Eastern Nebraska soybean farmer Richard Bartek says if Mother Nature would cooperate, he’d start planting soon. “Once you get to May 1st, it seems like you start losing – it could be as high as half-a-bushel per-day on yield on beans depending on the year. I mean that’s an average yield and research has prompted that,” he says.
The Ithaca grower tells Brownfield he’s learned to adjust his population counts. “Soybean population used to be 150,000 seeds per-acre plus.
