2026 Member Trial Challenge

Good morning. It's New Year's Eve, about six o'clock in the morning, uh, new Year's Eve 2025. This will be the first member video for the new Evolution of Extreme Ag. Uh, first video for 2026 due to the video that we put out yesterday about the restructuring of extreme ag, the evolution of extreme ag. Uh, I've had some few responses and they've been great. Uh, had a few people asking to join, which is very exciting. And I got one message on X from my friend Corbin. He farms down by Kansas City, asking about doing a trial to learn more about his farm. So we started to talk about the problems of his farm and things like that, you know, because what products should we look at? Uh, what crops should we look at to, to really dial in the trial? And it got me to thinking overnight. Let's all do trials like, uh, everybody in extreme ag that is a member. Like I said, this is a member video only going out to the members of extreme ag. Anybody that wants to do a trial, hit me up, gimme a phone call, send me a text, send me a Facebook message, however you wanna communicate. And extreme ag will help you set up a trial and we'll talk about it. We'll help you through it because it's all about learning about the ROI on your farm. And I can tell you all day what we do on our farm. Chad Henderson can tell you what he does on his, Matt Miles, on his, Todd Kimber, on his heath can tell you what he does on his farm. But until you do a trial on your farm and you learn about your soil and what you have done in your farm, in your climate, you truly are probably leaving some potential on the table, leaving some ROI on the table. So I would challenge everybody or encourage everybody that's watching this, every member of extreme ag. Let's do a trial and we will, we'll help you set it up. We'll talk about products, but I, I would tell you what trial you should do is what's the biggest problem on your farm? And so I started to think, you know, in my corn crop, it's fusarium. I need to, uh, I need to get that fusarium cleaned up in my soil. We're working on that with BioE, uh, and bringing some moats into the rotation. Is that gonna work? You know, like we're, we're seeing some results, but I don't know that we've completed the, the journey yet. Uh, and soybeans, I'll just tell you, I'm a bad soybean farmer. Uh, I can't near do what Matt and Temple have done. Uh, I keep trying. Um, this year for the first time in 25, we ran SAP analysis on the soybeans. We are critically deficient of calcium, magnesium, and sulfur. And so we're, uh, we're really trying to address that. We, we address that in some trials this year, and we had some nice results. We're gonna do that in a bigger way in 26. Financially, my poor bean yields are probably the biggest problem on my farm that I, that I need to clean up. Because then if I can fix that and go to more of a rotation because I can get a return on my beans, like we do the corn, then I could go to a rotation between the corn beans, the corn yields would improve as well. So the bean yield is easily the biggest problem on my farm. But another problem I have on my farm is, uh, this last year we raised sorghum to chop. Uh, we were, we were under the idea That the sorghum would yield as much tonnage as corn silage. And it did not. It was about 65% at best. Uh, we followed, we chopped the rye, then followed the rye up with the sorghum. And I didn't kill the rye good enough. And so the allopath effect of the rye affected the sorghum. And then we didn't put out, we didn't put out any weed control. We just drilled the sorghum out there like we would to rye. Um, 'cause we'd never done it before. And so we had then with the allopath effect and the sorghum not responding the way it should, we had a foxtail problem and we wind wrote it and chopped it, and the feed's fine and things like that. But the feed could be better. And the tonnage, the, the quantity could have been better. So, um, we're gonna address that as well. Uh, that's not nearly as big of a financial problem as the soybeans, but we plan on raising rye. We're raising rye now, and then we're planning on raising, uh, sorghum again to chop it, double crop that field, uh, if you will. So I, those are the problems that we'll be addressing. Soybeans for me is, number one, anybody in extreme ag that wants to do a trial, please hit us up. We would help you set it up. If you wanna make video content about it and talk about it, um, we'll, we'll post that content. We, we could help you with the videos, things like that. Uh, again, extreme ag is, is about learning. It's about helping each other. It's about talking about it. Um, extreme ag is not for the sponsors, it's for the farmers. And when we're doing the trials and things like that, we're not working for the sponsor, we're working for the farmer. Is the sponsor paying us to do the trial? Absolutely, they are. There's a lot of time, there's a lot of effort, uh, that that goes into doing that trial. There, there's some risk. So please know if you're going to do a trial on your farm, that's probably the reason we should talk about it, because you're taking a risk. What if it goes backwards? And, and sometimes the trials do. So as far as the money we make from the sponsors, a lot of it, it really is for the time and the risk. And, and if a trial does go backwards, you know, we, uh, we need to be compensated somehow, uh, for doing that. But extreme ag, in my opinion, people is, is not working for the sponsor, it's working for the farmers. And we probably, in the past few years of extreme mag with the growth and expansion, things like that, we'd gotten away from that. And that, uh, that's something that I, I did not enjoy and I wanted to change. And so now in 2026, we're all about the farmer. I wanna be an advocate for farmers. So, uh, please hit me up and, uh, love to have a conversation with you. 00:05:22.615 --> 00:05:26.165