Addressing the nutritional imbalances to improve weed control

28 Jul 241m 36s

Kelly Garrett discusses a trial with Concept AgriTek. The trial addresses calcium deficiency, a major yield penalty, with beans ranging from R1 to R3 stages. Kelly is optimistic about the trial's potential to improve yields and weed control, particularly against water hemp and thistles.

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00:00 Sprayer's pulling in the field. Here we're putting out the concept agritech trial. We're putting out cow boar, 00:05 and then we're gonna come back with 2020. It's an interesting trial for me because, uh, we always need calcium. 00:11 And so here we're going out here. These beans are anywhere from R one to R three, depending on the field we go into. 00:17 This is also the same spot where we got the rotational grazing, things like that. So I gotta help 'em get in here through, uh, 00:23 and amongst the cows and stuff. But, uh, it's always an exciting trial for me when calcium is involved 00:27 because, uh, that's, in my opinion, one of my number one yield penalties. My expectations on this trial are 00:33 to really adjust the calcium, and of course, Chad Henderson will be happy we're addressing the boron. 00:39 But I can tell you that in looking at our SAP samples, we're short on calcium and, uh, we, we need to get it out there. 00:46 We're even considering now based on a book that Evans is reading and I've been researching when weeds talk, when you are, uh, when to short on calcium, 00:55 that's when you have water hemp and thistles. I think every grower, just about across the whole United States would agree that water hemp is a problem. 01:03 You, uh, Kevin Matthews told me this morning on the phone that water hemps his biggest problem. 01:07 Water hemp is definitely our biggest problem. So now we're looking at if we address the nutritional needs, the nutritional imbalances of, if you will, of our soil. 01:16 And in my situation, calcium is the biggest nutritional imbalance we have, most likely, or at least one of the biggest. 01:21 If I can address that nutritional imbalance, not only will my yields improve, but I now believe that my wheat control will improve, 01:28 which is, uh, a pretty big accomplishment.