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Hey guys, Jacob, apple Berry here with Live Oak Ag. We're out in the cover crop field again today. It's, uh, getting close to cotton planting time,
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getting a little bit warmer. Uh, got a few beans in the ground, probably gonna see them in a couple days.
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Uh, we're gonna talk about desiccating. The, the cover crop. We didn't get the size we wanted.
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Uh, we let this and carry a little bit farther than we did the other two fields. Just trying to get as much size on it as we could.
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Kind of gather some information, see which way we liked it better, uh, if we needed to kill it like we did a week or two ago on one field,
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or if we killed it a month ago on another field. Just again, trying to gather data, trying to figure out what fits the situation the best, what fits mat
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and lane's operation the best. We're gonna desiccate this with some locatable herbicides. Personally, I like Roundup and Liberty.
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Everybody's kind of different. They just gotta figure out what they wanna do, what fits in the best, what fits their operation the best.
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They may wanna use other chemistries. That's understandable. You just gotta make sure that you get something
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that kills all the way down to the root for both grasses and broad leaves. And that's kinda the reason for mixing
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those two chemistries together. When you put them together, they're usually pretty hot. They usually take care of a lot of things.
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Uh, obviously run a, a full rate, depending on the size. We're gonna run a full rate on this just
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to make sure we get it killed and get it to deteriorating. We got about three weeks
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or so, full cotton plant, like I mentioned earlier. The thing I wanna talk about as much as anything when it comes to desiccating
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or spraying herbicides or fungicides, insecticides or biology or ides, is checking your water and making sure that you've got a good
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clean water that your, your pH is right. Uh, you don't have any heavy metals. If you've got a, if you're running municipal water,
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you're running some type of de chlorinator to get rid of that chlorine. So you improve the efficacy of your herbicides,
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your insecticides, uh, your fungicides and your ides. Some amides and some herbicides. You know, they don't work very well
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with a, with a certain pH. You know, they gotta have a, a, just a fine pH to make them do what they need to do.
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So check your water. That's a pretty low-end thing to do, just to make sure that you're not losing some of your efficacy
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of your different pesticides to pull water or something in the water that doesn't work well with, uh, what you have now.
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If you're putting out biology and you put something in there and the water immediately kills your biology, you know,
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what kind of money have you wasted? So pay attention to your water, get you a pH meter, you know, check it, get it treated,
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check it again, make sure it's working. There's several out there we can talk to you about if we need to.
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