00:00 Well, if it looks like we're coming to you from a field day, that's about to commence. That is exactly what's happening. 00:05 We're at Temple Roads Farm here, Chestnut Manor Farms in Centerville, uh, Maryland. And we've got our friends from Agro Liquid here talking about a trial. 00:13 You got some pretty cool stuff going on. Crowd's gonna be pouring in here a little bit, but before we get the crowds, we wanna talk about that. Four different trials going on, on that soybean field. 00:22 That is by Galen back over there. Uh, root digs happening. What's, what's happening and what are you doing? Well, we 00:28 Did four different, our labs consist of 40 acres. So what they wanted us to do with our lab, uh, we broke it up into 10 acre trials and we did, you know, 00:38 10 acres of my grower standard. And then we just kind of amped it up as we went. Okay. You know, again, we went over our soil test, 00:45 we went over our tissue samples from prior years to show us where we're gonna set up and where I lag at. So we we're trying to facilitate all them as we went. 00:54 All right, You hope to find a better way. You hope to get bigger yields, you hope to get bigger money, et cetera. 00:59 Galen said something right before we hit record on this. You said soybeans are the telltale crop because 01:05 Yeah, legumes are the, the most picky crops that you can put out on a soil. So if I don't have a soil test from a farm, 01:13 I'll ask them for a yield map on their soybeans, because soybeans for sure will start telling you where you need to lime. If your calcium drops below a certain level, 01:20 they're very iron and manganese hungry. So I lay that soil test map and see kind of where the low areas are. We can start figuring out is it enough of the percentage of the field force to 01:30 need to address it. Did you, do you think that there's any deficiencies out here? Well, I'm gonna disagree with Galen a little bit on that. 01:39 I like that. A so here's, here's why they Say disagree creates more Compelling. There's a lot of guys out here that, 01:45 that we all talk to that are really high yield growers. Yep. And, and a high yielding crop hides it way better than, like, 01:52 if you're talking about 35 or 40 bushel beans, Galen's, a hundred percent. Right. It will show it a lot uhhuh. But if a guy is, um, 02:01 a little higher management type of a style, you know, he's right. It's manganese deficient. They're manganese hungry. Those guys are feeding, 02:08 feeding, feeding, feeding those. And, and it's not really a tattletale kind of a sign when you get in that situation, when you get into guys that are growing good crops, you know, maybe, 02:18 maybe irrigated or whatever, um, on soybeans, it, it's, it's a whole nother level. And we then you fight a whole nother magnitude of problems. 02:28 We have a temple. Wouldn't you, wouldn't you say that part of what you're doing there, what you're just saying is that guys that are doing high yields are kind of 02:35 putting insurance nutrients out there so you don't see the true deficiency. They they are. They are. And, and we followed 'em all the way through. You know, 02:42 the important thing is, of course we're gonna, we're not gonna sit here and argue like Molly and Chad did on a film about tissues, about tissue samples. I had, I reveal 02:50 You. I had It get in the Needle. I'm telling you, I'm still shook up about it. Well, The good news is, is like that we use that for our data. You know, 02:58 the guys that wanna grow, grow, grow. That's what's really good about it. Yeah. They, 03:01 you can grow by your last year's tissue samples because your program's gonna be very much similar. Yep. 03:07 All right. So let's talk about the trials. Uh, you know, grow standard practice for you is very different than some people. 03:12 'cause you're a more intensive manager of your crop than many. So you start your grower standard practice, you keep adding to it. 03:17 So kind of take me from one to two to three to four. What are we adding Galen? What's going on out here in these trials? 03:22 Yeah. First of all, the, you know, the grower standard is kind of the, the things we know provide a response to, uh, soybeans. 03:29 So you're looking at things like, uh, calcium you're looking at because they're gonna feed the RBE bacteria. You're looking at phosphorus, you're looking at potassium. 03:38 What we're going to do from there is start adding to that because as we push the yield envelope, we've gotta figure out what those next trigger points are. 03:46 So you're gonna see us do more foliar applications to see if that's gonna push us in, see of, of, okay. So we're going to do, uh, say Ferter rain. 03:55 And then, uh, we have a product called capitalize. And Capitalize actually has potassium and calcium along with sulfur in it. We know all those are important on soybeans. It's, 04:04 there's very few companies that would combine that into one product, but we have, and we wanna see what kind of yield kick we can get out of that. 04:11 Got it. And everything with applied foliar. And then did we do anything Planning? Yes, there was two, but two, and there was infer a program too. Okay. 04:19 So that was, you know, when we were planting all this, we planted the corn in the soybean same day. So we had three planters running, so I didn't do anything but sat on the, 04:27 on the trailer and I mixed stuff as the planters came up. And then they would go out and they would plant it. And now we, 04:33 once we get past that, yes, everything else is a foliar nutrition Delan. I think we go to these field days, 04:39 you know how farmers get really excited about equipment, like this stuff sitting behind me. Of course they get real excited about iron. 04:44 Hey, I get excited about, yeah, They get excited about really, really tall corn and in soybeans. Is he gonna make a bunch of money off of the stuff we're doing? 04:51 Are farmers going to see that we can, instead of treating soybeans as the crop between corn, actually something that can make you a bunch of money. I, 04:58 I think all the growers are learning that that fertilize the corn heavy and let it be for the beans. I think, I think some of that's diminishing now, 05:05 but I will tell you that the job of extreme ag in these videos we shoot and our job as a fertilizer company is to help solve that, 05:15 that puzzle for growers and see if there is something missing. Well, I Think that also it's about, 05:20 we talked about this number of times with your send it twin, uh, Chad, uh, with a product like theirs, 05:25 you can spoonfeed you can put it out there at time of, at time of absolute necessity. The idea in the old days of, I don't worry about fertilizing soybeans. Just soybeans, hell, 05:33 you're talking about putting three different treatments. Well, You don't, or lumber something like, I mean, 05:37 the soybeans are no different in corn. We can only put on a certain amount of fertility. Anyway. So what we've learned here where, you know, 05:43 my region is spoon spoonfeeding has always been better. We've been doing it for years and years and years. Yeah. And to be honest with you, every time I can break that up and I can spoonfeed, 05:53 yeah. It's better for me, the secret is, is spoonfeeding the right stuff? Right. Are you doing 05:57 That well? It takes a little bit more work, a little bit more management, but you're getting more bang for your buck. I mean, is it, 06:01 is it even arguable if you're putting out a little bit, a little bit less and doing it at three times versus a bunch all at once? You're, you're obviously making, you're 06:08 Getting more bang for your buck. I mean, the, the, the, the only variable there is time, you know, whether someone can wa uh, can broad scale four or five applications on soybeans. 06:18 And some of it gets tough, but, you know, think about it this way. If you could pick up a little more yield. Yeah. A guy can't, you know, 06:24 let's say if a guy tills X amount of acres can't really afford a high dollar sprayer, like what's behind us in some of these, um, uh, in the, in the, in the, 06:32 um, field day, if, if you can't afford that, if you can break it up and you can capture more money by making other applications, it helps you pay off that machine. 06:42 Last question, I think maybe for both of you, and the reason we do this is to help others learn, um, how this could be, uh, a tool in their toolbox of the few different things you do out here. 06:53 How many you think next year you're gonna say, I'm doing that now as grower standard practice? I'm just looking for one more piece to tell One more piece. 07:00 Every time that I look at something like this, this is gonna teach me a lot. Um, we have kind of ascended version, you know, our fourth, 07:06 our forced treatment that we have out here has got a lot of stuff in it. Um, I'm just looking for one more piece, you know, 07:13 to add to my puzzle that I can have a return on my investment. When you see this across the country, you've done four field days with us. 07:19 There's one little thing from each one. One little nugget you take away from each geography. Yeah, there is. 07:24 But that nugget really is no two geographies and no two climates are exactly the same or soils and or soils. And so you have to adapt as you go. And, 07:32 and kind of to temple's point on adding things throughout the season, I would imagine if he were in a severe drought and didn't have the sprinkler 07:40 that he could run around this field, that his decision process might be a little bit different. So that spoon feeding allows you to accumulate information over the course of 07:48 the season and then spend that dollar if needed. Spoonfeeding saves you money either way, whether it gains you yield or whether you get into a situation where the 07:56 weather's not, you know, great for you at that point. Yes. You're not gonna make that application. That's correct. Well, 08:02 We talked about that this happens to be an irrigated field and you've had decent rainfall. So go ahead and you did that final treatment, 08:08 that third foliar treatment. And if it weren't for the irrigation or it weren't for the rainfall, you could back off on that. Yep. 08:13 How much are these soybeans gonna make over here on your, on your biggest one? I'll 08:16 Let you know when the combine hits it. Come on. I don't know. We'll see. Till next time, thanks for being here.