00:24 This episode of the Extreme Ag Show is presented by concept Agritech Cowboy is the game changer, getting it in 00:32 through the leaves and into the plant circulatory system. That's why this product is 00:37 so effective at delivering both calcium and boron to plants at critical times when they need it the most. 00:46 It's early morning at Matt Miles farm. Attentions are high. In just a few hours, Matt will go check on some early 00:55 planted soybeans where just a few days before torrential rains, flooded his field, possibly killing the entire crop. 01:04 The water is gone. The question now is, did it take the beans with it? That's dancing a jig from what we just seen. 01:26 So I want y'all to look at this. This is my a DS pattern. Tile drain field planted flat on clay. 01:36 The biggest no-no you can do is try to plant beans flat on clay. This field was underwater last week, probably at least 50, 01:44 a minimum of 50 hours, maybe 60 hours. I come out here when it was a foot and a half underwater and I basically wanted to puke. 01:52 But where I'm standing right now was probably pretty close. It might not be knee high, probably a foot 01:58 and a half, something like that. Deep right here in water all the way up to the front of the field where the well is. 02:05 So, man, you talking about a fella that's happy, I'm happy. You can see green lines all through here. 02:11 I don't, I hadn't stand counted any. And, but I'm gonna say there's 120 to 130,000 seeds out here now. 02:19 I did plant it at 160,000 just because of what I was doing. I could have planted at 140 02:25 and still had 90 up, which is plenty for full yield potential. So I'm one jacked up dude right now. 02:31 You can see here where the tractor sponge, so where the tractor sponge is here, these, this actually made its own bed 02:38 because this ground is so spongy. I mean, look, you can tell where I'm walking. It looks dry on top, but I mean I can sit here and do this 02:46 and end up with a, with water coming outta there. So you see this is basically mud with about a quarter inch of crust on top of it. 02:57 You know, black soils in the Midwest are really good soils. Black soils here. 03:03 That's what we're looking at for black soils here. Look at my knife. That's what your boots look like when you walk out here 03:08 and it's a little bit mucky. Try to clean your knife off. Now that's pretty much not gonna happen. 03:14 You see, I scraped it off all I could and I can't get any more off now. It's all on my hands like glue. 03:20 We will definitely not be cutting any bologna sandwiches with this knife today 03:25 unless we want a gumbo dirt taste to it. So come out here Monday, all the, the four rows under the tractor. 03:35 I started seeing green lines and I, and then outside the tractor, like where I'm at here and it's really flat ground, nothing. 03:41 And I thought, well, Monday, Tuesday went three days later. We've had pretty decent weather come out here 03:48 and it's a full stand Now. I hadn't been all over the field. I come in the low end 'cause I wanted to be disgusted right off the bat. 03:55 Like I said, I ain't looked the whole field, but I can just about guarantee if these beans are up where we're standing right now, then they'll be up anywhere. 04:02 I'm truly blessed today. Amino Grow is an exciting new product put out by concept Agritech. 04:16 What we've seen is an increase in fruiting sites as well as branching. And this has equated to yield 04:29 Spot less. 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BioHealth is a product by concept Agritech made up 05:59 of a consortium of beneficial biology that actually colonized the plant and boost the plant's immune system from the inside. 06:21 It is no secret that life on the farm starts early. It always has. And for lane miles, that's every morning 06:33 And Today starts like most others. With the team gathering at the office, they've got to work together to fend off one 06:46 of their biggest challenges. The heat, the first order of business, check the irrigation. It sounds simple until you realize they're doing it 06:58 for 12,000 acres. And we've got somewhere around 150 wells. Everybody has a certain amount of wells every morning 07:07 during the summer during irrigation. A lot of times, not just making sure that our wells are still running, 07:14 but making sure that a deer ain't stepped on it. And and if a deer steps on it, you'll get a hole. You know, that big If Cote bites, uh, just 07:24 faulty pipe that is blown up. Somebody's set their well with too much pressure on it, blows it up. 07:30 So just making sure there's nothing wrong. Unlike the soil in the Midwest, the soil in southeast Arkansas does not hold 07:37 water for very long. So if something goes wrong, a drought could be days away. We will tell you we are 14 days away from a 07:46 drought at any point in time. I mean, it's, it's Wednesday, we got rain on Saturday and we're looking at having to start irrigating probably 07:55 by the end of the week, which we started laying pipe last week. You know, trying to be ahead. 08:01 Rice has gotta have water a little bit quicker. The misconception with rice is rice has to always be flooded. 08:08 The hardest thing to do is kill grass in a grass Crop rice, we gotta keep wet 'cause our cheapest weed control 08:15 is wet soils. And speaking of rice and water, miles Farms has a unique and sustainable way of keeping their fields watered. 08:26 What this is, is a 60 acre reservoir that captures water from the runoff of our farm. Puts it back in here so we can reuse it again. 08:35 One cool thing about this farm is a hundred percent every gallon of this water that we have on this farm, 08:41 we actually conserve and do not let leave the farm. The only way that water leaves this farm is if this reservoir is completely full. 08:48 The ditches are completely full and we get a major weather event, a lot of rain or something that we can't take it in 08:54 because we don't have any room left. Some of this water will actually leave the farm. But other than that, we keep a hundred percent 09:00 of it here in the, in these storage tanks and ditches to be able to reuse multiple times. 80% of our farm is watered outta this reservoir. 09:09 We do have a couple of groundwater wells in places that we can't get this water too. We're actually working on a project now to be able 09:16 to be the a hundred percent of the farm be solely watered outta surface water. Yeah, it's probably one of the least environmental 09:22 impact that farms we have. We'll reuse this water two to three to four times, depending on how much rain we get. 09:28 Then when we get it in situations where it's dry and we have to use this water, we actually gravity flow this water back out on the fields. 09:36 No pumping costs, no diesel usage, just straight up gravity flow, gets it back in the fields, gets it level to where it needs to be, 09:43 and until evaporation takes over, we won't use it again. The old way of water and rice was always 09:49 to keep six eight inches of water, you know, a flood on your field all the time. We've learned that you can actually do a process called 09:58 alternate wetting and drying where you'll flood your field up, you know, get it full wherever your desired level is, 10:04 and then actually let evaporation take control, get it back down to what we call muddy. Uh, they'll still be a little bit, you know, 10:11 you walk across it, you'll have a little tackiness on your shoes and then we'll, we'll put another, 10:16 uh, flood back on it. Then that probably saves us, I don't know, 30% water. This farm in general, I think Lane 10:24 and them did the numbers not too long ago. It's like 40 to 50% water savings over a conventional, uh, contoured levee rice farm. 10:32 So, uh, between that and our water centers and our computers and stuff that show us where our levels are, 10:38 we know we track every gallon of water that goes out of this reservoir and every gallon of water that comes back into this reservoir. 10:44 So we have, you know, data on the, on the savings. We're not just kind of shooting from the hip that, hey, we're saving this much water. 10:51 We've got the, we've got the data to prove it. So, pretty exciting to be able to do this. Um, especially on a rice farm. 10:58 You know, I'm, I'm kind of partial to rice, so, uh, we're happy with what we got. Adding Raytheon into your infer application 11:14 or even an over the top application round V three V four can do wonders in helping that plant 11:21 navigate tough soil conditions. As far as nutrient tie up is Control the toughest weeds with overlapping residuals. 11:30 Lock in the longest lasting control for your soybean fields authority brand herbicides such as authority, edge herbicide 11:37 and Authority Supreme herbicide combine the industry's most effective group. 14 and 15 active ingredients for a clean start 11:44 and long lasting residual control. 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Very few start from nothing, 12:53 but that doesn't mean that each new generation has it handed to them every year. 12:59 Every season brings new challenges as Kevin Matthews can attest to. So we are a fourth generation farm, 13:07 but my freshman year of high school, dad and them, uh, decided the grading company was so much better for 'em. 13:13 They sold the farm and reduced it down to about 600 acres of land and kept a couple old pieces of equipment. 13:23 But then I rented 30 acres in high school and then rented another neighbor. I talked him into renting 10 acres from, so we rented 13:33 that bottom for about two years and he said, well, you know, you proved yourself, said I'm gonna let you rent the rest of the farm. 13:37 So I rented that and so that got my acres on up. And then, um, I would trade equipment for labor so I would do the work on theirs 13:45 so I could use their equipment to farm my land because I didn't have nothing. It was, uh, early nineties. 13:54 We was in a time that grain prices is really dirt cheap and nobody wanted to farm. I mean, it was just wasn't good times. 14:05 Then opportunities come. I was heavily involved in grain boards. I surrounded myself with some 14:12 of the best farmers in the state. That's been a huge thing to our growth. Then, um, as farmers wanted to retire 14:21 and didn't have nobody wanted to take the farms over, then it got offered to me and we just kept growing and we was at 3000 acres 14:27 and then we actually got up to over 7,000 acres at one time. But I was fortunate 'cause we always stayed 14:34 with one bank the whole time. I've been with that same lender since I was 16 years old. Well, life was good. 14:42 And then, um, in, uh, 2016 and, you know, they decided to, to sell the bank and when they came in, uh, in our little office, 14:54 the guy stood in the doorway and he, he introduced himself with a bank and he said, um, just wanted to get right to the point. 15:01 They didn't want no part of agriculture. And the sooner that I could get all my accounts out of their bank and they not deal with us, 15:09 the better off we both will be. And, um, we want you to liquidate all your accounts with us. Didn't really know what to say. 15:19 You know, we had everything with 'em, all our real estate, you know, everything we owned 15:24 that had any mortgages was tied with them except for our equipment, which was with John Deere. Probably some of the worst news you ever heard. 15:33 And it was bad. I mean, you lay in bed at night and you didn't know if you was going to get to lay in that bed a week from now. 15:41 You didn't know if it was gonna come sell your house or what they was going to do. So here we're in 2023 now 15:54 and it took, um, basically about 2019 to get that. Well, during that process we was, um, got hit with three hurricanes. 16:10 It was ugly. We got crop insurance, but crop insurance is only gonna pay 60 70% of what your historical averages are. 16:21 So you're still, that's a 30% loss. So it's not like it's a great thing, it's just a bandaid to keep you from going deeper in debt. 16:31 And, uh, it was, it was rough. It wasn't just awful bad. But then 2020 we get another, we get, 16:41 we get the granddaddy and then we get the 500 year flooding. We get it all. And it was, it was bad. 16:52 I mean, it, it was just ugly. 868 acres underwater tassels of corn had, you know, 2030, they was 20, 30 foot underwater. 17:02 I mean we had water lines on fields up in the trees. It was 50, 60 foot in the air and you just can't imagine that much water 17:10 and roads that was impassable it, it was bad. And um, but you know, we hung in there. Luckily things got better. 17:33 We got refinanced, our interest rates was cut tremendously down. I had so many friends that come to me 17:41 and loan me money and believed in me if it um, you know, that's what done it. But, uh, 17:58 I dunno. But if it hadn't been for the friends and the people helping, we'd have never survived and never, and it was, it was the grace of God ain't no doubt. 18:10 And here we are, 2023, probably some of the best financial shape we've ever been in. So my, how things can change 18:36 Go long for season long foliar disease protection that starts at plant active ingredient flu triol moves through your corn plants as they grow for 18:45 inside out protection from roots to tassel. A single at plant application provides comparable performance in corn yield protection to that 18:52 of vtr one foliar fungicides against diseases like gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight, common rust and more. 19:07 Some farmers I know swear by a name say they never operate anything else. Well, here are a few names for my Fent 900 Tractor 19:18 Fuel Saver Time maximizer Game changer. I like those names. Well, Gail, you showed up on the perfect day 20:07 with the industrial trial 'cause now we can come down here and see where they're putting in your XW trial on corn. 20:12 Mm-Hmm. But, uh, in another few days we'll be putting your XW trial in on soybeans. 20:18 You think that's gonna go okay? Yeah, I think that'll be a, a neat and an exciting, uh, trial for you. 20:22 You know, like I said, in the last year or so, we've expanded that label to include some other crops, soybeans being one of those. 20:28 And, and what we're kind of looking for in soybeans is just kind of improving that overall health. 20:32 You know, we're looking for our, for things like Septoria Brown spot disease control and frogeye leaf spot control 20:38 has looked really good with it. But a lot of times in soybeans, you know, you get later in the season you start to see 20:43 that yellowing in the lower part of the canopy. And that's a lot of times that's septoria. If we can keep that plant a little healthier, 20:49 lower in the canopy, maybe hopefully retain a few more pods on a few more nodes. 'cause when you think about it, you know, just one more pod 20:56 to the acre on at a normal population is roughly about two bushel an acre. So it doesn't take much to add some yield to soybeans. 21:03 And so that's really what we're kinda looking for in XY way and hopefully we're gonna see that on your trial this year. 21:07 You know, Evans and I have been on this plant health journey, if you will, you know Right. And you've been a big part of that with XY way, you know, 21:13 that first year was xw and the things I could see from a half mile away and uh, I was sold from then on. 21:18 Right. And increasing the plant health and soybeans is, is a huge thing for me. I think that there's more low hanging fruit, 21:26 if you will in soybeans than there is corn. If I can keep the plant healthier, you're right. Maintaining pods and that's stress and health. Yeah. 21:32 I think we've got a lot of fertility out here. We're finding fertility later and later in soybeans is helping. 21:38 Yeah. But I gotta keep the plant healthy and I gotta keep the stress off it. And if xw works as good for us in soybeans as corn, 21:44 I think we're gonna see a nice yield bump. One of the things we're trying to do in, in ag and, and especially, you know, we talk about XW 21:51 and maybe some of the other things, zero r some of our other things is, is really try to enhance, so-called that factory that plant that plant's ability 21:59 to produce more yield. Yep. And so we're looking at building a stronger root mass. And, and so we've seen some of those benefits with, with 22:06 that, with XY way and corn where we're enhancing that root mass helping with moisture uptake and drought stress and nutrient uptake. 22:14 And so, uh, you know, we're hoping for, for those similar sorts of things in soybeans, we can build a, a healthier 22:20 and a bigger root system that can support a, a more robust plant then hopefully we can, we can sustain more pods 22:26 and put more yield into that plant at the end of the season. Well I'm excited for both trials this year, Gail, 22:31 and uh, when we're harvesting the corn and the soybeans, I hope you come back to see what happens. Well I'm hoping I can, I'll be able to do that too. 22:36 And like I said, we'll see what the results look like and, and looking for favorable things from the trials. 22:40 Alright. It changes everything. So says Indiana corn grower Nathan Davis about innovative xw LFR fungicide from FMC Xw 22:53 brand fungicides are the first and only at plant corn fungicides provide unprecedented season long inside out foliar disease protection. 23:03 Precision is understanding the potential hidden within decoding the specific nutritional needs of your crop, maximizing every nutrient 23:17 and getting the most out of your yield. We break down the science in a way that works for your crops and for you apply less 23:28 and expect more with precision crop nutrition from agro liquid. So phosphorus to me is a very important nutrient. 23:41 If you look at the photosynthetic cycle within a plant, which all these plants, corn, so I don't care what you're doing. 23:47 Even the plants, the weeds on the ground here in front of me all use sunlight to convert to energy for their life. So phosphorus grows roots, builds energy, right? 23:58 So we need that in that plant and we also need it because most of the times in the early season, that's a cool wet environment. 24:05 That's when you can get the purpling. It's harder to pull phosphorous up at the beginning than it is any other time. 24:10 Now, us out here where I am out here in Maryland, we have a nutrient management plan. So I only get to put on a certain amount of phosphorus. 24:17 So what I do is I put some of it up front, just enough to get me by to get me going, build that root system, get a en plant full of energy 24:26 and start building those roots around. So I'm trying to build that into that plant, but I'm not gonna put all of it up front. 24:32 Keep in mind, 75% of the needs of phosphorus in a plant's life are in the reproductive stages. 24:39 And sometimes pho phosphorus ain't very mobile in the soil to begin with. Plant has to go search for it 24:45 and it can get tied up pretty easily. Calcium, iron, aluminum can all bond because of the charges to phosphorus. 24:52 So we're trying to find ways to make it more available. We make sure we have enough phosphorus by testing it. Uh, so we'll do test tissue testing, soil testing. 25:00 We want to know how much the soil's given us and how much the plant's taken up. That's what we focus on with phosphorus, 25:06 is making it more plant available when we need it, which is late season. Typically Purpling this late, late season like that, 25:13 that can be a real bad yield robber in my mind. 75% of its needs are in the reproduction. And let's be honest guys, you gotta remember something. 25:24 We're building these plants. They don't need to be super sexy all the time, especially in the vegetative stages 25:29 because we're not selling vegetation, we're not selling biomass, we are selling grain. And that phosphorus gets fed right into that. 25:37 We're trading nutrients that we put on for pounds. We put into that, that ear To me, from what I've seen is a lot of other deficiencies. 25:46 Mask can mask each other. So we really rely on our sampling to tell us where we're at. Because sometimes I get a tissue sample 25:54 and the plant looks gorgeous and green, but our phosphorus is low. And then we can have a great plant, 26:00 but our ears aren't feeling like they want to. And that's phosphorus related as well. What you'll see in a corn crop, like, you know, like mine 26:07 behind us, this corn is actually at 2,500 gdu right now. Still black green still doesn't show any deficiencies. 26:17 So that means that I've met all my requirements all the way through the season. That's a good thing about spoonfeeding. 26:23 We have these abilities to do that. That's why I spoonfeed phosphorus and that's how I'm gonna use it 26:38 On the next extreme ag show. We're a foot and a half off of where the tile line needs to be. 26:47 We've hit solid rock. Do y'all have a small machine with a hammer on it? How, how, how, how quick can he come out here?