I spent the winter of '07-08 in the Iowa State University Library and on line studying how to grow better beans. Bought the latest class room text books too.
I planned early, contracted beans that won every plot in 200 miles and contracted them with Cruzer-maxx. Planned on April planting (central Iowa). Contracted prowl-H2O preplant after I planned a glyphosate burn down. Contracted an insecticide spray, expecting a bean leaf beetle problem with the early planting. Contracted a spritz of Headline at a time to be determined. Spraying times to be determined. Put new brushes in my Kinze bean meters on my JD 7000 planter. While the best I'd done was 49 the area average was about that. (central part of Story County, close to Ames).
I had some samples of stalks and beans from 2006 so I had those tested for micronutrients which showed molybdenum was lacking. I acquired suitable molybdenum for adding to the seed and I bought America's Best innoculant.
My goal was 70 bushel beans.
It all fell apart. The beans were too fragile to have any germination left after the seed treatment so they came bare and 85 or 90% germination which is low to begin with.
Being notill I had to wait until the ground warmed up and dried enough to support the planter on the corn stalks. That didn't happen until mid June. The mid May burndown and prowl H2O kept the weeds brown until late June. The molybdenum and innoculant did get applied.
It rained and it rained and it rained, I considered adding pontoons to the planter and triples to the tractor for floatation. But my soil touched when wet turns to concrete so I held off.
The late planting kept the bean leaf beetles away, but in August I had a swarm of aphids in a none aphid year. Then the beans got dosed with insecticides and Headline.
In mid July when I applied glyphosate, I found bare patches that I'd gone around the first two plantings and some that had drowned out so I ordered some 0.9 maturity beans and planted them that week. Some of those drowned out.
The combine really rumbled from the green stems caused by the Headline, but the crop came in at 47 bushels. The neighbors who didn't spray for aphids got in the low 30s with the same planting conditions.
My new tenant is continuous corn and I'm OK with that.
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