00:00 Hey guys, it's Temple with Extreme Agonist. I'm here with Brandon Laws from FGS. Brandon. This is what we got. So we got a couple different products 00:08 that we used on our beans this year. I ended up doing things a little differently than what we originally planned. 00:14 We had talked about this whole situation, but what we had talked about was doing this stuff in planter, right? 00:19 We were gonna do it in a tuba two or some in furrow. We ended up not doing that. Uh, the reason that I didn't do it is 00:26 because we were having some issues with the planter tuba two with the filter system, 00:31 and I was trying to work through that problem. We ended up turning that off, um, and getting through the problem. 00:37 It ended up being something completely different. So we went out here and we streamed this, this, these beans are on 15 inches. 00:43 We came and we used the same line. We streamed your products on, um, on 15 inch bands. So we basically planted on the band. 00:51 Right. And that's something you and I talked about. And, and that's one thing we like to try to give the option of is a little bit of flexibility. 00:58 Yeah. Obviously, you know, how important placement is and, and through the planter would be the most ideal. 01:03 But, you know, going out either pre-plant or at plant with that kind of targeted app, I really didn't, didn't see that big of a deal really, 01:09 because for me, our two by two doesn't work like regular two by two. Our two by two goes right out the back of the planter 01:15 and we stream it on the ground anyway. Right. So I basically streamed it the same way and planted it on top of it. 01:22 What we did last year was something very different. We did a bunch of foliar nutrition that you guys came up with and we made it out really good with it. 01:30 We actually had a real big bump on soybeans last year and we were thrilled with that. So we were pretty excited to do this. 01:39 I don't see a lot of difference in the beans. I feel like, you know, we're standing on the line. Maybe your side might be a little bit bigger, 01:46 maybe a leaf stage or, you know, maybe one stage ahead. Mm-Hmm. Potentially. Um, but when beans is so hard to tell, 01:53 because to be honest with you, what I found over the years is, is the more vegetation that we get, sometimes it's the lower the yield. 01:59 Right. You know, so really in this stage of the crop, I don't really look for a lot. I look for one, you know, did it branch enough? 02:07 You know, do we have proper branching? Is there enough? Uh, is it divided up? Do we have nodules? You know, we're looking at that. 02:15 Are we, you know, setting enough nodes where we're separating it and, and making a bigger bushier plant. 02:22 Especially in this situation. I mean, we're in irrigated beans and we're trying to push the outside limits. 02:27 Yeah. That, that's one thing that we're, we're trying to do. And when we talked about your blend, trying to find 02:32 that right mix to, uh, to increase nodulation, increase those, uh, those reproductive points set, it's kind of stack those nodes a little bit. 02:39 Yeah. Because you can get a little lengthy on soybeans, so it's mean kind of a balancing act. There's not A big difference in those beans. 02:45 I guess it is. I guess if you look at it, you know, you are, you've got nodes stacked definitely 02:50 better than the other side. I mean, for sure. Yeah. Branching is similar, but maybe it is just a little bit behind. 02:57 And I actually didn't cherry pick it. I just grabbed it where, where it was. So I don't know. I'm, I'm pretty excited about it. 03:03 I was extremely excited last year, um, with the foliar blends, you know, with you guys putting the carbon technology in there. 03:11 We have done that for years. You know, adding that IC and adding that carbon, um, a pre-blended carbon like that really makes a big difference for people like me, 03:22 where, you know, on my trailer, you know, my two, uh, tanker trailers that we use to nurse the sprayers, it's a pain in the butt. 03:30 Yeah. I mean, we have a lot of trouble with that. I mean, we got, you know, the one tanker sometimes will have six or seven totes on it. 03:36 That's ridiculous. You know, we need to fine tune that. We need to get to a different level. We need to get efficient. 03:42 'cause there's nothing else in farming right now that seems to be working. We need to be efficient. Right. To save money. 03:48 Yeah. And I think last year we, uh, we kind of put a blend together, had a little bit of phosphorus, but, uh, potassium, zinc, sulfur, boron. 03:55 So we were able to, to get all that into one tote for you, which I think you said you liked. Well, you know what's nice for us, you know, 04:00 we have a fertility plan that we have to follow with nutrient management. Mm-Hmm. Well, what doesn't count against us and, 04:06 and in our area is foliar nutrition. So foliar nutrition, we can get on the plant and it doesn't count against it 04:13 because it's not soil applied. Right. So, you know, I have to count our soil applied that we used with the planter, 04:20 but the foliar nutrition, we don't have to apply. So that's kind of exciting thing for us. And it seems like in our area, we got low CCCs, 04:28 we have low organic matter. So foliar nutrition works really, really well for us. And I think it's also because we're in poorer ground. 04:36 You know, we've been in this nutrient management program for 20 some odd years, 04:40 so our fertility levels are lower than what we would like 'em to be. Mm-Hmm. So I think foliar nutrition is, 04:46 is, it's a big deal for us. Yeah. I think if you can kind of spoon feed it, uh, based on your soil types, that's obviously good. 04:54 You know, build it into your plan. Yep. Um, you know, that's where we see the most success with the foliar is, is part of your program. 05:01 It's not a, not a magic bullet, but if you can build it into your program, they, they usually return pretty well. 05:05 Well, and the other thing that I really like, you know, some of these, you know, products that we use, whether it be a foliar nutrition 05:11 or whatever, you gotta be careful sometimes, sometimes you'll get some burn. Mm-Hmm. You know, especially if you're applying it at the 05:16 same time that you're applying herbicide or whatever. We, we've seen some burn, which is not all bad, especially in beans. 05:21 Right. It's not bad. But with you using that carbon technology that is buffering that salt load that we're putting out there with foliar nutrition 05:29 and we're not getting anywhere near the burn on the plants, especially for corn. 05:34 Now beans, it doesn't bother me. If we crinkle these down, I'm all good because I'm all about it. 05:38 It actually adds yield, not take away yield as long as you don't mess something up when it's metabolizing some chemistry or whatever. 05:45 But in corn, you can't have that happen. Yeah. You burn corn, you're going backwards. Quick. Corn doesn't need a bad day. Beans at this stage. 05:53 They can have a few bad days. Mm-Hmm. And I like it like that. I mean, if I had a chance to run over 'em and crush 'em down, I'd do it. 05:59 I've seen beans that have been bush hog before that do. Great. So anyway, I'm, I'm pretty excited about this. I'm excited about the venture that we're about to go on 06:08 with, with being able to, to spoonfeed one because we're big about that out here, but two, being able to customize the blends that we need 06:15 to customize for our own farms. Yeah. So guys, we're here, we're branding with FGS Fluid Growth Solutions. 06:22 We got a lot to come on this. I'm pretty excited about these plants. It's in an early stage. 06:27 These are, uh, we just looked at it on the way out here. We are almost a month old with these plants. 06:33 So at a month old, I'm pretty excited about that. So we'll be back to you as soon as we take this to yield.