Some of you might be planting soybeans already as we wrap up the first week of April. And if you’re able to plant this early, that might not be a bad idea, says PTI Farm Manager Jason Webster in our Video of the Week. 

“We’re coming in with net profits of over $135 per acre. It shows you the power of what early planting soybeans can do for us. Why do we need to plant soybeans earlier? At the PTI Farm in Pontiac, Ill., we don’t have a long enough growing season. We’d like to extend the growing season to offer us some higher yield ability. What we’re going to do to cheat the system is to try and plant earlier. Every year, we get into soybean planting date studies. This is data from 2018-2024. What we found was the second week of April is actually offering us, on average, the highest yields here at the PTI Farm.” 

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