00:00 So guys, we're here today and today's the day a little less than five months ago. February 26th, we planted this field of beans. 00:08 This is another research project. We got to see if we can plant two crops of beans. We did this and was successful with it in 22. 00:15 We waited a little longer to desiccate than we are right now. As you can see, you know, I've got, 00:20 there's a few stalks out here that are solid green pods, but the majority of the stalks 00:25 that we're looking at have got the yellow pods and a few green pods on too. So, you know, we're looking at about 25%. 00:31 That's probably absolutely not ready. And the other 75%, this one's a little probably behind ready. 00:37 You know, we've got yellow pod from the bottom all the way to the top and then this one's kind of in between. 00:42 Not a great looking bean crop here. These had three different frost on 'em, one of them being pretty severe. 00:48 They made it through that in 22. We were looking at, I think 74 bushel on the first crop. But we're looking at here I think is maybe 65. 00:55 So we're a little off of what, you know, what we think. I think we're a little off when the combine comes through here. 01:00 The seed size is gonna be pretty good. They may be a little better than than what we think, but we didn't get a lot of height on 01:05 these for an early four. See if we can get those two, you know, two crops to combine as one yield as you see the sprayer, you know, running 01:12 behind me, I always say that desiccation is more of an art than it is a science. You know, we've used anywhere from 16 ounces to, 01:20 to 26 ounces or of, of desiccant in the past. This year what we decided to do, you know, the target for this whole field is gonna be Monday, 01:28 but I wanted to come out here today, today, Saturday, get in the heat of the day and run three different rates. So we did a round with 120 foot boom at 16 ounces. 01:37 We did a pass at 20 and then we did a round at 24. So we can see which one works the best and we'll come back Mon Monday with a rate of 24 ounces 01:46 and, and finish the field. We probably did about 15 acres out of the 60 acres. Now this field is the 4.0 01:54 that our objective is get a second bean crop behind the other field, which is about 90 acres is a 4.9 and we're just planning on having the one crop out of it. 02:03 The goal here is to figure out planting a variety this early. You see it's not very tall. 02:07 I'm standing in the middle and it hits me about mid thigh normal. Our, our full season beans are gonna be somewhere between, 02:13 I guess the correct word would be breast high to belly bun high. So we've lost height. We knew we were gonna do that. 02:19 We're gonna lose height with a second crop, but can we make an ROI outta two crops together? You know, if we can reach that 02:25 a hundred ten, a hundred twenty, a hundred thirty bushel yield on one crop. 02:28 So we're trying to see if we can do it on two. Looking at the health of these beans and how it works. I wish we'd have planted more acres than we did. 02:35 Like I said, 22, we were successful. 23 we weren't successful. So we were 50 50 when we started this crop. 02:41 The goal is to see if this short season variety 4.0 and then the second field we planted a 4.9. So the 4.9 theoretically should be 10 bushels better than 02:52 these, but we're not gonna be able to plant a clo a crop behind that four nine. I think it's gonna get too late. 02:57 So we've got two different kind of tests going on there. We've also got a test going on 03:02 where we used some stress mitigation products to try to prevent the frost from being as severe as it was on the grass and the ditches. 03:10 And then we've got the desiccation test also that we've got out here to figure out if you know, what rate's the best rate. 03:16 I get that question a lot and I really wanna firm that up. I've always said if the bean don't want to get ready, 03:22 it don't matter what rate you put out, it's gonna take longer when the bean is actually ready to go, you know, it's, it's gonna be a short amount of time. 03:29 There is a rate difference there, but I think it all depends on what that bean's really ready, ready to do. 03:34 You know, God's got these plants doing what they want to do and we gotta make 'em work. 03:38 When I say that, what I mean is, you know, it's the same way with cotton. You know, the good Lord's got intentions for these crops 03:44 of how he wants 'em to grow. A lot of people use mother nature and when you try to do something to a plant to force it, 03:49 you know, you may not get the same results as a few of these pies to do something that they may not want to do. This one's a little green to be doing, 03:56 but we'll see what, what happens. Alright, the reason why I'm not totally scared to do this is, is one year when we first started 04:02 Desiccating, I had a 90 acre field at 70 over here that I needed to do. I didn't really make that clear to the airplane. 04:08 When he flew the fields, he flew across the 23 acres. Also they were at R 6.5. Talked to the pilot about it 04:15 and he said, man, any kind of yield deduct you've got, you know, we'd be willing to trade that out and spray and pay for it or whatever. 04:22 When it was all said and done, there wasn't a bushel difference in the, in the R six and the five R, 6.5 and the ones we've done. 04:28 So I don't think we're gonna hurt ourselves bad if we are a little bit too early. But you know, the question always is 04:34 how early is too early to plant? And now we're gonna see how early is too early to desiccate. This is the 24 ounce rate, 26 hours later 04:43 and we'll look at the 16 X and see if we can see a difference there. This is the 16 ounce rate here. 04:49 You might can see a little bit of difference in the foliage on the 16 and the 20. If you look across the field, 04:54 which you probably can't see in this video, you can definitely see a difference in the 16 versus the 20 and the 24. 05:00 But basically you can tell, you know, right now we just kind of started burning the leaves on the foliage. 05:05 We'll walk out in the 24 and see if we can see much difference than we do here. The leaves are still kind of green, 05:10 a pod are really starting to turn yellow. But like I said, this is only a 16 ounce rate. We did about five acres this way just to see, you know, 05:18 we can give you guys a, a real idea of what we think the best rate to run is. This is a 24 ounce rate. 05:23 Really can't tell a whole lot of difference in my opinion. You know, right now between it and the, 05:28 and the 16, you can see the leaves are a little bit more crispy. You know, it's taking a little bit 05:33 more of the leaves off faster. They're not, it's not taking any of the leaves off, but it's burning them a little faster. 05:37 But I got something I wanna show you up here that's kind of cool from relative to what I was talking about yesterday. 05:43 So as you can see, these beans are, are all desiccated. And then you look at this right here, not to have a stand in it simply 05:50 because of the grow up in weeds. You can see right here where this one road didn't get planted, where, where the weeds got bad. 05:55 So we came in here, I don't know, two or three weeks later and planted these. Do you know, just spot planted this little spot here. 06:01 It's not, you know, 10 yards wide, but what you can see, like I said, when a bean's not ready, it's just not gonna desiccate. 06:08 And we'll watch these, I'll show you some more videos of them, but you know, you can tell from here it's got a 24 ounce rate on it 06:14 and it's really not going to do anything to it, but possibly shut the plant down and cost me a little bit of yield. 06:20 So guys, you can see here, like I said, this is 26 hours later, application to death material on their own. 06:28 So, you know, if a guy's needing to rush his harvest of a guy wants to run his combine faster, there's many, many, many different advantages 06:36 to desiccation other than it does cost a little money. I think we make that money back super fast just in harvest efficiency speed of harvest of more pos in the hopper. 06:45 So when you're harvesting a crop, you know, we've harvested some mature beans that have leaves on 'em like this. 06:50 You know, there's, you know, what happens to those leaves are going out the back. What goes out the back with those leaves? 06:55 Sometimes there's a few beans go out of them. This over here leaves will not be present. You know, you have to watch and manage your moisture. 07:03 You don't wanna cut these at 10%. But you know, if you've got the combine power and you're on top of it, it really does make a difference in 07:08 harvest efficiency.