Taylor, any other thoughts?

Well, I was just thinking for SCN sampling, that maybe as you're going through your field, if you see on your monitor a marked low spot where you don't normally see one or maybe it's getting worse and worse, that might be a good thing to mark in your head to come back and sample.

So you can kind of understand those

those low yielding spot for some reason I did everything but still I low so yield in that area that could be as SCN for sure the path these pathogens interact I mean we have fields and it's not that we have only one pathogen there's multiple pathogens so areas that we see a lot of SDS sudden death syndrome normally can can show more severe symptoms when we have SCN soybean cyst nematode So maybe if you see a lot of SDS in that side of the field, maybe that can be another telltale to go and sample for SCN.

Is that the same if you have a foliar disease or is there no interaction there?

What do we see over there?

So we had some June planted beans over there, and it's probably going to be a similar story most of the day because this field of beans was about R4, so that's when your pods are starting to elongate.

You don't have any seeds quite yet.

So a long way to go on this crop, but it was really clean, not a lot of disease pressure, and Only a little bit of grasshopper or Japanese beetle feeding, which is pretty normal, especially for right now.

A lot of great potential for pods or a little bit more per node.

Probably around two beads per pod because of how late it is.

Overall, a really good looking field.

Some different observations you've had in soybeans.

Dr. Taylor Adele that is and I'm Joel and so we're going to recap what we saw over these past couple of days going all through starting with Madison County doing a couple loops there and then we headed over to southeast Ohio on the second day so I'm going to go around the group here thoughts recap what stood out and maybe what beat your expectations or what fell below your expectations Taylor we'll start with you

Sure.

So one, I didn't notice as much replanting as I thought I would on the south part of the tour.

Crops were further along than I was expecting due to that.

And also, I'm very rarely on the east side of Ohio.

So higher yield expectation than I had just for that part of the state that I don't see very often.

let's talk about your kind of the crossover from the north leg you went on both of those days and both of our days on the south leg and again it's been that flip flop from years past usually we've been seeing nice things in the north and not so great in the south but vice versa this year

yeah it is vice versa this year for sure and the north it's not like the crops were looking bad they're just looking very young so sometimes we couldn't get even a yield estimate on the corn because it was too small to do but overall pretty consistent across the north and the south with low yield pressure and or sorry low disease pressure and uh just we want a elongated fault for the north to finish out but the south is looking great

Now, granted it was raining in some places, but some areas that definitely had drier soils than others.

Yeah, absolutely.

I think you're completely correct in naming the variability that we've had this year, uh, and the variability in planting date that we saw in the spring is really showing up here while we're trying to estimate our yield.

Corn is probably more variable throughout northern Ohio, where we had planting dates from mid-April all the way till the beginning of June, quite a range of maturity.

Joining me today is Dr. Taylor Dill, Director of Research with the Ohio Soybean Council, talking about how you can tell the different growth stage of your soybean crop and the importance of proper growth stage identification and management decisions.

Staging, it's my favorite subject.

I really am a firm believer in manage by stage and not by calendar date.

And so I think it's really important to know how your crop grows.

So V5 is when you effectively have five trifoliates growing.

five fully open trifoliates past where your unifoliate, so your two leaves.

That's V5.

and

what really stage our crops are in at this point as they were more delayed in planting and growing.

We've had a relatively rainy summer.

So from what I've seen through the state, most things have recovered from any type of bad variability from the spring within how much rain we had gotten in the spring.

So I'm very curious to see where we're at, especially up there.

As you recall back, what were some of the takeaways you had?

Well, one, I was mostly in the beans.

One takeaway, Ohio can grow very pretty beans at various planting dates.

Let's do R1 too.

Okay, so R1 is beginning flowering, and that's when you have one open flower consistently across the field.

So sometimes you have an uneven field.

You kind of want to do an average of the field.

So one open flower.

Often you find your open flowers a week, maybe a little less, maybe a little more later.

You're going to run into R2.

And I guess, Taylor, I'll kick it to you to start this off.

Maybe set some of the scenarios up and, and we'll let Alyssa, uh, respond to what we're seeing and we should be thinking as farm managers.

It's very interesting, uh, what a dichotomous state that we have, uh, in 2026.

But I wanted to bring it back to maybe the more southern part of Ohio.

So we got planted fairly early, or really early, depending on where you were, and you probably had some stand loss because of, um, the freeze, and then possibly more stand loss based on our recent rains.

And Alyssa, my main question is, if we're managing with low population soybean, maybe we felt like we had enough beans to not need to replant.

If we're managing really low stands, what do we do? How do we move forward in, in 2026?

Stay tuned after this.

[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Taylor Dill, and I'm the Director of Research for the Ohio Soybean Council.

Let's talk about some of the checkoff funded research, either continuing projects that have been started in previous years or some stuff that's new this year.

Some of the projects that should be currently being planted in, in some areas may, may or may not be more delayed.

We have white mold research happening in northwest Ohio for fungicide efficacy, things like that, better white mold management for the northeast, which is where the, our main problem areas are.

We also have in-season potassium research going on in a couple of locations in Ohio, as well as some continuing progress with, uh, our replant recommendations.

So that would be going along with our replant tools that we're making and just added research to be able to hone in those tools and make them more efficient.

We, we also talk about sampling for SCN.

Now is a perfect time to pull samples, uh, right around planting time.

You can also do it in the fall, but when you're pulling samples, you can pull them for fertility, and you can keep some back as well.

And when you're pulling those, you'd pull them s- very similar to your fertility samples.

You want to do a, a random zigzag pattern in your field and a six to eight-inch core.

That's usually where your SCN lives.

And also an important part to make sure, uh, that they're measured right in the lab is to make sure they're cooled.

It's paid for by your checkoff dollars for up to two samples, and you can get those numbers and make better management decisions.

What can you tell us as far as what the research, uh, has to say?

Sure.

So this is actually one interesting study that, uh, the Ohio Soybean Council funded with, uh, one of our engineering researchers, Dr. Sammy Kanal, and it used, uh, some of the...

I was in school when we s- when this tool started, so I got to do some of the ground truthing research for this tool, which I think is really interesting.

So basically, they call it the Field Vision AI app, and it's right now a, a web application that, uh, the team came up with.

It's completely free and open to use.

You can make your own profile, um, and there's also even a little dashboard if you want to communicate with other people that are using the app.

They always say a small weed is easier to control or kill than a large weed.

Absolutely.

I believe you want to keep them at bay at four inches if you can.

And I realize in northern Ohio where it's wet, it might be a little more difficult to do right now.

But maybe getting that burn down in a residual on...

So you can get through planting with as clean a field as possible in your first 60 days for the crop life is really a good target.

And Taylor, seedling disease is a concern with some of the cool damp weather we've had lately.

Absolutely.

So in, in these conditions where we're still a little cool and we're definitely wet, you're still looking at water mold issues, especially with your pythiums and phytoph.

And so sometimes we have great seed treatment for that, and we might have a little bit of resistance depending on what variety that you picked.

But definitely keeping an eye on that when you're looking at your stand.

Uh, if you have a question about whether or not, uh, sometimes it's difficult when you're scouting seedlings and you had some cold weather come in.

Is, does it look bad because it's cold? Is it dying from a disease, or is it just a multitude of things that are affecting this plant? But it is really important that we know what type of disease might be affecting our plants so we can pick the best variety we can or the best seed treatment possible for our fields.

Yep.

Taylor, we want to take a look today at some research dealing with weed control and the importance of residual herbicides.

So what we found in early planting date and [clears throat] weed control, it was a two-year-long study.

One year, Dicamba was used, and the other year, two four D was used.

Just regulations changed in the middle of the study, so we had to swap.

But basically, when we found that we had population loss, so one year we had significant population loss from the freeze that we talked about earlier, we had major gaps in the field.

And when you have major gaps, you usually have a lot more weed, weeds issues, even if you use a pre, because when you're out in the field early, it usually takes longer for your soybeans to canopy cover.

So you're having a longer vegetative growth, longer till we have canopy coverage, which can help reduce some of those weeds germinating.