Farming Podcast | Nitrogen Reduction & Pop Trials | XtremeAg

00:00:00 Planting population trials, nitrogen reduction trials, as well as comparing high management to low management for the economic analysis. 00:00:09 Especially important in a year like 2025, where farm economics are going to be challenged. I'm talking to Johnny Verell about the field day 00:00:18 and the lessons you can take back to your farm from his 2025 field day in this special edition of extreme Ag Cutting the curve. 00:00:27 Welcome to extreme Ag Cutting the Curve podcast where real farmers share real insights and real results to help you improve your farming operation. 00:00:36 And now here's your host, Damien Mason. Hey there. Welcome to another fantastic episode of Extreme Acts Cutting the Curve. 00:00:43 I got Johnny Verell here, Jackson, Tennessee, and he has a field day. It's coming up on August 5th. I'm gonna be there. 00:00:49 I would like you to be there, but if you're listening to this and it's after August 5th, don't worry. 00:00:53 We're still talking about things that you can take home to your farming operation. Last year at Mr. Verell's Field Day, we had skip row corn. 00:00:59 We had, uh, some combines on site doing some combine trials. We had extreme nitrogen reduction studies. 00:01:07 In fact, he wasn't afraid to put it out there and let all the people come and see what zero nitrogen applied 00:01:14 to corn Looks like it looked like sick, slightly diseased popcorn, maybe sweet corn. Anyway, it was in bad shape doing some more of the same. 00:01:24 I just always get excited. We bring really cool lessons. Uh, they're free to attend. 00:01:28 You can come to any of our field days. You just gotta register for them. So what's, what excites you? 00:01:34 Yeah, you know, just seeing the new things. We started the field day in 2016 and we, we built it on always being an agronomic field day. 00:01:42 And so we really try to think things through and, you know, go to other field days to see what people are doing that might catch our eye without 00:01:47 work here in West Tennessee. You know, and what we realize, a lot of things that work here can work all across the country. 00:01:52 And you know, you know, last year you're talking about how we had combines running. We've done that a couple years 00:01:57 and we wanted people to really have a good field, how to properly set a combine, right? So two years ago it was 25% moisture corn, 30%. 00:02:05 This past year it 16%. And people got to see combines running in the field, walking behind the, seeing what different settings there were 00:02:13 because there's no reason to making the crop if you can't keep it all. And then we've done nitrogen reduction, 00:02:17 like you talked about, and you know, we've done timing of nitrogen. Mm-hmm. You know, whether you put it all out up front 00:02:23 planting like people do with anhydrous. We've done in season side dress, we've done in season side dress with a tassel shot, 00:02:29 simulating if you run an airplane or, or wide drop flight season. And really just trying to show people how 00:02:34 to get their highest ROI and be as efficient as we possibly can with our money, with our nutrients. 00:02:39 Because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what we make if we're not making money in the bank, doesn't matter what goes in that bin. 00:02:45 So we've kind of done a lot of things and then, you know, we break out different hybrids of core trying to showcase which ones can handle high 00:02:52 management, which ones do better, not pushing 'em. So, 'cause not all cores created equal. Um, every company has corn that's top end corn. 00:03:00 Uh, every company has corn. It's more of the, you know, it has the guts to, it can kind of hang in there in the drought condition. 00:03:05 So it's pretty interesting how we do it. We've had it where we've had a drought. We still have the field day showcasing, you know, 00:03:11 120 bushel corn and then we've done it where we've had good corn. So we just try to take, take it what we do on a lot 00:03:17 of acres on our farm, some things we're thinking about work and showcase it. And hopefully that helps people out. 00:03:22 All right. You gave us a lot of stuff right there. First off, I just wanna point out, uh, you know, let's say you're from the Midwest 00:03:27 or the, the north, uh, northern plains something, and you're saying, wait a minute, these running combines on August 5th. 00:03:34 Mr. Rell actually harvest corn starting in July and it might be higher moisture, but they in a different episode. 00:03:40 You can go back and check this out. We talked about his superior grain setup with his grain dryer and how he's made this made sense. 00:03:46 We did a recording while I was on site there with he and Brian Adams and we talked about the fact that when you can catch the river 00:03:52 market, am I calling that correctly? Giant, the river market, because of the Mississippi River for export, uh, 00:03:56 there's a lot of places that are depleted of corn by a certain time. So harvesting, uh, doing harvest 00:04:02 to August 5th is not actually all that out of, uh, outta the ordinary. Yeah. Our, our usual start date's fif 15th of August. 00:04:08 So we can, we can go earlier if we get the crop in. You know, this depends, but, Uh, so you're showing people this year, uh, 00:04:16 you said something interesting, you said there's some, some hybrids that handle high uh, management and some that don't describe 00:04:24 high management, low management. 'cause last year we walked down the aisle and we looked on both sides. 00:04:27 And you said, I'm just demonstrating that this one is everything including the kitchen sink and this one over here is bare minimum. 00:04:33 Bare minimum for you might be not that bare minimum for somebody else. So kind of describe high management, low management 00:04:40 because that's a neat thing because then it's truly table topping right there. You can look, you, you literally can look 00:04:46 and say this has everything including the kitchen sink and this one doesn't have a whole hell of a lot of anything. Yeah. 00:04:51 We'll, we'll change the population about four or 5,000. So we'll plant say 28,000 in what we consider our low low management. 00:04:59 High management will run 34, 30 5,000 depending on, you know, what we're shooting for that year. So we do that, but outside of that we start breaking out, 00:05:07 you know, the low management just gets NP and K and it gets side dressed just like the high management does. The difference is that the high management might get a PGR 00:05:16 added, you know, might get some stress mitigation products added to it. Might get some late season potassium 00:05:21 and phosphorous added to it. Those type things because it's amazing. You plant 10 varieties out there 00:05:27 and you treat 'em all the same, but they don't respond the same. Right. And then you go over to the low management side 00:05:34 and the one that didn't do as good in the high management might be up towards the top 00:05:37 of the end in the low management. 'cause they don't take all the extra things to to, to make a yield, but they'll never have that top end. 00:05:45 And so it, it lets us see what crops, because on our operation we got some ground that might not be the best. 00:05:50 We don't wanna push 'em, we wanna know what variety of corn needs to go in there. But if we, on a lot of our ground, we're able to push, 00:05:56 especially a year like this, this year where we've been getting some rain, we won't be able to know what to put on these crops, what to put on the core crop 00:06:02 to really push the top end and having a field day like this unless you break down. 'cause a lot of times, we'll we'll put a blanket of five 00:06:08 to six things out there, but then we'll put each individual practice on it too to see which ones actually giving us the biggest, 00:06:13 the biggest ROI. Yeah. So what'd you find out last year? Because there's a temptation, 00:06:22 commodity prices are a bit depressed, input prices have stayed up. We know there's going to be some, some friction, 00:06:29 uh, on the economics. Did it convince you that low management's the way to go or at least low lower management, lower expense corn? 00:06:39 I mean, yeah, you give up 20 bushels, but you also, you also save a hundred and, you know, 60 bucks whatever the number is per acre. 00:06:45 Well, I mean if you got corn ground that's only gonna make 130, 40 bushel, yes it tells you exactly what you need to put there, 00:06:50 what's gonna get you, you know, the biggest bang for your buck. But for us making the higher end yields, even in a $4, 00:06:57 $4 50 cent, uh, corn market like we are right now, it usually you still get a better ROI as long as you have the rainfall to finish it out. 00:07:05 Yeah. You know, we, we can't always control the end with the rain, but right now, you know, we're gonna keep pushing our crops. 00:07:10 We're doing some things till today we were at the field that yesterday adding products to the high management corn to continue pushing it. 00:07:17 So Population, uh, last year was skip row and I thought when you skipped a row that meant that you actually saved money on seed. 00:07:26 And I believe that we did a video where you explained that that's not necessarily the case 00:07:29 or maybe some one of our guys explained that, yeah, you used the same amount of seed, you just, you just skip a row. 00:07:35 And I said, well what's the point? So kind of explained that from last year. I thought that was neat. Yeah. 00:07:39 So I mean we, we take it, if we're gonna plant 30,000, we turn around do skip row, we plant the rows on 45,000, so we still averages to 30,000. 00:07:47 And what we're realizing is if it's a drought or a lot of heat seems like the air, the air gets outta the canopy better. 00:07:54 So it pulls off better at night. Um, you know, we were 20, we were 15 inch corn, we went to twenties, now we're back to thirties. 00:08:01 And for us, where we're at and the varieties we're planting, they just seem to respond the best in that 30 inch environment. 00:08:07 We actually get a yield game though when we do skip row. And I know it's crazy. We've done it three 00:08:11 or four years in a row, we've been playing with it. We've never had a negative effect or negative effect to the core. 00:08:17 But we're not a hundred percent skip row on our farm operation today either because it, it adds some degree of management 00:08:23 with some weeds and stuff like that. But it, it is just something to showcase to get people thinking outside the box. 00:08:28 We tell everybody to always try, you know, 50 acres, see how it goes, they like it, try some more. 00:08:33 And that's kind of how we've been playing that card. And you know, we've done population studies from 42,000 down to 24,000 too. 00:08:41 Just trying to see, you know, what varieties respond the best to that yield or to that population to get the best yield. 00:08:47 Yeah. By the way, we're talking to Johnny Verell who I told you that, uh, he's got a superior grain set up. So I wanna remind you that as your farming operation 00:08:53 grows, so did your challenges. Superior grain equipment's, grain storage systems are built to make your job easier. 00:08:57 You can ask this guy right here, he has one. Uh, and it can also help your grain reach its full potential from gentle mix flow dryers to durable storage. 00:09:04 You can get the flexibility to market your grain on your time. Visit the experts from Superior Grain Equipment at this 00:09:09 year's Farm Progress show, or more importantly, you can visit them online anytime@superiorbins.com. 00:09:15 Superior bins.com nitrogen reduction, um, literally market to market. The PBS uh, show based out of Iowa. 00:09:23 Just um, uh, it was covering this week's edition, um, about the findings that say nitrates in the Raccoon River solely because of agriculture. 00:09:35 I shot a video about it along my drainage ditch. 35% of applied nitrogen gets into corn plant. Where do we think the rest of this goes? 00:09:43 I, I believe that it is incumbent upon us in agriculture to decrease applied nitrogen 00:09:51 and get more bang for the buck for the nitrogen that we do put out there. And regulation is coming. 00:09:57 If we don't get our act together, I'm not being mean and I'm not being anti ag. I'm just saying look at what's happening out here. 00:10:04 You and Kelly Garrett or two of the guys in extreme ag that have really been pushing reduced reduction of applied nitrogen, what do you got going on this year? 00:10:14 Yeah, so same thing. We've actually got, uh, three products that we've got out there are gonna help us reduce oxygen, 00:10:20 uh, in trial basis. Uh, we've got one through agri out called Infinity. We got one throughs AG called Source 00:10:28 and then we've got pivot volumes product out also. That's been out for several years and we've been using it on our farm 00:10:33 so we're trying to trial it. All these, the reason I like looking at different ones, some of 'em have different modes of action, some 00:10:39 of 'em have different applications. So if you miss the app planning, you can come back in season. 00:10:43 So that's what we're trying to look at. Multiple ones just so you got different opportunities to potentially reduce your nitrogen 00:10:49 and it's been a big deal for us. I mean, I don't know, five years ago we were probably at one 1.2, 1.3 per unit of not or preferred bushel of corn. 00:10:58 Uh, you know, we're down to about a 0.8. I mean we have some fields that are down under a 0.8 0.7 range. 00:11:04 So we've definitely reduced. Um, but we're trying to just always look at new products because mainly they got different modes of action 00:11:10 and they got different applications and that, that's a big deal. 'cause you don't always get to hit your window 00:11:15 and you won't always have a different way to do it. Interesting, interesting. And I, I like these companies are coming out and doing this, you mentioned Agri 00:11:21 and Pivot Bio and Sound Ag, they're all gonna be part of your field day, right? That's Right. And all of them kind of the one 00:11:27 of 'em has a product called something 40, right? Proven 40 or something like this. That's right. And they always come up with this thing. 00:11:33 You can cut back your applied nitrogen by 40 pounds. How do they magically grab that 40 pound thing? Because I could make the argument we need to cut back by, 00:11:41 like you talk about half, we need to cut back by half. And that's in many cases nowhere close to 40 pounds. It's a lot more than that. 00:11:48 Yeah. And I mean I think that's just where they've got the benchmark set and so that's what they're saying that they can kind 00:11:54 of guarantee in a year's time to be available. But what I would tell people is they ought to take a product like that and not reduce it 00:12:01 and what we see in our farming operation, but when we don't do what they say, we don't get a yield gain. 00:12:06 So if you're not getting a yield gain, nitrogen wouldn't eliminate factor. You got something else. So that telling us doing it, 00:12:12 we've done it every which way. We've reduced, like you said last year we had zero nitrogen just with a product like Pivot Bio on, 00:12:18 and we gotta see exactly what that product could do with no help at all from synthetic nitrogen. So, you know, you just gotta try 'em out, figure out 00:12:24 how they work best for your farming and you know, make 'em work. But like at the end of the day, they are their products 00:12:29 that are gonna be needed in the near future in a bigger way than they are today. Uh, I'd agree with that. And, 00:12:35 and then, uh, you know, I think there might still be some technology and hopefully that if we're doing a field date at 00:12:39 your place, another one, two or five years, you'll say, man, look at how far we've come on reducing nitrogen. 00:12:45 It's not only this product, one of those three that you just talked about, it's also something that you do some change that you make whatever. 00:12:51 And I think it's gonna be ultimately good for us in agriculture. Um, technology. 00:12:55 I was at your farm for the first time a couple years ago and you had a drone and it was a big drone. 00:13:00 It was like, not like the little kind that flies around, take pictures of your wedding, it was like the size of a, 00:13:04 of a Volkswagen and it was flying around. Um, you do some treatment on your stuff with drones. You don't have combine demonstrations, 00:13:13 you don't have uh, anything. Is there anything that you're excited about that last couple of years of technology are now 00:13:20 becoming standard practice at your place? Yeah, I mean we got, we got, we're using sea and spray on our farm. 00:13:26 We're using it in different aspects of what they've traditionally wanted. Um, we, we still run the drones, Damien, 00:13:31 we're running the drones here, stay on some plots. The drones are our best fit for us on these small plots. And then I think Monday we gotta fly 80 acres 00:13:38 of plots and what blocks. So we use 'em all the time like that. We got some other things on some sprayers 00:13:43 that we're looking at to see how the spray droplets are hitting the leaves. There's a company that we've been messing with with that, 00:13:49 so we're kind of looking at that, just trying to trial that out and see if it's gonna work. But you know, one of the neat things 00:13:54 that we're gonna look at this year that is really not a technology, it's, it's in the soybeans and we're trying to figure out row spacing, 00:14:01 there's row spacing effect root size. Yeah. Row spac effect, uh, soybean yields. And so we're trying to figure out a 00:14:08 lot of things like that to see. And so we actually have that this year too. You know, it's not a tech new technology thing, 00:14:13 it's something that's been around for years and people are finding beans, all different row spacing. But we're trying to show people 00:14:18 what does row spacing actually do for you? Well, that's what I was just gonna say. Um, we've, we've done this thing with soybeans 00:14:27 and uh, let's see, 36 inches, 30 inches, seven inches on drill. Fifteens are the common thing around where I am right now. 00:14:38 How many, how many more different, how many more different ways are we gonna figure out how to plant soybeans, broadcast? 00:14:42 You know, I don't know. Yeah, for me, you know, we, we've kind of been all over the place with road spacings and we've got some fifteens this year, some twenties 00:14:49 and some thirties and some seven and a halfs just on our farm just trying different things. And deer pressure is one reason we do it to whatever. 00:14:57 But at the field day we're trying to see some of the stuff that we've seen talking to other people 00:15:02 and kind of travel to other field days is, you know, road facing can affect root size, which can affect and drought conditions. 00:15:09 So we're trying to show people what roots look like on thirties and what roots look like on 15 inch. 00:15:13 We're actually gonna do a root dig so you can actually go out there and see the difference. But we're also gonna showcase along these same lines. 00:15:21 You got population that we're gonna play into Dana, we're gonna carry soybeans down below 60,000 and try to show people when you have a thin stand like we've 00:15:29 had this year with all the rain we've had, what are you giving up, if anything, if they're planted early and on a timely fashion. 00:15:35 Now we know there can't be a skip and have 60,000 have 10 feet before a sea, but we actually got it simulated really 00:15:41 good over the field today, this year. And we got population from 60,000 to 140,000 on different row spacings. 00:15:48 And we're gonna do root digs in each one of 'em and try to show people how you can, uh, manipulate the root structure 00:15:54 of the soybean plant just by the row spacing. And that didn't cost anything. What's your gut tell you? 00:15:59 Kelly Garrett did the soybean thing the first year I started working for Extreme Mag. We did, he, he, he went as low 00:16:04 as the planter would dial it down to 36,000 or 38,000 and then up to like 180,000. And his conclusion was we're spending way too much money on 00:16:14 soybean seed and you could be planting half as much as you are yet nobody does it. Yeah. Miles say, 00:16:22 are you spending too much money on soybeans and putting too much out there? Yes. I said, why don't you change it? 00:16:26 Well, because if there's a challenge in a year, then I gotta have the seed out there. What's your gut tell you? 00:16:31 Yeah, same thing. Farmers. Farmers are used to being consistent in what they've done in the past to get a good stand. 00:16:36 We're fighting weed pressure Damion, that makes it hard to drop it down to that low pop. But if you can get a uniform stand at these lower 00:16:43 populations, you can get away with a lot. And I really think where these beans were planted around the end of April, 1st of May, I really think, 00:16:51 you know, that 60, 70,000 probably is maybe the optimal yield. We'll see we've all had beans 00:16:56 that weren't as thick as we wanted. And y'all, you always go back to say, well, we would've had a better yield if we'd had a thicker stand, 00:17:03 but this time here we're actually gonna carry it to yield and see what it's gonna be. 00:17:07 You, um, in your field day, these soybeans were all planted at a normal time, meaning probably in April or May. Right, right, 00:17:16 Right. Yeah. And then, but across your farm you do a lot of soybeans that get planted after the wheat's harvested. 00:17:23 Yeah. So this year we were harvesting the wheat the first week of June and we've got rained out 00:17:29 for two weeks, went back and planted. It's, we still got beans, we got replant here just 1st of July, basically 4th of July. 00:17:36 Now it's been a challenging year and I think populations, low populations do not work the same the end of June, 1st of July 00:17:45 as they will the end of April. So because of moisture. Yeah, moisture. They, they'll never get the height you need. 00:17:51 They'll never get the, those they need. They can't branch out the same, you know, they're just, they're in a time crunch from the time they come out 00:17:57 being planted in April. They've got time to kinda, they can get delayed for cold weather and stuff and still make it up. 00:18:04 We can't do it this way. So, you know, the biggest thing is we try to take away from the field days for people to get ideas, travel on their farm and, 00:18:10 and see if something helps 'em be a little bit more profitable. What about, uh, the, uh, the value of a field day? 00:18:18 All right, you've been doing it, you learned from it yourself. You got your buddy Brian Adams 00:18:23 out there doing agronomic stuff. You're doing it. Uh, you're, you're uh, also in the retail business, volunteer, uh, 00:18:30 ag services, you sell some stuff. There's a lot going on here. The person that comes to this, 00:18:35 what thing are they gonna take away that you can even say like, you know what, three years ago we did this 00:18:43 and now we do it on all of our fields. The stuff that actually isn't just experimental, like for the hell of it, you actually have taken it 00:18:50 and said, yeah, we learned from it and here's what we do. Yeah, I mean when we talk about the nitrogen reduction, 00:18:55 that was a theory that people had five, six years ago. Yep. That's a standard practice. We've changed up our fertility program bay. 00:19:01 We don't put all of our nitrogen out upfront. We staggered out throughout the whole year, spoon feed along the way that really works great for us. 00:19:09 And if we're not spoon feeding, we got a product like Pivot VI or another version of that that's gonna sit there 00:19:14 and feed that crop throughout the end of the year when we start usually running out. But also you start looking at just 00:19:18 general fertility in general. The liquid versions of potassium and phosphorus and stuff like that that we could add foliar, 00:19:25 that we could really help make them, make them plants, put that last little push into those crops 00:19:30 before they, you know, mature out. That's another thing that we've really changed on our farming operation. 00:19:35 And it all started on small scales. Yep. And we started ramp em up and that's what we always just try to tell. 00:19:40 If people got ideas, we tell 'em to tell us if it's possible we'll do it. But yeah, put on a field day, you know, 00:19:45 we got about 80 acres of field, day of different crops planted, replicated. And we even got cotton. And, 00:19:51 and cotton is always a, a tough one. We seem to always have to replant it and still have a hard time with it. 00:19:58 But we do it cotton's pretty important in this part of the country. And so we always try to do it to show 'em 00:20:02 that there's things you can do to a cotton crop. So what I'm saying is fill days are hard, they're a lot of work. 00:20:07 Take a lot of time. But the knowledge that you get unless you take something to your farm, whether it's on my farm operation or somebody else's, 00:20:14 and hopefully let them try something that could hopefully give them a little better ROI or save 'em some time, which should equal ROI along the way. 00:20:22 I'll guarantee you one thing, it'll be hot. Um, actually I-I-I-I-G-I I'll guarantee that it'll be hot on August 5th in your part of the world. 00:20:31 Um, one other thing you named a few companies, um, who other, who else is gonna be there that we can, uh, check out their products and learn from? 00:20:39 So natures will be there, they'll be there talking about some agronomic things and why some of their products have a good fit 00:20:44 for in season applications. Azure liquid's gonna be there. We did a, uh, I guess you could say a wheat competition 00:20:51 and you know, I was going up against uh, Kelly and Temple and kind of seeing who could make the best wheat yields. 00:20:57 We all did that with different crops. I was picked to do wheat, so we pushed that to see what we could do on that. 00:21:02 But it's already done. There's nothing to look at. The wheat's just gonna be a field of stubble and some straw bales. 00:21:07 Well, we've got a story to tell. That's all you got with that. But I think, Alright, so who won? Who won? 00:21:12 I can't tell you that. You gotta come to the field day. Alright, I'm gonna come to the field day. I'm gonna put my wager on. I'll put my wager on you. 00:21:18 I'm gonna say that you're, you're a wheat producer. You're um, I'm gonna say that you won and sometimes the guys don't win their own field 00:21:26 day in the challenge. Remember, uh, Matt Miles got Matt Miles finished last in his, in his field day last year. 00:21:33 Uh, he, he finished last. So yeah, there's that. Yeah, Because the ROI piece is what comes in. It's not always about the highest yield. It's true. 00:21:41 It's that where it plays into that and you know, we're gonna have, agritech is gonna be there, uh, agri will be present at it. 00:21:48 Uh, Lagos, which is a company that's got, uh, technology out there that's gonna help at least more phosphorus. 00:21:54 It's going to be there at the field day. It is, it is a numerous amount of people and I'm sure we're gonna leave somebody out, 00:21:59 but at the end of the day, they all got products that help and have places on our farm 00:22:03 and operation to help us be more efficient. Yeah, I like it. And I'm gonna be there. And then, uh, uh oh yeah, 00:22:10 Damon, we've got one title Growth's gonna be there. Title, new Route to Market on, uh, fungicide. 00:22:15 Right. So we've got those trials out there this year too. Title Grow is, uh, new here for Extreme Ag 00:22:22 and they have uh, their logo, uh, their, their slogan is seafood for the soil. So they've got a product what spectra you put 00:22:29 out as sort of a fung. Yeah. Fungicide replacement I guess I'd call it. Yeah, that's what they're saying. We've got it up against 00:22:34 a traditional fungicide. We've got it matched with the traditional fungicide and then a standalone. 00:22:39 We got it at the field day and then we got about 80 acres on one farm with just replicated plots with it. 00:22:43 So we'll get some good data outta it and just see that's what I love. Some of these companies come, they're like, 00:22:48 Hey, can you try this stuff? It's always neat to try it 'cause it could be the next thing coming. Yeah. Very good. 00:22:54 Uh, the details on your field day, it's August. I keep saying the fifth. Yes. August 5th. Uh, how's it, how's, how's it all work? 00:23:01 August 5th, registration will start at seven. We'll start off at eight o'clock. We'll be finishing the field a little bit after 11. 00:23:08 We'll go eat lunch, give away a few door prizes and everybody can stand around talk after that depending on how hot. It just ain 00:23:15 It was in the barn and we had fans on last year and then, uh, somebody had the bright idea to put on those misters 00:23:24 and it went from hot to then feeling like we were inside of a greenhouse. Uh, yeah, but you know what? Hey, you're a farm person. 00:23:30 It's just what happens. Sure. And unlike, there's a rumor, I've seen Johnny Verell in shorts zero times ever. 00:23:37 There's a rumor that he's starting to wear shorts and he's starting to actually adapt to the heat by, by wearing shorts. 00:23:44 I wear shorts if it's warmer than 60 degrees. So it's no big thing to me. So there's a rumor that maybe Mr. 00:23:49 Raw might be in shorts at his own field day. What do you think? Yeah, I doubt that. But you're rubbing 00:23:53 off on me Diane. So we'll see. I'm rubbing off on anyway. Um, they're free to attend. We want you to attend all 00:24:00 of our field days if you can, any of them if you can. We also be shooting videos while we're there and bringing some of the highlights 00:24:06 to you about all these things when we're in the field. That's kind of a cool thing that we do. So why don't you go to Extreme Magnet Farm and sign up. 00:24:12 They're free to attend, but you do have to register. Uh, like Johnny said at lunch, you get lunch, you get a lot learning, you get some giveaways and uh, lots 00:24:21 and lots of people you can meet with while you're there, including several of the extreme Ag people. 00:24:26 I believe Kelly Garrett's gonna beat your field day. Is Chad gonna sneak over? Yeah, I think Chad will be there. Temp will be there. 00:24:32 Uh, you know, there'll be some equipment. Dem code's gonna have some equipment there so people can see some of their stuff. 00:24:36 It's, it's got a little bit of everything. You ain't gotta have just one road crop. We got three or four crops going be represented 00:24:42 and different, different equipment companies gonna be there also. I like it. Get registered. See you August 5th. 00:24:49 You also can go to ma uh, Kevin Matthews on uh, August 7th if you want to go international. We're gonna be at Sam CHUs up north of the border. 00:24:55 That's where we're gonna be in Quebec, uh, and Saint and Norbert as it's called in Quebec. And uh, that's August 15th. There's gonna be interpreters. 00:25:02 I'm gonna be on stage. They're gonna be interpreting me. That'll go and in. Okay, our last field day 00:25:08 of the year is August 21st out in Maryland at Chestnut Manor Farm. That's our friend Temple Roads. 00:25:12 Till next time, thanks for being here. His name is Johnny Verell. My name's Damian Mason. While you're on Extreme mag.farm, 00:25:16 make sure you check out all the library of videos you can use to help yourself farm better videos. These guys shoot in the fields like Johnny does. 00:25:23 The episodes of the Cutting the Curve podcast. We've been doing it now for four years. Almost 300 episodes are released. 00:25:28 It's a remarkable source of information. It's all free. You can also check out our new show, the Grainery. I'd encourage you to go 00:25:33 to our YouTube channel and subscribe to that. Again, it's free. We'd like to keep building our numbers over there. 00:25:38 The Grainery is the show that's shot here at my farm. Real Farmers talking about real issues, personal, professional in a laid back setting. 00:25:45 We invite you to pull up a chair with us at the Grainery. You can check out that show on our 00:25:49 YouTube or on Extreme Ag Farm. So next time, thanks for being here. He's Johnny. I'm Damien. You're awesome. Thanks for being here. That's 00:25:54 A wrap for this episode of Cutting the Curve. 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