This is from my food plot. I vary plantings with turnips/radishes every other year. This year is soybeans since I got free seeds. Do I really need to do anything? This is Greek to me.

Need to apply some K - most K is around 60 so you would apply around 50 lbs of potassium per acre. Also looks like your pH could be adjusted and lime would help.

For example - to meet your goal of around 30 lbs needed of K - you could put down 150 lbs of 13-13-13 - that would give you 39 lbs of active potassium. - or go to your fertilizer person and tell them you need 30 lbs an acre of K. P and K both before beans don't hurt and a little N also can be utilized especially in a plot with no previous N credits

my eyes are not great anymore - if your pH is 5.2 - I would lime it before anything

Thanks for the advice. PH is 5.2. I apologize for the light copy. I have no idea why the scan came out that way. I will spread some lime and see if that makes a difference.

Liming it would be the most important thing to do here. About 2500 to 3000 lbs acre worked in.

cant tell don't know what type of soil you have or how much land or resources (equipment, money) as far as lime its the best investment you can make if you just have a spreader you can buy pellitized lime along with your 0 14 42 or 0 0 60 fertilizer don't worry about getting it perfect your putting in a food plot not shooting for 60 bu. per acre soys

One acre plot. 100 acre site but all woods and swamp. Soil is sandy. Resources are riding mower and pull behind spreader. Neighbor has tractor and disc. Money... LOL. I shoot one deer a year for meat. Trophy hunting a thing of the past. Doing this just to help deer and turkeys. I like your plan.

Sandy soil will respond better than heavier soils but moving 5.2 pH to what most common crops prefer 6.2-.3 to 7 is a big jump and it will take the lime sometime to help improve soil pH. With sand and lower pH you have a very low cation exchange capacity which means the soil has a lower upper limit than many other soil types do. With soybeans be sure to add some inoculant with the seed as legumes fix N but even with 2.9 OM your N fixation will be slow and low. I would add some P and K. It only takes about 20-30 Parts per million to grow a decent crop of beans but you only have 33 and we don't know how much of that is available to the crop. K is low too and that is a big component of the stems and stalks and along with some N fixation issues you will not have a tall plant with several pods with beans.

If it were me I would get some information on brassica plants and legumes that do well in low pH soils and plant those. That will be a better investment to me than common commercial crops that do much better in moderately acid to neutral pH levels. If it were me I would lay down some lime later this year, save the soybeans and plant a lower pH crop this year and the beans next year.

Bryce

Rapeseed is a very attractive brassica and generally around a dollar a pound. 5# would get you plenty.

Unless deer densities are really low, you'll need to invest in some electric fence to keep the deer out until you want them in. They can wipe out an acre of seedling soybeans in a night or two.

Ask the people that you got the test done through.

The top line shows for soybeans you only need to ad 30 lbs. of k for the anticipated yield for your plot, which based on soil type and tests would be not very high.

Bryce

The top line shows for soybeans you only need to ad 30 lbs. of k for the anticipated yield for your plot, which based on soil type and tests would be not very high. Also soybeans don't compete well at all with weeds so you need to develop a weed management strategy as well.

Bryce

X2 nothing works quite like lime.

A little more - with ag lime the ENM will vary - it is the effective neutralizing material. So, with a ton of lime - you only get some much neutralizing material. To raise a pH of 5.2 to around 7 would require around 3 tons of lime per acre here in central Missouri. You could call your local limestone quarry and ask them what the ENM is of their ag lime. I don't see any recommendation on your soil sample of ENM needed. I should add though - putting on too much lime on an acidic soil will not hurt.......it is nothing like over applying NPK.

I'd run a blend along with the soybeans. We have had decent results with this on a recent log off property. https://www.deercreekseed.com/catalog/product/view/id/3723/s/all-season-food-plot-mix/category/482/