Soybeans

[DeltaRed]

My soys are chest high. Still green and growing with no sign of getting 'ripe'.Since soys are new here and I have ZERO experience with them. Do they get 'ripe',or do they have to freeze first?Planted the 1st day of June. Thanks Steve

 

[hydro70guy]

Soybeans are light sensitive in that as days shorten they will ripen. Basically when field looks more yellow than green a frost will not hurt them. Then just wait for them to dry. Some newer varieties stalks do not die off very well anymore and have to wait till hard frost for them not to be to tough to combine. Hope that helps.

 

[DeltaRed]

I've been told they will keep on growing till they freeze.We will just have to wait. Thanks

 

[hydro70guy]

That would be bad if frost or hard freeze before they mature they may never dry down just green beans in pods. Not good. Where are you located.
And what maturity soybeans did you plant

 

[Janicholson]

You were not informed correctly, they absolutely have a daylight related life span. If they are green and the pods are developing, they will be great. All you can do is wait. If it freezes before they begin to turn yellow/brown, some beans in pods might bee green. time will tell. Jim

 

[NY 986]

It all depends on the variety. I grow a fair amount of early Group 3 beans and they will take advantage of a warm September but once the daylight cuts back far enough they will yellow up by the end of September. I would suspect that most long season varieties do the same thing. I can't get short season (Mid-Early Group 1) to perform close to what the early Group 3 beans do.

 

[paul]

Depends greatly on where you are located. Northern soybeans and southern soybeans grow differently.

Determinate and indeterminate.

If yours are continuing to grow taller at this point, you must be in the south and I'm not sure how those type work.

Up here in the north they react to shorter sunlight days and start yellowing and drop leaves. At some point a frost helps thrm all ripen at the same time.

If you plant beans next to a car dealership or such I've seen circles near the all night bright lights where the beans never stop growing, the day's never get shorter for them......

Paul

 

[DeltaRed]

I'm in western Colorado at 5200 ft elevation. Dont know the maturity. Just used what the Pioneer seed guy said would work. There have never been beans grown here(only pintos) because pf our high altitude and cool nights. there has a been a hog farmer experimenting,has found 3 varieties that work here.We are trying to 'introduce' a new alternative crop here.Something to rotate with corn

 

[Bobl1958]

Here is Kansas they are still growing as well Steve. I am just starting to see a little bit of yellow color coming into the plants which means they are starting to turn. As below, your beans are daylight sensitive and as the days get shorter they will start to turn yellow and then start dropping leaves.
Do you notice even a slight evidence of a yellow cast starting yet? At your elevation I would think they are close to starting anyway. Here we usually start cutting late Sept, but with all the rain we have had harvest will be late this year. I just hope we don't get any early hard freezes. Good luck - Bob

 

[gene bender]

No they will die and leaves fall you are in trouble planting that late and they are still green it wont be long until you get a killing frost and if they are still green bad news. Out there you should plant them middle of may or so your early frost can come too soon check the maturity days next time go with one that will let them mature before frost. There are some double crop beans here that wont make it

 

[olddeerefever]

What is your normal frost or freeze date? I would think you should have a group 2 or earlier for your area, if it freezes and there still green or the beans are green colored instead of yellow I'm sure you will be docked unless your feeding them?

 

[Russ from MN]

(quoted from post at 07:15:52 09/19/16) My soys are chest high. Still green and growing with no sign of getting 'ripe'.Since soys are new here and I have ZERO experience with them. Do they get 'ripe',or do they have to freeze first?Planted the 1st day of June. Thanks Steve

My cousin who has raised a lot of them said all the leaves have to fall of before they dry and are ready to combine. I don't think they need frost, we have them in all stages in MN. When they are ready to combine it looks like there isn't anything left, just stalk and beans. Not much comes out the back of the combine.

 

[rustyfarmall]

Most of the soybeans here in southwest Iowa have started turning yellow, with a few fields that have totally lost all the leaves. I expect the combines will be running by the end of this month.

 

[David G]

What is maturity days on the seeds?

Forst will kill them, but bast to have them die naturally.

 

[fixerupper]

You don't want frost for another three weeks at least if they are still green. When is your normal first frost date? I usually don't like to see chest high beans. If they are chest high they will give your combine a test unless the stems are crispy dry. Here in northwest iowa I don't like to seen them taller than waist high because the dense cover shades the row too much, making a good environment for white mold and fungus type diseases. YOu might not have as much of a problem with this stuff in your drier humidity. It helps you that beans have never been grown there before too.

 

[JMS/.MN]

When leaves start turning yellow here, I figure combining will be in about 3 weeks.

 

[coonie minnie]

How full are the pods??

Ask the seed guy what group maturity they are. 2.0, 3.2 are examples.

 

[Tractorcedric]

Delta just wondering what the PH of your soil is and if they do good will they be used in hog food? Or how will you market them since they are new to your area? I would like to try some in Utah as well.

 

[IA Roy]

They will not do hogs any favors if fed to them. They have to be roasted to eliminate bad things that will cause hogs digestion /growing issues. Info out there, just too lazy to look it up. Maybe not a poison, but not good!