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Hi, this is Kelly Garrett. I'm here with Mike Evans. We're out here in the field today. Josh is spreading Bio Cow. Yep.
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Behind us, uh, it's a new product that we're trying, Evans founded in Eastern Iowa. We've been working with the Kinsey lab, trying to get more
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with the balance of our soil balance with our plant concept Here. I'm gonna let Mike Evans tell you what Bio Cow is.
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Um, bio Cow is a, um, a unique, uh, calcium source. It's actually one of the highest soluble calcium sources we found in a dry.
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Um, so that's why we're out here trialing on this specific farm. This is one of the drip irrigated farms
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that we have here at Kelly's Farm. When we did all the testing for Kinzie to balance the soil, we needed roughly anywhere from 500 to a thousand pounds
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of calcium out here to get it to where we feel we need to. So we're out here applying 500 pounds.
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We'll leave some check strips. The goal is here to get that soluble calcium up so we have a more plant available source than,
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than a typical ag line. It's important to me that everybody realize we're out here putting this calcium on.
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We're not trying to affect the pH. That is not what we are after. And this is something that we've been working on
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for a while, things like that. And this, this next part is, uh, hard for people to accept. pH is irrelevant. And yes, you heard that right.
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pH is irrelevant. pH moves because we have a nutritional imbalance. So pH is not the definition of the problem
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or the cause of the problem. pH is a symptom, and it's a symptom of a nutritional imbalance.
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Our nutritional imbalance here is calcium, and we need to start thinking about calcium as fertility, not as calcium as a soil amendment.
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So we are short calcium here. I will tell you that I believe calcium is probably our number one nutrient deficient product
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across most of agriculture. Uh, especially it is on our farm. It's calcium is a difficult element to work with.
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And so we're constantly looking for new sources of calcium. You know, we work with the Aquid product,
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liberate ca, things like that. But we're trying to get more pounds into the soil to balance the soil.
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This is a potential solution we've come up with. We don't know if it's a solution yet until we try it. This is the first research trial we've done with it.
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But again, you know, check out extreme Ag and, uh, I'll say it one more time. pH is irrelevant.
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