Farming Video | Boosting Wheat Yields with Simpler, Smarter Nutrient Plans

21 Aug 25 • 2m 42s

In this field trial recap, Johnny Verell and Gabe Saxon talk through what really worked on their Southern wheat crop. Their approach? Keep it simple, hit the basics hard—especially potassium and sulfur—and don’t overload early. By spoon-feeding nutrients throughout the season and syncing applications with other passes like herbicides or fungicides, they kept the wheat balanced and responsive.

Other competitors tested more aggressive approaches with phosphorus and extra inputs, but Johnny’s trial stayed close to his real-world farming practices. The results? Promising yields, good ROI, and some valuable takeaways for next season. As always, Johnny’s strategy proves you don’t have to overcomplicate to succeed in the field.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell the extreme Ag. I'm out here today with Gabe Saxon and we've been talking about the agri 00:00:03 liquid trial we did this year in wheat. Right. The wheat's been harvested, we've already done that. Got the results coming up. 00:00:09 Miss Stephanie's gonna tell us that here in a little while, but me and you were talking about what's some of the big 00:00:13 takeaways we know that wheat crop needs every year. Well, and so we, I think we talked about this a lot on one of our other podcasts is that we, 00:00:20 we wanna look at potassium, we always wanna follow potassium and of course nitrogen is always a 00:00:24 really, uh, big deal in it. But I think when we get to look at the micronutrients and boron and other things like that, I think as we start 00:00:30 to look at those things, we really need to pay attention to that. Yeah. And I thought another big takeaway we always 00:00:35 took was the sulfur. Keeping that sulfur level up. Help keep that ratio right. Stuff like that to the end ratio. Yep. It's a grass crop. 00:00:41 Right. So that's been our big takeaway is kind of start with the basics like we normally would and build on there. And I know in this competition we threw 00:00:48 all kinds of things at it. I kept it simple. Some of the other guys kind of went out on a limb there, didn't they? We did. 00:00:52 I think, uh, I think you and I did a really good job of keeping it simple, more along the lines of what we would normally do. 00:00:57 Right. Um, the rest of them, we did focus a lot on micronutrients. Uh, there's some other things. 00:01:01 Uh, I think a few guys maybe actually put some phosphorus in and some other things like that. 00:01:05 So there's a lot of different ways, but I think when we get down in the south, there's a few that we really just have to pound in on and everything down. 00:01:11 There's a potassium hog anyway, so, You know, potassium's a big one that we always had to face. 00:01:16 The late season, it's always easy to put it out at the right timings. You know, this year we're doing these trials 00:01:20 and you always wanna pick out something that's easy and lays out good. And I decided to do two blocks 00:01:25 and I'm thankful I did one block, the original block I took out by hill pretty hard. And you could actually see it in the yield day 00:01:30 that dinged it off, you know, 10, 15 bushel. I think we had a lot better wheat crop, but we had a tremendous amount of rain. 00:01:35 And I think that's where doing these late season applications really pays off. 'cause you're not front loading at all. 00:01:39 You're spoon feeding it throughout the year, putting out the nutrients you need. And hopefully we'll get some good takeaways from 00:01:44 This. Yeah. Most of the time with the applications, I think we're going out when you're doing something else. Maybe a herbicide or insecticide. 00:01:49 Or fungicide or something like that. So being able to fold your feed that and having a product that actually gets down into the leaf 00:01:54 and actually gets those into the system. So I think what we did was a really good job. I'd like to see how it pays off at the end. 00:02:00 There was I think three, maybe four trials That's right. That we did with agro liquid. 00:02:03 So I wanna see where those end up. But yeah, I think just in the South, I think we pretty much got it banged in. 00:02:08 Um, you know, we're gonna put some dry out and then we're gonna kind of f your feed and do some, do some spoon feeding. 00:02:13 And I always love that 'cause that's the best way to do it. I think The biggest thing about trials and competitions like we're 00:02:17 doing is, is what you learn from it. Yep. What matters, what what actually increases that yield. And then always keep that ROI 00:02:22 in the background too. A hundred Percent. So hopefully here, we'll find out the results here in the next few weeks. 00:02:26 We'll see what it, what the, what the winning competition was there. Sounds Good. I look forward to that. I 00:02:30 always like being up on the top and everybody else chasing second place, so we'll see where we end up. As 00:02:34 Long as we beat Kelly, we don't care. Right. Yeah, 00:02:35.825 --> 00:02:36.265

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