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 To most people area in Iowa may be just any farm town, USA, but to Kelly, Garrett's youngest son, kale, it's a lot more. 00:56 Whenever anybody asks, I say I'm literally from Paradise. The township where the homestead sat 01:01 and everything is called paradise. Best place to live. When I was in high school, you could get off early for a job, 01:12 so I just left at noon and came here every day day. I never really liked school that much. I prefer working. I don't like to sit in the planter or the tractor 01:29 'cause you're just sitting in the same spot all day and you're just watching one thing drive. I like to go check fins and check cows 01:35 'cause the fins could work, could be broken. Something could do with the cows. You might have to chase cows or move 'em 01:41 or just driving around, checking stuff. Normally you would just come out here and you'd let your cows out and graze everything 01:52 and then they're gonna eat some grass down and then go to the other grass and then this grass is gonna grow back up 01:58 and it's new and it tastes better. So they're gonna come back and try to eat that and then they're wasting the rest of the grass just walking 02:04 through and laying on it all the time, smashing it down. It makes it not last as long 02:10 And you just feed your cows in your common area here. Or you might have to chase 'em the first couple times, but come running down in here, you just shut one gate, 02:18 open the next and you let 'em into the next paddock and you just do that all summer and the grass will last quite a bit longer. 02:25 Honestly. Cuts down on the hauling other pasture time and trying to, hoping on hoping it rains. So your grass grows everywhere else. 02:33 If everybody's concerned around here, is moving 'em from one paddock to the next. So you're gonna think you're wasting all 02:37 that time chasing cows after the first couple of times. They really figure it out on their own. They're gonna be trying to get into the other paddocks 02:44 'cause they know that's where the good grass is. So when you call 'em in, they'll come running. They just shut the gate right behind 'em. 02:49 It's really, it's really like at first it's kind of annoying you to go in a four wheel and you gotta bring 'em all in. 02:54 But after like five times they kind of get the ro the routine, The pairs just get separated out 03:02 and about, especially baby calves. They just get separated. Well they were used to being over here. 03:07 So when the cow loses its calf, first thing she's gonna wanna do is come back to where she was. 03:12 'cause that's where she's gonna think it's at. So we just put this, we just put this little pin in. When you come check the cows, 03:18 the first thing you see is a cow belling over the fence right here. Walk over there, shut the gate, she's caught. 03:24 You don't have to go get it. Then you just gotta go find the cap that's Bella in and then you come bring 'em together, 03:28 leave them in, in here for like an hour. They pair up, you let 'em back out. It works like a charm. So in the calf born it's supposed to suck. 03:50 After the first say couple hours. If it hasn't sucked, it's not, it's not gonna so, so if you just leave it, it just won't eat. 04:03 That's not a good sign. Uh, I'm worried about this guy 'cause he ain't sucking and uh, we need to help him out and get him going 04:15 And it'll just starve to death at some point. You see how his sides are really skinny. He had, he might've been born earlier the day 04:20 or last night even and he hasn't been able to suck his whole life. Then you gotta put 'em on. Otherwise they just don't eat. 04:33 But yeah, it takes 'em a couple times to figure it out. Amino grow is an exciting new product put out by concept agritech. 04:50 What we've seen is an increase in fruiting sites as well as branching. And this has equated to yield 05:03 Spot less. Introducing the cleanup for tar spot gray leaf spot, Southern Rust and more novel next generation at Astria. 05:13 Fungicide from FMC broadens your spectrum and strengthens your residual foliar disease control. Protect your corn fields with a proprietary combination 05:22 of three modes of action. 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Farming of the delta is no easy task, 06:50 but it's not only the unforgiving heat and tough soils of southeast Arkansas that make it a challenge. 06:58 So down here in the delta, some things we have to deal with that y'all don't have to deal with in certain areas. Uh, one being cotton mouse, water moccasins, you know, 07:07 very poisonous snakes. And the big thing we have to deal with sometimes is gators, you know, they'll be in our rice fields, 07:23 they'll be in our corn fields, they'll be in our cotton fields. You never know where they're gonna be. They hi. 07:30 They kind of, it's kind of between a hiss and a growl and it will pro, I promise you'll scare you. Now, I haven't done that in a corn field. 07:36 I've done it in a rice field. Uh, but they, you know, you never know when you're gonna walk up on one. Dustin Farms is some of the most gator infested land 07:46 that's in DHA County and about 30 seconds to pound a gator. Yeah, I know that they're there 07:52 by the sounds that they make. And seeing the corn moving, you gotta get outta there pretty quick. 07:58 I don't wanna walk up on one and lose a leg or something if I can't see them. Gators eat ready 08:05 or turtles fish you if you're crazy enough to get down in there. A wounded bird, Beavers, you know. 08:13 Yeah. They actually introduced the, the gator to our area to control the beavers. 08:19 I think they failed. Yeah, that didn't work out real well. Everybody knows what rice is. 08:32 You know, everybody buys rice in the grocery store, but we're one of the people that farm it. The thing about rice is, 08:39 and the misconception of rice is that it has to be, you know, when you see the movies and they're at Vietnam or whatever, the rice is always underwater. 08:48 And that's kind of a fallacy. And we say that all the time, you know, rice doesn't have to have it don't have to be flooded to make rice. 08:55 So this is an unconventional way of planting rice, which is be becoming to be It's insured. You can be insured now. Yeah. 09:02 So it's, and it's called row rice. So what we're doing is putting the rice on a raised bed just like we do our corn and beans. 09:09 We'll actually furrow irrigate it just like we will. Um, corn beans. So it's a, it's a new way of growing rice. It's still a pretty good yield. 09:17 Works well for rotation and you don't have all the levees there that, where you don't have to spend all the money in tillage 09:22 that you have to have in contoured levees. So we've got two types of rice on our farm. One is the row rice and one is the zero grade rice is a, 09:31 uh, grass crop just like corn. And what we're seeing is, you know, we're, we're able to, you know, we're starting to pay attention to the microbes. 09:40 You know, that's something that's kind of been overlooked, which it has been in corn and beans too. 09:44 But for sure in rice is our micros and, um, PGRs and, um, you know, just different things that we're using on these other row crops that we 09:54 Treating it like a main crop, not a secondary crop. Yeah. Yep. It's high input. It costs a lot of money to grow it. 10:00 Our zero grade farm probably, what would you say? We have 40 dry days a year. Yeah, something like that. We try to do it all on tracks 10:09 because, uh, you know, the ground's so spongy, it's clay. So it's real hard to see right now because it's so small. 10:16 I mean, you know, rice is just a little like a ha but you see all the cracks in the ground. So this allows, 10:27 and we may have run our course on the command anyway, but when the ground's checked like this, what this allows is the pre-emerge to break down 10:35 because the grass can actually come out between these cracks. Just like the rice. Just like the rice does. 10:41 So again, you know, we would like to keep this fairly sealed when I say sealed over where it don't have the cracks in it, 10:53 but you've gotta give the rice time to come up, you know, uh, it's real finicky, you know, 10:57 like we were talking about earlier, we, we got 220 acres planted today. We've got about 13, 1400 acres of rice. 11:07 The other's not even, it's so wet that we can't even get on the ground. So now we've got ourselves backed in the corner to 11:13 where we're, we're trying to plant corn, we're trying to plant beans, and now we've gotta come up here. If it don't rain Saturday and plow out our ends for, 11:22 because this is, this is row rice and plow out our ends, put our chemical out here, put our fertilizer out here and start irrigating. 11:29 I know that sounds crazy because we're trying to get water off of field so we can plant 'em, but yet we're gonna have to turn around 11:34 and what we call flush, we're gonna flush this. And what we flush it for is to, you know, it's crusty. The ground's crusty, the, you know, 11:43 it's, it's, it's coming through. We're going, it looks like we're gonna have a stand here no problem. 11:47 But the ground's real crusty. And when we flush that rice, it'll, it'll soften up the soil. 11:51 It'll let the rice come through. It'll also reactivate the pre-emerge. Uh, give us a chance to put another pre-emerge on. 11:59 And also put some of our early fti, early fertility on the rice. So you know that that's what we're looking at now. 12:07 Uh, we'll have a lot more to talk about rice as it, as it as as we go next time. 12:12 If we're standing out here, we're probably gonna be standing in the mud and hopefully we're looking at some really nice green rice. 12:17 So that's a story on the rice. There's not much to look at today other than a little bit of dead rye grass and, uh, and, uh, 12:24 and rice starting to come up. But we'll have some, we'll have some more news on it as we go. 12:32 Adding Raytheon into your infer application or even an over the top application round B three V four, can do wonders in helping that plant 12:42 navigate tough soil conditions. 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We've seen it do a lot of things 13:53 that you wouldn't think a black strap molasses product would do. Anytime you can increase the bricks content of your plant, 13:59 the more healthy it's gonna be. Last night, an unexpected rainstorm blew up in about 25 or 30 minutes. 14:21 We got two inches of rain, we got hail. The corn will be okay because the growing point's not above ground yet, 14:34 but the emerging beans are very fragile and it really kind of sucks. And I'm not in the greatest mood today thinking about 14:42 replanting a thousand acres of beans. You know, we've got hail insurance, things like that. But to have to go do all that work again, it's, it, 14:50 it is expensive to put the fertility out again. It's expensive to put the seed out again. It's expensive for the time. 14:57 Uh, the insurance doesn't cover all of that. And it, it, it's really just a downer. I believe it'll be a yield penalty. 15:05 We wanna get the beans in as early as possible because every three days they put on a new node all the way up to the summer solstice on June 21st. 15:13 Mother Nature says, Hey, get out of vegetative going to reproductive. And it doesn't matter when you plant those beans, 15:18 they're gonna do it approximately June 21st. And now we're shortening up that time. Dunlap 15 miles away didn't get a drop. 15:28 That's how tight of a little micro blasts this was. Mother nature really kind of kicked us in the teeth last night. 15:37 That's farming for you mother. Nature's unpredictable and unforgiving. You know, planting looks like a beautiful situation 15:52 and really is when everything works. But it's a very nerve wracking, stressful time of the year. We've got one time to get it right 16:00 and weather problems, electrical problems and mechanical problems, the list goes on and on causes it to be a tough time of year for us 16:09 because it's, it's so weather dependent. But at the end of the day, we all want to get the crop in at four to six weeks 16:15 and we've gotta get it in in a timely fashion. We've gotta do a good job. The weather's gotta cooperate. The soil in Iowa especially has great potential. 16:27 But what happens is we get out of balance from a chemistry perspective and the nutrients in plant foods specifically the sulfur 16:34 and the micronutrients and the carbon help us balance the soil. A perfectly balanced soil would be measured from a base 16:41 saturation perspective and a balanced soil is 65% calcium, 12% magnesium, 3% potassium. 16:49 For example. This soil where we're standing right here wouldn't shock me if it's not 80 or 85% calcium. 16:54 And we need to sulfur to balance that out. You know, a lot of the challenges that we face in Iowa, we very much feel a clock ticking 17:07 because we want to get the crop in if we have a late spring and then you don't want to come into June planting. 17:13 I wish every year the sun would come out back and start planting on April 5th to April 10th, be done by the 1st of May. 17:20 Get everything growing, have a nice growing season. It just doesn't work that way. There's times we don't start planting corn until May. 17:26 Then you get a couple rains. I've experienced some time for planting in June. I remember still planning on Father's Day. 17:32 That's a challenge in Iowa, you know, in what I would say is in a northern climate that uh, we very much are on a clock versus the southern people. 17:40 Now we have some other advantages versus the southern people. The number one thing would be the soil that we have, 17:45 you know, versus, uh, what Matt talks about is sand and things down there. Chad talks about that red dirt. 17:51 So there, there's pluses and minuses to all geographies, but the hills that we've got here, the, 17:57 the cold temperatures we've got here, things like that are the challenges that we face in Iowa. The terrain here that we have to deal with 18:06 can cause enough problems that it really slows down productivity, the shore rows that it creates. 18:12 'cause you're planning on the contour. You know, you're not going straight back and forth half mile rows all the time. 18:15 Like you would be across 10 80 or one 60. And the other thing is traction. You know, we, we have fairly large tractors, uh, 18:23 but the wheel tractors, the tractors with tires, they're slippage even with the weight, even with radials and things like that. 18:30 There's times where you just cannot tie the power to the ground and we'll get down to 2.8 or three miles an hour when we'd 18:39 like to be going five or six. We've gone to track tractors, quad track tractors specifically 18:45 and the same size tractor with tracks versus tires. We can drive around the field six and a half miles an hour because we are tied to the ground and it's just traction. 18:54 Now those track tractors are significantly more expensive but the productivity outweighs the expense. 18:59 Our productivity has gone way up, which makes me really happy. And my goal is to not only farm sustainably 19:10 but to do it while raising 442 bushel corn. I want to show the world that it can be done at the same time. 19:17 That's truly the goal. The goal isn't just to raise 4 42, the goal is to raise 4 42 sustainably. 19:23 And I believe that's possible Go long for season long foliar disease protection that starts at plant active ingredient flu triol moves 19:42 through your corn plants as they grow for inside out protection from roots to tassel. 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Because a polypropylene pipe right through here. Every year during the crop production time of year, there will be water running down this furrow. 21:50 So you have to have the furrows to carry the water during March and April when things might be more wet due to mother nature, these raised beds also keep the plant in 21:59 the roots away from excess water. Now you understand why we have raised beds, but it's not just 22:05 that they're sculpted up into a raised bed, it's not a bed until it's flattened just like this. 22:10 It turns out there's a machine, a little roller that goes across the top to flatten this off. And after a couple weeks 22:15 of weathering this is gonna be ready for planting. Turns out raised bed agriculture is all about water management. 22:29 But Chad Henderson, it's time to plant in northern Alabama At Henderson Farms. 22:35 Here we are farm about 21 or 22 up to 2,500 acres a wheat a year. And then we're going to double crop those. 22:42 We'll have about a thousand or 1500 acres of beans. It's not double crop. And then the rest will be corn probably somewhere around 26 to 3000 acres of corn. 22:51 And every year we work a lot of river bottom ground. So you don't ever know like if you're going to plant that this year or not plant it 22:56 or what it's going to be in it is just according to the season that it is and when it gets planted. So we'll let four or 500 acres float around. Okay? 23:04 And we set that up because of the machines we got. We mainly gonna run three machines. We have four machines, it might run four sometime, 23:10 but I like to run around 800 acres per machine a week. Uh, our goal is to have the wheat crop out in X amount of days, which is about 10. 23:19 And for that to be done, that's kind of the numbers I like to roll around, you know, and it's all about math. 23:25 You know, it's not about oh I got 5,000 acres a week. No, it's about how many days I can get it out and how many days it's gonna cost me. 23:30 On the backside on planting beans Extreme ag show, here we go. Chad and his father Mike work on a mix of nutrients 23:44 but the application for this season's crops started at the end of last season. This is what we're doing now. 23:50 We're putting in the 28 0 0 5 that goes in our strip freshener. We put liquid down in the spring. 23:55 So we put our P or K down in the fall as it's dry. And then we come back in the spring where we don't lose our nitrate 24:01 and we run a freshener over our strips and put 28 down. Then it'll put anywhere from 10 to 20 gallons according to what we're trying to do in that strip. 24:10 So that's kind of like my starter and then it lightens the load on my planter. But that's all we're doing now is 24:15 getting our tanks loaded up. Let's go to the field We, when conditions are perfect, there's no time to waste. Chad and Mike know that daylight goes quickly. 24:32 Well this has got about two weeks on it from strip ing and it's got a couple of a couple rains on it and you'll see how flat it got. 24:40 And this is kind of what I like to do because then we have consistent seed depth, consistent moisture all the way through. 24:46 It's less likely to have air pockets, you know, under the seed or anything. So this is kind of 24:51 what we'll look like if we can get a couple rains. If it don't get a couple rains we'll lay in there right behind it and it'll be fine. 24:56 It's got moisture down there and we're sealing it down. But this is the prime conditions that we were planting in. We'll come back if you'll see some rye 25:03 grass and some weeds here. We'll fall in right behind the planter with a herbicide rate, burn all this down 25:09 and we'll be off to the races. Like all farmers planting precision is vital to the success of the crop. 25:19 They'll plant some test strips, check the seed depth and singulation, make sure it's perfectly dialed in. You only get one shot or the clock is ticking. 25:31 So we started out today and we was running around the shop like a chicken with our head cut off spraying wheat. 25:36 We had to change trailers 'cause I needed the planter trailer for the strip till. Then we come up here and we're gonna try 25:42 to set a planter all in one day and uh, we're going to run in and see if we can run on top of these strips, 25:47 maybe get this burned down tomorrow and off to the races. We finally started hashtag plant 23. 26:01 It changes everything. 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So we always want to keep it in a 10 27:11 to one phosphorus zinc relationship and once that gets outta balance you can get some issues rise in the plant if you got too much 27:17 one too much to the other. You know, on Kelly's farm here, he's got high phosphorus 'cause of our, his nutrient management practices. 27:24 So we're always adding zinc here to keep that balance in in tact I guess would be the best way to put it. 27:30 And it's not easy sometimes, you know, we apply some zinc to the soil. There's someti instances where the soil has got enough zinc, 27:37 it's just tied up in various ways and it's not getting the plant so we still have to either put it with a planter or spray it on. 27:44 So we're always adding it and it's vital in those key timeframes. You know, keeping that defense 27:50 mechanism structure going in the plant. We are actually harvesting a corn plot today that we did a zinc trial on. 28:03 Zinc is actually a candy for the microbial activity in the soils. And the more microbial activity you have, 28:10 the more root mass you get. Uh, it's just a better living environment for your roots and your plants thrive. 28:18 So we put a a cord of a product down that we're doing some research for in furrow. You gotta make sure it's safe 28:25 and it's not gonna hurt your seed. We're harvesting that trial today early on the root mass. It was amazing when we did the root digs of the quickness 28:36 of the size difference in the roofs planted same day just just adding the zinc to it. Had a lot larger, massive roof. 28:44 Now we get to see the yield results of that trial and we just went through a strip of it there while ago and that's the first time that I've seen 28:53 over 200 bushels in this field. I played college football and it was vitamin C and zinc, you know, 29:02 because the head coach's wife was a nurse. So that's what, you know, we got in the fall. We usually flu season 29:08 or whatever to try to stay healthy, eat all the vitamin C you can drink your water and and make sure you got enough zinc 29:14 'cause it's the same process in the humans as it is in plant. It's a defense mechanism. 29:18 Keeps your immune system strong so it relates right back to the plants and you know, they need zinc to be, 29:24 have a strong immune system and have strong defense against diseases, pests, all the things they battle during the growing season. 29:32 You know, I wouldn't equate disease showing up as a zinc deficiency. There could be other reasons for that. 29:37 But I would say that if you don't have enough zinc, that's probably another reason why you have disease. You know, I've seen where zinc is high in a plant 29:44 but it's got some disease but on the other side of it it's got other issues. So all things square and your zinc's deficient. 29:50 Yeah, I mean I'd be concerned about disease pressure and all that stuff. Next week on the extreme ag show, 30:05 I was fortunate 'cause we always stayed with one bank the whole time. I'd been with that same lender since I was 16 years old. 30:11 You know, they decided to, to sell the bank. They didn't want no part of agriculture. We want you to liquidate all your accounts with us. 30:18 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.