Question for Soybean growers

[4GFarms]

How do soybeans handle light/sandy soil? Just wondering if it would be better to put RR canola or soybeans on a field to clean up some weeds. Want to try soybeans next year.

[seabass]

Grow canola.

[macdon02]

Why not put them on sand? Pour the liter on it, and if it's in a marginal area for maturity the stress in July should be exactly what they need? Gonna need late rain to finish them but at least the fert bill is more reasonable.

[Klause]

What part if the world are you in?


I'd grow beans but we also get the moisture to finish them in august.

[farmaholic]

I think about the same thing... how would soybeans do on lighter textured ground. They may do ok on some of our clay based loam but not the sand based loam. Definitely no guarantee of a "finishing rain" here! I always thought they needed alot of water. I'm still watching some neighbors experiment with them...they're having pretty good luck. Harvest "looks" easy but late. We would have the straight cut flex head to get real low for those bottom pods.

What surprises me is how the price seems to hold up quite reasonable for such a large volume widely grown crop. ..unlike wheat!

[farmaholic]

Are they at all alkali/salt tolerant? We have afew spots.

[furrowtickler]

Beans like good dirt
If you run out of rain / moisture in August on light land you will get very little

[4GFarms]

Thanks for the input. We are southeast sask and lots of neighbors grow them. I completely forgot about the late season rain to finish the beans. We do not always get that.

[seabass]

Exactly furrow. Canola is more elastic than beans. If the rain comes a bit late the canola will flower a bit more and can make up some yield. Beans need that rain in august too fill properly and on light land might take a shit kicking.

[sumdumguy]

We are also in SE Sask and two trials of Soys were unsuccessful. They just never finished off. It has been about 8 years since then and maybe varieties are shorter season now, but on gumbo we couldn't get them in the bin.