Beans may be a bust

[deadeye]

It looks like a very poor soybean crop.  I believe the no till drill didn't get the seeds deep enough to make good soil contact through the sod.  Maybe if we get a wet spell some more seeds will germinate.  Not sure what I will do at this point.  Maybe just broadcast winter rye in August.   

[Dotch]

Ya they look a little thin from that pic anyway. Had issues in some fields here where the beans were drilled into standing corn stalks in early May. Where there was heavy residue the one guy's no-till drill was putting the beans underneath the residue but right on the soil surface. Worst thing was the guy did a bunch of custom work that way. The soil surface was dry so until it started raining in mid-May we'd anticipated stabbing in more beans on numerous fields. They look OK now from a distance but stand is still a little light.