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Some farmers inter-seeding soybeans

Planting challenges are forcing some growers to inter-seed soybeans.

Dekalb/Asgrow agronomist Harmon Wilts covers southwest Minnesota and says weather delays have slowed fieldwork this spring.

He tells Brownfield farmers who did not wait for suitable conditions are seeing emergence problems.

“In soybeans, we can do something we call interseeding.  If you have a few less plants out there than what you want to, we can go right back in there with the planter and just move over six inches from the row and inter-seed some additional seed in there.”

Wilts says growers should aim for a minimum of 130,000 plants per acre.

“If your stand is reduced and you are going to go back in, you figure to knock out maybe 10 to 15 percent with the planter.  If we have a 70,000 stand right now, we’re going to drop down maybe 15 to 20,000.  We want to be in that 140,000 to 150,000 range, final.”

Wilts says corn and soybean emergence in his area is good overall, and does not anticipate a lot of replanting.