00:00:00 Here at Extreme Ag we talk a lot about soils, agronomic topics. We talk about variability of soils. 00:00:05 But you know what you probably don't have in your fields, you might have sand, silk, clay, varying degrees 00:00:09 of organic matter, but I'm guessing you don't have oyster shells in your fields. We're at Temple Roads, one of his farms here in, uh, 00:00:16 Eastern Shore of Maryland, and he says, I got something. You guys have probably never seen any of the fields. 00:00:20 And I said, what? He says, oysters shells in the soil. Um, presumably, presumably there's an explanation for this. I, I don't really know what I mean, I'm assuming 00:00:29 that years ago this was a oyster bed because it's, you lay crossed these areas, you know, behind us there. 00:00:35 That's one of the big tributaries. Yeah. We're less, there's a hundred yards from, uh, a tributary going into 00:00:40 Chesapeake Bay. So, I mean, and it's probably, I don't know, I'm gonna say a eight 10 foot drop off. 00:00:44 But, you know, that's something that you don't see. Kelly Garrett got a lot of things, but he doesn't have oyster shell 00:00:51 shells in his dirt, does he? But what I do believe is, I think that at one point, you know, everything was underwater at one point, 00:00:57 and that's how far these go back. And it's kind of hard to believe that they've, they're still out here. 00:01:01 You know what I mean? Like, they're still out here. And here's something that's interesting and Some of 'em are broken up in little pieces. 00:01:05 They've been driven over, hit hit with a piece of cultivation equipment. Yeah. They're, they're chipped up. 00:01:09 But, you know, here's an interesting fact. This field right here on the backside, you know, when we do soil samples, we've never had 00:01:17 to apply a line back here, ever. No. So there's enough calcium from however many years these oyster shells been here, 00:01:24 plus they've been shedding, getting a little bit broken, put in there. And it's calcified. It's, it's given you the amount of, uh, 00:01:30 uh, line that you need here. Yeah. And I mean, when you look at anywhere, and we, we have a lot of areas that are like this, 00:01:35 that are alongside the bay. We have a bunch of areas, and it's, and it's darker soil. It's not as pretty as Kelly's, but it's darker soil 00:01:42 and it's, and it's way meower. That's the calcium. And when you hit oyster shells, your yield always goes up. 00:01:48 So right where we are compared to, say, a quarter mile away where we're parked, uh, 20 bushel difference, 30, 30 bushel 00:01:56 Difference, it'll be a 30 bushel swing. And I mean, it doesn't mean if it's a good year, bad year, it doesn't matter. 00:02:00 There's enough organic matter in here. There's enough po say in this, so this, so is mellow enough that it'll just produce a better yield every time? Didn't 00:02:08 There, didn't, there wouldn't there a time when people like got these, ground 'em up and threw 'em on the field in this part of the world? 00:02:13 I that I can't tell you Don't. Would you do that? Would you recommend doing that? I mean, it works for me. It's worked. 00:02:18 It, I mean, look how I haven't put it on anything on here in years. Do you? Maybe it holds up better than the conventional line 00:02:23 Gonna say. Don't you wish that maybe in hindsight you've went around and found more farms to farm that had oysters in them? 00:02:29 I mean Yeah. The, these areas that have 'em do Really well. Got it. So yeah. Some of our highest productive soils, 00:02:36 Sometimes you can't explain it exactly, but you know what? It's pretty cool. I'm guessing that no matter what you farm, 00:02:42 and if you do, by the way, have a farm with oysters or clamshells are, or something like that, make sure you send us a note 00:02:47 because this is the first one I've been to. Yep. Got it. Till next time, temple Rose Dam Mason come at you with XT Extreme Mag. 00:02:53 We'll call this an oyster soil. We, you can call it whatever you want. I call it better than Kelly Garrett Soil. 00:02:58 How am I done? I like 00:02:59.565 --> 00:02:59.765