I normally no till plant about 15 acres of RR ag soybeans and corn combined. These are primarily over winter food plots for the deer and work great for that purpose. My land is in southern Portage county Wisconsin near the Town of Almond. This area is commonly referred to as the "Central Sands area".
This year I bought a year old bag of Eagle RR soybeans for $50 to try out on some smaller food plots.
All plots were sprayed with 41% gly starting last summer. They got hit again with the gly this spring. I had them disked three times to break up the fallow ground. On June 20 I broadcast all the Eagle beans onto the prepped soil with a hand held belly seeder. I used a spike tooth drag over all the plots and then went over them with a 5 foot roller filled with water.
A few days ago I inspected all the plots. The Eagle beans are doing real well. I estimate that I got a 95% or better germination rate. The deer seem to have found the beans as evidenced by the tracks in the bare ground. All these plots are due for their next spraying of gly, as the weeds are also present. I have mostly quack grass coming back in the plots. I estimate that I planted 1.2 acres total with the large 50 pound bag (140,000 seed count) of Eagle bean seeds. So far, I am pleasantly pleased with Eagle soybeans.
This year I bought a year old bag of Eagle RR soybeans for $50 to try out on some smaller food plots.
All plots were sprayed with 41% gly starting last summer. They got hit again with the gly this spring. I had them disked three times to break up the fallow ground. On June 20 I broadcast all the Eagle beans onto the prepped soil with a hand held belly seeder. I used a spike tooth drag over all the plots and then went over them with a 5 foot roller filled with water.
A few days ago I inspected all the plots. The Eagle beans are doing real well. I estimate that I got a 95% or better germination rate. The deer seem to have found the beans as evidenced by the tracks in the bare ground. All these plots are due for their next spraying of gly, as the weeds are also present. I have mostly quack grass coming back in the plots. I estimate that I planted 1.2 acres total with the large 50 pound bag (140,000 seed count) of Eagle bean seeds. So far, I am pleasantly pleased with Eagle soybeans.