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Guys, I've been working with Nature's Fertilizer now for about five or six years, and old Tommy Roach, I wonder
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sometimes about him. And we got ready to do trials for him this year,
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and what trials do you do? When you use so many Nature's products, what trials do you do? So,
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Mr. Know-It-All came up with a trial we did. We've done it here on the corn, and we've got one similar to it on soybeans.
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Yes. And we've got a real special one on cotton that we're not going to talk a lot about till we get to the end. Make sure that it doesn't get so big that we can't pick it.
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Yes. But anyways, calcium and potassium. Tommy said, "Let's do a calcium and potassium trial for stress mitigation." And magnesium.
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And magnesium for stress mitigation, and let's see what happens. So we put this trial in for him, thinking, "Yeah,
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whatever." And all through the year, couldn't see a whole lot of difference. We did one video. It was good corn, but the check was good corn, too.
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And we harvested this field last week and got the data all together. Jacob looked at it this morning. And Mr. Old Know-It-All, Tommy may be a little smarter than I give him credit
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for. Jacob, what happened? Whenever we looked at the 50-acre plot versus the 12-acre check,
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the 50-acre plot was nine bushels better than the check. Whenever you took the check size versus just pick it up,
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put it right beside it, you were 13 bushels better. So what's nine times five is 45 bucks? If we take the low side of that, 45 bucks,
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probably costs, what, an additional $10 an acre, $15 an acre for what we're doing?
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Maybe 20? Every bit of that. So at least a two to one return? A two to one.
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So- I get two to one return. The 13, that probably got you that 1.5-
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Yeah ... excuse me, 2.5 to one return. Yeah. So it's something we're definitely going to look at again next year. Said earlier, we've got two other trials, one in soybeans, one in cotton.
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We'll have some data. We'll be able to look at the soybeans probably within the next 15 days, 20 days.
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Jacob's real excited about that one. Tell us what's going on, what they can look forward to seeing there. At late R2, early R3, we put out a half a gallon of
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calcium and a half a gallon of K-Flex Max Y-DROP. And when I first looked at it, after, I thought, "It's really didn't even do anything." But then after that, I started seeing where
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you didn't see as much stress between waterings. It stayed up a little bit better through waterings and the heat and all that, and I think I see a few more pods on it. The biggest thing I think I'm going to see is
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a more complete plant whenever we're looking at it from a nutrient standpoint in the plant all season long.
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So guys, we'll report back on the soybeans when we get through with that, and then 00:02:59.480 --> 00:03:01.960
