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Here we are. The second day of May, it's gonna get down into the high thirties. Tonight, we received five inches of rain in the last week
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and we've got corn in the ground. You know, typically a guy would be nervous about this. You know, my dad even said the day,
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I don't know if it's good that we've got corn in the ground or not, based on the soil temperatures, based on
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how saturated the soil is, which is an entirely different scenario that we've had the last couple years when
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it's a been so warm and dry. We worried about being able to plant and get the crop in the moisture,
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but we've got our Integra seed. It's tried and true for us. It's worked really well over the past four or five years.
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We're really happy with it. And of course, we've got our accomplished max from Grason, which is part of our grower standard practice,
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putting an accomplished max in furrow as a stress mitigation. We started with that in 2021,
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and if there was ever a product that I thought was gonna be snake oil, it was accomplished max stress mitigation.
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I thought, what, what good is this gonna do? I still remember walking out across that field in June of 21, the corn's about 10 inches tall.
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It was rolled up from being hot and dry. The wind is blowing, and I'm like, boy, are we ever gonna raise anything?
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This year? We walked out there across that field, and we got to the 24 rows that had accomplished max on it. The corn was unrolled and relaxed,
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and I thought at that point, holy cow, we might be onto something here. You know, we, we made a video, you know,
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that'd be three years ago almost now. We made a video, uh, Steve Sexton and I, looking at that crop.
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We walked through some more corn that was rolled up to the next spot where we had the next application area of accomplished max.
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It was unrolled that year. The yield gain was 12 bushel on one of those passes, 28 on another pass blew me away
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and accomplished Max became a grower standard practice for me at that point from those two trials. And every year, it has
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provided us protection, be it heat, stress, or cold tolerance. Now we have accomplished Maxs in furrow on every acre
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of corn and soybeans, and we apply terra ook, which is the same components of accomplished Max, but instead of being used in furrow, it's a foliar.
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So even though it's May 2nd, it's wet and cold outside. I've got a lot of confidence right now with my Integris seed and my accomplished max.