00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. We're out here on a Sunday afternoon. Harvest is starting to wrap up. 00:00:06 We've got about a thousand acres left, so we took the day off. We're just out here gathering some 00:00:11 of the yield information as it comes in. Evans and I look at every field because with extreme ag, 00:00:17 there's just about a trial in every field. And I wanted to share with you today some of the things that we think we might change for next year. 00:00:23 Number one, uh uh, really shocks me to say this. We've been paying attention to it for two years now, very closely. 00:00:30 I don't know if we're gonna run a two by two next year. It's not losing any money, but it's not really making enough. 00:00:35 It's not making a lot of money. We're spending on average 35 or $40 in that two by two. It's coming back at a break even, or maybe making 20 or $30. 00:00:45 If I'm gonna spend say $35, I feel like I need to make a hundred on it. Otherwise the ROI is not there. 00:00:51 You're taking too big of a risk and we think we could reallocate that money and move it into other areas. 00:00:56 One of those areas is calcium. I've been talking for a couple years now about liberate calcium from agro liquid and how great of a product it is. 00:01:04 And as we do more and more research and more and more studying, calcium becomes more and more important. I don't know how else to say it. We think we need 00:01:11 to get more pounds of calcium out there. We need to put it out there from a dry perspective on the soil and then continue with the liberate ca 00:01:20 and then continuate with the liberate ca inferral and foliar. Uh, in the R stages with the plain things like that. 00:01:26 Uh, the product that we think we're gonna use is Pell lime. Pell lime is calcium carbonate. It's available to the plant. 00:01:32 It's in the form that we would like. And so in the fall after harvest, we run the airway over the stalks. We put the cows on the stalks. 00:01:40 We then will spray the plant food and then after that we are variable rating. Pell Line Evans writes the rate. 00:01:46 Our friend Gary Dickinson and Agriland will then spread it. PE line for us right now is about $240 a ton 00:01:52 and on average we're spending 35 or $40 an acre on that application. We tested some fields 00:01:58 with Pell Line this year and had great results. We're gonna do more and more of that next year. So some of that, uh, some of that money from the two 00:02:05 by two will be reallocated there. The rest of the money will be reallocated from the two by two and we'll do more in the R stages. 00:02:11 The things that we're doing with the plane and the drone are very much paying off producing reproduction, producing yield rather than 00:02:17 producing vegetation. I've quoted my good friend Jared Cook before when he says, American agriculture does a great job 00:02:24 of producing vegetation. We need to be producing reproduction. And the fertilizing in the R stages does just that. 00:02:30 It produces reproduction. I think a lot of what that, uh, two by two is doing for me is producing reproduction. 00:02:36 You know, the main element in that two by two is nitrogen. And the idea that I need 00:02:41 to spoonfeed nitrogen in my geography is just really becoming a foreign concept to me. My soil is releasing so much nitrogen here in Western Iowa. 00:02:50 That's probably the last thing I need to be considered to spoonfeed. What I need to spoon feed are the other elements 00:02:55 that are tougher to work with, like calcium or the elements that the plant needs to keep up with the calcium release to stay in balance. 00:03:02 We continue to study soil health. We continue to study plant health and the word we keep coming back to is balance. 00:03:09 And the micronutrients in the R stages to balance out with the nitrogen being mineralized in the soil is exactly what we are after that. 00:03:18 And along with calcium. I guess I would tell you that my theme for 2025 is, is calcium a macronutrient? The answer is yes. It is just not many of us realize it. 00:03:27 Calcium is so difficult to work with, with the ionization of it, the double positive charge. 00:03:31 It's something that I think a lot of us are missing the boat on. I know that we sure were, we continue to work with it 00:03:37 and continues to become more and more important uh, in some of our studies. It even has to do with weed control. Uh, yes, exactly. 00:03:43 You heard me right. The balance of the soil has to do with weed control and the element or the nutrient that is the furthest out of balance 00:03:50 for us is calcium. We need to have soluble calcium available to the plants to bring the soil imbalance. 00:03:56 For the yield gain it provides, and it even helps with weed control. There are many benefits to achieving the balance 00:04:02 of calcium in your soil. So moving the budget from two by two into calcium and or the micronutrients in the R stages are two 00:04:10 of the main things we're gonna do. A third one is looking at a residue digester. We've been looking at these for years and years, but 00:04:17 because of the way markets are, I don't know that we'll raise many beans. Next year we'll probably be almost a hundred percent corn, 00:04:23 and because we're a hundred percent corn and a hundred percent no-till getting that residue to break down becomes even more and more important. 00:04:30 Adding a product like extract from AgriSense into the mix is something that we'll pay more attention to 00:04:35 because we're not gonna have those rotated acres. We see a lot of yield gains when we can get the residue to break down. 00:04:42 The cows are an important part of that. The airways an important part of that. The devastator from 00:04:47 yet are on the corn head are an important part of that. And a residue digester in our fall passes is an even bigger part of that as we look for ways to get that residue 00:04:55 to break down so we can have a successful 2025 growing 00:04:59.205 --> 00:04:59.525