21 - 2020 Soybean Management Field Days - Varietal Maturity Group Choice

Soy Planting Date – Varietal Maturity Group Choice - Jim Specht, UNL Emeritus Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture covers the following: Inserting a Winter Annual Cover Crop into a soybean-corn crop rotation involves two considerations, the first of which we have already discussed (delaying the soybean planting date to allow more CC dry matter), but one must also consider using an earlier varietal MG to permit better establishment of the CC after soybean harvest. Let’s consider some tools for making decision to use an earlier MG.