South Central Illinois | Last year, I had several fields that needed extra population. Had around 60,000. I needed to get to 80,000. So I planted 70,000 The ones that went in ahead of the rain had 20% to 25% emergence. They were too deep. Too much rain, sealed them in. I left everything set the same, and headed back out as soon as I could to finish. Turned off hot and dry and only 20% to 25% of those came up because they were too shallow. We planted a lot of stubble beans at 120# per acre when we were using bin run seed. So they were around 300,000 at planting time. |