00:00:00 It's good to be here with you after the growing season's over kinda reevaluating whether it was su successful or not. 00:00:06 And I know one thing you were looking hard at this year is you're, you're really taking steps to find where 00:00:12 that diminishing returns is with your nitrogen inputs, both from an environmental standpoint and an economic standpoint. 00:00:19 So what do you think you learned from this year? Well, especially with this economic, uh, environment that we're in, we keep looking at turning down 00:00:28 synthetic nutrition to see where can we get to the bottom of it at and, and where can we save input dollars. 00:00:34 And so, you know, we, we had zero five and 10 gallons of high energy and in the two by two and we maintain yield throughout all of them. 00:00:42 So we continue to turn down the nitrogen, we continue to play with the other nutrients to see how can we get a yield bump. 00:00:50 And that's the journey that we've been on. I don't know if there will ever be a destination, but just trying to, how low can I turn my input dollars? 00:00:58 Yeah. Especially with $4 corn. Yeah, I think you're right. I think I, I mean I think that's, we're all after that set number 00:01:04 that we can find on nitrogen and that may always be elusive. I don't think any two situations are the same, 00:01:09 but I do think it's important that we try to figure out how do we learn to use less nitrogen. And one thing you're looking at hard is just 00:01:17 that balanced nutrition. And do you think that that, is that balance in nutrition, is that helping that nitrogen do more? 00:01:25 I think the balanced nutrition helps the nitrogen do more. I think it makes for a healthier plant. 00:01:29 I think it makes for a, a less stress plant, a more stress-free environment. But I agree with you that it is an elusive thing. 00:01:36 Different years, different soil types, different varieties. There, there isn't one size fits all when 00:01:42 we're turning down the nitrogen. A grower needs to evaluate on his own and, and see where he is comfortable at. 00:01:48 Gonna take a little discipline in a year like this, isn't it, to not just commit all your fertilizer dollars to nitrogen, you're saying, hey, have a little bit 00:01:56 of self-discipline and still invest in those other nutrients. Absolutely. The other nutrients in my soil type are, 00:02:04 dare I say, more important than the nitrogen because of what mother Nature provides me in a high yield area. 00:02:08 I think variable rate technology is important. We need less nitrogen in a high yield environment than we need in the low yield environment. 00:02:15 I know that sounds counterintuitive, but the high yield environment, there's a lot more nitrogen than what a person thinks. 00:02:21 Without research, there's a lot more nitrogen being provided by Mother Nature. Well, it's, uh, part of that art of refinement 00:02:27 and we appreciate what you looked at this year and hopefully we'll continue to build on this in the future. Absolutely. You guys are great to work with 00:02:34 and I, I really appreciate the research and the, the collaborative effort that we have. Well, very good. Well, we appreciate everyone tuning in 00:02:42 and we'll look forward to doing, uh, a continuation or something similar next year. 00:02:46.965 --> 00:02:47.565