FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH

[LETMGROW]

Care was the advice from my Extension Agent in regard to soybean seed. He told me dropping bags of seed or rough handling can crack the outer shell of the seed as well as shaking the germination off.
This is in fact why broadcasting soybean seed is not recommended as the paddles in the broadcaster tend to crack the seed shell when the seed drops out of the hopper.

[Tominator]

Yep, I plant mine with a walk behind seeder/plate style.

As I walk, you can see that a small % of seed will split and ruin that seed. I'd say that percentage is very small though, like around 1% or less.

[wtnhunt]

Have never heard that before. Would think beans of all types should be handled about the same.

While I have never used a broadcast spreader specifically just for soybeans, I did use a broadcast spreader to plant our lablab plus plots last year, and it worked just fine.

[dogdoc]

I've never taken any special care when planting soybeans. Broadcast them with my ATV broadcaster then use the 3-pt disc to cover them. I'm sure I killed a few but always had good thick stands.

todd

[LETMGROW]

He also mentioned it was easy to shake the germination off the seed if it wasn't handled with care. Maybe it wouldn't make a great difference, but a little care in handling might pay off in the long run.
We pay good money for seed product, so to get the best of it is in our best intrest.

[hoytguy08]

thats very interesting, thanks for posting that, i'll probably use this info in the future