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Out here today, we're looking at a product that's been drawing a lot of attention that, uh, concept agritech has got out there.
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It's a buck barrier. This buck barrier really got my attention the last couple years we've been playing with it
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and they've been working trying to get the formulation right. And I think you're onto something.
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But Bert, he was talking, he said, we, we wouldn't mind trying this in furrow somewhere. I said, we gotta replant some soybeans. They look terrible.
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The deers eat 'em up and this is the best field that we got that had some beans left.
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And so we put it in furrow. We tried it with um, our normal program that we would use for planting so we could get some history.
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We also, this right here just had the butt bear and water in for us. What this particular field had.
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We're standing in the other fields that we have, we've got it where we replanted it had our fur, our fo fur fertilizers, our PGRs, everything.
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A normal grower standard. Yes sir. At a 10 ounce rate foliar is 16 ounces is what you'd recommended, I believe. Is that correct?
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Yes sir. If you have to go in over top of a growing crop and it's a true foliar, we recommend 16 ounces.
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Um, if for some reason you have to go in right behind the planter and it's bare ground, there's not a growing crop, we have to get up to 32.
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Oh wow. Because that buck bearer, it's truly getting into the plant and it's working systemically and that's why we can get a much longer
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coverage window than a, a lot of the other products that are out there, you, a lot of other products, they're very variable on how long they lost depending on
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how much rain you get and mm-hmm. The way it's been here lately, you get a rain shower every evening.
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The last time I hope continues. Last year we didn't get no rain for months. You gotta have some water, which is good,
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but it's not good if it's constantly washing off your deer pal and deer eating the beans that you are growing.
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But, and that's what stands out different about the butt barrier that I have, that I like.
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So when Burt mentioned going in fur and letting it translocate through the plants from the roots that he felt like it might be something to it, we tried it.
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So these got 10 ounces. So if you imagine the cost difference in buying 32 ounces versus 10 ounces, the reason that Burt wanted
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to stay under 10 ounces was it was cured that we could hurt the germination of the seed, sir. Yes Sir. And
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We've got, so we tried that. We've got a couple other guys Yeah. Uh, on the eastern side of North Carolina.
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Some of my customers that are trying lower rates as well to see if we can get lower than 10 ounces.
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You know, maybe we could do eight or six just to kind of cut the cost down. Um, and it's working so far,
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but they, you know, if they're not that far along trial wise and we just wanna make sure, you know, you're still getting
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that same coverage, we know that we want to see if you go with a lower rate. Correct. Or at least be able to kind of tell the customer,
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Hey, if you're gonna cut the rate back, you're gonna see, you know, X amount of coverage time versus this rate
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and this amount of coverage time. Just trying to find the best balance. Yeah. Well I was pretty skeptical on the butt barrier
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'cause I, I had, I had not seen much on the performance side, you know, in the years past. And then when Bert told me, he said,
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we got it right now we're happy with it. We're seeing consistency. I like consistency
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because uh, that invoice is going to be very consistent. It's gonna show up so I gotta have profit to pay
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To. That's exactly Right. But when I came in to spray the weeds on this farm, I come and scouted it and Tim and Kent had looked at it.
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The one thing we noticed was the deer was eating still on the original growth and they was not touching the,
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we was at the second fent pretty much when we sprayed. And I said, well shucks, I'm gonna just go ahead and throw some buck bearer in foliar
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and maybe I can gain me a few more weeks. 'cause typically what, four to six weeks is sort of what you're hoping for?
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I usually tell guys we're very comfortable with about 21 day window of control with the foliar. Um, sometimes we can certainly see longer abide,
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much rather under promise than over promise. Okay. So we got 10 ounces in furrow and you can see they never touched the beans
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and we can go over this whole farm, that little patch right over there, they was nothing left. It looks just like it was only one planting in there,
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all this small height. So, um, it was a good scenario to test it in. It is very good to extremely heavy deer pressure right here.
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I mean, extremely heavy and, um, it's, it's pretty d gum impressive right now. I really like this in for a treatment
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because if we can get these beans up and growing, growing, what we normally see is there, as soon as that cod lead comes out,
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before that TFO comes out, they've done clipped it off. And that was the biggest complaint that we were getting from Buck barrier was that, you know,
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to get good control we needed to get it into the plant. So you have to have leaves to make a foliar application to get that product into the plant.
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And you know, just like you were saying, guys are saying, Hey, that's, that's all well and good,
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but these deer are eating the beans. As soon as they're cracking the ground, they're never gonna have a chance to get a leaf.
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Um, and then if they do, you know, years like this, it's been raining so much, you can't get back in the field eating.
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If you do manage to get a cup of leaves out, you can't get back in there to sprayer. So that's why we are really excited
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and hoping this infrared treatment would work. And it, it really seems like it has so Far. I'm pretty interested. I
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I will tell you we're going to use it on a lot more acres next year. Anywhere we got heavy deal pressure, we're going to use it.
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You know, I can't sit here and say it's gonna work a hundred percent of the time every time. 'cause I, you know, I like a couple years of data
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to prove it, but Sure, absolutely. It's pretty daggone impressive right now and it's economical,
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