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Correction: Soybean seeding rates

Feb 24, 2009 9:33 AM

An article on Page 12 of the Feb. 20, 2009, issue of Delta Farm Press displayed incorrect information regarding criteria for selecting seeding rates. The correct information is:

Higher seeding rate situations:

• Planting extremely early (March — early April)

• Heavy clay soils

• Group 3s or early to mid-group 4 varieties

• Planting with a gravity flow drill

• Rough soil conditions

• Low germination seed

Lower seeding rate situations

• Late planting (late April through mid-May)

• Sandy soils

• Group 5 varieties

• Vacuum planter

• Smooth or optimal soil conditions

• High germination seed (greater than 90 percent germination)

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