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charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Jul 20 09:45:21 PDT 2013


Ron we are about a month late for planting soybeans here now.  Generally the 
cut off
planting date for Crop Insurance coverage is about June 20.   I wouldn't try 
it now particularly
this year because it feels to me like we are going to have an early fall. 
The air here feels
like mid August already.  Soybean seed are so comparatively large that I 
can't imagine air seeding
being very cost effective.  I've heard of it being done here but all I've 
actually seen done is
broadcast seeding by driving through the wheat.

The funny difference between the Southeast and your area is that we plant 
corn early in the spring.
Sometimes as early as mid March and they will be picking corn here in 
probably 3 weeks or so.
Soybeans are always planted later, in May or early June.  I believe you guys 
do the opposite don't you?
Sometimes we are picking Soybeans in late October and all through November.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Cook
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 10:57 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] junk

Rye and wheat work well by air.  Helicopter might be cost prohibitive.
Soybeans should work if the ground is damp long enough and the beans are
in shade.  In order to make soybean planting by air work here in western
Iowa you have to get them covered with a little soil somehow.  This is
spring planting soybeans.  We can't do that double crop thing.
Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/20/2013 6:43 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
> Sounds like you guys are having a tough time with the rain. I talked to a
> guy who's brother works for a Deere dealer near the NC/SC border. One of
> their customers is a real big farm. They are still trying to get wheat out
> due to the rain. Running 2 combines with duals and still getting stuck. 
> It's
> so bad they keep a big tractor on hand just to pull them out. The wheat is
> too good to abandon and accept an insurance payment. It's going to take a
> lot of tillage to get the ruts out of the field.
>
> How did the seeding by airplane work? I wouldn't think a soybean could
> sprout and survive like that. Dad has told me before about a neighbor who
> used a helicopter once to seed some wheat in standing corn. Must not have
> worked to well as I don't think he did it but once.
>
> John
>

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