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| So I tend to be on the low input side with beans, but have been no-till drilling beans relatively early going way back into the 1980's.
First time I had +80 bu. beans was in 1991. Was drilling on 4-24 and remember being kind of embarrassed when the occasional person drove by as most surrounding fields were way to wet but I was able to go with lighter equip. and I think in general better soil structure due to long term no-tilling.
Before that year, when I'd get questioned about planting beans so early, and I was often starting in early to mid-April, I'd sometimes respond that April beans had been consistently 60 or over when doing so in my experience. I also worked in town back then, and in the 1980's leased a planter that I could either push planting dates earlier than others dared to try or not see the planter again till most likely June as 2 other bigger farmers also used the same planter/tractor for both C and beans.
Anyway, it's not unusual anymore to have a SB field hit 80 or better, although my more timber type fields have enough wildlife pressure to make that a challenging whole field average, especially in the smaller fields, and being in the 60's or 70's is still much more common for me.
That said, I've got neighbors that probably are higher input than I tend to be that have fields hit triple digits sometimes, so I'm behind like usual, lol.
You know, just being from an I state doesn't hurt. We're pretty lucky here.
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what does it take to produce 80 + bu/a soybeans
