00:00 Asking the question, what's new for 2024 from the floor of Commodity Classic 2024. Here I am at Concept Agritech Booth 00:06 with Sheldon Alt and Temple Rhodes. Two new products we're comic excited about. What's new? What do they do? Alright, so Sheldon, uh, amino grow 00:15 with amino tech technology. That's patent pending right now. Comic site and cool new stuff. 00:20 A little bit of experience over here with, uh, temple. What is it? What's it do? Yeah. So, uh, amino Grow is is a brand new product. 00:27 We had a lot of trials out last year, like you said, with patent pending amino tech in it. Um, so Amino grow is, is really interesting 00:34 because what it helps do is boost the a TP production. Well I don't know what that means. 00:40 A TP is the, the energy cell of life. Okay. In you and I and also in plants too. So what we're seeing with this is increased 00:48 fruiting sites Okay. As well. Uh, which also can lead to higher yield. And what we're seeing is the better proliferation of 00:54 that soybean in particular. So like temple, how many times you combine soybeans at some of those lower branches? 01:00 Soon. As soon as you hit 'em. Right. Wait, wait, wait. Like I'm all excited about this. So one of the things that I've done forever is, you know, 01:09 I've been trying to promote high yield and soybeans. One of my biggest problems has been two things. It's trying to create more fruiting sites. Yep. 01:18 More fruiting sites equals more pods, more beans, Whatever Which you want, which I want. And creating a plant that's smaller and bushier. Mm-Hmm. 01:27 That's what all this comes down to. And then it's gonna make a stronger stem. We, we, I can create 01:33 and I can manipulate beams to a, to a point now where I can create branching now by other forms and then I can put a bunch of pods on, but they get heavy 01:44 and they snap and I get none of that. Yeah. Of the problems. We, In past episodes, when I first learned 01:50 what a plant growth regulator was from Kelly Garrett and all that. Yeah. A, a soybean plant that has whatever, you know, 01:55 200 pods or something is cool. 300 pods. I don't even know what the number is, but if it's as big as temple that the thing falls over. 02:01 So you want that, you want the free site. So amino grow and this new technology, you're gonna use it. How 02:07 So this year, so it was out last year. Matt got to use it last year. I didn't get to use it as much as I wanted to. 02:13 Um, but we got some things that we're gonna tweak and we're gonna figure out. But with everything that's brand new 02:19 and is coming out, I love to get on the beginning edge. Yeah. Yeah. 'cause if I can put it in more places, in different places and try to improve and improve 02:26 and prove, I think that this is one of the things that I have lacked in my high yield gold. Yeah. What you would say with soybeans. 02:34 Um, I've lacked here and I think this is one of the things that are gonna get me over that I have a plateau right now 02:40 and I can't get past it. So I think maybe it might help, you Know, one of the things we saw in a lot 02:44 of our trials last year too is we haven't hit that plateau yet. We've seen where the more applications we give, 02:50 the more results we're getting. We have, We have. He said more I'm send a guy. Yeah. More is good. 02:54 Said don't tell him that. He'll, he'll be putting it on every third day. Sounds good. So Sheldon, I got a question, question for you. 02:59 Yeah. Um, this is new technology. We do have some battery of evidence. We do have some body of work with this stuff. 03:05 So fruiting, uh, more pods. What is that? Is that basically what we're seeing? Yeah, so, so better, better branching. 03:13 Uh, more powder tension. And we're seeing more beans per pod as well on that too. But you know, like we always say at concept 03:19 agritech, we're always learning. Right. We're, we're always learning. We're trying to get, you know, work with uh, uh, 03:24 partner growers like yourself. Yeah. Just to keep learning and keep pushing that envelope. So one thing that you did and you didn't realize you did 03:30 it, you gave a product to his, his competitor Matt, down in Arkansas. And before he got it, now the race is on because he doesn't, 03:37 We haven't dangle that carrot. He doesn't Yeah, it's exact same. We Have dangle The carrot. See, this is, I'm 03:40 tell you what really happened. Here's what really happened. So Matt and I have been competing on soybean yields for, and 03:45 And you compete On and I barely scratch by every year. So they give it to him Yeah. To try to get around me. Right. So, okay. They circum they circumvented you. Right. 03:53 Another product I'm talking about new cut product. Pretty excited about it. I see it right up here. Buck barrier. Uh, I'm like, no, 04:00 that can't be what I think it is. It's a deer deterrent. Tell me about it. You're exactly right. We're really 04:04 excited about buck barrier. Um, you know, deer predation on crops can be very damaging. I mean, visiting with you a couple days ago you said 04:11 that you've even changed crops before. Yeah. So Temple told me he, he grows grain sorghum and one reason he grain grows grain sorghum is 04:19 because it, it, you don't get the deer damage on grain sorghum the way you doing corn. And now even soybeans in my part of the world Yeah. 04:24 Deer have learned to like soybeans and they'll they'll tear the heck out of 'em. Yeah. I mean you can demolish, 04:28 they can demolish the crop. I've had farms where it's 40, 50% damage on the total farm and we can't take those kind of losses. 04:36 No. Especially this year. Yeah. Yeah. We can't afford a loss. So something, a product like this is gonna be huge. 04:42 How do I use buck barrier? So It can be used as a broadcast 'cause it actually has a kind of a pleasant smell to humans, 04:49 but it just has a smell that, that deer are kind of spooked off by It. So that's how it works. 04:54 It works on the olfactory. It is a deterrent based on its olfactory perception ex. Exactly. And you said olfactory 05:00 so much hot like we eat, right? If we start eating our saliva starts going. So it works from a smell aspect too. Yep. 05:07 And then if the deer starts to nibble on it, it kind of cuts down on that saliva production. Mm-Hmm. So it just makes it not palatable and not enjoyable. 05:15 So two questions show, uh, lasting power. I put this on, then it rains. Now all of a sudden it washed this stuff off. 05:20 Is it a coating or does it actually change something in the plant? That's, That's a great question. We get 05:24 asked that a lot. Um, we've seen about 21 days of coverage with this. Right. Even with rain events. 05:30 So, um, it's almost systemic where it can kind of get into the plant and, and last there. So so 21 days, does that mean that he's gonna have 05:37 to put it in the tank mix with about every, every run? No, because most of the time when, when we had that deer pressure problem, I only need to get 05:46 by a certain stage and then they can outgrow it. Yeah. I, I I need 21 days By the time, If you can buy me 05:53 that, I don't have to change your Crop by the time your crop is at a certain point, the deer are eating it, 05:58 but it's not probably costing you yield. Yep. Or it's very small. Well, it's very small. It's the, the biomass is outgrowing 06:03 with the pressure they're going on what the deer Could eat because if deer can along and, and nip the soybeans off 06:07 and they're this young, that's, that's gone. Yeah. And the same with a corn plant that's only this big, but Exactly. 06:11 If a deer is eating some leaves off of a corn plant that's as tall as you and me, the corn plant 06:15 can probably get past it. Yeah. Okay. Uh, amino grow and then buck barrier. The last question about buck barrier I was gonna have then 06:23 he's putting it on over the top as a spray treatment. It's not, it's nothing in the soil, it's on the plant. Correct. 06:28 It, it can be broadcast to kind of at least get 'em to spook. Yep. And, and, and smell it. Got it. 06:32 And then also it can be on, on via foliar. Yes Sir. Okay. And then how do I use the amino? 06:36 It goes in how foliar. Foliar. Yep. And we're looking at about V three application and R one would be a really good time. 06:43 Mine's gonna be at emergence every stage, always through the crop to see what I can do. See, see if I can, Right. So you can beat out Matt 06:49 Miles five. If you wanna learn more about this, where do they go? Go To concept agritech.com. 06:54 Uh, we'd be more than happy To. It's concept agritech with a K at the end of it. Concept Agritech, uh, with a K at the end of it.com. 07:00 He is Sheldon Alt. He is at Temple Roads. And we ask the question, what's new and what does it do from Commodity Classic 2024 07:07 right here at Concept Agritech. I'm David Mason. Thanks for tuning in.