Forage Soybeans: Three Varieties Compared in the Field

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0:09 Got some soybean varieties here, some forage soybean varieties. The first one

0:16 Go look at here, probably the most impressive one. And these are dairy berries—soybeans. These are non-GMO. This is a

0:27 USDA developed forage soybean variety with very long maturity and you can see it is we're October 3rd now and it is set in.

0:38 Some pods but very late blooming continues to grow vegetatively through a long period of time and as you can.

0:48 Tell very productive next to it here we have Laredo forage soybeans. This is one of the very first soybean varieties that.

1:01 Were ever brought to the United States. Soybeans were originally imported not as an oilseed crop but as a forage crop in.

1:09 Laredo is very very similar to those first soybeans brought over to the United States one of the advantages that

1:28 Seeds per pound. Laredos have about 7,000 seeds per pound, so instead of planting 50 pounds an acre like you would with...

1:36 Most soybean varieties it only takes 20 pounds of Laredo and makes it very cheap to plant. It is a shorter maturity than

1:48 The dairy but very economical cover crop, a pretty decent nitrogen fixer and then what we have over here.

2:01 We have some Woodruff swingers and would this actually come just a long maturity grain variety that one of the advantages that the Woodruff's have look at the leaf size on it that's going to have it's a much more compact plant doesn't get as tall looks to me like it's going to make a lot of seed but it's got these very large high protein leaves still has a lot of green to the plant so dairy Laredos Woodruff's three different forage soybeans all with different advantages and disadvantages.