In this episode of the Crop Doctors’ Podcast, Jason and Tom sit down with Extension Soybean Specialist Justin Calhoun to break down the stretch of warm, dry weather across Mississippi in March and what it meant for early soybean planting. They discuss how these conditions influenced planting decisions, emergence, and early-season growth.  Justin dives into practical considerations for selecting soybean maturity groups under early planting scenarios, including how to balance efficiency of planting with optimizing soybean development during the longest photoperiod.