Legumes & Pulses· Glycine max
Major oilseed and protein crop. Nitrogen-fixing legume that improves soil fertility. Used for food, feed, and industrial products.
Soybean suele estar listo para la cosecha unos 100 días después de la siembra.
Mejores tipos de suelo: loam, silt loam, clay loam
Rango de pH: 5.5 - 6.5 (óptimo: 6)
Drenaje: good
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Inoculate soybean seed with Bradyrhizobium japonicum bacteria before planting in fields without recent soybean history — this enables nitrogen fixation.
Soybeans fix their own nitrogen, so they rarely need N fertilizer. Applying nitrogen actually reduces nodulation and wastes money.
Plant when soil temperature reaches 13°C — soybeans are sensitive to cold soil and germinate poorly below 10°C.
The R1-R5 growth stages (flowering through seed fill) are the critical water demand period — irrigation during this window has the highest yield return.
Harvest at 13% seed moisture for direct combine harvest. Delay increases pod shatter losses, especially with dry weather and wind.
Soybeans are an excellent rotation crop before corn — they leave 40-80 kg/ha of nitrogen credit in the soil from fixation.
Soybean typically takes 100 days from planting to harvest. Seeds germinate in about 7 days. The best planting season is spring, early summer.
Soybean grows best in loam, silt loam, clay loam soil with a pH of 5.5-6.5. Good drainage is required.
Soybean grows best at 20-30°C. Frost tolerance: none. Heat tolerance: moderate.
Across 13 countries with grounded data, reported national yields for Soybean range from 1,000 to 4,120 kg/hectare, with a median of 2,970. These are national statistics, not a best-case figure — an individual farm's yield depends on variety, climate, soil and management.
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