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>> The c ag today on this Thursday morning April 30th 2020 will go ahead and get started. We are pleased today to have Dr David Holzhausen extension so we've been agronomists from Virginia cooperative extension with us Davis on the speaking and also early season soybean management so we're fortunate ahead David this morning and thank him for joining us thank you all who who are joining us this morning for your participation and comment and to spend this morning with us all right well we thank everyone for joining us again and we'll tired of a Dr David Holzhausen extension so I'd be an agronomist David thank you for joining us this morning well thank you Robin and I want to say thank you to you and all the other agents for putting this together attorneys unusual times we had.

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I guess the 1st thing I'd like to do so let's just go ahead and share my screen. I was getting quite a you know a pretty good list on the sofar going to minimize this given quarter. List on what things are to talk about an early season sort of the management will try to get through most of those today I'm not going to go into detail on any of those what I'd rather do is just kind of introduce subject and then maybe take time towards the end that we're going to have more of a question and answer session and I think you'd be more beneficial to all of the support would do that.

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So 1st of all let's I want to talk about these current cool weather conditions with their their 1st of all very different than what we had last year if nothing melts and then let's talk about maturity group selection and you need to talk about maturity groups let's you need to talk about planting seeds that will move and see treatments nematode management decisions that you can still make now and then we'll just move forward from there hopefully everybody is seeing what I'm looking at I pulled this up yesterday off of the weather service and this is showing on the left the j.f.s. modeling on the right the European weather models Now keep in mind these are long term forecast so they are just they're speculative didn't nature this takes us through next week the thing that you will notice in both models this is the temperature anomaly below normal we are much who are then apt in both models are showing that the g.p.s. is even showing us to be a little more cool than normal Now let's take this on out for the next you know another 15 days so this takes us into the city to date on this is May 14th so the next 2 weeks this if anything this is deepened from the norm and I keep in mind this isn't necessarily showing cold weather this is just showing temperature anomalies over average So Now contrast that with what we saw last year this time days for the 1st 2 weeks of temperatures that we had last year I and others are the same way we tend to only remember last year.

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We had a little rain and April I know we couldn't get in in late April and do some planning but then may ended up being a pretty good plan season for most of us we have sworn temperatures in the soil of Maine were popping right out of the ground but if we're looking at something like this for the next 2 weeks they're super cautions that we are going to have to take Ok And this is the 1st thing we need to look at if these temperatures are low and make it back up a little this is the idea I've been following soil temperatures and we seem to be on a monthly pattern and since like we've got a warm period and then a coke period Warm Period and hope here and below list the weather folks on following are saying that this is if this keeps up we are going to come out of the scope here we just don't know when it's going to be a weight on be 2 weeks or maybe 3 weeks.

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And then I looked at so temperatures but in April late April. I'm sorry in late March in early April we had some very warm soul temperatures throughout the state and I was taken Wow we all get out and plants and beans it and we may have done so months ourself if the we've had our 1st of our seed in and I imagine those beings came up I asked a sauce and soybeans up and growing not long ago someone put in early plan but now I think the things that are going to be much different we are now this is our problem seedling damping often gets some fuse area on to the m 5 top there are other things that could be causing this situation there are 4 of them we're talking about something like this we need to make sure that we get a seed treatment on the seed had a call just 2 days ago from a Southeastern farmer may ask hey it's going to be warm tomorrow and think about that and some late for soybean and I want to put them in early May try to take advantage of the long days in that cetera I said well 1st of all explain the situation where if you were just now talking about us it is going to get cold and the state are going to be in the ground in this guy's a cotton picking up farm rested Do you really wanna be harvesting things 1st.

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You know I told her he said Well probably not I'll be in in a cot our stance we just need to keep these in mind but it I'm not saying don't plan that I'm just sayin if you do plan to make sure you've got a good sign decides the treatment on on that crop the other disease I will mention this is a late season disease sudden death syndrome that we're seeing more and more updates here.

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You'll see this all appear in August even into September. But the infections occurring now usually. This is very highly correlated to early planting and I think that's largely due to the same situation if the seat is in the ground for very long the disease or in the ground you very well have more of an opportunity to attack that plant therefore you've got to have a good you've got to protect that plant now up until a couple of years ago we didn't have any treatments for sudden deaths syndrome as far as a c. treatment we now have a pretty good one but I will say something about this disease I've always said it's really not that bad of the other disease sometimes I like to shoot a call it's seldom death syndrome that's all you've got but it's a really good indicator that you've got no problems so anytime I see this disease late in the season I'm sampling from them.

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Now again I'm not telling you not to plan but one thing that I'm not encouraging you to get in a big hurry with planty need to eat are just because of what I've described the seeds on to be in the ground you know 70 and more days before it comes out you're more likely to get attacked by disease this is a planting day chart and I use over and over a satirical chart but it pretty much tells what sort of being you know does with planting that this is 100 percent of the maximum yield we really get very little you know gloss up and through through about the 1st week of June matter fact my best shows this purpose.

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Is very flat. Now keep in mind if you plan 30 days earlier you'll gain about 10 days in maturity and this is for a long talk about these majority groups if you plan if you go from say a group of 5 to a 4 or from a group for 2 or 3 you're going to gain another 10 days and that's the idea behind this early so I've been productive production system if you.

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Grow an early maturing variety and plan a say in April which we're past that date now then you could gain a 20 days but think about this if you're rain fed and you're not under perfect conditions not under your geisha and do you really want to move that critical seed and pod development to the hotter and drier time of the summer instead of late August now moving into the early August that's generally not a great idea and that's generally why I see that these early plantings I see no big advantage insurgent and immaturity grit goes with that as well however I will say and what not saying over and over again is that on your better soils own areas you're irrigating earlier maturity groups work better in earlier planning work.

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And my recommendation asked plant your early maturing varieties if it's early for even a late for versus a size plant those 1st spread out those maturities over time and therefore you're more likely to avoid that drought stress let's look at some of the seed treatments with that said So 1st of all you know we're got some cool conditions if not take a while for these beings to come up.

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But don't you don't need to get in a big hurry with planting yield was a see very little difference and planting now versus middle of May quite honestly through mid 1st of June but if you do decide to go think about the seed treatments you've got the main diseases we're going to look at as rise of Tony and fields fuse areas to think about this now can provide this data later on made in putting on our.

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Testing from a management blog today shows which see true Mr Bass for these decease we do occasionally have to phone 50 m. that's one of the water molds you're new to these products here as apron props. I will mention this sudden death syndrome again we notice that none of the staterooms of showing you here are sacked against sudden death syndrome mention we do have a new one and that is called a leave of that is good for certain that sender all however and I can put this chart up as well that gives you more details copperhead or email but this and the last chart to gether the elite treatment does work on sudden death syndrome but again I've pointed out if you if you try to issue a sudden death syndrome that nematodes may be your big problem now with that said let's talk a little about nematode management all think Keith ball or some 1st picture I have used this photograph over and over and over again to demonstrate that even with the resistant Broddi were not all yield much soybean vs a multiple race resistant variety the Basically my big 3 for nematode management is 1st of all cultural practices you know if you're doing tailored to claim that playing that equipment for you move from a nematode field into anonyma toad feel rotation is number one.

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Soybean on sort of being burry I mean you're asking for trouble there specially if you do that more than 2 or 3 years and not with prices to die out on the best issue any more broadly selection we can select Sonoma Tode resistant varieties whether there's a system a total a root not nematodes and we do have a couple of them out of sod see treatments that are somewhat sect that now let me say something about that again this is Dr Hilary Mantel's data over the last I want to say 4 or 5 years to summarize this together this is all the mementoes together I'm not showing you know the details route not and soybean system but you can see are various in the Madison seed treatments I guess the want to kind of stands out is the addict the let me describe what I'm showing here this x. is the average yield response that she is seeing 100 imitate infested fields with a victim now this isn't that great of a yield response but keep in mind this is a c. treatments only a protective we're really not getting rid of the nematode.

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This represents 2 thirds of the Veda and this line up here is a median In other words in over half of the hurt loss we've got a 5 bushel yield increase from the addict. And then this is the range we get so you don't always get a yield increase even where you've got no Mentos and so forth some of these are biological So there's the Aleve I mentioned it's good for sudden death syndrome but it also has been the maddest out activity Ajah voted was one that I know the agents of looked at a lot those are the other ones that is generally on average given your about of 2 bushel your increase not a large one.

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And medians up there as well secured these in mind I think we would suggest that if you know you have an image. Then you do I would suggest using one of the c. treatments as well as on the side c 3 and let me say something one more thing about c. treatments are in a model a just in surgeon in North Carolina Maryland and Delaware have never shown a yo response from an insecticide c 3 that doesn't mean that you don't have a situation where there will work Ok I'm not saying that you'll never get a response from it but I'm saying and the data they've collected over the all the years and years of work since we've had these they haven't shown that but again in the Madison fungicides these are worthwhile I'll say something briefly about innocuous inoculates are a good product they're a rise of the a bacteria the soil being needs to create nitrogen which is the nutrient it needs the most.

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The main thing with getting good not to lay ssion a sort of little models on the routes those he ate keeping your ph where you need to be and I don't need to change this 6.5. But keeping that a good level because it doesn't like Aciphex oils I have my right my recommendations are always better not like the Bains if you haven't grown them in the past 3 years not test on rotated games have not shown any yield response to that.

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And I'll just leave it at that however for way it's grown so I've been on new and we do see the yellow response even that 2nd time soybean is grabbing their own noodle In other words we've grown it one year not too late it made a rotated corn and went back with things Bush on the not so clear to generally not historically long breath that it fills I'll leave you with this and we can move this is a good stopping place I believe you know they mentioned this topic I think Trent gave me this crop fertility in management and again the innocuous thing we need to think about now but as you know in my opinion it's never too late good fertilizer or lime on the field even though it takes line a long time to activate or even soil tests.

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I've we really need to know what we need for start putting things off tissue sample is important for diagnostics but I will stress these tissue sample levels be sufficient see ranges were created for diagnosing issues and problems not necessarily for determining what your crop needs at that time so normally that opened what else do we want to talk about so.

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There's my contact information that's my mobile phone in the email please feel free to give me a call anytime and. Do we want to open up the marksman for questions in any questions but David Iraq is Mike I got one for David Yes Our Michael had a David.

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A few slides back where you were describing the mess the Indy 3 people were in by in the planning days yes. Miss something they are you know I'm sure you went over that just the something I'm missing a really good presentation I'll get some volunteers who've already course they've already taken delivery pay for say about want.

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They don't want to play it they can't let it now it's just too wet right can you reinterpret that for me I mean are they good to take a load in g 5 and plant it is that what you're saying that they they should be planning about the 1st of June with that being well I'm not Mark I'm not saying they should plan on the 1st of June I'm sorry and with our with our let's say late for early 5 I've actually seeing my really my best response to those varieties in April May and in the into June Bowser are Dept of varieties those are the ones that consistently perform well so I'm very good with using very early 5 you know planning through the 1st of June it's hard to say when we're going to get that rapid Yota lost at various new year to year and so on the amount of growth that we get on the soil you think yes a group 5 days.

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I guess my point was I've not seen an advantage to planting in April versus May or early May versus late May. With hardly any of our maturity group sisters anything I've seen in my data is that the the group threes Now this would be planning a maternity group probably out of the.

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Usual or this area or early or in April doesn't do as well as if you plan. But I have seemed like force an early 5 to do well in April May even into early to Ok so good advice doesn't mean they like to say they can't get in feel right now and the grand goal is look like as you said with your that your weatherman it looks like the next maybe 2 weeks could be tempted lower than normal and keep in mind that's purely speculative I think least for through next week it's going to be cool but we're going to be able to get it back into a cereal bowl maybe middle of next week nothing else happens after today and tomorrow and saying we're in the lead in the main thing I want to emphasize here is don't get in a big hurry now you know how many acres you have to plant that's the most important you've got to get I want to see everything planted by June want to look a gift at the latest I got to.

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Yeah they want to hold off with some of these late hours in early 5 they're they want a whole lot of this kid that falls is going to get some and in a way they say they don't want to play it in damp wet grass but they let you think and they can wait until you get a man badging one yeah yeah if you've got some earlier varieties of the ones or put in 1st Once again I've got to thank you.

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There I was bad Al just God no no meant it was not meant it was still drilled into being but in a good this is a forecast I would say or 7 for not having research tell what is the best to all planning population all the. Way back shot of the best averages I guess with a date with a date being if you're grilling is good enough for a yeah we say something about that all of our sitting rate work that we've done up until this time and we've just really we've restarted that over the last 3 years in a lot of locations basically I would suggest 102120000 c. for a for right now if you're drilling I want to go towards the upper end of that just because I say it's the way drill places see we don't get a good uniform.

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Placement of this. If you on 15 intros so I'm not afraid to go even 95000 or less I mean our data shows that we can go fairly low as long as I've got 70000 flats or set but also 80000 plants give us a little. Window of Opportunity per acre that's enough.

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Under most situations now we're up one caviar I will put on this is only our poorest land on our traditionally lower yielding land then I need does greater. Seating rights and it's just opposite of corn you know if you think you don't want to plant soybean like you plant corn you can for corn we increased our feeding rates on our best field and land on soybean you can actually decreased because all we're trying to do is is fill those gaps in the fill captors much large as we can capture once we do that we met all require the qualifications for saving right so I would say yeah 102120000 seat breakers good if you get 80 percent germination that will still leave the 82 you know non-ferrous I'll concede less I'm sorry.

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Well but. Let me know if you are out hopefully if you do if that if this weather conditions does stay up and you start reducing seeding rate just to save a little money make sure you've got a fungicide on at least in the next week or so but you know watch Soul temperatures on these because you can reduce stands that's one thing we have same with you know Sponge aside see treatments is there is a stand reduction if you don't use that you know that's one reason we don't see a lot of times we don't see your response because we still have enough plants there to make you know and one other thing I'll mention is our past in crop and that is my blog Lou this kind of year we're starting to update that weekly and I can and I'm sure if you go into that.

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And I've got some Syrian rate letting you know more up to date information than what you'll see in the Old Republic so. That I would encourage you to follow the blog if you sign up for an e-mail you're going to email once ever for our audience give you a brief overview of what you'll see.

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So David I guess will will conclude this morning I'd just like to thank Dr David Holzhausen again for his time on us this morning thank you very much David I think you did actually job like Mike said it's always good thing when you do a presentation I have very few questions I'm so appreciative all your time affirmation this morning also like to thank the team of extension agents that helped to make this possible Stephanie Ramos more Maxine a friend Jones and Mike brought us and also thank you to all the other extension agents and extension personnel on the call this morning we appreciate you joining us and I hope you found this program beneficial and please share with your producers on the us with the purpose of this is so please share with anyone that this information useful and so with that being said thank you all again this morning please stay safe stay healthy if you have any questions regarding this topic any previous topics that we've covered or any other production questions you may have please contact your local Regina cooperate of extension agent or specialist will be glad to help but thank you all again and appreciate everyone joining this is morning Thanks again Dave you're very welcome and thank you for having this.