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| There are thousands, probably tens of thousands, of acres of double-crop soybeans in west Tennessee that will do good to average in the single digits, if they are even harvested. Most of these acres have plants that have never gotten taller than the wheat stubble, and are now literally dying from the extreme heat and dryness.
To those of you who routinely plant double-crop soybeans following SRW harvest, how many years in the last ten have you actually made a net profit on those acres? I'm not counting any profit made on the wheat crop, just the DC beans alone.
We think we can now routinely harvest 70 to 80 BPA of SRW, and when you multiply that times $5.00+ per bushel, why plant a crop on those same acres that will give that nice profit back? Is leaving that ground fallow for the rest of the season problematic?
Now, I am thinking of dryland acres, but if SRW is planted on pivot irrigated land, and then you can irrigate the DC beans, that changes the equation. So, for this question please only consider dryland DC beans.
Thanks guys.
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Why Plant Double-crop Soybeans?
