Roundup Ready Soybeans
 

Does anyone have any experience using RR soybeans. Have some plots that I suspect will have excessive grasses and weeds this spring. I am wanting to experiment with RR soybeans as a spring/summer planting with the thought of having a relatively clean plot to plant clover in September, I am located in SW Arkansas. Any comments or suggestions appreciated.

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I have a little experience we plant about 4000 acres of them each year, both first and second crop beans

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same idear!

this season will be my first try w/ rr crops. it sure does make sense for weed control for fall clover plantings. ideally, should the ground be worked mechanically (ie roto-tilled) a week before spraying, or is this counter-productive b/c of weed seed germination?

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They are tough to beat.

Last year was my first real go at RR soybeans - and they will always have a place in my Spring planting.

What kind of questions do you have?

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StrmChzr

It is counter productive to spray before planting. Just remember that you want to spray BEFORE the weeds are 4" tall.

Last year - I sprayed mine 4 weeks after planting (6/19) - this is what it looked like:



I sprayed again 5 weeks later - Around July25th - this is what it looked like then:



I did not spray again - and by the end of the growing season they looked like this on 9-19:




The year after the first RR Soybean plot - the soil is still quite bare - and perfect for spring planting clover and rolling it in - or to just disk and plant them again.

FH

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I planted RR soys for the first time last year in one of my food plots. I was very happy with their growth, ease of weed control and the deer activity all summer. They stayed nice and lush until the first frost (This was early October here in Michigan). Then I broadcast a mix of rye , winter wheat and oats into the still standing bean pods. The mix came up very nice and was a double draw of fresh greens and plump bean pods.

I'll be doing the same thing this year.

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cool idea answerguy!

hey farmhunter,
my posts can be tricky reading, but you know what i mean (not what i'm saying!) LOL..

what other rr crops (excluding beans and corn) are you guys planting in your food plots?

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I think you just went through the entire list of RR crops that are currently available. :)

Although I've heard that they aren't too far away from introducing RR sugar beets.

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RR Soybeans was a godsend for us. We had a lot of problems with weed control in our early days of foodplots (and we still do a little bit) but it kept us alive in the food plot game with it's ease.

Answer Guy a question for you...

When do you plant the supplemental winter wheat and oats? We generally hit our RR beans two or three times for weed control, obviously you plant a few weeks after your last application of RR, right? Do you broadcast the seed over the beans and allow the rain to make the seed bed for the winter wheat and oats? Please explain what you do...you have peaked my interest.
Thanks

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Our first frost was on opening day of archery season, October first. I couldn't have forced myself to run my tractor through the soys while they were so green and lush, especially with the deer in them so much. But as soon as the frost hit the leaves faded leaving just pods on brown shriveled stems. That's when i broadcast the rye, oats and wheat mix.
I did run my cultivator over the field, but I think if I had broadcast just before a rain it would have been ok. The cultivator kicked up just enough dirt without knocking down too many of the soys.

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You need to remember this, when you plant the winter crops in the beans, next spring you are going to have volunteer beans sprouting up in your small grains, that you cannot kill with weed killer, so you need to till up the field and start over with your new crop.

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I was under the impression that any beans produced from RR soys would also by RR. But I'm willing to defer to your experience.

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I believe Ron was saying just that---the volunteer soybeans will have to be disced under to kill them. Seems to me, if enough volunteer beans sprout up and with the cereal grain present---good early feed for deer.

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I get it now. But for me that wouldn't be a bad thing. I don't want the rye-wheat-oats combo to grow seed anyways. My plan would be to spray it with Round-Up and overseed some more soys.

FWIW- I don't plan to spray until the woods have greened up, I want my deer to be able to take advantage of the combo til then.

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You could leave it be and have a summer feeding program, then try this....... let a small patch of the small grains go to seed and then in Sept. disc them down and let the seed from the small grain reseed itself for your fall crop, dont do this with all of it just a small patch and see how it does...Dont worry about the beans then , the frost will get them.

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about 12 months ago i read where a company (dow? monsanto?) had developed a rr wheat. they decided to cancel marketing the seeds due to too many other international companies complaining (or something like that).

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Not Monsanto....

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The reason that I won't leave the oats-wheat-rye growing is that they are not as high a quality browse as soy beans are.
But they have the advantage of staying green through the winter and being available in the early spring before anything else greens up.

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Answerguy and everyone else, thanks for the tips. Our soybean plot is pretty small and generally all of the beans are eaten. For us, this would be a little enhancer to the beans.

We are able to water this foodplot so I plan on broadcasting and then applying some artificial rain for seed to soil contact.

Thanks again.

Turkey and Planting season is right around the corner, I can't wait!!!!!

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Monsanto.


REGINA - A big reversal from biotech giant Monsanto: the multinational company has shelved plans to introduce its controversial Roundup Ready Wheat. Monsanto says the decision follows extensive consultations with customers in the wheat industry. Many countries, especially in Europe, are opposed to genetically modified wheat and some threatened to stop buying any wheat from Canada.

info taken from here...
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/10...onsanto0405010

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If done right you should only have to spray your beans once. I would not recommend spraying beans twice especially later in the summer because it will stunt them out and if you didn't have sufficient rainfall might destroy your crop. We don't usually plant them in our food plots because we usually have close to 2100 acres usually planted in them. We drill them in April and usually once they are 6 to 8 inches tall we spray them. A alternative plot we use is planting wheat with our clover early in the spring the deer will get on the wheat as soon as it gets up tall enough to get a hold of. Once the wheat gets up there and matures to a head the turkeys will usually move in a eat the heads. After the heads are utilized we go in and brush hog the wheat down leaving a lush stand of clover for the rest of the summer into the fall. If you've used certified red clover seed it will be established for several years. Once the clover comes to seed go back in and run a brush hog or mower of somekind over it to knock the seed out of the head for reseeding purposes. We also planted 18 acres of milo and left about 1/3 of it stand for winter grazing and we have more deer and turkey hanging out on us this winter than we have ever had. Pre-spraying is also effective when using roundup. Especially if you have some small brush in your food plot areas. If you brush hog this area in the spring just before planting when all the vegitation and brush is putting all of its strenght into growing it is very effective to then come in with the roundup and spray it giving it no chance. After spraying with roundup the soil is safe for planting after 10 days of letting sit. After the vegetation is dead and the roots are shrunk up it is easier to tear the soil up for preperation.