00:00:00 Water quality and fixing your water problems. It's one of the things that we're gonna be talking about more in 2025. 00:00:05 We've already kind of covered this, you and Mike Evans. It's a big, big topic. You found out a couple years ago, Kelly Garrett, that you, um, have some bad water. 00:00:12 And then you said, the more I dug into this, more I realized it wasn't product problems. It wasn't product, uh, efficacy issues, it was 00:00:19 water contamination, water problems. And here we're at Farm Con 2025 with our man Kurt Grimm, with our, uh, Nutri Drip, 00:00:25 and we're talking about water quality. This is a bigger issue than we even knew about a few years ago. 00:00:29 It is. We've identified that water specifically. Well, water typically has something in it that is binding things up. 00:00:36 It's either bicarbonates, sodium, there's different salts in the water, ions, ions. It's a, it's a balance that 00:00:43 that's getting outta whack when we irrigate. It can happen in spray water. So it's something that Kelly's identified on your farm. 00:00:48 Maybe speaking to that a little bit, what, What problems does it cause Bicarbonates tie up the fertility bicarbonates hurt the, uh, efficacy 00:00:56 of the herbicides and the chemicals and the foliar that go out. My surface water irrigation, which is about half of 00:01:02 what my acreage, the yields continue to climb. Yep. My well, water irrigation, the yields have leveled off. So we know it ties up nutrients 00:01:10 and it causes problems. How do we fix it? So there's different ways. Probably the main thing is lowering pH 00:01:16 that's lowering pH removes bicarbonate. If we can get that pH of the irrigation or spray water down under six and a half to six. 00:01:23 So there's some targets we've gotta hit, we've gotta do lab analysis, we've gotta find out what's in it, 00:01:27 figure out how to offset it. So there's some things that can be done to treat, But you can't change, you can't change the pH. 00:01:31 So it's, it's all after, it's all treatment that goes in from ground to, uh, before it goes out and gets sprayed or applied. 00:01:38 That's correct. Yep. And this is something we're seeing on center pivots, drip irrigation, flood irrigation, 00:01:43 it affects any kind of irrigation, um, that's being done. We're seeing this on, on 00:01:48 any kind of system. And you're hearing it More than you did a few years ago. Absolutely. Is it because of the problems worsening or 00:01:52 because we're getting smarter about detecting it? It's because one, that the number one change that's happened in the last 10 years is the pH 00:01:59 of rainfall has, or it's actually over the last 30 years, has, has risen from about four 00:02:04 and a half to six to six and a half. So every time it rained, it would fix our soil. It's not doing that anymore. 00:02:09 Acid rain is no longer a thing your soil takes on the properties of your water. Our well water's bad. 00:02:15 Kelly Garrett, Kirk Grimm coming at you from Farm Con 2025, you'll be, if you tune into our stuff here at Extreme Ag, 00:02:21 we'll be talking more about water quality and amendments we can do to make your water quality better. You know what? If you're spending the money, you're doing 00:02:25 the work, it turns out your water's a problem. It's probably a fix that really needs to be addressed A hundred percent. Until 77 00:02:30.885 --> 00:02:31.805