soybeans 2015?

[dalek]

Daylight sensitivity is a big difference in how they do with adequate heat units. Without the heat units, no amount of light will save a crop

[freewheat]

Interesting comment DaleK. Because the guys selling the seed sure push the daylength theory hard. No doubt, daylength helps some. If it were not for daylength, the Peace area would not be so farmable.

But are you, who are in an actual soy area saying heat units matter more?

[dalek]

If it were all about daylight, Yellowknife would be a hotbed of soybean activity.
If you have a variety that's adapted to the growing season you have, then daylight becomes a big factor. From what I've seen and heard from up around Thunder Bay, when the companies know their varieties are borderline for an area, they start focusing on daylight instead to try to make sales.

Here where we have all kinds of different varieties that are adapted for our growing season, I've never once heard a salesman mention day length or daylight. I have no doubt that it influences pod development and fill, but if you don't have the heat units for the plant to make it to maturity, light isn't going to help you.

[freewheat]

Thanks for that insight, Dale. Interesting.

[MBgrower]

Heat units more important. As stated, cant grow beans in yellowknife. You can almost here them grow on those hot summer days.

[MBgrower]

Heat units more important. As stated, cant grow beans in yellowknife. You can almost here them grow on those hot summer days.