00:24 This episode of the Extreme Ag Show is presented by concept Agritech Cowboy is the game changer, getting it in 00:32 through the leaves and into the plant circulatory system. That's why this product is 00:37 so effective at delivering both calcium and boron to plants at critical times when they need it the most. 00:52 For our nation's farms, the land is mostly shrinking. As more and more people move into rural areas, farmland is now frequently in direct contact 01:04 with neighborhoods and businesses forcing farmers into smaller, irregularly shaped fields. The methods for applying nutrients must be precise, 01:15 making it increasingly difficult to use. Traditional methods like aerial application, new technology is stepping in to fill the need, 01:26 and Kevin Matthews is ready to put it to the test. We're out here today we're, we're, uh, spraying soybeans. We've had excessive rain, 01:39 craziest June weather we've had in years, but these soybeans, we've got a a V three V four application that we need to apply. 01:47 And the ground is so wet we cannot get our heavy sprayers in the field. And, you know, it's hard to get a helicopter up here. 01:55 And then the planes, we got too many houses, too many people. Technology's great. So we're going to see how this works. 02:12 This is a DJ IT 40, but it's fully loaded. It's right at 200 pounds. And so today what we're gonna do is we're gonna spray these 02:22 beans, we'll take the fill tanks, everything will be mixed. We'll put it in there and once the flying starts, 02:27 it sits fairly automated. Uh, it's, it's extremely accurate. But the great thing about these drones is that, you know, 02:34 you're gonna have a week's worth of, of rain. As soon as it stops, you can get right up and go fly. So right now what I'm doing is I've, I've set up a grid 02:42 of this field and then I'll upload it to my computer and using DGI Terra, I'll process those images to create one big map of this field where I can go in 02:52 and draw out all of our boundaries and our obstacles and map out any obstacles that we don't want to spray or we want the, uh, spray drone to avoid. 03:01 Yeah, we wanna have some check rows. We wanna make sure that we take those off of the map so that way we're telling the drone, 03:07 alright buddy, spray everywhere. Just don't spray this right here. And so when it gets there, it either go around it, 03:13 it'll shut off the spray, and then pick the spray back up where we instruct it to. Uh, we can do it a whole bunch of different ways. 03:19 It's, it's whatever, basically, however the grower wants to Do it, 03:33 the battery Solution dust, Are you willing to, When you utilize the drone, you're, you're getting the maximum usage out of all of your acreage. 03:44 Nothing against crop dusters or anything like that. Like if you look out here, we've got wood lines kind of surrounding us. 03:48 We got residences. You can't just swoop in and get everything with us. We can get, start in that very corner right there 03:55 and program this drone so that it, it gets plus or minus about three centimeters. That's, it's hard to beat 04:22 whether it's where you're spraying, how thick you're spraying, uh, how much, uh, as far as far as gallons per acre, the height at which you spray it. 04:32 Do you want, you know, large droplets, do you want an ultra fine mist? You can really cater, uh, 04:38 the application process to your needs. So if you're wanting to, to really have a really small margin, this, 04:44 this is the best thing you can use to, to accomplish that one. 04:53 One of the the great things about using the the drones is that the response time, uh, you know, we got this call, uh, 05:01 right at 24 hours ago and we're able to respond. And that, that's because number one is portable. Uh, number two, we can up 05:08 and move pretty much anytime we need to with, with an aircraft or a helicopter. Uh, it takes a lot more planning than that. 05:20 This is a powerful tool in our toolbox that it gives us the opportunity to really capitalize and we can get these applications made exactly when these, 05:30 uh, agronomists and different chemists and lab folks think that it should go on in that crop. I used the word think 'cause that's what we do with it. 05:38 Extreme ag is we want to clarify and define if that thinking process is the right time of that crop. Maybe that V three is a good time, 05:48 but maybe V eight is a better time. Working with extreme ag is, you know, just, just a blessing to begin with. 05:57 I mean, those guys are on the forefront of everything. So to be able to participate with them and have a partnership with them is, you know, I mean, 06:03 what else can you ask for? Amino grows an exciting new product put out by concept agritech. 06:19 What we've seen is an increase in fruiting sites as well as branching. And this has equated to yield 06:32 Spot less. Introducing the cleanup for tar spot, gray leaf spot Southern Rust and more novel next generation at Astria. 06:42 Fungicide from FMC broadens your spectrum and strengthens your residual foliar disease control. Protect your corn fields with a proprietary combination 06:50 of three modes of action. Visit your FMC retailer or@ag.fmc.com to clean up this season. Introducing Dem CO's newest dual auger grain cart design 07:10 now equipped with the front folding auger and available in right side or left side unload options featuring Dem CO's quarter auger 07:18 design for optimal visibility with a 22 inch vertical auger unload at speeds of 600 bushels per minute. 07:26 Demco outpace harvest time every time. Some farmers I know swear by a name say they never operate anything else. 07:39 Well, here are a few names for my Fent 900 Tractor Fuel Saver time maximizer Game changer. 07:52 I like those names. BioHealth is a product by concept Agritech made up of a consortium of beneficial biology 08:05 that actually colonized the plant and boost the plant's immune system from the inside. My name is Chris Anderson, William McGee, Arkansas. 08:21 And uh, this is my family's land here that's been in a family over 125 years. It is 120 acres total and I farm about 400 acres. 08:38 I farm soybeans, corn, wheat. My grandpa built this house, I think it was in like 1944. My grandpa used to farm this farm with mules 08:51 and my mom and my aunt. And there was eight other brothers and sisters and they used to all pick cotton by hand and chop cotton 08:59 and, and, uh, just farm the property. The challenges I've faced are, you know, being a black farmer, 09:19 not being able to get the, the ground that most farmers get or the opportunity with maybe John Deere 09:26 or Case not being able to afford the better equipment. A lot of times being a small black farmer, you know, you have to use older equipment, 09:43 have a lot more trouble. You lose a lot of time when you could be in the field working and not, not working on a piece of equipment. 09:53 I feel like I'm one of the lucky ones because I've had a lot more opportunities than a lot of black farmers. 10:00 You know, in the years past, They couldn't get a loan, actually. They could get a loan, but they wouldn't give 'em enough 10:10 money to finish the crop. They give 'em just enough money to get about halfway through the crop and then wouldn't loan him any more money. 10:18 So, you know, you couldn't finish a crop, you couldn't live. And I, and I think they did that 10:22 so they could lose a property so another farmer could pick the property up. It was a little bit harder for them back then. 10:31 It was more racism back then. And it may be still some now, but not near as bad as it used to be. 10:38 When I got a loan, I took the money and I spent it on my farm. I spent it on fertilized seed chemical. 10:46 I didn't go buy a new truck. I didn't go, uh, buy my wife a new car. You know, I didn't go buy a lot of fancy clothes 10:55 or take vacations and I just took the money and put it into the farm. And I'm thinking, if I can do that, 11:02 then maybe all the other stuff will come along. There's a lot more programs out there now for minority farmers that you can sign up for 11:13 and they're really helping the minority farmer out and, and getting ground leveled. I mean, irrigation underground 11:22 and just several different programs out there that's, that's helping now. I think it's come up a lot a long ways. 11:34 I love farming. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to play right out there in that road in the dirt with toy tractors when everybody else was in town. 11:45 I was out there in the dirt with my little tractors playing. The cool thing about this tractor, it was Matt's daddy 11:56 and it's when he went to 12 row equipment, two wheel drive tractors, just couldn't handle 12 row equipment. 12:02 So he traded it in at the case place and I just so happened to be there one day and I saw it and I kind of liked it, so I decided to try and buy it. 12:15 It's been a great tractor. It's never been in a shop since I've had it. It's got over 6,000 hours on it. 12:23 I grew up on a farm. My dad worked on a farm for a guy and he kinda really taught me a lot of that, you know, what to do and what not to do. 12:32 Him and his dad, they, they were really, really good people. And I think once they see you trying to do what's right, 12:40 they see you working hard. It, it just makes him want to help you out. And that's really in my case, is what happened. 12:49 There's not a farmer around here that haven't offered to help me or have helped me The way I keep up my farm is, Matt's a really good guy and uh, he gives me a lot of time 13:01 and also he helps me out a lot too. I would describe Matt as a person that will help anybody no matter what color, what race. 13:12 A lot of farmers are only worried about them theirselves and making money for themselves. 13:18 And he's really not that way. He, he likes to help people help me and anybody else. And if there's someone along the way that I can help, 13:28 I I do the same thing because I've been, I've been helped a lot, man. I love this house because it was where my, my grandma lived. 13:41 It was where my mom was raised. It's where I was raised. My grandpa built it out of those trees out of that break. 13:51 I could never see myself ever leaving this place. My wife, she probably would, but she knows how much I love this place, so she just 14:02 stays here 'cause she, I guess she likes me so much. Adding Raytheon into your infer application or even an over the top application round D three V four 14:21 can do wonders in helping that plant navigate tough soil conditions. As far as nutrient tie up is concerned, 14:29 Control the toughest weeds with overlapping residuals. 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Anytime you can increase the bricks content of your plant, the more healthy it's gonna be. 15:49 Get ready to dive into the wet and wild world of irrigation where Matt Miles and Chad Henderson take center stage. 15:56 They're both in challenging conditions. Mad in southeast Arkansas and Chad in northern Alabama, both warm southern climates 16:05 and less than ideal soils. So why are there irrigation practices so different? Down here in the Delta we have a little bit different type 16:13 of, uh, irrigation. So, uh, we're a lot of people use pivots. A lot of people use drip tape. 16:19 We have to use furrow irrigation. And when I say we have to use furrow irrigation, one of the questions may arise is why do we use furrow 16:26 irrigation versus pivots? One of the reasons I know is because out of a 40 acre field, you know, you're gonna lose the corners. 16:34 We rented a farm down there one year, uh, a little further south that, that we actually roll watered the 16:40 corners and watered to pivot. And I can show you, you know, multiple yield maps where just say for instance, corn, the pivot would be yellow 16:50 and the corners where we further irrigated would be green. So, you know, corn 16:54 and beans, we need more water than what we can get out of a pivot. So the difference is 210 16:59 to 250 bushel corn irrigated, or 50 to 75 bushel corn non irrigated. So there's not even a question that we have 17:08 to have irrigation in the delta. What poly pipe is, is a plastic pipe that we roll out every year, pick up every year. 17:16 It's recycled. Uh, most of it's used for trash bags, different kind of plastics. Uh, we use the polypipe 17:23 because the heat, the intense heat we have here will have days, weeks where it may be a hundred degrees, 95 to 110, 17:31 you know, type weather Pivots just don't seem to get the yield down here that, that, that we need to, uh, to make things work. 17:37 So polypipe is our, is our option. We've started using it on our rice, uh, when we get do row rice 17:43 and then we use it on all our other crops too. Yeah, so cool thing is, is in the last probably five years, you know, rice has kind 17:52 of been adapted the same way as as corn and beans cotton into actual row fall. Previously it was contoured levees, 18:00 which basically mounds across the field that held water. So we use a, a program called Pipe Planter. 18:06 It basically takes the size of your field, the flow of the well that, that's pumping into the poly pipe, the lengthier field with your field generates how many sets 18:16 or how many, how many different sections you're gonna water across this field. And it's gonna tell you how many what, 18:21 which one of these to use. I've got in my hand some, uh, what we call poly pipe punchers. 18:29 And these have anywhere from a one inch hole down to five sixteenths and three eighths and all that. Put 'em on this little stick, poke the holes. 18:41 After all that said, it's gonna say, okay, well you're gonna run that for that set for about 18 hours. 18 hours later you come back, 18:49 every single row is gonna be out, just coming out and going into the ditch to where the perfect amount of water's going across that field to give the crop 18:57 what it needs and not waste any excess of what you know more than you have to. A high percentage of the irrigation water that we use is, 19:07 uh, comes from surface water. Surface water is either through a, uh, canal or bow or a reservoir or a pond 19:13 or something that contains water Naturally, uh, we're able to recirculate that water and use it on the crops 19:19 and then it refills back naturally. In northern Alabama, Chad Henderson irrigates very differently using primarily center pivots. 19:28 The pivot revolutionized irrigation in the United States, originating in the 1940s when Frank Zibo invented the Center 19:36 Pivot irrigation system initially used for circular fields. Pivots soon evolve to accommodate various 19:42 field shapes and sizes. Their popularity surged in the late 20th century transforming agriculture 19:49 by providing efficient automated water distribution. Today pivots are ubiquitous across the United States offering precise irrigation management 19:59 and significantly boosting crop yields For people that don't have irrigation. You know, it's a, a blessing 20:07 and a curse all in one, you know, all at the same time. It's kinda like grain bins, you know, it won't nothing make you mo no, uh, more money 20:13 and want nothing work you no harder. What we got here is this is an electric pivot. This is a valley pivot. 20:20 So if you look at it, every one of those gray boxes on top has wires running through it and each one signals the tires to move. 20:28 Uh, the, the end of the pivot is always moving first, okay? And then the other towers are chasing it. 20:35 So it's just a couple micro switches sitting up there that when the end one, it tells it to move and then when it moves, then the next one sees it's out 20:42 of balance and it moves to catch it and it just walks across the field that way. Real simple designs 20:47 and they work great, you know, until you have a flat or like a pipe falls off or like a boot leak or like a pivot nozzle gets stopped up. 20:55 But other than that stuff, it's all good. Um, but no, they do us a great job. You know, we put out about a half inch of water at a time 21:03 is when it's coming around. It'll take this pivot about 24 to 28 hours is the way we like to set 'em up 21:08 to make a circle is what we use. And a half inch on this right here, you'll see a line here through this field about where the pivot's sitting 21:16 of different color beans. So what that is, is this is our, this is the first year in our second tile project. 21:24 So we tiled another 150 acres this year and this was tiled in, um, right at the 1st of July. And then we come in here and worked it up, 21:34 planted beans on it and trying to get something off of it, you know, for the first year of toweling. 21:39 So what boils down to is we've got toweled on this part of the field and not tied on this part of the field. Again, another trial deal. 21:45 This is set up on a four inch on forties again and it's got a lift station there in the back and we'll run the gauntlet on it again. 22:07 Go long for season long foliar disease protection that starts at plant active ingredient flu Triol moves through your corn plants as they grow for 22:15 inside out protection from roots to tassel. A single at plant application provides comparable performance in corn yield protection to that 22:23 of vtr one foliar fungicides against diseases like gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight, common rust and more. 22:37 Some farmers I know swear by a name say they never operate anything else. Well, here are a few names for my Fent 900 tractor 22:48 fuel saver, time maximizer Game changer. I like those names At Gareth Landed Cattle. 23:44 Kelly's got a great team. He calls them Seal Team six and they know what they're doing. But even with the best things can go wrong. 23:52 And when they do, sometimes a man emerges, defying the odds. A testament to the power of courage. A hero. 24:04 Hey, I am Richie. While prepping at the shop, some of the boys are loading up a truck, but what they don't realize is 24:13 that the truck is seconds away from disaster. We've all had a bad mess up. This, uh, semi trailer took off down the hill about hit 24:25 the bends down here. Yeah, I set one brake on the truck but not the trailer. No, no one in it. 24:33 Richie bailed off the deck and luckily got in it, it hit it got on the brakes. Yeah, the truck rolled away. We got her back. 24:43 I was standing here and it was moving. I was look at the tracks down there. Everybody hit the electrical box that went into the band. 24:49 What's going there it goes, there it goes. That was right. The green bin is there. Electrical sir. The transformer. 25:04 That transformer, you know, I was, my ninja reflex is here. I jumped off and See. Richie's a big 25:11 guy, but he's pretty light on his feet. I Know. Looks hard. Deceive him with Richie. If Richie was a cartoon, he'd be kung fu Pando 25:22 Richie saved us. So this is my 89 F two 50. It's got the four 60 in it. It's pretty cool. 25:40 I couldn't resist buying it for 3000 bucks when I was, uh, I was about three hours away from home. 25:46 I bought it The way home. I blew the motor up. So then it got a little more expensive had I bought a crate motor, we put that in it. 25:57 That was awesome. For a couple months I was happy with it again. And then the training went out. 26:03 So I found a guy who put a junkyard t****y in it for me. I took it up to him. He put the 26:06 junkyard t****y, I brought it home. I was happy I had it again. It lasted a couple days and that training went out of it. 26:12 There was a reason that t****y was in the junkyard. So then I bought a crate t****y to put in it now and I've had it back a couple months. 26:21 I've been driving it. I was happy with it again. And now it's got some unknown issue where it's dying again, which is what it did when I first got the motor put in it. 26:29 So I I I get made fun of a lot for it and I really don't know what to do with it. So does Tomorrow. I'll bet that 26:36 thing can't make die sitting back. Hey, I'll race some who wants to race? Well I ain't gonna race you in 26:41 my pickup. Pick any one of them. How far you want to go? I'll ac you to the turnoff to Alex Berry's. I'm 26:48 So confident you can't make it back. I'll race you in my pickup. The red slide. I think this 26:57 Forklift for beating you there. You gave both with the propane. It started off as a couple thousand bucks pickup. 27:05 It was real cheap. Real good deal. I think I've got a lot more than that in it now. It's four or five times that, so it hasn't gone well for me, 27:14 but it it still looks cool sitting there. It changes everything. So says Indiana Corn grower Nathan Davis about innovative XY 27:26 way LFR fungicide from FMC Xw brand fungicides are the first and only at plant corn fungicides 27:32 to provide unprecedented season long inside out foliar disease protection. Precision is understanding the potential hidden within 27:45 decoding the specific nutritional needs of your crop, maximizing every nutrient and getting the most out of your yield. 27:56 We break down the science in a way that works for your crops and for you apply less 28:03 and expect more with precision crop nutrition from agro liquid. This is a corn seed. This is a soybean seed. 28:29 Both represent amazing examples of agricultural innovation. You know, in the 1930s we began hybridizing corn breeding 28:37 traits into the corn that we thought would make it better. Amazing adoption of hybridized corn has made it so 28:42 that today we harvest six and a half times more bushels per acre than we did just 90 years ago. 28:48 Soybeans not really much of a crop in broad acre in the United States America until the 1950s and sixties. 28:54 On a trend line, we gain about nine tenths of a bushel more per year on soybeans than we did the year prior. 29:01 Think about that evolution of seed through genetics and research making these plants better for us. More importantly, we can now grow these crops throughout the 29:11 United States of America because some traits will be better in, say, Florida, Arkansas, 29:16 Mississippi than they would be in Minnesota. But you can still find a plant that works for you. Genetics, seed and the future of American agriculture. 29:24 Right here in my hands, Molly, I don't know how to say the whole thing. So, beum Beum. So we're just gonna say Molly today. 29:49 So we're gonna call it Molly for short 'cause nobody can say it. Beum or Molly as we call it. 29:54 Uh, it's just a, it's a micronutrient and really in the last probably year, uh, we've learned a lot about it. 30:02 Never really paid attention to it. Uh, never really thought we needed it much. Uh, very scarce in the soil. 30:09 There's only a couple different companies out there that actually make just Molly without building Molly with boron. 30:16 You know, most of them are Molly Boron blend. And I don't know whether I should say this or not, but I'm gonna say it. 30:22 I've tried to use straight Molly on corn and I've never seen a response. Probably its main role. It is a key 30:28 nutrient in the nitrate reductase enzyme. And you're like, what's that, Mike? Well, nitrogen can come in two forms in the plant 30:37 and it's just not nitrogen just doesn't gonna plant as nitrogen. It comes in as a nitrate, which is NL three 30:42 or ammonium, which is NH four, which is a positive charge. Nitrates the negative charge. 30:48 So when we get nitrate, which is typically the biggest one we get, uh, that uptakes into the plant is nitrogen in nitrate form, 30:55 it needs to be reduced into plant available nitrogen. So to do that we need the nitrate reductase enzyme, which is mo ofum is a part of that. 31:05 So if we don't have a variety enough amount, amount of moley in there, we're never gonna get that nitrate reduced into the end available, 31:12 which we converted to protein, which the plant needs to do many functions throughout itself. So that's the biggest thing we're learning 31:21 and it's been pretty cool to learn about and actually employ, um, using Molly as a, as a foliar feed on corn, soybeans, 31:28 soybeans really are bigger 'cause they're such an end fixing, uh, end hungry plant. Uh, they're legume so they really like it. 31:35 So we need to process that ni nitrogen continually or the nitrate and, and it's been fun to watch Pine Molly getting that response 31:44 and seeing what we can use that micronutrient in small doses and help us be more efficient. 31:50 What Mo does on, on a corn plant, we don't actually know. But when you accompany Molly with boron, 31:58 those two things are very synergetic and we get a, we get a bigger response out of the boron when we add the moley to it. 32:05 Boron does a lot of different things in a plant. One thing that it does is helps translocate stuff. Well, that's kind of some of the same similarity things 32:14 that Molly does in soybeans, but Molly and soybeans do something very different I found where when Molly 32:20 and Boron are combined, it makes the boron more efficient and that's the only time that I've actually seen a payoff. 32:27 But when we add the mollye and the boron together, we get a result. When we add just boron, we get a result, 32:33 but the result's not quite as big. If we add just the mollye and nothing else, we don't get a result. 32:37 So we're thinking that there's a synergetic effect when we add those two together and it helps drag things into that plant. 32:44 So that's what, that's why we use boron. And by the way, we use boron all the time. If we can use micronutrients like Molly Iron, uh, copper, 32:56 even a one that nobody talks about, cobalt is another micronutrient that's very well talked about. 33:02 They all help in that nitrogen processing. And once we start processing nitrogen efficiently, we don't need as much as we thought we did. 33:09 And you can look at these fields out here. They're nice and green, but they're, they're not deficient in nitrogen. 33:16 We can test you sample and they say they're, well, we're pretty good range, but we're not processing it, right? 33:22 We call it affectionately we're, we're fat and obese or fat and diabetic here. Uh, the plants, they look good, but they're not healthy. 33:29 So we need to process the nitrogen, make it do what it's supposed to do in that plant. And we use micronutrients 33:36 that are key in the enzyme reactions of that nitrogen processing of the plant. So that's, you know, when you, 33:41 when somebody asks if, how can you tell? Well, what we're learning is you can't, you gotta use certain testing methods to find that out 33:48 and then employ right products, uh, to help that. Now what I'm trying to do on corn is instead of just adding boron, you know, 33:56 when we make a pass across the field, whether it's a foliar, a pass or whatever else, I'm adding the Molly 34:01 and boron component and then I'm actually adding a little bit more boron to it. I'm helping drag more of that boron into the plant. 34:08 And that's how I use Molly on corn. 'cause there's not actually any proof out there that I have on my farms where when it's just by itself 34:16 that it actually gives me a positive ROI Next week on the extreme Ag show. So this is a purely organic fertilizer, right? 34:36 It comes from soybean seed. It's, it's, Yeah. So this is like the epitome of sustainable farming. 34:41 We've documented 40 bushel yield gains in corn, 20 bushel yield gains in beans versus synthetic fertility. What Kelly's doing here is probably more sustainable than 34:51 anything there is anywhere.