00:00:10 Cobalt, uh, probably my favorite nutrient that I've learned about in the last recent years in, in the plans world or in our agronomy world. 00:00:17 Uh, cobalt, Kelly and I affectionately call it mother's milk. It's got a lot of like beans, for instance, soybeans, 00:00:23 any legume fixing, uh, plants. It's, it's cobalt is really important in the en enzyme fixing microbial world like opium and stuff. 00:00:33 Cobalt's a key initiator in that. So it's really important in that crop. Other functions and all the other crops. 00:00:39 So the slowing down of light leaf senescence and late season like corn, right now we're in fall, plants are dying, maturing 00:00:47 and helps that plant stay healthier longer. Um, helps with germination. We actually used it on some wheat seed this year, uh, and, 00:00:54 and with seed treatment. And I think we've really got a better stand by using that in furrow. 00:01:00 Um, so it's, it's really a neat, a neat element. Um, has a lot of plant health benefits that, and with enzyme reactions within the plant. 00:01:10 A couple of things we know about cobalt is it helps with one drought resistance. So in drought areas, planting cobalt 00:01:17 the last couple years have been pretty droughty around here in western Iowa, so adding that in has helped with water efficiencies and drought tolerance. 00:01:24 Uh, the other thing is, is probably getting into the hormone side of it, it helps block that ethylene ethylene hormone, 00:01:29 which is a trigger for the plant. Uh, and it's hormonal cycle. It's, it's like, okay, ethylene. 00:01:35 Once it sees a spike in ethylene, it's like, okay, I'm stressed. Now what do I do? So it helps block 00:01:39 that cement enzyme reactions with cobalt to help suppress that. Make the plant think, Hey, we're all right. 00:01:45 We're not stressed out at the moment. We've seen that with applications in the field, especially specifically beans. 00:01:50 'cause I think, you know, with that end fixing piece with the legumes and stuff, you see a better result. Uh, it just seems like we get better plant health 00:01:58 out of those plants. And in that plant health. With the cobalt, we tend to get a need less 00:02:04 synthetic fungicides and plant health products. Uh, as we apply 'em. COBAL can be applied in two ways that we've, 00:02:14 I've applied it one's a seed treatment with a couple products that we use. It's just, you know, like soybeans, treat 'em with it, 00:02:20 just an nutritional package. There's nothing else with it. And otherways just to full your application, 00:02:25 I haven't found a dry product yet to go spread on the soil. Just, it seems like the foliar application 00:02:31 is the way to go with cobalt. So like a cobalt deficiency. I couldn't today tell you what it looks like. 00:02:38 I don't, I don't think it's one of those more visible ones. You know, cobalt in the soil is not a highly available, 00:02:44 highly known nutrient, so it's really become a foliar feed type seed treatment application. 00:02:51 And it just seems like anytime we have a product with Cobalt in it, we get a pretty sized nice response to the plant health yield response. 00:02:59 And so we've been adding a little bit more 00:03:01.225 --> 00:03:03.345