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Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag coming to you from Madison, Alabama. Chad Henderson's field days today here
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with my good friend Tommy Roach of Natures. We're talking about the importance of acetate in our fertility program.
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You wouldn't believe it, but guess what? Acetate is the most common organic acid found in nature in the world.
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Why is acetate important? Because it's carbon. Carbon And acetate can be derived, can be brought to the field in several ways.
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The one that we talk about is this right here, bio Cade. It's a acetate. It can be brought to the field.
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Calcium acetate, which you used some last year. Yep. Magnesium acetate. Uh, they're very soluble, very available. Plants do not have teeth, so it's gotta be soluble,
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available for a plant to take Up. And the acetate, as you have talked to me about it before, is kind of like a fullback.
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And it, uh, it helps all the nutrients enter the plant. Like you said, it's very soluble. Calcium, of course, is, uh, important to me.
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Nature's claim to fame. With me, it has always been the potassium acetate, right? But now you've developed this calcium product.
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Calcium is one of our most challenging nutrients. So we've used that calcium acetate product. We, uh, we just sprayed a lot of nature's products.
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A uh, a blend of nature's products out trying to improve our intensity of rotational grazing, trying to get our nutrient density up.
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Uh, all of those things are very interesting to me with our cattle operation, things like that, and getting acetate into those rotational grazing plants.
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You know, most of the time we're talking about fertility in a corner, soybean crop,
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but in our cattle operation, it's also important to us. One thing that people, uh, take advantage of or they don't understand, they take soil test
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and oh, they see a lot. Uh, a bazillion pounds of calcium on there, a bazillion pounds of potassium on there.
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That doesn't really mean a lot because it's got to get into the plant. It doesn't mean it's available. I have very frustrating
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for me when I was learning and educating and researching tons and tons of calcium in my hills, you know, that Yeah.
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I can't get it in the plant. And calcium is the one that I continue to have to spoon feed throughout the season no matter what.
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The crop is very challenging to, to work with calcium and, and zinc for us as well. Oh yeah. Yes.
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Then, and unfortunately where you're at, uh, you get, uh, calcareous soles
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and first thing it wants to find is phosphorus. And you put a lot of phosphorus in your plant. We Put a lot of phosphorus out with the wastewater product
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that we use and things like that, and which brings us a lot of great things. However, it also provides a few challenges, right?
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And that's what we have to mention. And, and like you say, people wanna go look at a soil test and there's a ton of pea down there.
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There's a ton of K down there, but is it getting into the plant? And that's where I have kind of, uh, adopted the tagline.
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Farming, intu it from other nature. Let's see what the soil has to offer. Let's see what the SAP sample says
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that's coming into the plant. And then let's supplement what the plant needs. And a lot of times for me, it's calcium and zinc,
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but let's measure that with the SAP sample so then we can manage what is needed. Just because it's in the soil
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doesn't mean it's getting into the plant. And we always talk about this, we'll talk about that this field day,
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your field day. It's all about nutrient Balance. It's all about nutrient balance,
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which provides nutrient density and a better quality crop, a healthier crop, all those things.
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If you want to talk to Tommy more about this kind of stuff, 00:03:17.525 --> 00:03:20.805
