Soybean price helps habitat

[Tomahawker]

Farmer here, not real tickled about the price of soybeans but, been a long time since I’ve seen so many wheat stubble fields not double cropped with soybeans. They’re getting weedy and wooly. Lots of cover we don’t normally get.

 

[redcows]

They lost so much money on the wheat they can't afford soybean seeds.

 

[SPUR60]

This is the first year since 2004 that my buddy did not plant any soybeans. Between the prices and the aphids it just isn't worth it. He did pick up some black turtle bean acres and also planted a quarter of wheat for the first time since he sold off his cattle. Been about 150 doves, 25 pigeons, and 7 geese shot off that wheat stubble so far.

 

[redcows]

Several hundred doves were using our wheat stubble. Three days before the season every last one disappeared. But the turkeys are finding lots of grasshoppers, and the deer are still feeding there.