00:13 This episode of the Extreme Ag Show is presented by concept Agritech Cowboy is the game changer, getting it in 00:22 through the leaves and into the plant circulatory system. That's why this product is 00:26 so effective at delivering both calcium and boron to plants at critical times when they need it the most. 00:41 In the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina, Kevin Matthews faces some unique challenges. Fog from the nearby Yadkin River 00:50 and high humidity means Kevin is in a constant battle against disease and fungus. We're flying a foliar fertilizers. 01:00 And what our goal is here today is, you know, this is the past, this is the fourth quarter of the ball game. 01:07 You know, looks like we doing real well, but we're not sure what the opponent's gonna do. You're thinking once he's talking about, well, 01:17 mother nature, of course, um, she can get kind of huling you really quick. What we're after here is, you know, we, 01:35 we can't make no more soybeans than what's already out here. These things are at R four, 01:40 but what we can do is make the soybeans bigger and hire oil content, which is going to help make 'em heavier, a lot more nutritional for you. 01:51 And that is what we're after. We're, we're wanting to finish this game. As with all the effort that you can possibly have, um, 02:02 we don't wanna assume we got it won. We don't wanna assume we got the best crop ever. And these are really good soybeans. 02:08 I feel like they'll, you know, we continue to get decent rains, they'll easily be a hundred bushels. But the question is, will it be 105 02:17 or will it be 110 or 120? And we got the equipment, we've got the products now, and the knowledge of how 02:27 to use these products. So I'm rolling. And this is our second fungicide application that's going on these soybeans, uh, 02:44 where we sprayed 'em earlier with a drone when it was too wet to get to you, the sprayer in the field. 02:50 And then, uh, the drone done a phenomenal job. The only reason we're not running it today is because we're running so many gallons of products in 03:01 and we're running a 15 gallon per acre mixture with our water as a courier. And the drones are not of that capacity yet. 03:10 They'll be there, but they're just not there right now. Two applications of fungicide is normally and it's just not your standard. 03:20 In row crop farming and produce is very common. You do many applications, but where we're our location, we kind 03:29 of have what's some call it a microclimate right in this river valley. And even as you know, during dry times, 03:38 we will still experience several, several hours of leaf wetness from the fog rising off the river that the heavy dues in the morning and during the night. 03:52 And it's just a breeding ground for diseases. You know, in soybeans we got, you know, frog got leaf spot is a always a big one. 04:08 Then we get down meal to brown spot and just, well, you name it, a lot of separator can be just absolute deep. 04:18 Oh, it can be aggravating. You, you know, if we get late season diseases come in, we've actually seen as much as a 30 40 bushel 04:30 yield disadvantage. Uh, you'll loss in an extreme situation. So a lot of the diseases are tested right here to see 04:39 what products will work and won't work with them. And, um, one thing we have to really be proactive. We probably go overboard a little bit. 04:51 I I will be the first to admit it. We probably do way more than we should, but on the flip side, we gotta get all we can get. 05:04 All I know is in my lifetime we went and putting gallons acre of stuff out to try to get weeds out to. 05:09 Now we're just putting an ounce per 43,560 square foot, sometimes a quarter ounce. And um, man, 05:20 they have really made these crops safe for everybody. Now I said kind of good to know that my kids and grandkids, one way you're blessed to have some that, uh, 05:33 that's going to have such a good safe food source. Amino grow is an exciting new product put out by concept agritech. 05:48 What we've seen is an increase in fruiting sites as well as branching. And this has equated to yield 06:01 Spot less. Introducing the cleanup for Tar Spot gray Leaf Spot Southern Rust and more Novel Next Generation at Astro Fungicide from FMC 06:12 broadens your spectrum and strengthens your residual foliar disease control. 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Little bit too much. It's a good time. 08:02 A lot of racing is who wants it the most, you know, and you don't do the kind of racing we're doing when you're not passionate about it. 08:17 So we are in Orlando, Florida last race of the year. The Buick is going into round three of qualifying and we're sitting number 16 right now. 08:28 We're on the bump. They are only taking 16 cars, but we gotta show, show out Mechanical troubles 08:35 with Chad's car kept everyone turning wrenches until well after one in the morning and they're still not done. 08:43 We had the motor tore apart, a transmission out. We had all this thing, we burnt, it pinched a ring on the piston. 08:52 So we had to pull it out, change it out, got other piston end, put new rings on it, had the heads off, the blower off. 09:00 All this stuff right here was off the motor. And then we had the transmission out. Made a transmission change and a converter change. 09:10 It's one of them long adventures, but it's all about who can make it to the end of a marathon. You know, it ain't a sprint like you think it's a drag race, 09:15 but it's like, who can not run out of parts? We've had a little bit of transmission trouble. We're working through that little bit 09:21 of engine trouble working through that, but one has caused the other one. So it ain't like anything's really 09:25 bad and it's part of race car. Like if we wanted to come out here and not work on it, we'd go break it racing, you know? 09:31 And, uh, but that's what we wanna do. Like we bring ourself this own punishment. Jackson, my son is now racing the car 09:45 that I built, but the car that I built to put on the street, when I went to this next car that's running three nineties, 09:52 I put that car in the garage at 15. I give it to Jackson and he's racing the car that, that we built. 09:58 You know, so this car is 25 years deep with his family and it's still dragging folks this day. And that's what's got us wrapped around family and racing 10:07 and farming and, and, and, you know. So it's way more important than what, than what you think. It's, 10:13 There's so many things that can happen so quickly. Yes, it's, I worry about it till the till they're off the track at the end. 10:21 I'm good and they make it off. I'm good. Oh, I love it. I mean it's nerve wracking because it is my husband and my son, but I love it. 10:36 Love it. Wouldn't wanna do anything else. People don't remember all the good tasks. People all people always remember all the controversies you 10:46 overcome in your crop. When you remember things, you remember what you overcome to get something out of it. 10:52 That's the stuff you remember. You don't remember the races that you just went to and everything worked good and everything went good 10:57 and cranked right up and everything was good. You don't remember them. You remember the ones you had the motor out of it. 11:01 Pistons was laying on the ground. You put 'em back together and you won the next round. That's the ones you wanna remember, you know. 11:10 Well, racing's harder for me 'cause I'm more hands on with the racing than I am the farm. I only help on the farm when he calls 11:19 and says, can you pull this here or haul this here or do this or bring food here. Yes. So this is harder, but this is a lot more fun. 11:31 There's no reason that we should still be racing. Like we don't have an ego. We don't have anything to prove. You know, we're doing this for the people that's around us, 11:39 the family that's involved. But Farming teaches you a lot about racing. Like the patience and the endurance and the work ethic. 11:54 All of that plays right into this role. Dedication for sure. 'cause this would be very easy to quit and walk away from. 12:03 The race car has cost us, you know, a lot of money over the years. But no education is free. It's taught me about quality. 12:11 It's taught me about nice things. It's taught me about workmanship. You know, it's, it's taught me about patience. 12:17 It's taught me about trials and frustrations and you start putting that into your everyday life. Whether it's at your home 12:23 and your family, whether it's at your farm, whether it's at your, what's your growing for a crop. I mean, when you start putting that into perspective 12:30 and the way you run your businesses and the way you run your life. This race car's taught me how to live 12:44 Adding Raytheon into your infer application or even an over the top application. 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I don't know nothing about it. 15:12 I treated it pretty much like corn. So this was actually planted July 1st. Okay. Um, So we planted it 15:19 with no fertility in the planter, no infer on the planter. So we had to do things differently. So we adapted to it. 15:26 So we waited till it came up and it was, you know, I don't even know the leafs, the stages. 15:31 I can't say that it was V three 'cause I have no idea. But it was about that tall and we stream barred fertility on top of it. 15:38 Now it did burn it sure, a fair amount. But we went out with a little bit of n and a tiny bit of p um, actually, you know, no K in it. 15:47 A little bit of micros in there. We mixed that in there because I'm so used to blending micros in my, in furrow 15:53 and I was trying to facilitate all of the above mm-Hmm. And I was trying to treat it like corn. So we went out with that 16:00 and then we waited for it, um, to grow a little bit. We took some tissue samples. I was really, really low in phosphorus. 16:06 I was low in potassium 'cause I didn't get any out there. So we came back in. 16:11 So the side dress pass, you know what I would've be making a side dress with and I'd be wide dropping, you know, with corn. 16:18 Couldn't do that. So we said, oh, how are we gonna fix this? So we went over to top with a dry program Mm-Hmm. 16:25 And we treated that fertility, um, on it to try to get to drive, try to drive some of it into the plant. Now did it work? Yes, it absolutely worked. 16:34 We got it into the plant. I think I got a halfway decent crop outta here. I don't know anything about it. 16:40 Um, what I will tell you is, is not being able to, uh, do things the way that I'm used to doing with corn. I relied on a heavy foliar fertility program, right? 16:54 So I've made three. We're standing in a sprayer track right now. I've made three, four passes 17:03 on this with nothing but foliar fertility. Mm-Hmm. So that's how I've tried to keep ahead. And I don't know if I, I'm, you know, 17:10 after growing this crop the first time, I'm not sure whether I've spent too much money on it, you know, and I'm, this is kind of a trial 17:17 for me if I can get this to work. I have a lot of different farms that this year I'm planting wheat in right now as we speak. 17:26 Mm-Hmm. On heavily deer damaged farms that I know that'll grow good wheat. And if we can follow at this, we got a whole nother avenue 17:34 that I can, I can get into. So like, you know more about Milo than what I know. Tell me something about this crop. 17:42 Well, uh, it is a very, very tough crop. You have to remember that the, the parent of this crop came from the African continent. 17:50 You know, sorghum as a whole, uh, grown in, in the United States primarily. It's for animal feeds, you know, 17:58 which is why we have the different colors. This is gonna be more of a bronze, not the deep bread like we have in the South. 18:04 And they, this variety that they're wanting you to grow is gonna work for what they're wanting to do with it. 18:11 Right. The other thing that comes out of these crops is that you can actually make sorghum molasses out of it. There's a lot of sugars 18:20 that are stored in the stalk of this crop. And the old timers and where I live in Mississippi would always plant three 18:29 to five acres of it. And then in the fall, they would come in, they would lay it over with a sickle bar, gather it up, 18:36 run it through a little meal press. They basically grind everything up. Take all the juice, put it in a pot, reduce it down, 18:43 boil all the water out of it and let hit sorghum molasses. So, So I mean, it's got, I mean, I, I've heard guys 18:49 where they, you know, after they cut it, you know, and they, they get rid of the grain. You know, it makes tremendous cattle feed like these cattle. 18:58 They can either cut it all the way down with a sick or a hay bind. Mm-Hmm. Uh, disc bind, whatever. 19:03 And then they'll come in and they can bail it or they just background cattle on it and let 'em eat it down. 19:08 Just like we background cattle on corn stalks and cover crop wheat. Right. You look down these roads, 19:14 it's a massive amount Yeah. Of, you know, fodder or a biomass that's here. You can have a high yield on grain sorghum, 19:23 but if you don't have good grain quality, then it's pretty much a wasted endeavor. You want a, you want good heavy test weight 19:32 grain sorghum specifically for what you're wanting to do? Yeah. With it because it, it just lends 19:38 for a better quality ingredient. But it's the same thing for feed value as well. Because having the potassium and the calcium 19:46 and the boron packs the protein in this. Okay. And that's, So, I mean it's pretty much a very similar program. 19:53 Remember we, we talked about the late season cast. Mm-Hmm. On corn yesterday, you know, and I didn't do it here, 19:59 but I did it on my corn. We ate a calcium Mm-Hmm. Um, pretty heavy loads of it and in the tail end. And I think that that is attributed to some of the yields 20:08 that I'm seeing in those specific, there's different gdu, you know what I mean? Mm-Hmm. And maybe next year I need 20:14 to start thinking about fine tuning that in the, in the sorghum production as well. So we learned a ton of stuff about sorghum so far this year. 20:22 Thanks so much for coming out. We're gonna see where this crop takes us. 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So hydrogen is a another essential nutrient, uh, that we don't pay a lot of attention to. 24:33 Uh, one part is 'cause it's pretty readily available within the world we live in. 24:38 If you think of water, H2O, so two hydrogen malt atoms with an oxygen atoms. So, uh, that's why water's kind of critical for plants. 24:46 It's, it's, uh, that's where it gets most of its hydrogen from. Um, there's also things we've learned in the last couple 24:51 years that plants can pull hydrogen from other sources, uh, that are available to it, you know, ammonium, uh, 24:57 it's another form of nitrogen, which doesn't get talked about a lot, but it's NH four. Um, so it's got four hydrogens with the nitrogen. 25:05 So a plant can pull that out with it, uh, get its hydrogen. Uh, the neat thing we've learned about hydrogen is 25:12 soluble and soil up too. So you can pull hydrogen up through the soil, typically through the ammonium, um, molecule. 25:19 But why is hydrogen important to the plant? Well, it's critical in the glucose formation of, of the, of the plant's life. 25:27 Uh, glucose is one of the main sugars plant deals with plant energy. So use a lot of, lot of, uh, spots within the plant 25:34 to move energy around or is, it's the main energy molecule that the plant uses. 25:38 So it's part of that glucose molecule chain. So it's gotta be there for glucose to be made. And glucose is the most important 25:46 energy molecule of the plant. If we're not producing glucose, we're not producing yield. It's pretty simple. In my world, the way I look at it. 25:56 We can apply hydrogen. Uh, probably the most famous or most common known one is the hydro ammonia, which is NH three. 26:03 So that's a nitrogen with three hydrogen atoms that we apply a lot of, you know, in the Midwest you apply a lot of hydrogen ammonia 26:10 for the nitrogen source. So that's where we get a lot of hydrogen from there. Um, hydrogen is important in pH. 26:16 Um, if you look at, you know, pH that's the balance of hydrogen, uh, within plant or soil. So we pay a lot attention to hydrogen in other terms. 26:25 Uh, as far as plant nutrition, it probably doesn't get as much press as everything else, but it's got a lot of functionality within the, 26:32 the environment of a plant's life. The only way in my mind that I would look at de efficiency is lack of water. 26:47 'cause H2O is where it gets most of the hydrogen from is water. So if we're short on water, 26:52 you'll be short on hydrogen typically. So it, it's, it's one of those deals. So the main three nutrients, uh, make up the plant. 27:00 Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen. Yeah. We, we don't really pay a lot of attention to, 'cause they're so abundant in the environment 27:07 that we farm in that it, it's not just a, it's not a big concern, but I think as a farmer, as an industry, we've lacked the knowledge of 27:16 what they actually do and understand how that all works in the ecosystem of, of a plant's life. I think it's very valuable for guys 27:24 to understand how that works. The, not only the plant but the soil. So we know, know what's going on. 27:32 Hydrogen is very important. Yeah, it is 6% of what the plant's made of. So if you add oxygen, carbon, 27:38 and hydrogen together, that's 95% of what the plant's made of is those three elements 27:42 that we don't really talk about a lot and or apply a lot of nutrients because they're Mother Earth gives us a lot 27:49 of those available to it. So it's probably the next thing behind the carbon and oxygen. 27:54 Um, you know, and the other 5% are everything else everybody worries about. But, uh, hydrogen's important. 28:00 And uh, really in that glucose formation, that's where it's really critical.