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Research for Nebraska soybean farmer important for planting date, population

Eastern Nebraska soybean farmer Richard Bartek says if Mother Nature would cooperate, he’d start planting soon.  “Once you get to May 1st, it seems like you start losing – it could be as high as half-a-bushel per-day on yield on beans depending on the year. I mean that’s an average yield and research has prompted that,” he says.

The Ithaca grower tells Brownfield he’s learned to adjust his population counts. “Soybean population used to be 150,000 seeds per-acre plus. That was a given, now we’re finding seedings below 100,000 with good yields.”

Bartek says he looks at research from the Nebraska Soybean Checkoff and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to help boost yields and maximize his return on investment.

Bartek expects to be planting next week as cooler temperatures are forecast for this week.

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