Farming Video | Cotton Trial Shows Early Gains

00:00:00 So guys, we've got the, uh, certain M Pivot bio product here in this field. We've had really good luck with the, uh, 00:00:06 with the pivot products on the corn. They come out with a product for the cotton that got labeled for the cotton. 00:00:12 We, uh, did some testing with it last year. We had pretty good results. Uh, of course, you know, we don't do everything in this one 00:00:18 year, so we're back out here now. Uh, we've got the pivot product on every other 12 rows and then just the generic check on the other. 00:00:27 So we're gonna dig some plants up, take 'em to the truck where it's not 110 degrees heat index 00:00:31 and kinda look 'em over. This will be the check side. This will be the actual treated side. Like I said, there are other 12 rows across the field. 00:00:52 We'll see what we get out of this. We'll take 'em to the truck and get the shade and do some counting. 00:00:59 Alright guys, so I pulled the bowls off and, and what I did, we're about eight nodes above white flours, about seven nodes above white flour. 00:01:07 So we're getting to the more mature stage, but uh, we've still got a long way to go. You can see all of the different, uh, squares 00:01:17 and stuff that I, that I shucked. You know, we've got a lot of fruiting left to go, but uh, what I'm looking at right now is the mature bowls. 00:01:24 That's all we know we can guarantee is what bowls are on the plant. Now these bowls are the bowls we can 00:01:29 guarantee at this moment. Uh, hopefully a lot of this other fruit will, you know, we'll make. So don't go to making fun of me about 00:01:37 how many bowls I got per plant 'cause I still got a lot to go. I just didn't wanna include anything 00:01:42 that we're not a hundred percent sure on. So what we're looking at here is this is a check and I pulled all the leaves off of it 00:01:51 and this is the, the pivot. So there's 12 bowls over here and there's 13 bowls over here. 00:01:58 Not a lot of difference, right? So, you know, one thing we're looking at here, more so than we haven't reduced any nitrogen on the cotton, 00:02:05 we've actually used this product as an additive to see if we can increase yield. Uh, the test we did last year, 00:02:10 it seems like we got the better results if we just added it to our nitrogen program. 00:02:15 You know, synthetic nitrogen is very unstable, even if you do it in a liquid form, you know, this year was a train wreck. 00:02:21 We wasn't able to do anything in a liquid form. So this has been really, really important to us because it's a way to get nitrogen from the atmosphere from 00:02:29 the biologicals and its true nitrogen that we know we're gonna get no matter what the weather is. So, um, we're gonna keep working 00:02:36 with this and see what we get. One observation that's interesting to me and I kind of size these bowls out, I could probably take 00:02:43 that one back over here. So as far as mature bowls, bigger bowls earlier, maturing, we've got six bowls here, you might could count 00:02:53 that as a seventh bowl. Uh, it's kind of iffy between it and one that I didn't count over there. 00:02:58 So they're pretty close to the same size. So you've got six to seven bowls depending on how you want to count it here of bigger bowls. 00:03:06 And on the treated we've got nine. So this is the smallest one that I counted on the nine. Quite a bit bigger than that one. 00:03:13 So I'm calling this nine, I'm calling this seven. So we're getting ahead with this for sure. We know we've got better bowl development, 00:03:20 which will make it earlier maturing, which should keep us outta the hurricane season a little bit earlier or have a little bit better chance 00:03:26 of passing the hurricane season versus the later maturing. Of course. Understand, you know, 00:03:31 we're still real early in the game. We've still got a lot of cotton left to make. Uh, we plant about three plants per foot to 14 inches. 00:03:39 Uh, 11 bowls per foot is a bale. So if we can average, you know, 12, 12 bowls per plant and we've got three plants per foot, 00:03:47 then we're gonna be over the 1500 pound range, which is kind of where we, you know, wanna be. 00:03:52 It's not where we always can be, but minus a hurricane, you know, with these new varieties we have, 00:03:56 it seems like it's a little bit easier. Root systems on both of 'em, not neither one was very impressive, but this is your check 00:04:04 and this is your pivot product certain in. So a little bit of difference. I probably pulled about half the tap 00:04:10 root out when I took these out. I dug them with a shovel, but there's so many roots in that, in that row that uh, 00:04:16 you know, I'm not sure that I didn't break some of them off. But anyway, there's the check on the left, 00:04:21 the pivot product on the right. Two more bowls per plant. And guys, one thing that I like 00:04:25 to stress in in these videos, you know, is, uh, you know, we test these products for different companies 00:04:31 and you see me in a video. I walked out there, I just pulled up plants. I didn't have any ribbons on some 00:04:35 that were bigger than the other ones. Uh, I just went out there and pulled around on plants. That's what we do at extreme Ag is give you a 00:04:42 fair shake to look at it. Uh, sometimes it's ugly, sometimes it it's good. Most of the times it seems like it works out pretty good. 00:04:49 We'll get you the ROI and the different things about this product. Like I said, it worked in corn. Good for us. 00:04:54 It worked in cotton last year on our testing. So we're excited to see if this product's gonna work in the cotton like it does in the corn. 00:05:01 As I said earlier, you know, we've been putting this product on our, on our corn for probably about five years 00:05:06 and I just can't seem to get away from it. In our low CEC soils, our nitrogen leeches, it runs off. There's a lot of problems 00:05:13 with putting out synthetic nitrogen, especially if you're trying to use a urea product or a granular product. 00:05:18 This is some of the corn I stopped by the grain bin and, and picked up a couple of ears here. 00:05:22 What's impressive to me on this, there's about two kernels to tip back. That means we used all of our nitrogen in these plants. 00:05:29 Now these aren't, these aren't Temple Road or Chad Henderson ears, you know, these are gonna be somewhere north of 200, 00:05:35 but they're not gonna be, they're gonna be south of 300, I can promise you that. But this product's worked real good 00:05:40 for us in in the environment with the corn. We've seen good results on the cotton last year. So we're excited about, 00:05:46 you know, continue with this research. This is a pretty advanced plot we have here. Uh, we've got nitrogen reduction, we've got it 00:05:53 with without nitrogen reduction. Uh, same thing we did last year, year, I think overall. And all their tests combined together, 00:05:59 they got a really positive ROI so worked on the corn for several years. Looks like it's gonna be a little better on the cotton. 00:06:06 Um, anything we can do to ROI in this kind 00:06:08.805 --> 00:06:09.645