Poor beans

[Flat 10]

See photo. I suspect pre em damage.

Ploughed in so poor ones in the photo shallower?

 

[Cowcorn]

See photo. I suspect pre em damage.

Ploughed in so poor ones in the photo shallower?

Looks like the cold weater and the pre em didnt agree with the shallower seed .
What did you use? A thin crop might not be the worst yielder though if the remaining plants set plenty of pods . Hopefully the weed control will be good and the crop stays clean . Beans were so simple back in the days of simazine , mbc and ctl . Nowadays with beans been so unreliable yieldwise its hard to turn a shilling when the spray costs get excessive. Years ago 93 i think we had a 30 acre field of beans that got no weed spray for some reason. It was not a pretty sight , burnt down the field with gramoxone and diesel fried the weeds. Yield was the same as the other fields so the weeds didnt hurt only in the eye !!! Alfred was the variety i think.

 

[Flat 10]

Looks like the cold weater and the pre em didnt agree with the shallower seed .
What did you use? A thin crop might not be the worst yielder though if the remaining plants set plenty of pods . Hopefully the weed control will be good and the crop stays clean . Beans were so simple back in the days of simazine , mbc and ctl . Nowadays with beans been so unreliable yieldwise its hard to turn a shilling when the spray costs get excessive. Years ago 93 i think we had a 30 acre field of beans that got no weed spray for some reason. It was not a pretty sight , burnt down the field with gramoxone and diesel fried the weeds. Yield was the same as the other fields so the weeds didnt hurt only in the eye !!! Alfred was the variety i think.

Pre em was pdm, kerb and clomazone. You can’t pull those damaged beans up. They snap off at ground level. Plan on giving them some Mn next time the sprayer is clean and in the vicinity, might not help but will make me feel better.

 

[Steevo]

That doesn't look like clomazone damage to me. PDM/Kerb I can't really comment on.

Those beans in the top photo look more like soya or such, a totally different look than those in the lower left of the lower photo which look more juicy for want of a better description.

 

[Brisel]

Pre em was pdm, kerb and clomazone. You can’t pull those damaged beans up. They snap off at ground level. Plan on giving them some Mn next time the sprayer is clean and in the vicinity, might not help but will make me feel better.

Dig some up & carefully wash the soil off the roots to check for pest damage. Dig up some healthy plants for comparison & post the pics here please. You're probably right about pre em damage, but I'd just like to eliminate other possibilities.