00:00:00 Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag. Matt said I gotta do it that way because anyway, we're here 00:00:06 with Tommy Rhodes from Nature's Man are good friend here. And me and Tommy's been through a lot 00:00:10 really in the last week or two. T we, Tommy, well, can I do this? Tommy, can I do this? You know, because we've had such horrible weather 00:00:17 and the weather and, and I shouldn't say horrible, there's a lot of people that's had a lot worse, you know, 00:00:22 but it's just been really tough on the growth states. Really wet. We've been at, it's been really wet. So we're here to talk about that Now. 00:00:28 These corn plants, we've got, Matt's been wanting to do this video and so Matt, heres Is, So Matt here's gonna talk about this video, 00:00:36 but we're talking about the root. This is, this corn plants was taken outta the same row within what, 10 feet of each other? 00:00:42 10 feet. 10 feet of each other. And we're talking about how they're at the same growth stage. 00:00:46 Matt, go on, tell us what you wanna talk about. Yeah, so, so what I wanna explain here is if, if you're planting alternative crops, 00:00:52 you're planting cotton, you're planting beans, which we do in the Mid-South. If you have a bad time at planting or a bad time right 00:00:58 after planting, there's things you can do about that. I mean, the plants will recoup beans have put on more pods. I've seen research where they pull all the pods off early, 00:01:06 they still make the same yield. Well You, you stress beans, you roll beans, you, you try to eat beans up early, 00:01:12 Try to kill it because it can't, We build product for beans. Right. You know? Exactly. Exactly. 00:01:16 Dieter is a prime example of that. That's right. Exactly. Uh, cotton, you know, you can lose all the bottom bowls to bull rot 00:01:22 and you still have a decent yield. Right? Yep. Corn is one of those commodities that if you don't get it right the first 00:01:27 time you're in trouble. And, and this just shows kind of when you take a weak plant like this and a good looking plant like this, 00:01:35 they're the same growth stage in the same row. This one's gonna struggle. This is gonna have problems irrigated or not irrigated. 00:01:42 This one looks really, really good. We're a hundred percent limited. You know, we talk about in the front part of it 00:01:47 where we limit that. We ain't saying that this won't make 200. Right? Right. We can stretch 200 bushel outta it, but this 00:01:54 Would be 40 bushel Better. But this, this will be probably more than that and any of us take in any, but that's imperfect conditions. 00:02:00 Any adversity. And this baby's going backwards in a herd. I Mean if this, if this was a plant 00:02:05 given what's happened till date, I mean lots of rain, it's mild temperatures. I mean everything's been nice. 00:02:13 But if rain shuts off, which odds are, guess what? It's gonna shut off. That's right. We have no irrigation here and that plant is gonna struggle. 00:02:23 'cause the front end of this field, it's compacted and you can look out in here and plants look like this same growth stage. 00:02:31 So the bigger the root mass, the more the greater ability to absorb nutrients and water. 00:02:38 And again, if it dries out, it stay healthy. This, this plant is going to keep going. It's already putting out brace roots. 00:02:44 I don't see any brace roots over here on this one. You know, if you look at the long range forecast, I'm sure we're in the south, it's going to, 00:02:51 it's gonna eventually shut off. Yeah. We're always two weeks from draft It's gonna be hot. Exactly. 00:02:55 You know, me and Matt was talking about today, we was talking about stress mitigation, you know, and Matt was, Matt was like, 00:02:59 well when will we, when will we start? You know, we was talking about using fungicides cool, the plants, you know, we was talking about things like yeah, 00:03:04 can temperature, I said, when should we start? I said, I'll tell you what we need to look at. 'cause the daytime are gonna get hot. 00:03:08 Start looking at nighttime temps. The nighttime temps will tell the story on where you're headed. 00:03:12 Right, right. You know, and long as we can get into sixties and seventies, we gonna run with 'em. 00:03:16 It's them. It's when you run that week and it's 85 at night. Now we got a problem, ain't it? 00:03:21 But the reason why we use the products we use, whether it's nature's or whoever, is because if you can get that instead of that, 00:03:29 you've got a decent chance of making a crop. Right. And you know, a lot of times we get ridiculed for all the inputs we put in, you know, the infra fertility. 00:03:37 A lot of people don't do that. You know, we do a foer fo a lot of people don't do that. So they don't do that. We do snake oil, snake holes. Yeah. 00:03:43 Right. But I mean you see the difference in the two. We've gotta have this to have a chance. Yeah. So one thing we talk about here in where we're standing, 00:03:53 so we've got litter right here, two tons of litter and over there, which this is a now a four year program that, that Chad and I have been on. 00:04:03 I mean we started with a 200 pound in the strip and we figured out that, you know, you cut that back by half, used that money 00:04:14 To do For in season purposes. You can adjust if it's wet, we can do what we've done out here. 00:04:20 We've kind of boosted it along a little bit, but if it's dry like it was last year, you know, we cut it off. Yeah. 00:04:27 And you wasted Saving Money and, and we actually had customers and we had people that was farmer neighbors 00:04:33 that still have their product from last year. I mean you call, hey, shut down. We had wide drop programs. That was the soybean program. 00:04:40 Like hey, 20 bushels is 20 bushels and They don't go bad. You can use 'em next year when you got. 00:04:45 And so that's what we're talking about here, you know, and the products that we use, we've got to make that to make what we're trying to do. 00:04:52 Yeah. You know, so it's, it's, it's been a good relationship. Me, me and Tommy's been on that program a minute. 00:04:57 And then we have people that had a really wet spring this year. What do we do? Hey, 00:05:02 we are four years deep in a full replacement liquid program. Is that something that we going to change 00:05:06 and go whole farm on liquid? Probably not. No. But do we have a situation where we can have a liquid program and make that ruin? 00:05:13 We sure do. Absolutely. Because every time we done it, we picked up an average of 12 bushel. 12 bushel more. That's right. 00:05:19 Man called me and said, Hey man, I couldn't get my strip till out. I couldn't get done. I said, I got a program for you. 00:05:23 It's not for every year, but I got a program and I said, I can increase bushels with it. That's Right. That's fi that's $50 00:05:29 $4 corn, right? Yeah. If we're a $4 corn, we're not gonna be in this business. That's right. Anyway, So, so just know guys 00:05:35 that there's a lot of things going on. There's a long play, don't give up. There's things we can do. 00:05:40 But when you start here and you need to be starting here, you know, anywhere here, like there's a problem. 00:05:47 I want you to slap him. He never Does. All I can say is I'm glad I don't have, I'm glad I have unlimited minutes 00:05:53 because if I didn't, my minutes have been burn up in the last week talking to you. 173 00:06:00.085 --> 00:06:02.255