Soybean innoculation versus pea innoculation.

[seabass]

Don't put any fert with seed. Will kill innoculant. Midrows or preapply before seeding

[Wheatking]

I put no fertiliser down in the seed row. I banded 60lbs of straight phosphate 3" deep before I seeded, then another 25lbs of s15 in the fertiliser knife of a seed hawk. Plants look relatively healthy so I'm not sure if they are short of N. Should of taken a tissue test I guess.

Since this thread was started comparing pea innoculation to soys, here are a couple pics of pea nodules taken a month ago. I have never seen Nodulation like this before, the nodules are massive and cover every root hair.

[MBgrower]

Good pics Wheatking and nice job of cleaning those roots off. At the very least I could have dug some pea plants up and looked for nodules as well.

Is that high grade coal on the truck end gate? ;-)

I'm not advocating for cutting back on innoculating fellows, just an observation in the field. But wondered if double innoculating soy was necessary if they've been planted on the field recently. Thanks for the input everyone.

If I grow them I would prefer to use granular along with whatever the seed is treated(inoculated) with. And maybe a large dose of phos down the midrows.(??????) Can they tolerate much, if any, seed row placed fertilizer?

They don't respond well to spring applied phos.

[Jay-mo]

Wheatking, just curious why you dribbled 28 onto your beans??

[Wheatking]

Wheatking, just curious why you dribbled 28 onto your beans??

Just a test to see if the extra N would help since I felt/thought the beans weren't nodulating properly. I only did 25 acres of a 250 acre field.