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. 00:45 And farming planting season is always a race against the clock. As the weather starts to take a turn for the worse 00:53 temple roads worries that his planting window is shrinking. But we're a little bit worried. 00:59 We got an inch and a half, well, about an inch and two tenths of rain here a couple days ago, but they're talking about getting really cool this weekend 01:07 into the forties, and then we're supposed to get maybe two inches of rain. So we'll stop planting, um, ahead of a cold, wet rain, 01:14 36 hours, uh, prior. I, it's just not worth that risk. Our trials are so big and our labs are so big for extreme ag. 01:24 You know, when we do a 40 acre lab, it's a 40 acre lab next to a 40 acre. 01:29 Our grower standard practice, like what we actually use that one trial. Basically, it'll eat up 80 acres. 01:36 It wouldn't be fair to our partners to not try to do it perfectly right the first time. These are my latest two irrigated farms 01:44 that we're gonna be working on. It's the highest production soil that we've got. These farms actually have majority of all my labs in my tr 01:53 but this ground actually got kind of messed up last year. It's a little bit rough. So we wanted to get all 01:59 that residue worked back into the soil profile. This farm's been strip tilled anhydrous from, uh, nutrient ag. 02:06 And then, uh, after we get done strip tilling, we hit it with, uh, fuel cultivator and hit it one time 02:12 and bust it all apart. You know, get, give back some of the nutrients that we, that we used last year. 02:17 Try to get 'em back into the soul, get 'em back into these new plans. Little temples out in the field running the cultivator. 02:23 A crucial step prior to planting. Everything's going great until, So I was in the middle of a working ground 02:35 with our field cultivator and one of the bolts from the rolling basket came loose and once it came loose, it broke right off 02:45 and the rolling basket fell, fell off. I, I just felt like, oh crap, I just messed up man. 02:54 Dad is gonna be p****d. I think he hit something, but I don't know whether he did or not. Gotta order parts as usual 03:03 and who knows how long we're gonna have to wait for it. So what I'll probably do is take it back to the shop, I'll manufacture a part 03:11 and make it so we can get going tomorrow. But for today, he's gonna run like we are and just, we're gonna be one less rubber basket. 03:19 It's not gonna be that big of a deal because we're working it up behind him anyway and running the pack r it anyway, so we'll get 03:25 by without it, you know, it's just all part of it. Um, just another day in paradise. Alright, well, He wasn't 03:37 as mad as I thought he would be. Placing the seed exactly where you want. It is a key first step to a successful crop. 03:46 See, we talk about, you know, corn, having the right spacing all the time and nobody wants to talk about soybeans, 03:51 having the right spacing. See, look at that, just uncovered a double. So obviously my vacuum pressure's a little bit too high, 03:59 but you want to have them spaced exactly the same. And now I'm gonna tell you why. So with soybeans, you know, 04:05 if you have 'em too close like this, right? Those two plants right there are gonna be just a thin line bean. 04:13 And then this one right here is gonna be a bushy beam. And then these two are gonna be, you know, mid bushy. That's what I want 'em like, but the problem is, 04:20 is they're all gonna end up different stages throughout the crop. If I'm trying to trigger some type of response 04:25 of these plans, better that we can space them, the better. We're gonna have some success out of, you know, 04:32 a micronutrient pack, a PGR, um, all these different things that we're putting on because, you know, 04:38 micronutrient packs a lot of times don't work because they're not putting on at the right stage. Just like dropping corn, you want singulate 'em the best 04:46 that you can because Singulation plays a big toll and starts right here. So I'm gonna try to be proactive, not reactive. 04:55 That's our biggest problem. You know, I've always been reactive and anytime that you're being 05:01 reactive, you already lost money. If you're proactive and you can get ahead of that, you can stand a hedge that bet a little bit better. 05:09 You know, it's kind of a little bit of an insurance program for us. Think about everything that we're doing at Extreme Ag 05:17 with all the different testing and all the trials. I need to be able to collect that data as we're harvesting. It automatically collects all that data and backs it all up. 05:28 I'll know when I, when I get done harvesting it, I can back that rate up and I can lay those sheets over each other. 05:33 So our ROI is immediate and we're trying to take all the guessing out. So there is a ton of money hidden in the data. 05:41 You just gotta be willing to take a minute and collect it. Amino Grow is an exciting new product put out 05:56 by concept agritech. What we've seen is an increase in fruiting sites as well as branching. 06:03 And this has equated to yield Spot less. 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BioHealth is a product by concept Agritech made up 07:42 of a consortium of beneficial biology that actually colonized the plant and boost the plant's immune system from the inside. 07:54 They say that when something looks simple, the devil is in the details. That's the truth. Kevin Matthews lives by. 08:01 He knows the stakes are high Every year. Today you're going to be seeing us trying to figure out how to, uh, win the National Cornal Championship. 08:12 We still hold the record here in North Carolina for the NCGA and we hope we can continue that on irrigated ground. 08:20 We have, uh, several different farms that is good soils and good irrigation, and we always try to have it the best we can do. 08:29 So we're paying attention to detail. We did our pre-inspection this morning and we found this injection tip had a piece 08:37 of stainless steel in it, little flake in it. So that flake actually had that injection tip stopped up where it would not perform properly. 08:46 Every single seed's gotta be precisely placed and we're putting our fertilizer precisely as well and all of our ingredients that we use to reduce the amount 08:55 of fertilize that we need. So we're actually mixing our plant food here today. It's very critical that we get the correct amount out. 09:09 Some of this stuff we're putting 2.8 to 3.2 ounces per acre. So that's 3.2 ounces across 43,560 square foot. 09:20 And it's gotta be exactly right. So we're putting all these ingredients in here and we've got this mix tank 09:26 and we will have a hundred acre fill up here. So it's a hundred acres worth of products. There's 400 gallons of product in there with our fertilize 09:36 and the ingredients we put in. And it's gotta be precise and there's nothing irritates me no more than somebody walks 09:42 up and they won't say, Hey, help me with this right here. And I'm sitting there trying to measure and figure 09:47 and make sure I do everything right. And I got the pump sitting there running, you know, 80 gallons a minute, pumping in that tank and, 09:53 and I'm wanting to stop it at exactly 400 gallons. I ain't got time for you. Stay away from me. I mean, I I don't answer my phone when I'm doing this. 10:01 I'll call you back. I don't respond to a text when I'm doing this, But that's the 400 mark right there. A hundred, 10:09 A hundred acres Corn gallon. So our seed corn is considered a unit and when you're buying seed, you sell it in bushels, 10:15 but a unit is at 50 pounds, but now it's actually, they go by kernel count. So it's 80,000 kernels equals one unit. 10:23 So you gotta know how much that unit weighs. Some kernels will only weigh 40 pounds and some will weigh 60 pounds depending on the size 10:33 of the seed and the density of the kernel. So I wanted to make sure I had enough at the population I was planting at to put 34 to 36,000 seed per acre out there. 10:44 And that gives me the math. I take that seed, multiply it times the acres, and then divide it by 80,000, 10:52 convert it back down into units. And then I know it's 50 pounds per unit in this variety that we're planting today. 11:00 And then that tells me I need 'em to put 400 pounds of side in 800 pounds of seed. I'm good to roll. 11:11 Just imagine being the ground crew, the fuel crew loading the bags. And with this it's like, you know, 11:18 you gotta make sure there's fuel in it. You gotta make sure it's loaded it up, ready to go. You gotta make sure he has snacks 11:24 and getting the pilot ready to go. That's Kevin. He's ready to take off right now. My relationship with dad is pretty special. It's unique. 11:36 I mean, I don't feel like many, um, females have that kind of relationship with their dad like we do. 11:43 We can talk about anything together. There's not really many topics off limits between us now. There's days we get pretty ill at each other. 11:52 When you're working together every day it's hard. You come home, you're hot, it's a hundred degrees outside it feels like and everything's went wrong. 12:01 You're still together all day long, then you're gonna go eat supper with family afterward. You gotta know when to put that divide between work 12:08 and family at home. So we're planting a National Corn Growers Association. We have a yield contest amongst all US farmers 12:28 across the whole United States trying to see who can grow the most bushels per acre. If we can make this pay these applications that we're doing 12:38 in this what we call high yield environment, then we'll consider taking it across other acres on the farm. 12:44 So it is really just a big test plot when you get down to it. And if anything can go wrong, 12:50 it typically goes wrong when you're planting or harvesting one of these yield contest plots. But at the end of the day, 12:56 we just gotta beat all the other guys in extreme ag and we've done good. Adding Raytheon into your infer application 13:12 or even an over the top application round V three V four, can do wonders in helping that plant 13:19 navigate tough soil conditions. As far as nutrient tie of is concerned, Control the toughest weeds with overlapping residuals. 13:28 Lock in the longest lasting control for your soybean fields authority brand herbicides such as Authority, edge herbicide 13:35 and authority Supreme herbicide combine the industry's most effective group. 14 and 15 active ingredients for a clean start 13:42 and long lasting residual control. Following up 14 to 28 days later with a post application of Anthem Max herbicide 13:49 through V six establishes a heavy duty economical, overlapping residual program. Claims are good and all, but I'm more interested in results. 14:01 My fent momentum planter delivers them the only planter with automatic tire pressure adjustments, weight transfer across its frame 14:10 and inline center tandem wheels that eliminate pinch rows. It's just another way I know fence got my bottom line. 14:19 Top of mind. Sweet success has been in the product lineup of concept agritech for a while. 14:28 We've seen it do a lot of things that you wouldn't think a black strap molasses product would do. 14:33 Anytime you can increase the bricks content of your plant, the more healthy it's gonna be. 14:39 The sweaty sun soaked delta of Southeast Arkansas. Matt Miles isn't just raising corn, he's wrestling with the sun itself, trying to outsmart it 14:50 with a perfect early planting strategy. People ask me a lot because I, I go beyond the borders of, 14:58 of pushing the envelope, planting stuff early. I like it to be fairly warm when I plant, but I want to get that corn in the ground and get it growing 15:07 and try to, you know, bypass some of the heat that we have during pollination. Probably our biggest limiting factor in corn production is 15:16 the nighttime heat, nighttime temperatures during pollination. And that can take 20 bushels off our crop, you know, 15:23 in just, in just a matter of a few days during pollination. So, you know, we're crunched all 15:28 of our equipment's being used and we're just trying to get through planting corn and beans. We hadn't even thought about cotton, 15:32 which has put us behind. So that's what this plot was, is, is to see how early is too early. 15:39 This corn was planted February the 22nd, which is most people are still got their coveralls on and, and, and wouldn't even consider planting anything in February. 15:51 But this right here is a round or 48 rows. The first 24 rows here, we didn't put any infer on, we just cut the infer off and just ran. 16:00 That's just seed and the base fertility, we put it, you know, in, in the, in the field, the rest of the field was done with our in furrow, which is about 16:10 in the neighborhood of 20 to $25 an acres. You need four to five bushels to pay for that to pay, just to pay for that in furrow. 16:17 But we feel like we're picking up 10 to 15 bushels, you know, with that in furrow. So 50 days later we couldn't see the difference in 16:26 where we spent the money and where we didn't. And sometimes you can't until you put the combine in it. But I can start seeing a difference now between, you know, 16:34 this row and this row. If you look at the plants that plant's a bigger, more robust plant and the, you know, this over here, 16:41 still a good decent looking plant, but it's not gonna be as tall. It's not quite as green. So we plant the corn February 22nd. 16:49 Usually when we plant early the first half of March, especially the first week of March, it takes probably 15 days to get the corn up, 16:57 maybe sometimes 20 days to get the corn up. You know, struggle, struggle, struggle. We planted this on February 22nd, nine days later it was up 17:06 and everybody's like, yes man, you we had perfect weather, got a good emergence, all the stand counts were good. 17:12 And I'm thinking in my mind, you know, it might've been better if it would've been 20 days coming up instead of nine because that gave me 10 more days 17:20 of the harsh weather that the crop would get through in the soil, not out of the soil. Got a huge coal spell, 17:28 it was frosting every day for like four days. The last day of that coal spell, we got nine hours below freezing and the temperatures got down to 27. 17:40 Well, by the time we got that, this corn was probably V one, it was about this tall, completely roasted it, 17:48 I mean it frosted every bit of it off. I had two green lines out there and they turned brown. And then from brown, they, you know, 17:54 the fold is disintegrated. Well, the thing about corny is the growing point's still under the ground. 17:59 Now if it got frosted today, then it would kill it. But at that point when it's that young, it can frost on it, freeze on it, and the growing points 18:07 below the ground, it, it will come back. So all the corn came back. But what I got to noticing was, 18:14 as we were doing our stand counts again, we were getting about 28,000. We planted 34,000, we was getting about 28,000, 18:22 but about 8,000 of that 28,000. And my opinion was run plants. And when I talk about run plants, 18:30 I'm just gonna clip one off right here. I would consider this a run. Well I would consider that a run plant. 18:36 So this plant is setting beside this plant. Okay, here's another one. You know, there's two right here, there's another one. 18:45 And I got to thinking corn's one of those things. When you, when you've got a kind of a crappy stand and you've got time to do it 18:51 and you're not too late, it's almost better to just kill it and start over. Because if not, and that's almost with any crop. 18:58 If you got a sick crop, you're trying to baby it around, then you're gonna baby it the whole year. 19:03 And I thought, okay, this is a prime time, let's just replant it. So that was the third week of March. 19:10 So now we've got a opposite spectrums. We have a, what I'm considering almost a lake field of corn where I replanted against the ultra early corn here. 19:19 You know, does this pick up 15 bushel yield, three bushel yield? Does this out yield that? 19:25 So time will only tell what's gonna happen. You know it. Again, if you're gonna try this, 19:30 try it on a very limited amount of acres and try it on something that you can afford to lose, then that's one thing we do on our farm is try to try new things 19:38 that are probably out of the box that probably won't make money. But you don't know if you don't try. 19:44 And if we do it on a small amount of acres, you know it don't break the bank. Whatever research we're doing here, 19:50 whatever data we get here, it will definitely be, uh, posted to the extreme AG members and, 19:55 and people will be able to keep up with what we're doing right or wrong. 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Well, in farming that's starting 22:04 to be measured from your carbon index score and the average carbon index score is 29.1 on Iowa Farms. Our farm is a negative two 22:13 and it's in, in no small part because of plant food. So we're out here today, we're custom applying plant food on, uh, on a farm west of Dunlap. 22:24 Plant food is a byproduct, a liquid byproduct out of the feed industry. Our operation has grown. We have about 60 employees, 22:32 we have 50 trucks because we work for a liquid feed company that takes the byproduct from a soybean processor. 22:40 They take that byproduct and they assate it and use about 20% of it to make liquid feed for hogs and poultry. 22:49 There's tremendous fertility value in the liquid feed byproduct in 400 gallons, there's about $170 worth of synthetic fertility value. 22:56 We bring it home, we stored in lagoons and then we apply it on our soils as well as other soils here in Western Iowa. 23:03 And there's kind of a secret to it. Uh, it's an amazing product. You know, one man's trash is another man's treasure. 23:09 But also this, I hesitate to use the word organic, but the it's nutrient available when a nutrient has been through a plant once it's 10 times more 23:19 available to the next plant. So this byproduct is essentially a liquid soybean. We've documented a 40 bushel yield gain in corn, 23:26 a 20 bushel yield gain in beans. And farmers a lot of times get a bad rat because they say they're raping the soil, which is not true. 23:34 The soil in Iowa especially has great potential and as growers we are so far from it. It's, it's humorous, okay? 23:42 But what happens is we get out of balance from a chemistry perspective and the nutrients and plant foods specifically the sulfur 23:49 and the micronutrients and the carbon help us balance the soil. So the nutrient availability along with the chemical balance 23:56 or the chemistry balance that we can get, that's the secret sauce here. That's why it works. So goodness ground, 24:01 it's really is a game changer up here in these soils. Um, it's because it's a byproduct that's inexpensive. The farmers are able to purchase it 24:09 for about 50 cents on the dollar. Uh, there's about 22 million gallons available from the, from the supplier. 24:16 We take it all and we uh, we spray it on 45 or 50,000 acres From an environmental perspective 24:28 or sustainable perspective, instead of using synthetic fertility, which in my opinion is not sustainable 24:33 or environmental, we're going back to the soil with a liquid soybean. The amount of waste that we are taking out 24:40 of the system is equal to a city of 200,000 people. Remember before we came along, a large portion of the plant food was treated until it was considered 24:50 to be appropriate and it was flushed down the stream. So we're taking all of that waste out of the system. We're applying it here. 24:56 Um, I, I don't know of anything that's more environmental that I could think of. 25:02 Our carbon footprint is better or smaller than anyone you're ever gonna come across there we are the very definition of sustainability here. 25:19 So because of the weather and because of the wind and things like that, we're behind on spraying. And I told 'em to load the sprayer trailer all the way up 25:28 to the gills and, uh, drive over there about six miles west and spray. And I was very confident it was be dry enough. 25:34 So they did exactly what I said. Guys, Richie and Dion went over there to spray and it was too wet. 25:40 So they went to come home. Well, when I sent 'em, they went through the, on the gravel roads through the hills, which is fine. 25:46 When they went to come home, uh, they, uh, were gonna go through town and they were on the 25:51 highway for about two miles. A uh, DOT officer picked him up and weighed him and we got a $6,500 ticket 26:10 because they didn't spray anything. It was wet. So they came back with the trailer fully loaded, obviously. 26:15 And, uh, which is my own fault, uh, I just never dreamt that they'd be coming home full. So I have 6,500 less dollars today. 26:24 We pull on the, the highway at two mile. I didn't even get up to speed and I was like, oh, there's a DOT. 26:30 He turned around and I, I just pulled over at cemetery. I I only wanna pay like 6,000 of this 26:35 and I think you two should pay 500 because his U2 300 pound guys are at least $500 of this ticket. 26:40 So about 67 cents per pound should come outta. I don't, so I'm working on it. Okay, I'm gonna take this stab. 26:52 Don't worry about it. Okay? It changes everything. 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So at some point, I gotta figure out a way 28:10 that I can add to that. If we can use micronutrients like Molly ironing copper, uh, even a one that nobody talks about cobalt, 28:20 they all help in that nitrogen processing. And once we start processing nitrogen efficiently, we don't need as much as we thought we did. 28:28 You know, you've heard the saying too much of a good thing. Well that's kind of where you can be with any nutrient, 28:33 but nitrogen is one of those that we're learning through our sustainability efforts that can be reduced. You know, nitrogen is pretty easy to leach, 28:41 it's pretty easy to run off. So when you're farming in those really deep sandy beach type soils 28:48 or you put out nitrogen at the wrong time, get big heavy rains on it, it's going in a ground, parts running out the end. 28:55 It is one of the most strategically managed nutrients that we use. What you need to be careful 29:03 with is if you front load nitrogen on soybeans, you're gonna get a giant leggy plant super tall, and then it's gonna end up making all this foliage. 29:12 It's gonna fall over and it's gonna not stack your, your nodes. Like your nodes will be this far apart. 29:18 I wanna stack 'em, you know, an inch apart and stack, stack, stack, stack all the way up it because if a high yield situation, those plants get heavy, 29:25 they fall over and they break. We need to process the nitrogen, make it do what it's supposed to do in that plant. 29:33 And we use micronutrients that are key in the enzyme reactions of that nitrogen processing of the plant. 29:38 So that's when somebody asks, how can you tell? Well, what we're learning is you can't, you gotta use certain testing methods to find 29:46 that out and then employ right? Products help us alleviate the issues. Now with nitrogen on soybeans, the problem is, 29:55 is if you go out there and let's say you use chicken litter or you use some other form 30:00 and you get too much nitrogen out there on soybeans, what you can do is one, you can make the plant lazy and it's not gonna nodulate at all. 30:07 It's not gonna put anything on there where it's gonna make its nitrogen. 'cause you just made the plant way too lazy. 30:13 So how to do that is, is if you're gonna put something down, you can strip till it 30:18 and you can strip till it down real deep. So by the time that it gets to it, it's in the reproductive stage 30:23 and that's when you're gonna want your nitrogen. Anyway, We figured out what we think the best thing 30:28 to do is spoon feed it. We don't go eat all of our food at breakfast. If that works for us, that should work for plants too. 30:35 So we spoonfeed, we do that with our other nutrients too. But nitrogen is probably one of the, the biggest ones 30:41 that we do that with and we get the most benefit from. But keep in mind, you gotta figure out a way that you can feed that into the plant closer 30:50 to the reproductive stages. So when you're reproductive, you're making pods, beans, blossoms, all that, and vegetative, 30:57 you're just making vegetation and biomass. We don't sell biomass, we sell the seed. That's how we gotta figure it out 31:16 Next week on the Extreme Act Show. So the calfs born after the first say couple hours, if it hasn't sucked, it's not gonna, so if you just leave it, it just won't eat 31:28 and it'll just starve to death. That's not a good sign.