|Observations|
- Highly variable stages of development by field within the county.
- Many fields have tall plants (3ft) podded top to bottom. These beans are at high risk of going down with the next windstorm.
- Beans in pods are still quite high in moisture content due to recent precipitation.
- Check moisture content after a day of high sun.
- Be ready to harvest as soon as combine cutter bar and cutter knives will cut.
- Sharp knives needed to continuously strip higher than normal moisture beans.
- Waiting for ideal in field drying is not recommended if moisture is less than 18%.
- Harvest and dry to at least 13% or to your elevator’s specific requirements.
- For tall beans, consider taking the moisture deduction at elevator and not risk lodging of crop.
- The two elevators in the area are:
- Perdue Vineland-Bridgeton: 856-455-1166
- Perdue Lancaster-Bainbridge: 717-426-7950 (800-733-3647)
- Perdue’s moisture deduction is ten cents per half point of moisture.
- For example, if harvested beans delivered to elevator test 18% moisture and are dried to 13% moisture this is a $1.00 deduction per bushel.
- For more information on harvesting higher moisture beans go to….
- https://cropwatch.unl.edu/managing-soybean-harvest-timing-moisture-improve-yield
- https://cropwatch.unl.edu/2019/soybean-drying-storage-could-be-challenging
To share your field specific-yield-variety-fertility program with your agent, email your varietal yield data to melissa.bravo@rutgers.edu and include your contact information.