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3 Years - Grower Standard Practice

We're gonna work through some of our, uh, research trials that we did with Extreme Ag here for you guys out here. Uh, you're learning a lot of information today for things that will hopefully help you through some of the economics that we're facing. Uh, we're all just trying to be a little bit better at what we do. And so a lot of these products are designed to help you at the, in add to the things you're already doing. What we're going to talk about are things that were added to what these guys were already doing to help make things more efficient as well. As we walk through here, if you have any questions, hold up your hands. Uh, if you need more in depth product explanations when we're done speaking, just come grab one of us and, uh, we will get you that information. Yeah. So we will, uh, go to our Spectra product here. Uh, this is our Crop defense product, and we tested it in, uh, three different, uh, or two different forms with tied with, uh, XtremeAg. Uh, spectra is a bioactive fungicide, nematicide, and bacteria side. Um, and basically the way it works is it has both indirect and direct effects, uh, on some of these pathogens. Right? Um, so basically, you know, what we're looking at, uh, when we apply Spectra is it turns on lots of plant defense pathways. So we're triggering that plant to, to produce enzymes and start to break down both the nematodes, uh, the plant pathogens, and even some of the bacterial, uh, pathogens present. So, so this is something that you would kind of, in most cases you're gonna use it with your synthetic, uh, treatments of a disease or an insect, but this does have, uh, action against those on its own. And it, uh, you know, we have it, it, the, the main ingredient here is cin, which a lot of people like to call it cin, but, uh, if you kind of look it up, it's, uh, kind of our specialty. It's, uh, a bio stimulant into what Kirk said. It's a product that when you put it on your crop, it not only has action against some of the, you know, some of the tests that you have out there in the field, it actually stimulates or triggers the plant to have its own defenses against it. That's right. Yeah. We're turning it on, turn it on that plant and wheat system. Right. Um, so that works in three different ways here, as you can see, um, the first big membrane disruption, so when we apply tizen, it, uh, it basically makes it to where the plant pathogen can't control what goes in and out of its its cell membrane. So, uh, if you think about applying that with a fungus with another fungicide, we get better infiltration of that fungicide into the, into the pathogen cell itself. Uh, we also get their RNA interference. So as kaizen is, uh, interfering with the way this, this plant produces RNA, uh, or sorry, the, uh, pathogen produces RNA, and with that, we're getting disruption. Uh, and then we have direct mechanism of action against nematodes, right? So we affect nematode, the nematode lifecycle, both the egg stage and then again at the J two stage. Uh, so we look at this product a lot of times with products like, uh, Berland, things like that. Um, Hey, mic a little more. Oh, sorry. Sorry about that. Um, yeah. So we look at, we look at the Spectrum product a lot of times, uh, in, in tank mixes with, with other pneumatic sites like bellum, libro, uh, or Derland. I switched on You. Uh, okay. Uh, so this was actually a trial that we ran in Loretta, Minnesota. This was a very heavy to our SPOT trial this year in 2025. So this, this is, uh, kind of a prime example of, of how we suggest to use this product. Um, as you can see here, we have two different tr two different, uh, varieties. So DAP and a Pioneer Variety. Uh, we're looking at a full rate of pre-ACT zeum and a full rate of tma, uh, at B 11 and R two respectively versus, uh, spectra and reduced rate of these gross standard fungicides. Right? Um, and as you can see in both varieties, we had almost a 50 bushel yield increase, uh, due to that, to our spot presence. Basically what we're doing here is we're adding another mode of action to these premium fungicides. Uh, and with that you can cut back the fungicide rates and still maintain some of that efficacy. Yeah. Just making the, uh, disease of tar spot a little bit more vulnerable to the synthetic that's going on there. Absolutely. Uh, this was an Extreme ACT trial that we did with Matt Miles and, uh, maybe Matt could speak to this a little bit better, but, uh, basically what we, what we are looking at here is a, a grower standard practice, uh, versus spectra. Spectra at eight ounce is early, so the eight eight node stage, uh, spectra at eight ounce and combined nine node at 15 node stage, and then spectra alone at the 15 ounce, uh, sorry, the 15. And I'll jump in before Matt does, and just say one, one thing we do when we, uh, you know, work with people like Extreme Ag, we wanna find out kind of where the economic response is. So in that you're gonna have a fail here once in a while, and in this case we were using it as a standalone, correct? Correct. That's correct. Yep. Which is probably not normal, but it's how we tested it here, so you want to go from There? Absolutely. Matt, you got some, Uh, the, you wanna talk about your trial with T Grow and Cotton? Well, Probably the 15 application ended up being, you know, being the best one. It actually the best one in the whole deal. Um, you know, all the cops looked the whole time. I'm looking at my, I was looking at my battle book, one of those Smiths, and I don't think it, it showed in there, one of 'em had two applications right now. Yes. That that's correct. Uh, both the, uh, middle application here had eight ounces at, uh, two different times, and then, uh, the last one was just eight ounces later in the season. Yeah. And, and ended up, you know, as far as overall out our OI and the yield, uh, the later application, which is not what it looked like we did, we, we, we pull a plant and look at the plant and did the tissue sample everything, lean towards that double application being the high yield. And then when we harvest the field, that 15 oh, uh, application ended up being the best one. Right on. Yeah. That's kind of what we're, uh, you know, in some of our other trials. That's kind of what we're seeing in Cotton specifically is, is into those flowering stages. That's where we see the best response. You know, something we're looking at is first week of flowering and third week, uh, I don't know if this 15 node, Matt, is that roughly early flower for you guys? Yeah, pretty much. You know, it is going be, it is gonna be earliest vehicle while That makes sense. Yeah. So, so basically, you know, possibly what what's going on here is we're just, we're adding a layer of defense and during that stage of, uh, you know, that the cotton land is, is undergoing a lot of metabolic stress, and it's highly susceptible to, to the thesis at this, that stage. Uh, I know there's gotta be a ton of people in that conference when we know about cotton. So I kind of today, but, uh, it was very and pretty good that you know, what the difference in the yield, but we picked up, what is that going be roughly a hundred pounds, little over a hundred pounds? Uh, yes sir. I think it hundred five pounds, that 15. Yeah, absolutely. That's about 70. Well, in a lot worlds different price now that's about 70 ac retire amount across the product. Absolutely. Yeah. So that was about $60 that return per acre. Yeah. And it, it shows that if you're gonna do the one app, maybe do it closer to flowering, then it, and maybe that's just when the disease pressure was getting heavier. So something to keep in mind. Absolutely. Yep. I fast forwarded, uh, to, uh, Johnny Brasko trial. Yep. So this is, uh, basically what we're looking at here is a approach Prima, uh, I believe this was around tassel versus spectra, and then versus a combination of spectra plus a bridge. Um, so what we're looking at is we, you know, obviously we did perform quite as well as a premium fungicide, uh, as a standalone, but when you combine spectra with the premium fungicide like Perga, uh, you're gonna have good results. That's kind of what we're seeing very consistently. Uh, this year we had a, about a 6.2 bushel you had increase with a combination. Yeah. So Johnny Bri's kind of in that, uh, southern side of Tennessee there, where, you know, you get a lot of heavy morning dues, a little heavier disease pressure. So again, combining spectrum with that synthetic is the best, the best way to go on that. Absolutely. Yep. Uh, next we'll move on to Oceanic. Yeah. So Oceanic is, uh, again, something that you would use in addition to a fertilizer program. It is a fish hse, if you guys aren't familiar with this. It's basically doing how we started fertilizing when we first, uh, came to the us, which is using fish as a source of fertilizer. What we're using it for is this to augment or make your fertilizer better. So something you might would use within your UAN, uh, when you're site dressing to help stabilize it. There's a lot of talk out there right now about wock, the withable extractable organic carbon, and, uh, fish Hs are excellent in the way of that. Uh, so if that's something that you're looking at, but more than anything, you add it to a UAN, you're getting a biological component as well as amino acids and omega omega threes. So it stabilizes that nitrogen right away and helps with that nitrogen cycle, and it also can complement to starter program. Awesome. So we, we like to call this a liquid fertilizer program supplement. So if you're putting out 15 gallons of Uua n you know, you might put in a gallon of, of oceanic. So we're, we're using it as a supplemental, uh, fertilizer product. Uh, like Alen said, it's a hydro acid. Um, and with that, we're, we're providing a lot of amino acids, right? We have lots of fats in this product. Um, basically we're providing these, these soil micros, like complete food source, right? So everything it needs, we have, we have the Omega-3, the mega six is in there. Um, we got tons of am amino acids. We have, there's enzymes from the fish guts, right? So there's enzymes help with nutrient release within that soil. Um, there's organic acids which help, which help to stabilize some of the nutrients that you might be putting out, right? So if you're putting out, uh, 10 34 oh or UAN 28, right? It's helping to stabilize some of that, some that fertilizer product. Um, and this was a trial, uh, kind of a case study trial that we, we were looking at, uh, ocean Oceanic in with 10 34. Oh, this was in the panhandle of Texas. Uh, and we saw a 15 bushel yield increase just by adding three gallons of oceanic in with your 10 34 O starter. Um, and the reason why we think we saw this yield increase, this was from the same field, uh, we saw a 29% increase in CO2 burst. If anybody knows here, CO2 burst is, uh, basically a measurement of microbial activity, of soil microbial activity that, uh, we're stimulating that soil microbiome. And not only that, but we're stimulating, uh, some of the microbially active carbon in the soil, right? So this is the, the carbon that the microbes can actually consume, right? So whenever we're, we're stimulating microbial activity, we're stimulating kind of that carbon cycling. Uh, and with that, you get a lot of nutrient release, uh, from the organic matter. So yeah. Here, here we, uh, plotted this out at, uh, temple Roads. Uh, and Temple could be here today to talk about his trial, but I think you helped him implement this stitch, Kurt. Yeah, absolutely. So we were comparing, uh, uh, basically a full title bro program, uh, versus, uh, you know, his program. Um, and here what we're looking at is CFOs, which is a product that's very similar to Oceanic. Uh, it has a little bit higher phosphate content, but other than that, uh, kind of a very similar product. We're looking at CFOs at one gallon as a two by two. Uh, we had Oceanic at one gallon at V three, so kind of with his, with some of his early side dress. Uh, and then we had Spectra at 12 ounces per acre as a foliar, and that was right around taal timing. Um, and in this combined approach, we saw a, at, at site one we just had a nine bushel yield increase. In site two, we had 11 bushel, uh, increase. So an average of 10 bushels and, uh, you know, fairly low use rates of all of these products And economical as well. And, you know, generally you're gonna make this application easy by doing something else you're already doing. One thing I will say, uh, because I don't think we covered this at the next one, is that, uh, at Temples, uh, one thing that we noticed right away was when you went out there, even during season, uh, he had plotted 'em out and you could go to where the edge of the trial was. And, uh, we shot a video on it. Uh, it was amazing the amount of earthworm castings that were on the trial plots versus the grower standards. So what you're seeing is, you know, that soil health, uh, come up and, and then the earthworm castings just being a good reflection of that temple asked me what I was looking at when I went out there. He wasn't, uh, sure what earthworm castings were, but he is now, and he got pretty, uh, excited about 'em. It did translate, uh, to harvest. And so I rode the combine with him on these plots and, uh, certainly some good results. Uh, the combine backed up what we saw during the season. Absolutely. Yep. Uh, likewise in the, in the soybean, uh, it sse here, it should say soybeans, but this is tip rose soybeans, tr uh, basically what we're looking at here was CFOs at one gallon per acre at two by two, and then CFOs again at one gallon per acre at B three. Right? So two shots of CFOs, both at one gallon. Uh, we had a 6.4, uh, bushel yield improvement with, with our program, uh, which resulted in a very highly economical program depending on, uh, soybean prices. I, I believe this was in the ballpark of, uh, 55 or $60 per acre, uh, net return. Yeah. Good return on these. We had these plotted at to Damien as well. We just, uh, don't have that data that we're showing you today. Oh, you brought, you brought up the fact that, uh, you don't have my stuff. Yep. And, and at Damian's, I believe we had about 12 bush acres. Well, we had an amazing response, but I mean, I just found it interesting that you brought up some data of like some dude in Minneapolis that's not a extreme mad guy, and you put his stuff up there, and I am that guy, and I had amazing results. What's that old thing that when like, the grandkid, you know, uh, gets sideways with grandpa? FAFO Buddy? You should written outta the will, Kurt. Oh, yeah. Hey, I'll get back. He was so close. So close. All right, we're gonna talk to you. This is a product we just, uh, released this, uh, last year. And, uh, CIN has several uses. It, it has great, uh, holding capacity. Uh, like when, whenever you are going out there with, uh, you know, fertilizer, you can employ, uh, CIN as a way to kind of hang on the nutrients, as we mentioned earlier, it has some, uh, stimulating, uh, effects on the plant to help, uh, you know, equip it from an immunity standpoint or a defensive standpoint. But this is a nitrogen product we came out with, and in this case we're, um, using the CIN to pull the nutrition into the plant. One thing that is unique, uh, about Kaizen is there's like 10,000 molecules of it. So what our folks do, what their job is at our lab in, um, Bellingham, Washington, is to study the molecules to test 'em in a greenhouse, test 'em in Petri dishes to find out the right molecule to do the job that we're after. So what we use in, uh, our nitrogen product is different than what we use in our Spectra product is designed for efficient u uh, movement of nitrogen into and throughout the plant, uh, when you apply it as a foliar. Awesome. So yeah, this is our, this is it. Um, you know, we, we call it the bright source. It's, uh, we believe it's, uh, superior fo nitrogen. Uh, it's 18 0 0. Uh, but like, like Alen said, we're using CIN as a, as a drug delivery mechanism for this ure. So we're getting rapid intake of that, of the urea compared to, say, a trone urea or, uh, you know, maybe a methylene urea. Uh, and it's, it's small enough the, the molecules are small enough to where they're penetrating that, that cuticle in a more, more rapid fashion than traditional folder nitrogens. Um, this is a case study we had in White Oak Iowa, um, basically where we had a grower standard treatment, so no foliar nitrogen. We had the grower standard treatment, uh, minus 24% on his, his nitrogen program. So basically minus 40 pounds of nitrogen per acre. But he added in a line in, uh, and then we had the grower standard nitrogen program plus a line in by itself, right? Um, and as you can see here, we had stepwise progression. Uh, we had, we had about seven and a half bushel yield increase even, even though we reduced that nitrogen rate and added a line in, right? Uh, and then we had a 28 bushel yield increase, uh, with issue of, uh, obviously not all, not all of, uh, the cases were, were this pronounced, but, uh, we, you know, that was a, a great result we had here in Iowa. Yeah. We didn't release this until the September assault was not in the, the trials at temples are Johnny Brail or Mets, right? Uh, this is kind of what we're looking at. Uh, we had, this is 38 trials here. Um, but as far as our standard practice, this is, this is applying a line in on top of the gross standard nitrogen program. We're looking at an average yield increase of 8.2 bushels per acre, right? Uh, and an average never turn about $19 an acre, we reduce the nitrogen rate by 40 units and then apply a line in on top of it. Uh, we're still looking at very positive wind rates, average yield improvement of 4.1 bushels, even though that were pulled back as nitrogen rate by 40 pounds. Right. Um, it's still good net returns. Uh, the clear, clear winner here is, is having these growers pull back 20 units of nitrogen and then applying the line in on top of that. Right. Uh, that's where we have a very, we maintain really good agronomic and economic wind rates, and we're averaging a 10 bush will yield increase with this program at about $40 per ac ary And simple's the name of the game. You can toss it in with a herbicide application, uh, or you can do it at VT with a fungicide application. So if you're gonna, we're targeting two and a half gallons break or over the course of the season, obviously you're gonna adjust that for whatever you're doing. If you're gonna split that to early and late, then you'd probably put half early and half late. We did have some trials correct. With people running the entire amount to vt. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, you can, you can go a full 10 court rate at once. Uh, though I think it's just in, in terms of risk management, it's probably better to, to spread that out if you can, but a V four to be six and then it gets task. Yeah, that's it. That's it for the products that we had. We're coming to the end of our time, but questions, yeah, I'm just gonna get to that. I, I'm not the paid professionally or I guess I didn't get there fast enough, but yeah. Does anyone have any questions about what we're talking about or what we're doing here? I just got up from there. Just go, forgive my grammar in calling it or site, but We're good. How pronounce it? Uh, So if you're, if you're doing that on soybeans, I assume that you're, are you coding that on seed as like an overtreatment, or are you putting it in furrow or? We we're, we ran, ran out of time. If you want the over, uh, oversea treatment, our product is gmax and you can't put it on the seed and get all of those same effects, but we have one that's specifically designed as a seed treatment. We just didn't have time to cover it. Um, would that be compatible with an F and I then, or that kill Yeah, I'm leaving that one. Yes. Kurt. Kurt, Go ahead Kurt. Just AYP what gmax is on the Kai. So yeah, gmax is, are basically our Protestant seed tree, same formulation of Spectra, but it's in a, it's in a oil-based liquid, right? Uh, and you know, we use it for eide control and, and basically early seed link, uh, complexes. But yeah, it most, uh, you know, most biological seed treatments it is compatible with. That's something we can test in house if need be. Um, and then for most it, you know, it works better with standard seed treatments, right? So just like our spectrum product works better with standard ides, Nevada sides, uh, our, our gen max works well with the standard improvements. I was at Ian's Field plot, the field they had, and the gen max was, in my opinion, one of the most impressive, uh, products that they have. It, it was the original treatment of the soybeans and it went forward and, uh, incredible ROI on that product. You know, I don't know much about the soil there, but I would guess that there's a high limital pressure based on how it performed. It, it was really impressive. Didn't the seed treatment on our soybeans at my place go from like a 60 bushel to an 80? Wasn't it like a, it was like a 1680 bushel just for seed treat? Yeah. I believe it was 61 bushels to 78 bushels, right? Yep. Yeah, it promotes healthy root systems. Uh, it encourages back the healthy bacteria in the soil, so very effective. Um, we fight nematodes really bad in our area. So then would you, whether you're on a Olivo, Sutro, Tendo thinks a new one, would you cut that product out or would you stack them together That's on new current? I Would probably stack it. If you, if you have a very intense, uh, soybean system, you can take pressure. I'd probably stack it, but 'cause it, it is a low cost product. Yeah. CIN is highly effective on ni nematodes a number of ways. But if it heavy pressure, let's just, this is an in, this is a very in, uh, expensive treatment, 00:24:23.625 --> 00:24:25.405