00:00:00 Galen beer here with Kelly Garrett. And Kelly, you have been working hard, uh, at reducing the amount of nitrogen you use on a crop, 00:00:10 and everyone always wants to look and say, Hey, what's my nitrogen rate per bushel of corn grown? 00:00:16 You're being recognized this year phrase significant achievement on, uh, low nitrogen for the yield that you achieved. 00:00:26 Tell our viewers a little bit about that. Well, we have been, we've been working on nitrogen reduction, uh, but not just nitrogen reduction. 00:00:35 We've been working on nitrogen assimilation, making sure that we're providing a balanced nutrition to the corn crop 00:00:42 to, uh, to reach the potential with the lowest amount of input dollars that we can. Uh, this year we had an NCGA entry of 323 bushel, 00:00:52 and to qualify in the low nitrogen class or the nitrogen reduction class, you have to be under 180 pounds total provided. 00:01:00 And they even look back at last year, I, I believe we had to make sure that we provided less than 300 pounds 00:01:06 of nitrogen last year. We're easily below 180. We're more on the 135 or 140 pounds Wow. Per acre provided, um, with the anhydrous, the planter, uh, 00:01:17 you know, and then the plant food, the, the byproduct that we spray. And that's a year 00:01:21 after year thing in a, um, in a, in a higher yielding spot that's about all the nitrogen we put on anywhere. 00:01:27 You know, this is, this isn't a trial for us. This is kind of grower standard practice and it's, it's due in no small part to agro liquid 00:01:34 with the liberate calcium and the micros that we use, things like that. Um, you're part of the team here, I'm happy to say. 00:01:39 Yeah, well, I mean, we appreciate that. You know, and I, I think it's a great achievement. When I hear things like this as a grower, I always wonder, 00:01:46 okay, but where's the nitrogen that came in from somewhere else that we're not hearing about? 00:01:51 But you're saying that will, that's all nitrogen accounted for on this field That yes, there, you know, 00:01:56 there's 15 pounds in the plant food. There was about 15 or 20 pounds in the high energy end and the two by two, and then this would just have basically 00:02:06 a hundred pounds of anhydrous that fall applied again, a hundred thirty five, a hundred forty pounds total in this high yield area because mother Nature, the microbial system, 00:02:16 the biological system, whatever you want to term it, that's where the rest of the nitrogen comes from. 00:02:21 And, you know, Mike Evans, an integrated ag, my agronomist and good friend, business partner, 00:02:25 and the soil test that we have done, uh, to, to validate this, there's more nitrogen down there than we can really use. 00:02:33 Um, you know, we've done other trials throughout the years. Uh, 60 pounds of anhydrous, um, yielded within five bushel 00:02:40 of 240 pounds of anhydrous. We just don't need that in the soils that I have. Corn on corn, or was it rot? Rotate corn on 00:02:47 Corn. Oh, Wow. That's an amazing achievement. 00:02:49.845 --> 00:02:51.805