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To late to plant beans

We recently moved to a place that has about 10 acres down in a river bottom. It was grown up with weeds and smaller trees. I mowed it short, then have been removing trees as time allowed. I have about 3 acres total cleaned out. I am wanting to disc it once it dries out, spray it and then plant. I have some round-up ready beans from a buddy but is it too late to plant beans? Original thought was to get them planted, spray 2 or so weeks later the plant turnips later. Then the rain started, then the floods came and delayed my timeline. Do I say the heck with beans and just plant brassica's?
 
I think the official "bean planting window" has passed now:D...especially since over large areas of Iowa the ground is so wet right now I don't know when it would be dry enough to plant anyway. Several people that I have talked with lately are concerned about it getting dry enough, soon enough to get their brassicas in on time. Yikes!

Also, with this perpetual rainfall we have been getting, at least in SE Iowa, I can't think of a good looking bean field that I have seen this summer. There is some awesome looking corn to be seen, but bean field after bean field looks pretty puny...at least at this stage of the growing cycle.

If it were me...I'd save the beans in a cool, dry area and use them next year.
 
We recently moved to a place that has about 10 acres down in a river bottom. It was grown up with weeds

River bottom & being it's not killed off yet is your bigger problems than calendar, IMO. I mean, a clean & ready field planted TODAY, would still produce beans, though your yields will likely go down a good bit. For example, let's say I planted beans on average year May 25 & they yield 50. By Now, July 13, I'd say those same beans, if I totally guessed, might yield 30 or so. Considering it's bottom & weeds, your only hope is it dries really fast and you can disc up to a clean seed bed quick & it stays dry. I have some bottoms that are soggy right now, I'm throwing in towel on beans, no way, not wasting my time on bottoms. But, I'm in part of state that's got a heck of a lot of 2-6" rains, even last weekend. So it's a mess. If it's somewhat dry and you wanna gamble, you could get some bean pods but if that soil is a saturated mess - I wouldn't bother but that's just me.
 
I just planted a bean plot on July 5th and it's has already came up. July 15th is our cutoff because a early frost could sting you.
 
I planted a few acres of beans last year on July 15, basically just as an experiement. I also planted few acres of 86 day corn. This was in a river bottom field that had been planted earlier in the year, but had flooded and 7/15 was the first opportunity to replant after it had dried out. I would say the rest of the summer was absolute perfect growing conditions for my location near the Cedar Rapids area. The result was REAL nice ears on the corn, and not so good on the beans.... Yes they did sprout in only a few days, and they did set pods, but did not fill. They were as flat as a pancake!! I'd put the field in trunips, rape, etc for late season. And maybe save 1/4 acre and plant beans heavy around 9/1. Deer love fresh popped beans, and I bet yours will be the only ones around.
 
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