Soybeans....

[bucket]

My old math says 3.67 bpa....

That's a money maker...

Sheesh! !!!!!

About the same as mine overall. ...once you are underwater the results are the same....an extra bushel or 2 means SFA.

[SASKFARMER3]

Half the farm !

Half canola !

Seed should Kill any future farm plans and holidays.

Seed is so out of wack it’s not funny.

Might do 400 soy and 400 peas instead of 800 peas.

But the pencil just isn’t adding up looks like a bad loss on most.

Yea 67 wheat and

Canola at 60 looks real good

Good luck with that every year with no rain.

[4GFarms]

Not sure I would want to pencil in soybeans at sub 20 bpa to make money regardless of R1 or R2 patent varieties. Have not grown them and probably will not. Looking for good weather for barley harvest when you need rain for your soybeans. Not for me at the moment.

[danny W1M]

bucket et al, is it legal to buy R1's from a farmer neighbour who grew them, and plant and harvest the beans, considering you've never purchased any seed from Monsanto yourself?
can you replant the seed the following year if you purchased R1 seed from that neighbour?

[bucket]

R1s are off patent....

Or so I have been told....but don't kid yourself their are guys keeping the newer varieties....

[Rareearth]

Why don’t they grow more soybeans and corn in Ukraine and Russia if they are the commodity kings?

Logistics? They are close to the market.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If soybeans are doing that poorly in our climate why not just go faba beans? Supposed to be quite forgiving to most things except to dry and weeds. And sell for a lot less right now. I assume you can keep your own seed?

[MBgrower]

If your area rarely gets july aug rains, it will be tuff to grow beans, stick with peas. beans do well in s mb because of regular rainfall.

[farming101]

Why don’t they grow more soybeans and corn in Ukraine and Russia if they are the commodity kings?

Logistics? They are close to the market.

They're working on it. Oh, and get out of the way

[helmsdale]

R1's are a non starter here. You'd grow wall to wall Kochia. 25 years of chemfallow on significant acres here means nearly ever Kochia within a 120mi radius is group 2, and 9 resistant. Small doses of group 4s in chemfallow followed up with group 4 in crop the next year means slight resistance to group 4 is now showing up. Only other option would be high rates of edge granular, but lack of competition in soybeans compared to something like yellow mustard means Kochia would thrive later in the season. And unlike lentils which are burning down about the time late Kochia starts to find it's stride means they don't compete for scarce water resources in late July and August like soy desperately needs.


Maybe I'm missing something but seed royalties on R2s on top of unreliable late season moisture kill this crop as an option for me.