Precision DLC Nitrogen Issue

[DMZ Commander]

So I surveyed the field, got all my data. Put down lime to get the proper pH. Fertilized to get the proper nitrogen levels. Ended up with a phenomenal yield. Awesome. That was the first time the field was worked.

Since then a vast majority of the field on both the menu map and the pda show the vast majority of the field as blank on the nitrogen levels. No color coded nothing. Some spots around the edges show some green/yellow areas which is cool but there's nothing in about 80% of the field.

Any idea why a large area of the field is showing up basically as vanilla on the map and pda?

I'm on the alpine map, modhub mods only, no noticeable conflicts anywhere else. And as I said before, the first working if the field was flawless, now on my 4th seeding.

Edit: field 4 on alpine map, 4th seeding, all soybeans

[redglasses]

Soybeans have a bug where they want a 0 nitrogen level for optimum yield and leave behind 0 nitrogen after harvest.

[DMZ Commander]

Interesting....glad to know it's not some wack mod conflict.

Highly recommend watching Farmer Klein's 3 part tutorial on the DLC. He did a great job breaking everything down and explaining it.

[Eische]

Soybeans have a bug where they want a 0 nitrogen level for optimum yield and leave behind 0 nitrogen after harvest.

I already wrote a bug report and got a reply.
This is as intended. Soybeans do not need additional nitrogen in reality as they grab is out of the air.

[Ado239]

Soybeans have a bug where they want a 0 nitrogen level for optimum yield and leave behind 0 nitrogen after harvest.

I already wrote a bug report and got a reply.
This is as intended. Soybeans do not need additional nitrogen in reality as they grab is out of the air.

Thats great to know. Thanks

[DMZ Commander]

So keep flipping soybeans with seed only for ridiculous profits lol sounds good to me

[soccerhate]

So I surveyed the field, got all my data. Put down lime to get the proper pH. Fertilized to get the proper nitrogen levels. Ended up with a phenomenal yield. Awesome. That was the first time the field was worked.

Since then a vast majority of the field on both the menu map and the pda show the vast majority of the field as blank on the nitrogen levels. No color coded nothing. Some spots around the edges show some green/yellow areas which is cool but there's nothing in about 80% of the field.

Any idea why a large area of the field is showing up basically as vanilla on the map and pda?

I'm on the alpine map, modhub mods only, no noticeable conflicts anywhere else. And as I said before, the first working if the field was flawless, now on my 4th seeding.

Edit: field 4 on alpine map, 4th seeding, all soybeans

Hold on. Isn't it the 3d harvest that makes data obsolete, and you're back on to your Isaria scouting?

Also, as mentioned above, soybeans don't need additional fertilizer, they actually should enrich the soil with it after harvest a bit.

[aklein]

In part 3 of my series I demonstrate that soybeans add 40 kg/ha back into the field post harvest which is accurate. Not sure about the accuracy of the amount they put back but the fact they do is accurate. This is one reason farmers in the US will plant them directly behind a Wheat/Barley harvest with out fertilizer as soybeans dont really need it and when they are done harvest they have enriched the soil so that the following crop, usually corn, requires less nitrogen application to the soil because the beans enriched the soil somewhat.

[Illinois Farmer]

Yes that's correct. That's also why you only put anhydrous (nh3) down on corn ground. Corn needs the nitrogen. Corn crop is better where beans were before vs corn on corn. Plus it helps hauling a lot of manure on bean ground after harvest. That's already why you rotate crops because didn't ones use different nutrients and put back different nutrients into the ground.

[Mwal]

It’s complicated and I will start with saying I learned this from an agronomist but I’m not nearly as smart as him and will do my best to explain it. Soybeans create there own nitrogen this is correct but they don’t really leave much if anything behind. They just contain it in a higher level in the plant so organisms that eat it don’t eat it from the soil the get what the need from the plant. Some people get confused when the see people putting starter fertilizer on but it’s things like phosphorus that help with beans in starter fertilizer. As far as putting nitrogen onto beans places with high yielding beans (further south than us) have been putting it on when the soybean plant is making pods and have seen increased yields but I can’t speak to this as we were told when people with lower yielding beans like us because of how far north we are and the different type we have to grow don’t see a profitable yield increase when applying nitrogen at the same stage. Maybe Illinoisfarmer or farmercaseih can speak more to this than me since they grow further south.

[Illinois Farmer]

I have never done, seen, or heard of anyone around here putting nitrogen on their beans when the pods are forming. We get usually 65 to 90 bushels/ acre of beans. Channel is always happy when we report our yields back for them. I don't think it would cost effective to try and add it back. What I have seen a growing trend in is spraying cobra on the beans. Cobra kills weeds but also burns down the bean plant. Supposedly when it grows back it will give you a better yield. It looks terrible after they get burned down.

[vondeylenfarms]

Only thing we spray on in beans is for weeds... nitrogen/fertilizer is for corn

[Mwal]

https://extension.sdstate.edu/late-seas ... en-soybean
There’s an article that explains it better

[blue_painted]

Yes that's correct. That's also why you only put anhydrous (nh3) down on corn ground. Corn needs the nitrogen. Corn crop is better where beans were before vs corn on corn. Plus it helps hauling a lot of manure on bean ground after harvest. That's already why you rotate crops because didn't ones use different nutrients and put back different nutrients into the ground.

When you say "anhydrous" do you mean anhydrous lime? NH3 is ammonia.

[Illinois Farmer]

Anhydrous is actually Anhydrous ammonia. Says it on the tanks ha.