Late as usual!

Again late, but I thought I would have a few words to say, WOW what a different spring. We need some rain, our target date to start planting corn was April 15th but we started on April 7th(earliest ever for us) and now have 350 acres in the ground (some up). I have been busy getting test seed ready for our test plots and will be looking at several new varieties for soybeans, grain and silage. Hopefully we can get the test plot planted late this week or next. We will have about 20 acres of test soybeans and corn for this coming year. I'm really excited about the next new hybrids and the new soybeans that we are growing and looking at. We have a new CF 491n (supply limited)that really looks good in tests and will be a full season/double crop bean for KY and TN. This is a late indetermate that has southern breeding into to it to take the heat and stress. We are doing the same for our corn hybrids in that everything developed for the central corn belt does not exactly work well here. Hopefully we can hit a home run or a grand slam with some these new silages and corn hybrids that we will have.
Everytime I open up a magazine or see a website one of the things always discussed is weed resistant. I hope to be able to go to a conference in Memphis and
listen the guy from Australia to hear more about this. He says that glysophate will be ineffective in the US in a number of years unless we change the way we use. All articles say that you want to keep resistance off of your farm by using residuals on all crops and not just roundup. As a cost saver, you might want to look at going to either Liberty corn and or soybeans for next year. You could use LL soybeans this year on your double crop beans and change up the chemistry in your fields. theri is no known resistence to IGNITE herbicide. No new herbicide since 1998, roundup was a one in a 100 year discovery. Be sure and reply and I will try and get back to you. Anyone else have any thoughts please post!!