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Hey. So we're out here today doing something a little bit experimental, a little bit interesting.
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We're on the field they call Grandma Donna's. This is a farm that has a lot of grass areas on it, plus some crop ground. We always run about 100 cow-calf pairs here.
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The field we're in was a wheat field last summer in '25. So then when the wheat comes off, I call, talk about the double crop.
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So late July, August, September, October, there was a lot of cows running out here eating the cover crop that we drilled in, along with the wheat that
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comes up, things like that. The ground became hard, and we had originally planned on this going to corn.
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Well, we tried to anhydrous it last fall, and it was too hard. This, along with the wheat field to the south of the creek here,
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there's about 320 acres altogether, we couldn't anhydrous it. Well, then the markets changed, and now we want this ground to go to beans.
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Well, this is where we bring the oldest calves in 2026, and the pastures aren't tall enough or
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not enough vegetation in those pastures that we want to turn the cattle in them when we start having calves in March. So we put the calves out here on this ground.
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It's good, clean ground. The health is good for the cattle. The cows are eating the volunteer wheat and the cover crop that's coming up.
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It's a great scenario. Until we took the cows off, and we came in here with the bean drill, and we're going to have Josh put the beans in.
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The ground is too hard to do that. The wheat field on the south side of the creek, Josh was able to plant because we didn't have any cows there in the
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spring, and the freeze and the thaw of the ground over the winter, that allowed that to work, and those beans went in very nicely.
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This 60 acres on the north side of the creek, ground is hard from the cows running in the spring, and it wouldn't work.
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So Red is out here with the sprayer, and we're using two products from Rovensa. Never used them before. However, we're going to see if we can do this with
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these adjuvants rather than a tillage pass because, of course, erosion and conservation and the cost of that tillage pass.
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So we're using Mortar, which is an adjuvant that helps with soil infiltration, and then we're using another new product.
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It's experimental. It's called NanoCal, and it's micronized calcium. Hope I said that right. Micronized calcium,
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and Evans was explaining to me the synergy between the two products, the NanoCal and the Mortar, and I said, "Well, I'm just going to say it supercharges the Mortar." Because essentially, we believe
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that the NanoCal along with the Mortar will really amp up the effects of it. So we hope it supercharges it. In another few days, the
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drill will be back around here. We went to plant other beans and things like that. The drill will be back around here, and we'll see if we can drill these
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beans, and hopefully, we don't have to come in here with some sort of a tillage pass or something like that. Hopefully, we can just no-till these beans because
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