00:00:00 Combating preemptively problems, you know you're gonna face in the next season. That's what we're talking about with Matt Miles, 00:00:05 Kelly Garrett and our friend Gail Stratman here at FMCs Booth at Commodity Classic. You love to joke about you farming little Vietnam, 00:00:12 you have a lot of humidity, you have some real temperature challenges. We've been there, well we've been there. 00:00:17 Temple roads, is there been to your farm? Right. Story For another day. You eat, Gail's been there. I've 00:00:22 Been there. Reality here is you are going to have some problems. You think because of not being able 00:00:27 to use dicamba in your mix, you need products with residual because you have heavy weed pressure 00:00:32 because of the conditions you are in. You think you got a solution heading into 2025. It's almost like the storm we had with Roundup. 00:00:38 So when Roundup first came out and it killed everything, the people went away from residuals. 00:00:42 We learned that. So even when we, with the new technology we had like Dicamba and Liberty, you know, different enlists, we still learned 00:00:49 that we had to have residual. Now we've, they've taken our biggest tool away from us in our air, which is dicamba to fight resistant pigweed, 00:00:56 extremely crucial that you have the right residual. And that's one thing FMC has if you can go out early in the fall with authority. 00:01:03 Uh, Gail showed some pictures yesterday at the, um, at the soybean panel where, put it out in October. Yeah. October, November be 00:01:09 It was still clean in May. You know, so those kind of products then end season, you know, their products like Anthem Flex 00:01:16 and Anthem Max are crucial to us that you can't have the weeds come up. The best weed you can have is one that never comes up. Yep. 00:01:21 Their products are long lasting, they're easy to activate with rainfall. Yep. Don't take as much rainfall and they work. Yeah. 00:01:28 Gail, the, the thing is, we so dependent on post application gly, right. As a real nice easy to, it is an easy button that like 00:01:36 to say, but the thing is, it also built up resistance like the pig v's. Talking about. Absolutely. And the other thing is, is 00:01:42 growers like to kill weeds. They like to see stuff up and then when they go spray, they like to see it die. So they, they know that that dollar, 00:01:47 they're spending's actually going to something that they're taking action with. And a lot of times pres are a little bit hard 00:01:53 to wrap your arm around because you're put your, a lot of times you're spraying bare dirt. That's right. And then, 00:01:57 but you're trying to do that preventative to keep that weed from coming up. And a lot of times that's hard to do 00:02:02 because you go out there and look and go, why am I spraying this? I ain't got no weeds. Right. 00:02:06 But you know, they're gonna be there eventually. And, and when you put that residual down, you want to get the longest residual, the best, uh, length 00:02:13 of residual you can get for that dime span. So you're going to use for your situation, what I'll use Interflex Anthem Max, uh, 00:02:21 if I'm doing it in the fall, I'm gonna use authority. Okay. All of those are extremely good residual products that are longer last. 00:02:28 Yeah. All, all pre-emergent um, kinda stuff. You know, we're, like I said, we're after that, uh, long-term residual 00:02:33 control that we can get outta that. So we're getting that 30, 40, 60 day kind of residual control. 00:02:38 Um, and prevent some, you know, a lot of the research that was done over the last couple decades, it shows that weed competition early in that growing season is 00:02:46 so detrimental to crop yield. I mean soybeans, there was some work done in Nebraska 20 years ago that I was involved in soybeans 00:02:54 by the time they're nine days old, which is, you know, VV one stage, you can already be losing up to 5% of your yield potential if you don't have something 00:03:02 there to prevent weed pressure. So I mean that's, that's nine days after they come up, they're already going backwards. 00:03:06 So if, if we're trying to maximize our revenue on that acre and get our ROI, 00:03:11 we can't let weeds be there from the time those beans come up. And You're gonna put this down maybe already in the fall, 00:03:16 but you're for this spring heading to Planning. So I'll run some type of Paraquat roundup 00:03:21 or something with this product. Yep. And then when it gets activated by the rainfall, we probably won't have to go in there again. 00:03:27 Right. If we do, it'll be one post Kim and that'll be one of Your or two of your products. 00:03:30 Well, like I said, we'll as he says, you can, you can do something in the fall and have a residual out there and carry 00:03:35 and then you, maybe you come in with another, uh, overlapping or laid residual in season with that first, with that single post app, then a lot of times you're done. 00:03:43 Or like I said, if you're going in and you don't have anything, you're, you're laying on that residual right behind emergence, uh, early in 00:03:49 that post stage with a liberty or something like that to take out any weeds that are up and you got residual to extend yourself out 00:03:55 another month, 45 days. The FMC product again Is Anthem Flex and Anthem Max are the two we use. Yep. Problem you're gonna face. 00:04:01 You're going corn on corn and you're going to put in only soybeans you're putting in is a challenge plot between you and your friend Matt 00:04:08 and the other guys that say you can't make money growing soybeans. You're stupid Killer Garrett. 00:04:13 I am by the way, putting my money on you, uh, because I know that You can How much money? 00:04:17 Well, 'cause I know he can actually put his stub on the scale for his own plot and make sure he loses. I didn't do that to him in my place. 00:04:23 So anyway, he's gonna be corn on corn on thousands and thousands of acres. Yeah. Since obviously we know this historically corn on corn 00:04:29 more dis more disease issue Typically more disease pressure. You Gotta get in front of preemptively. Whatcha gonna do, 00:04:35 We will run insecticide. They've got several products. Ethos Elite. Mm-hmm. The yeah. 00:04:40 Ethos Elite, which you know, brings, uh, bi fron and capture insecticide. Wait, I'm eighth grade level five months 00:04:46 Was by fron, which is the active ingredient in, in, in most people are familiar with capture LFR. It's been out there for a couple of decades. 00:04:53 But what we've done is taken that product and then combined it with a seedling fungicide. So, you know, we're going into these early planting 00:05:00 situations, high residue situations. So we tend to have a lot more things like fusarium, uh, Rhizoctonia, pythium, these, these dampening off diseases 00:05:07 that take out little seedling corn when it gets wet and cold in, in late April, early May. Well we've combined that with the insecticide. 00:05:14 So we're getting rootworm control along with seedling disease control in a single pass single product. How 00:05:19 Are we using it? Inferable. Okay. Yep. And if the fusarium is very prevalent, our soils product, what's very well 00:05:26 and with the continued corn on corn, you're gonna have disease pressure build and build. Yeah. And so we very much need to stay ahead of 00:05:32 It. Yeah. And it's treatment. It's, it's a Yeah. And it's one treatment, it's a biological type product. So what it does is it colonizes the root 00:05:38 and then grows with the root throughout the season. So it's not like it's a product you put there and it just dilutes and gives you a a 00:05:43 little bit of protection over time. It, it actually grows with the root system. And we've got some, uh, work 00:05:48 that we've done at our Stein research facility and stuff that shows it's still in the root system and active out to 70 days after, 00:05:54 after we've put it on, it's still growing with the root system. We can can pick it up active in that root system. 00:05:58 So it gives you some long season protection into, uh, into the growing season. Is that gonna be enough? Yes, it is. Okay. 00:06:04 It it's proven to be enough. Yeah. Anything else we need to know? If the person that's out here saying, you know what, I agree with Kelly, 00:06:09 I don't agree with Temple and Matt, I'm gonna struggle to make money on soybeans. I'm gonna corn on corn. 00:06:13 Yep. Else they need to know this one. Well, like I said, the other piece of it is, is disease control. 00:06:17 You know, we're corn on corn, we got a lot of residue out there. Of course Tar Spot is is all over your world. Look at that. 00:06:22 Yeah. We know it's there. So, you know, we got a couple options. We can use Xw in a multiple different ways. 00:06:28 We can do that at Plant or we can take it all the way out to a side dress application now, which we're gonna test 00:06:32 with these guys this year and all the way out into the middle of the growing season. Or we can change that up 00:06:37 and we can use a foliar spray like our Adario fungicide, which is very effective on, on Tar spot as well. 00:06:43 But at some point during the season, we're gonna need to address those diseases, um, that potentially can come in, uh, you know, from, from VT on and, and, 00:06:50 and make sure that we've got those in check. Is There any evidence that things like tar spot are worsened by corn on corn? 00:06:55 I thought mo the problem with corn on corn more is soil based stuff and the tar spot. Well tar spot Tar spot resides in 00:07:01 that corn residue from the previous year. So he's gonna have all the tar spot inoculum in the field. Yes. So if the weather conditions are conducive to 00:07:08 for it develop, it's gonna be there. What else does the viewer need to know about corn on corn and getting ahead of a roof plate? Have a 00:07:16 Good program follow through with it. And I know, I know margins are tight but you can't skip on things like this. 00:07:21 Yeah. Because it'll come back to Bite yet. And the one, what you've been 00:07:23 preaching for several years now. Nutrition. Nutrition, yeah. Balance your nutrition. Healthy, healthy plants. Plants, 00:07:27 healthy plants, fight disease. That's right. Yeah. These Gail Stratman with FMC, that's Matt Miles from sometimes called little Vietnam 00:07:33 or Southeast Arkansas. And then Kelly Garrett from Long Corn talking about, uh, fungicide issues or sorry, 00:07:39 disease issues talking about herbicides that could help him with his weed issues. I'm David Mason coming at you from Commodity Classic 2025 246 00:07:44.955 --> 00:07:48.165