told Brownfield Ag News at the Farm Progress Show Illinois Soybean Association booth.
During the Farm Progress Show, ISA directors and Illinois ag leaders shared management tips for successful, profitable double-crop rotations. One of those with Robertson on a panel discussion on the subject was Ken McClintock of Limagrain, who told Brownfield Ag News that early maturing varieties of wheat are important in buying a few extra days of time to get soybeans planted.
“That ultra-early maturity becomes very valuable for the soybean farmer who plants beans after wheat,” said McClintock.
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