00:00:00 Hogans, how many of you know about Hogans? I didn't. I said it was a new company to me last year. They worked with it into Delta a little bit, 00:00:10 and uh, temple worked with it a little bit up in Maryland and the results was pretty interesting 00:00:15 and we got tough soils here. So I said, Hey, um, let's get it down to North Carolina. Let's see what this thing will do. 00:00:22 So I talked with Brian Strider and, and he agreed to bring it down. Bio 800 is the product that they use. 00:00:29 The use rate on it is a two quartz acre. We've done it a couple different ways. We did it, uh, one whole field on center pivot. 00:00:37 We did, we done that entire field, really tight soils, tough soils. We was running short on water. 00:00:43 We was about to run outta water, uh, on that. And so we still was able to keep it in that 200 bushel range. 00:00:50 Nothing really impressive unless you looked at the growing season and the stress it went through then 00:00:54 that made the crop look pretty impressive. But it didn't tell me nothing about the Bio 800. So we went right below that field into our river bottoms, 00:01:03 which is good ground, very good ground, and it's planted later. So it hit the rains more timely. 00:01:10 Uh, once the rains finally started on the 13th of July and we left 120 foot across that 44 acre field with no treatment at all. 00:01:20 Just, just plain Jane, like we normally do things and then we put in our burn down in our sprayer. So it was very easy to use. 00:01:29 You cannot use this product with fungicide. You do not want to do that. But we put it in with our burn down and sprayed it. 00:01:38 Honestly, the, during the year, I couldn't tell a whole lot about it. It, it really, when you walk the rows, 00:01:44 it looked pretty even, uh, you just couldn't find that dividing line. But when we printed the yield map, 00:01:51 the dividing line was pretty evident. And, uh, so I went down. My son was picking the corn. He had already picked the, the 120 foot check, 00:01:59 so I didn't get, I did not get to pull any ears. He was mowing it down and, um, which I'm grateful for. But then, uh, what I noticed was this corn got flooded. 00:02:09 So the water got up to about right here on the ears, about halfway midline of the ear. The rest of it didn't get none. The shucks was really tight. 00:02:18 So when the, when Hurricane Helene hit this later, corn had good shucks on it, good shuck cover tied. It had just black layered right before that. 00:02:27 So that, I think that helped keeping some of that silt where there was no silt in here on the ear. It kept 'em clean. You can tell 00:02:34 by the color they're beautiful ears. These has been pulled about three weeks now. They're completely dried down on their own 00:02:42 test weight on these is in that 63 plus pound range. Uh, that's with natural drying. So what did we see? And what was interesting was I showed, 00:02:55 I've showed some pictures of the corn plants and the plants. I, I mean, right to the row. 00:03:00 They was green from the ear leaf up, had green in it, down below the ear leaf had green in it. And then I went right beside it, 00:03:10 which was the field right beside it. And I would prefer doing the road beside it. But being, he had picked a corn 00:03:16 and that corn, the fodder had died. And so them saturated soils, I had a better soil help there and um, it was kind of interesting, 00:03:28 but when we did the, pulled the yield checks on it, it was, uh, the check was 197 bushel acre 00:03:36 was pretty darn happy with that. Then the, that was 3.4 acres in that check. So then we checked 3.3 acres exactly right beside it. 00:03:47 We pulled that it was 202 bushels acres, so that was a five bushel increase. I can kinda see that. 00:03:55 Then we went out and said, okay, we're gonna go 6.8 acres beside it against the 3.4 and that was at 212. 00:04:04 And I said, well, that's too big a check because we might be having some fill variability, things like that, adding to it. 00:04:12 I can't see a 15 bushel yield increase, five bushel. I can go along with that. So then I said, okay, let's go to the west side of the field of the check. 00:04:21 So we went to the west side of the check and we pulled off 2.7 acres directly beside the check on the west side. 00:04:29 The yield dim was 215 bushels an acre. So, and now we're up 18 bushels acre. So I really want another year 00:04:38 with this product on corn, the five bushels. I'm pretty comfortable it's there, um, to tell you that you're gonna see a 15 to 18 bushel yield increase. 00:04:48 I can't tell you that. Um, the grain quality of the health of the ears is, it was great. 00:04:54 And these were all pulled in a row straight outta the row there. Um, didn't, 00:05:00 and you can tell we got a little runt right here. It come up blade. I'm sure something happened to it. I probably did something wrong. Now they wanted 00:05:08 to try it on soybeans. And so the product come a little later and we said, okay, let's plant it on our double crop 00:05:17 soybeans, which is we really need to yield help on double crop soybeans. When I say double crop, this is 00:05:23 soybeans planted behind wheat. So we harvest the wheat and June we come directly behind the combine with a bean planter 00:05:29 and we're planting soybeans. Generally we're planting around 120 thou a hundred, 1500 20,000 at that time. 00:05:36 These were 4.8 maturity soybeans. No, I'm sorry, these were 4.4 maturity soybeans. And um, so this was interesting. 00:05:47 They asked us, said We want you to do a infer treatment versus, um, no treatment versus a spray treatment 00:05:57 Broadcast with your sprayer and your burn down. So we did, and I really thought that was kind of unique. 00:06:05 But what, what stood out on this bio 800 was when we did the infer, we had 50 bushels of acre on double crop soybeans. 00:06:14 Now folks, you know, our full season beans, we expect way more than that. But on double crop, if you're 50, 60 bushels acre, 00:06:22 anything north of 50 you, you've done really good on. Um, 'cause you're planting so late behind summer solstice. So then our control, we was at 56 bushels acre. 00:06:34 So that meant the infer was six bushels off of the control with no, with none applied, no bio 800, 00:06:41 just our grower standard alone. So then we go right beside it and this is a 80 acre field and we spray it and we got a 58 bushel an acre. 00:06:53 So we picked up two bushels an acre in soybeans where we sprayed it. I don't quite understand why the infer yielded 00:07:02 behind the spray. My thoughts are, we're on 20 inch rows and we were sewed that'd gone dry. 00:07:11 I feel like that being it was sprayed. And what it does, it helps that soil f floate more and gets more biology in the soil 00:07:20 and it allows the roots to grow easier through it. Now this was the toughest piece of ground you could ever imagine. 00:07:25 It's very hard, it's very rocky and it's very dry and you, you know, you kinda wanna put a, a no-till ripper in it or something to loosen the ground up, 00:07:34 but there's so many rocks, it'd be a nightmare and it's mostly round river rocks. Um, you need to plant it a little bit on the wetter side 00:07:42 or else you can't get the planter in the ground because the rocks will hold the planter row unit out of the ground. 00:07:47 But I think where we sprayed it across the field where that whole entire area was treated, allowed for just a little bit more moisture to be available 00:07:59 and nutrients available to the plants in that row. And that's why it out yielded the infer in that situation. We did not try any infer with the corn we only broadcast, 00:08:12 but, um, I tell you, I'm looking forward to one, one more year with this product to see if it continues. And, um, two bushels acre on soybeans is not, is not bad. 00:08:24 That's, that's pretty good. But, uh, at 50 bushel yield level now we just got to see if we can create ROI with it. 00:08:31 I don't know what your cost is in your area on the product, but again, bio 800 from Wholeganics, I would certainly 00:08:39 put that in your book for something to try and see if it works in your soil type and your environment. It's done well in a lot of areas I've seen. 185 00:08:47.945 --> 00:08:50.485