Broadcasting into standing soybean...help

[73tmeyer]

So I would like to try broadcasting into soybeans. I have read that just wait until the beans are yellow then just broadcast into them and wait. is there anything else I need to know? How much of the field and each plant should be yellow? try to plan around rain if possible or is this not to important? any tips or help would be great. even better any pics of a field where you have done this? Thanks

 

[MoBuckChaser]

First of all what are you broadcasting. Its too late for Brassicas in western WI. But you can Broadcast WR right now with some clover if you want a clover plot for next year.

 

[Bill]

If it's cereal Rye you're planting you don't have to wait til the whole field yellows. I broadcast when time allows. Sometimes a little yellow sometimes all yellow. It's never failed, rye is pretty hardy.

I don't sweat rain in the forecast either. It's not a bare field so the birds are not going to clean your seed up. Eventually it will rain.

I'm also lazy and drive the side by side right through the beans to broadcast as you can see the tracks in this pic.

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[j-bird]

Knocking some of those pods open can create a nice early season draw as well......at least until the frost comes. :D

I ran a disc down a stretch of poor performing beans once to plant a strip of a fall plot. I broadcasted my seed and then packed the soil. You know what happens to fresh, actively growing, green soybeans when every other bean around is brown.....ever seen a fat kid eat cake?

 

[73tmeyer]

well I was questioning the brassicas also so I will hold off on those. I have a bag of Winter wheat will that work as good as rye?

 

[Bill]

well I was questioning the brassicas also so I will hold off on those. I have a bag of Winter wheat will that work as good as rye?

Winter wheat will work but how big of an area are you talking? I broadcast 80 - 100 lbs per acre.

 

[D Hunter]

I am doing this for the first time this year also. I am planting rye, clover, chicory and small burnett into standing soybeans. Some parts of my plot have thicker soybeans that others. Leaves are just having a yellow one here and there. In the thicker places we have a canopy. I am a little worried about the broad leaf seedlings getting enough light at the germination stage and just after. I got little bean pods but still lots of leaves on the beans. Did I plant too early for these fall crops? Thanks. "D"

 

[browndog]

How is you turkey population? If you are only going to broadcast one bag, I have a feeling all you will be doing is feeding the turkeys.

 

[Warner32]

I over seeded some areas of my soybean plot that got smoked by the deer with a brassica mix 2 weeks ago.. Had some seed left over from a bag of Big and Beasty by Frigid Forage... I'm in central Ohio.. 6 days in and they are sprouting around the beans.... After hearing more from people wish I would of done some W rye as well to help out with soil health next year since I'm going to plant beans again

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[D Hunter]

WR can be over seeded anytime over the next couple months most places Warner32. You can add it simply at your leisure. "D"

 

[73tmeyer]

thanks for all the help I got it in last week we will see what happens