00:00 Standing out here in the rotational grazing part, uh, the sorghums coming, some of the clovers are coming, the peas are looking good. 00:07 The oats came back more than we thought, but there's a problem and problem is chemical damage. You know, the drought from the last two years has 00:17 probably led to chemical build up in here. We don't know for sure if you read the label on authority, which was our bean chemical program in, uh, 22. 00:26 It says, don't use sorghum for 24 months. Well, here we are 24 months later, and with the drought, it probably didn't precipitate out 00:32 like we thought it was going to. I find that to be a problem in agriculture. We as farmers want perfect wheat control, but if 00:39 and when we do achieve that, the chemicals used to achieve that are probably holding our crops back a little bit. 00:44 And here there's the potential that I have held this crop back, this rotational grazing crop 00:50 by the chemical choices I made the last couple years. Atrazine and authority would be the one that I would talk about here. 00:55 It doesn't mean I can quit using it in my corn and soybeans, but it's a real problem in my forage mix. 00:59 So here we can see the sorghums coming. I can't even tell you what these plants are, but they're the different clovers and beans 01:05 and brass that we planted over here is, uh, an example of the peas that one of the plants that didn't grow very well is a fava bean. 01:15 And if we walk up here ways, I had scouted it and, and seen it. It was, uh, it looks a lot like a soybean. 01:21 At first I thought we had soybeans in the drill on. I said, I'm like, you know, where did that come from? But Austin and I did some further research 01:28 and, uh, it's the fava beans. This sorghum is well behind where I thought it should be, things like that. 01:33 We've had plenty of rain and moisture. I think maybe that the oats are holding it back a little bit. 01:37 So between the oats, the atrazine and the authority from two years ago, it's holding us growths back a little bit. 01:43 So I don't have as many cows here as I wanted. I'd like to have 200 cows here and I have 80, but they're doing fine. 01:49 Thankfully, with all the rain we've had, we have plenty of feed and I haven't had to supplement 'em. The Broome and the other, 01:56 the other paddocks are holding off. Well, this is the, uh, paddock that we drilled first. So the sorghum is the biggest in it, 02:02 and probably on Monday I'm going to, uh, turn 'em out here and we will graze over this rather quickly to try 02:08 to get the oats down and to allow the other species of plants to come up. We'll see what happens. I do have one pasture 02:14 that has 34 cows in it that is starting to get short. It's a B Broome pasture. It, it's rotational grazing, but it's Broome. 02:20 So it's starting to get short and uh, hopefully we can provide enough seed here for the rest of the summer that I can haul those 34 pairs 02:28 over here at supplement it. There's a nice amount of feed out here with the oat and things like that, but they're, 02:32 they're heading out obviously. So, uh, we do need to clip it down. So we keep growing the chemical Carryover is a real problem. 02:40 I look at it in my corn, I look at it in my soybeans, and, you know, the drought magnifies the problem, but I assure you it's a problem every year. 02:48 You know, here's the, here's an example of the reason. Here's a spot where the oats are thin and look at the sorghum coming. 02:53 You know, so maybe we get these oats down, the other plants will come up. That's something that we talk 02:58 About. But then I've talked about with TJ Cortes. He talked about a, a book when Weeds talk and how we need to listen to them. 03:06 It says in this book that when weeds come out, you need to look at the species of weeds and what it means. This book says that water hemp is a 03:13 sign of unavailable calcium. So does the water hemp germinate because the calcium is not there? 03:18 Or is the water hemp trying to bring calcium up? It also says in the book that when you have thistles, the thistles are a tuber type. 03:27 But here's an example right here. The thistles are a tuber type plant, and they are trying to bring the calcium up from down 03:34 below with the root system. That's a fascinating thing to me. So I, we have to read further into the book. 03:39 Evans is reading it right now after TJ talked about it. Evans went and got it. And we need to read further into the book to see what, 03:45 and we don't know, I I've even talked with TJ about this. Is the waterhemp there 03:49 because the calcium is unavailable so it allows it to germinate? Or is the waterhemp trying to be like the thistle 03:56 and bring the calcium up? You know, I've talked many, many times about our biggest yield limiting factor here. 04:02 Our number one priority is to address the base saturation with the calcium. And we have all kinds of calcium in these hills, 04:08 but it's in available and it really is a foreign concept to me to have calcium available to the plant. 04:14 That's why we continue to, uh, supplement it and things like that. I talk about using the liberate from agro liquid Calcium is 04:20 such a tricky, uh, nutrient to work with that it, it's very challenging. I would tell you that the water hemp problems 04:27 that all farmers are facing across the Midwest, it could partially be attributed to how our soils are out of balance. 04:33 And if we get our soils in balance better, can we control the waterhemp better? That'll be something that we're gonna look at next year 04:39 as we, uh, read more into this book. When weeds talk.