Farming Video | Winter Wheat Fertility Strategies for Tillering and Disease Control | XtremeAg
23 Apr 252m 44s

Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg details a fertility pass applied to a winter wheat field aimed at promoting tillering and improving stand uniformity affected by drought-related germination issues. The application uses an ultra-low volume spray rate of 6.5 gallons per acre, incorporating a mix of High NRG-N (from AgroLiquid), BioE for disease suppression, backbone carbon products, and essential micronutrients including molybdenum, copper, iron, zinc, manganese, and sulfur. The approach targets nitrogen assimilation and overall plant health, with an emphasis on combating fusarium pressure.

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00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. We're out here in the winter wheat field today, Patrick is putting on a fertility pass. 00:00:07 Uh, it's a six and a half gallon rate is what we're spraying. Uh, ultra low volume, something we've been talking about 00:00:12 with Johnny and Brewer over the winter, just to make things more productive. We don't need all of the water. 00:00:17 Uh, so we're gonna see how that goes. We're pretty excited about that because of the productivity it brings. 00:00:22 What we are putting in this past today, there is a gallon of high energy in from agro liquid to promote tillering. 00:00:29 We're putting nitrogen on the wheat to promote tillering. This winter wheat crop is not tremendous. 00:00:35 It was so dry last spring when we put it in that, uh, we didn't get great germination in some spots. It looks really good in other spots. It's thin. 00:00:44 We decided it was worth keeping it, and this past we're making today is to try to improve it, to try to promote the tilling because of the thin spots. 00:00:51 We'll see what's going on out there. Uh, Evans feels like there was maybe, uh, a 20% loss in stand, things like that due to the dry weather 00:01:00 and the wheat is really uneven. Again, we had germination in some areas and really poor germination in others, 00:01:06 uh, due to the drought. We also, of course, have BioE in this pass. Uh, I think it's a quarter 00:01:12 and a half is what we're putting on. That's the biological product we're using. Uh, the reason is the fusarium is bad here, 00:01:19 like I've talked about in our other fields. Uh, we're gonna put up the, uh, fusarium map in this video to show people we, we get that with pattern ag 00:01:27 and earth optics to show how much disease pressure there is. The bio ie, is in there, 00:01:32 and it's meant to help outcompete the fusarium, outcompete the disease to allow for better root growth and, and better root life, better nutrient uptake is 00:01:41 what we're hoping to accomplish with that. We also have backbone and micronutrients in this pass. The backbone is the double bonded carbon skeletons 00:01:48 that we like to put out there. We also have micronutrients in, along with the backbone and the high energy in Molly, copper, iron, 00:01:57 zinc, and manganese. Were all in this pass, these micronutrients, along with the sulfur, along with the carbon, all help 00:02:05 with nitrogen assimilation. We're trying to get that nitrogen to go up there. We're trying to build a balance plant, 00:02:10 just like we talked about in the corn. We want to have a very healthy plant. We'll be taking a SAP analysis 00:02:15 of this wheat later in the year. We'll be making more fertility, more foliar passes, but we're trying to get the nitrogen assimilated. 00:02:22 You know, we're only putting on a gallon of the high energy in right now, but as this soil warms up, this Iowa soil will start 00:02:29 to release that mineralized nitrogen, and we need to apply these micronutrients to keep that plant from assimilating the nitrogen 00:02:36 and keep building a healthy plant. 00:02:37.915 --> 00:02:39.375

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