Episode 7: The Importance of Soybean Variety Selection

 

Transcript

 

Speaker 1 (00:01):

<silence> Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of an earful, the podcast about farming and country life. Zach, what’s going on around here today?

Speaker 2 (00:11):

Oh, a little bit of everything’s going on today around here. Um, we’re currently drying some corn. Um, we’re trying to let the dryer get ahead of us. We’re working on cutting some double crop beans. We just recently had the time change, which sucks, and, uh,

Speaker 1 (00:29):

They should really outlaw that thing. I don’t understand why that’s still, why that’s still a thing.

Speaker 2 (00:34):

I’m not really sure, but I don’t like, uh, I don’t like that it gets dark by six o’clock.

Speaker 1 (00:39):

Yeah, it just doesn’t make any sense. I mean, we still work daylight to dark, so it doesn’t affect us as much as, you know, other people that, you know, have to drive in the dark or whatever. But I don’t know. It’s a, it’s a stupid rule.

Speaker 2 (00:52):

It is a stupid thing. I don’t understand why we do it, but nonetheless, here it is at that time of year. Um, our goal every year is to get harvest done by the time change, so we don’t have to screw with it. But, uh, that didn’t happen this

Speaker 1 (01:06):

Year. Well, at least we started by the time change, I guess. I don’t know this, this corn harvest. Uh, so for you guys that have been following along, we finally got the millwright project done. The leg is operational and we are, uh, able to dry corn, get corn in the wet bin, get corn into some of the dry bins, and we are going to shell until we can’t no more.

Speaker 2 (01:31):

Yeah. Um, we, you know, once we kind of got started, we ran some wetter corn, so we’re having a kind of fight with that right now. It’s pretty slow going, but um, that’s just the nature of it this year. A lot of high moisture out there still.

Speaker 1 (01:46):

Yeah. Yeah. But that’s, uh, that’s all right. Yields are good. We’ll, we’ll trudge through it. Stuff hasn’t lost a leaf yet. I hope I can say that in another week or two when, uh, you know, when we’re, we’re getting deep into November, hopefully we don’t have any down corn or any problems like that to deal with. So I guess time will tell us what we’re dealing with.

Speaker 2 (02:07):

Yeah. And, uh, I mean, really pretty impressed with the standability of everything so far. Um, just hoping the weather kind of holds for us. We’ve been pretty fortunate so far. We’ll see if that sticks around.

Speaker 1 (02:18):

Yeah. Yep. That’s all we can hope for. So, um, today we wanted to talk a little bit about variety selection for soybeans. We talked about hybrid selection for corn a couple episodes ago, so wanted to kind of dive into soybeans. Just talk about some of the things that we look at when we are making those selections, which we are currently making those selections for next year. We’ve ran the plot. Um, we kind of know what we saw there, and now we have to decide, okay, what beans do we keep? What beans go? What beans do we change? Um, always kinda stressful, always kind of fun. But, uh, I live and breathe the, the seed Bible here for a few weeks, trying to figure out where we want to go.

Speaker 2 (03:04):

Yeah. And I think too, we have a little bit of a leg up on, uh, everybody else as we, uh, we put out the 50 acre plot every year. So, um, we get a, we get actually do some head-to-head stuff out there and see what’s yielding above the rest.

Speaker 1 (03:18):

Yeah. 25 or 30 soybean varieties is a lot. Um, they’re about an acre per entry. It, uh, it gets kind of wild out there, but you, you’re at least able to sort ’em, you know, top to bottom. Okay, this one performs here and this one doesn’t. And that field rolls just enough that you can tell what stuff’s gonna do on the hills and what it’s gonna do in the valleys and which one needs to be where.

Speaker 2 (03:41):

Yeah. I love that plot out there. It’s just such a good, it’s just such a good representation, you know, we treat it like everything else. We try to keep everything really fair and, uh, yeah, I think that’s a, that’s a great plot. It’s a great, great, uh, you know, great information that we get to take from that every year. So love having that bean pot out there as well as the corn pot. We haven’t ran the corn pot yet, but, uh,

Speaker 1 (04:05):

Uh, the corn pot’s gonna be a standability plot this year, probably. ’cause it gets ran last and, uh, it’s got a lot of acres ahead of it, so, um, we’ll see.

Speaker 2 (04:17):

We’ll see. Yeah. Yeah. We’ll actually get a pretty good, uh, picture of standability this year since it’s gonna be a little bit later than usual. But, uh, then again, you know, it’s just a matter of the weather, what kind of wind storms we’re gonna get and everything else. Right now we’re little, uh, unseasonably warm, which happy for that, you

Speaker 1 (04:36):

Know. Yes. 70 degrees yesterday.

Speaker 2 (04:37):

Amen. 70 degrees out here is what, on November the sixth was 70 degrees yesterday. That was great. So we get some more of that. That helps knock some moisture out of this corner around here for anybody that’s got crops left, we’re not dealing with these crazy wet conditions yet.

Speaker 1 (04:54):

Right, right. So, soybean, um, selection. One thing we do help our growers with, um, because we’re in the spray business, is what herbicide package do you want to go with? Um, you know, you can got from conventional enlist roundup dicamba. I don’t even know if they still make straight liberties, straight

Speaker 2 (05:18):

Flex. Oh, yeah. I think you could still do straight liberties.

Speaker 1 (05:20):

I mean, they’ve got all the, they’ve got all different kinds now. So I guess, um, the hot topic around here has been water hemp.

Speaker 2 (05:30):

Yes.

Speaker 1 (05:31):

So how much water hemp do you have? Where’s it at? You know, is it getting worse every year? Are you being after being, there’s all these, there’s all these different conversations, but the, the best thing that we’ve landed on for most guys has been enlist.

Speaker 2 (05:47):

Yeah. Um, doing the e threes and kind of giving yourself that flexibility to come in on a later herbicide pass after your initial post, uh, to do some cleanup work, especially for those water hemp that like to, you know, tuck, tuck themselves down in the canopy in that later part of the year, and it’s hard to kill ’em.

Speaker 1 (06:05):

Yeah. I love, I love dicamba, um, chemistry. Yes. I hate the restrictions on it. I hate how you can get burnt, um, even if you’re in on label.

Speaker 2 (06:19):

Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (06:20):

It that makes it, it really ties your hands.

Speaker 2 (06:22):

Yeah. Dicamba is a tricky one. It obviously is our best kill and our best control, especially in some of those late season passes, um, where you’re, you’re trying to clean up and you know what you can’t see below the canopy. You know, that’s, uh, you know, that dicamba, you know that dicamba is gonna win. It isn’t a matter of your, your liberty works, it’s just, you know, getting the gallons on that time of year coating the whole plant and killing the whole plant.

Speaker 1 (06:49):

Yeah. But what Dicamba shuts you off at what, June 30th now,

Speaker 2 (06:53):

Right? Yeah. They’ve given me such a narrow window, at least here in Ohio, and I’m sure there’s other states that are stricter than us, but, um, it just didn’t work. I mean, there’s still a handful, um, of people around here that use it and are still happy with it, but, um, I mean, at least in our area, our local nutrients and, uh, some of our bigger co-ops, they will not even spray it.

Speaker 1 (07:19):

No, no. And I mean, we don’t spray it simply because of liability. Yes. Um, and 92 and a half percent of our growers are, uh, enlist. We’ve only got, what, one or two growers that are still xtend. Yep. Um, I like the enlist platform. It’s not as strong as far as chemistries that I, Canva platform, everybody talks yield on ’em. I’ve planted both of them. I didn’t see a yield difference in either one of ’em. That was only, I guess that was just one year. But realistically, I don’t think you’re gonna see a yield difference between the two of them guys are happy with both programs.

Speaker 2 (08:05):

Yeah. And it’s too, uh, we know it’s, it’s to what everybody’s familiar with. You know, you still have the guys that plant, uh, Roundup twos because that’s what their daddy’s daddy and daddy’s daddy’s daddy did. So that’s what we do. But, uh, I think a lot of guys are kinda getting on the boat that, Hey, we gotta do something, get these weeds outta control and, uh, certain programs just aren’t cutting it anymore. And, you know, enlist has given us, uh, at least the opportunities, a few different modes of action to get out there and try to keep, you know, the weed pressure under control.

Speaker 1 (08:39):

Yeah. Um, it’s, it’s just knowing that, hey, I need to have some liberty in the barn. Yep. In case these things get wild on me. Um, I need to be watching, you know, as those beans grow, the weeds will grow with them. You know, you’re supposed to kill weeds at four inches, not four inches above the beans. Right. So a water hemp of mar well, you don’t really fight Mary’s tale as much anymore, but water hemp, um, are easy to kill when they’re small. ’cause they get, you know, all those nodes on ’em and you gotta cover ’em with liberty. You’re, you’re in bad shape.

Speaker 2 (09:15):

Yeah. And water, he’s a tricky one because it, water hip likes warm weather. It’s thriving in that late summertime frame when your beans are, you know, maxed out on height and your full canopy. And it’s, it’s a hard one to get. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:29):

So moral of the story is think about herbicide, think about how you’re gonna control those weeds in, uh, you know, late July, early August when those beans are getting big. How are we gonna, you know, are we gonna lay a bunch of residuals down? Just, uh, the, the herbicide package you have on your beans is super important. Um, and if you’re using conventionals, well, good luck. Good luck. Good luck.

Speaker 2 (09:54):

<laugh>.

Speaker 1 (09:56):

So

Speaker 2 (09:59):

Past, I mean, past the, um, herbicide platform, I guess we can get into some, you know, disease pressures and things of that nature.

Speaker 1 (10:06):

Right? So we fight frogeye around here quite a bit. Didn’t seem like too bad this year ’cause we were so stinking dry. Right. Um, that’s always one thing we look at is, is frogeye. Um, most of the time we’re able to control it with, with a fungicide. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>. But I know there’s some guys that skip the fungicide past just because they’re using frogeye tolerant soybeans.

Speaker 2 (10:30):

Right. And I mean, that is something you gotta look at, like what program works for you if you know that you are just not gonna do fungicide, we’re not gonna do some of these, you know, maybe what you may consider an extra pass or an extra thing. Um, just consider our management practices on our fields and, you know, really let that be a factor when you’re picking soybean varieties. Because you don’t wanna, you don’t want to have to look back at what you bought and say, wow, that was goofy. I, yeah. You know, I should have got something that was, that would stand up a little bit better to Frogeye or SDS or some of these other things we may have been able to help prevent. That’s

Speaker 1 (11:07):

What I was, that’s one thing I was gonna touch base on was Sudden Death. So, so when you’re dealing with sudden death, um, if you’re not using an olivo, um, really just Olivo, <laugh>, I don’t know, <laugh>, I’ve used the other ones. I’m not impressed. I’m, we don’t get paid by Olivo. We’re gonna talk ’em into it one day, I hope. Yeah. We’re

Speaker 2 (11:29):

Gonna get ’em sponsors.

Speaker 1 (11:30):

Yeah. Um, but anyways, if you’re not using A-S-D-S-C treatment, um, and you know, you have a history of it in your field, your variety selection better be on point.

Speaker 2 (11:41):

Oh

Speaker 1 (11:41):

Yeah. Especially if you’re not planting in late May, if you’re, if you’re trying to get some April beans in, um, we need to have a conversation because we don’t want to get, we don’t want to get our butts burnt, you know, middle of August and that field brown.

Speaker 2 (11:55):

Yeah, definitely. Definitely. And yeah, again, I mean that’s, that’s just part of it too, right? You’re just evaluating your, your management practices compared to the average or whatnot. And just, you know, are you gonna go out there in late March, early April and plants of beans, it’s gonna be cold. You’re gonna have more moisture in the, in the soil. You’re gonna be fighting diseases.

Speaker 1 (12:15):

Right, right. And I, I am not a product guy. If you can fix something culturally without using a product, great. But some of these things, you better use the product unless you’ve figured out how to fix it. Because most of the, like sudden death, if you’re planting early, I mean, variety selection’s important, but it’s hard for that variety to fend it off, especially if you’re planting in some nasty conditions like we’ve done the past couple years.

Speaker 2 (12:45):

Absolutely. Yeah. And yeah, if you’re not doing that, uh, you know, <laugh> not planting in Mother’s Day, you’re gonna can’t get away with these untreated

Speaker 1 (12:54):

Soybeans. Right. Um, and I’ve got, we’ve got one customer, uh, he’s an interesting case down. I mean, he’s south of us, so he is a little bit warmer. Uh, he’s in river bottom ground, so he’s in some pretty heavy soils. Gets a lot of fog. It’s a lot of dew. Um, a lot of moisture just to deal with fights, white mold every year. Um, I’ve always been told once you get white mold in the field, you’ve got it. I’ve been told it comes in on the seed. Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>, I’ve also been told it’s a northern disease. I just don’t understand. We’ve helped him with 4 0 1. I think we’ve done a little bit of help with him controlling it. It’s, I mean, it’s not labeled for it, but it’s a biological product. We, we, we should be trying to control the bad, the bad fungus with the good or the bad microbes with the, with the good.

Speaker 1 (13:47):

Uh, we’ve tried spraying some paracetic acid on him, which is the opposite of biology mind you. But it controlled the white mold. Um, I don’t like doing that, but that’s, you know, it, it works If you’ve got a problem like that, sometimes you’ve got to, you’ve got to fix the problem before you, you know, you’re looking at other things. Um, so that’s one thing that Agri Gold has in their book. Their seed Bible is their, uh, they’ve got ratings for sudden death, frogeye iron sclerosis, white mold, brown stem rot, charcoal rot, stem, canker, and ra. Um, very comprehensive for a, for a bean variety guide.

Speaker 2 (14:38):

Yeah, no doubt. <laugh>. And that is something I, I, I haven’t brought up I wanted to say is that, uh, a lot of guys just don’t get super involved in, there’s soybean,

Speaker 1 (14:50):

You know. Oh, you mean they’re just beans.

Speaker 2 (14:51):

Right? They’re just beans. We, uh, at least around here, I’d say it’s probably predominant throughout the Midwest too, is that corn is, you know, that’s everybody’s baby and soybeans are kind of, the soybeans are kind of the stepchild crop, um, just to keep us in a rotation. So it is, that’s something we gotta get away from. ’cause we’re still making money on soybeans, so Well, yeah. Treat ’em like that.

Speaker 1 (15:17):

If you look at your profit numbers, if you can raise decent soybeans, those profit numbers can match the corn numbers. I mean, even with good corn. Right. So I mean, think if we actually treated ’em right.

Speaker 2 (15:30):

Oh, absolutely. I mean, we’ve, we’ve came a long way in the last 10 years around here anyways, um, kind of taking a, stepping away from that whole, oh, they’re just beans, you know, process to actually being pretty thoroughly managed and, uh, really caring for it just as if we would our corn crop or any other crop now.

Speaker 1 (15:49):

Yeah. I would definitely say that the number one nutrient beans need though is water.

Speaker 2 (15:53):

Amen.

Speaker 1 (15:54):

Uh, you can’t raise beans in a drought. Doesn’t work very well.

Speaker 2 (15:56):

No, no. Uh, yeah. And, and that’s it. A mother nature bats last. So no matter what you do, you can’t control. That’s the one aspect you can’t control.

Speaker 1 (16:06):

Right, right. Um, so I guess just going through the seed guide, another thing that they offer, um, is your management practices. So what kind of, uh, what kind of drainage you have if you’re no-till, uh, your row width, uh, if you’re gonna plant early, you wanna know how the emergence is standability later on, which I, I guess, I guess talking about ri or uh, herbicide selection, one thing I’ve found is enlist soybeans stand a lot better than extend soybeans.

Speaker 2 (16:36):

What do you mean? That flex, flex beans don’t get up and just fall over?

Speaker 1 (16:41):

Yeah. I don’t understand. Uh, it must be in the, in the, uh, varieties just the parents or whatever. Oh yeah. They get tall, they get big, they get beautiful, and then they fall over.

Speaker 2 (16:51):

Yeah. And that’s something you, you can’t beat this through a lot of people’s heads is that you’re, uh, you, you’ll walk out into a field of soybeans up to your armpit that will under yield waste high soybeans.

Speaker 1 (17:02):

Right, right. Um, and don’t, I mean, don’t get us wrong. We, we have x extend and extend fluxx soybeans, we’ll sell ’em all day long. But from a management standpoint, I’ve found it so much easier to manage enlist beans. We’re just trying to give you what we’ve seen. Um, like I said, we don’t care what you plant. Nope. You manage ’em the way you wanna manage ’em, but we’re just telling you what we’ve seen. And when you go in into spray for a guy, you’re spraying fungicide, you don’t care what kind of bean he’s got. I can tell you to the row where they turned into extend beans.

Speaker 2 (17:39):

Oh yeah. It is crazy.

Speaker 1 (17:40):

It’s obvious.

Speaker 2 (17:41):

Yes. It, it’s very, very obvious. But it’s to each their own. It’s what you prefer. It’s what you get along with.

Speaker 1 (17:49):

If you like four bean pods extend beans are for you. Right. Um, the thing with enlist, you get more pods. A lot more pods, but they’re twos and threes and, uh, extend you don’t get as many, but you’re, uh, you know, you’re gonna get some threes and fours.

Speaker 2 (18:07):

Right.

Speaker 1 (18:08):

So that’s, that’s what I’ve taken away from seeing it. Um, so, so Standability is an interesting one to look at. Um, just looking at the, looking at the scores on these, on these enlist beings right here. They’re all, um, fours and fives for standability. And that’s another thing I appreciate, appreciate about, uh, agri Gold. They don’t give you fours and fives for everything. They’ll take them suckers down to a two, um, and let you know that it sucks on whatever it’s looking at. ’cause why have a five point system when you don’t use all five points?

Speaker 2 (18:44):

Yeah, exactly. It’s, um, it’s at least some appreciated honesty.

Speaker 1 (18:49):

Yeah. I mean, if it’s not good on something, just tell me like,

Speaker 2 (18:53):

I wanna know

Speaker 1 (18:54):

You have a book that’s what, 119 pages long. If I can’t find something in there that I want, then I’ll go to a different company.

Speaker 2 (19:03):

Right.

Speaker 1 (19:04):

But I mean, if it’s that long, I think you’ve got, you’ve got some diversity in there that if you’re, if you’re willing to try, you know, if you want a three nine and they’ve got a three eight that fits your, fits what you want. Well, sometimes you gotta be a little bit flexible.

Speaker 2 (19:18):

Oh yeah. They throw a three eight in there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:21):

Um, I was talking to our, uh, our district rep yesterday, kind of, kind of getting a feel for what he’s seen in plots and where we want to go for next year on our home farm. Um, and had some really good conversations, uh, about, about maturities. Um, might be planting a two nine next year. Oh boy. Like, I haven’t planted anything without a three in front of it for years, but he, he made the point, okay, the past two years, grains have kinda shut off. Okay. So your best beans have been your early beans. I said, yeah, but what if you get that rain next year? He said, yeah, you might. But if we’ve seen strong performance out of these beans for two years, we know they can yield. We’ll diversify from that two, nine up to a four. Right. I mean, give, give yourself a maturity range to where, you know, if we’re planting three fours to three sixes, you’re screwed if you don’t get that range.

Speaker 2 (20:18):

Oh, for sure. And that, and that chases you clear out of the field as far as your selection is. Um, you know, you want to kind of stagger it out. ’cause I mean, look, you know what a lot of guys got into this year. This is a lot to do with the weather, but was, um, you know, harvesting some extremely dry and so being able to stagger yourself out a little bit and, you know, kind of broaden your window of maturity ranges to help yourself get away from that.

Speaker 1 (20:45):

Right. Right. And, uh, Gold’s had some good early maturity beans. I know the Tavo has got some good early maturing beans. Um, we’re just now coming into the world of Stein. We’re learning more about them every day. Um, of course we’ve been watching them, but without putting ’em in the field, it’s hard to, you know, give everything, um, give all the, give all the field notes that we can on these other ones. But, uh, really excited to have some stein beans out there next year. Um, they’re very cost effective. Right. They’ve got some great programs for the grower. Um, I think they’re gonna be super easy for all of us to work with from a retail standpoint and from a, um, grower standpoint. And let’s face it, they’re breeding 80 some percent of the beans got Harry Stein’s stamp of approval on. So

Speaker 2 (21:37):

Yeah. Talk about a company that has a good history. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:40):

So I don’t think, I don’t think we’re gonna go wrong there. Uh, got a good district guy to work with. Not that we share blood or anything, but I have a little bit of, uh, a bias on that. Biased, um, got a good agronomist coming, um, coming over to help us. And I think, think we can really make those succeed. Um, just, just based on what I’ve seen on paper.

Speaker 2 (22:05):

Yeah. And I’m excited to get some, you know, some more beans out and this is just another tool for us. It’s diversifying us and, uh, being able to get out there and utilize another company and kind of seeing what they’re able to do for us.

Speaker 1 (22:18):

Another one with a strong seed guide. Oh yeah. I think that’s super important. Um, vo <laugh>, I think it’s, I think it’s super important to have that seed guide to put in the grower’s hands, uh, so they can see, you know, they know all the problems that they’re dealing with, or they know a lot of the problems that they’re dealing with. Yes. They bring this up, they look at it and they go, oh, you know, I did have a TTT problem a couple years ago, and this one’s not rated very well for that. I kind of, and you know, that’s something I didn’t bring up in discussion, but we probably should address that in some way. Um, let’s, let’s move away from that variety. Maybe we can look at, you know, something a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (22:54):

Right. Um, and the biggest, just biggest thing is just definitely to be open-minded. I think it’s definitely important to, to, you know, spread your risk. You wanna spread out your maturity ranges. You wanna look at, you know, the past however many years of data yield data’s available on all the varieties you’re considering. You know, if there’s a couple years of really good data out there, you know, saying we’re gonna have push some good yields outta these beans, well that might be a good player.

Speaker 1 (23:23):

Yeah. Now, if you’re a seed company, um, agri Gold’s got this really cool thing where they put make their hybrids into families. If you could figure out how to do that for beans, it would be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (23:36):

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It’s so awesome on corn. Yes. Yes. Bring that to the beans.

Speaker 1 (23:40):

It fricking makes sense for corn. You can walk in there, you know what you’re doing. It just makes sense. Beans. Yeah. This one can go anywhere. Yeah. This one, this one can handle some wet feet. Come on guys. Well, there’s so many characteristics of beans, like there are corn, we’ve just gotta categorize ’em. Yeah. I mean, um, I get one plot, you know, on our farm. I get the seed guide. That’s, that’s what I go off of. Um, and then growers that have ’em in their fields too, I talk to them, see what they’re doing. I know what their fields do. Um, but as far as being an agronomist that has 15 different plots to look at different soil types, look at different weather conditions, I don’t have that, um, as a salesman and as a grower, that that family thing just means so much to me.

Speaker 2 (24:25):

Yeah. And it is it that the family, the family system is just a good comprehensive way to look at hybrids. And like Evan says, if we could bring that into the beans, you know, something that helps a person categorize what better fits their management styles, their maturity ranges, maybe their disease pressures, you know, any, anything to help a person make a decision easier. Because lord knows there’s a lot of decisions to make in farming and as a grower. So let’s simplify what we can.

Speaker 1 (24:58):

I’m sure the national agronomist for Bayer is listening right now. Yeah. And they’re gonna make that change, you know, just right now they, they, they’re on their way to work today. They’re saying, oh my gosh, I never thought of that. Gonna gonna figure that out today.

Speaker 2 (25:12):

Hey, as long as we get through to somebody, I don’t,

Speaker 1 (25:14):

You know, as long as we get one listener, I’m gonna be happy. I don’t know. Uh, we’ll see, we’ll see what happens. I don’t even know what episode we’re on six, I think. Yeah. So, uh, it’s gonna be gonna be interesting to see how many guys we actually get listening to this. And I don’t know on our, on where we’re putting podcasts, I don’t know if we can see the demographic, if they’re male, female, 20 years old, 50 years old. I don’t, I don’t, we haven’t got deep enough into that yet. It’ll be interesting to see. Yeah. Um, if we can get a demographic,

Speaker 2 (25:45):

Oh yeah. We’re gonna get the best demographic. I already know.

Speaker 1 (25:49):

Yeah. Our listeners are the best.

Speaker 2 (25:51):

Yeah. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, what you’re about, you’re pretty cool. You’re listening to us,

Speaker 1 (25:56):

That’s for sure. So anyways, guys, um, you know, we’re here in November. Variety selection, probably top of mind. Um, if you haven’t already done it, it’s gonna be coming up really, really soon. So just give a little bit more thought to your beans this year, I guess. Um,

Speaker 2 (26:14):

They’re not just beans,

Speaker 1 (26:16):

Right? There’s different things out there. Uh, whether you deal with one company, six companies, whatever. Um, try to compare them as as apples to apples as you can on, on ratings and just different things that are gonna suit your farm better. So just try to, try to keep all the different aspects in mind. Give it a whole picture, not just a maturity. And I wanna plant two different kinds of beans and early and a late and let’s just plant, give it, give it a little bit of diversity. Give it a little bit of, uh, give it a little bit of thought this year. And I think, think you’ll be really happy with what you see.

Speaker 2 (26:52):

Absolutely. I mean, we work, we work so hard to push corn yields. That’s the work as hard to push our bean yields and our pocket book will thank us later.

Speaker 1 (27:00):

That’s right. So, uh, I think that pretty much brings us to the end. Thanks for listening guys. Be sure to rate and review us on, uh, your podcast listening system. Go over to Google, uh, at easy custom ag. Give us a company review over there. That would be wonderful. Get in

Speaker 2 (27:20):

There.

Speaker 1 (27:21):

Uh oh. Zach mentioned last time. Catch us on our social medias. We got Instagram, Facebook. Yep. I think we have a TikTok.

Speaker 2 (27:29):

We are on the TikTok.

Speaker 1 (27:31):

We are, uh, we are super technologically savvy if you can’t tell. So, uh, you know, catch us on anything. You can. We try to be informational. We try to be a little bit funny at times, even though sometimes that doesn’t work. But, uh, yeah,

Speaker 2 (27:48):

We’re more just funny looking. <laugh>.

Speaker 1 (27:50):

Thanks for listening guys. We’ll see you next time out in the field.