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This year, we’ll need to make every seed count. There’s not going be a lot of this
re-planting potential or hopefully not, so we’ve got one shot. One thing is seed quality.
Coming out of last year, a dry year, and many of our soybeans were harvested at low moisture
content. Having this low moisture content the soybean seed and seed coat is running
thin and very subject to damage and cracking and splitting. One thing I’d ask growers,
as they make plans, whether it be putting on insecticide seed treatments or fungicides
for soybeans to be planted this year, is to go ahead and get an early germ from your soybean
seed that you’ll be planting. You’re able to take a sample of these beans, send them
to the Arkansas State Plant Board for a normal germination analysis. Just to reaffirm that
you’re getting good seed, the seed culture not busted up, and that what you do plant
will come up and grow off for you. Your Arkansas Soybean Podcast is a production of the University
of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and was funded in part by the Arkansas Soybean Promotion
Board. For more information about soybean farming in Arkansas, contact your local county
Extension office.