Floods, rain, early planting, soybean rates

I hope everyone survived the deluge of rain this past weekend. We have 600 of the anticipated 750 acres of corn planted. We started April 7 (earliest ever for the farm)and planted until the rains of April 23rd came. We have slowed down since then as we don't want to get on fields to wet and cause compaction problems. We have only about 3 acres of corn under water so we won't have to replant too much. Corn looks good so far and we will start sidedressing and post herbicide spraying next week. It will be good to compare some of the earlier planting of corn results to a later planting of corn this year.

Just as soon as corn is finished we will be planting soybeans. We will be using some new things for soybeans this year and I will keep you posted on how they work out. All of are beans will be treated with Trilex 2000, Gaucho 600, and most will be inoculated with Optimize 400 which has an LCO promoter to promote better plant health and we hope better quality beans and yield. We also will be using AMP(LCO promoter) to spray on some beans and corn under a program with EMB for growers. It will be a busy and interesting year for me to look at what is happening. Our main goal is to increase the quality of our soybeans as these are all seed beans.