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What you're looking at right now is a Crop X soil sensor. If you tuned into any of our footage from Commodity Classic,
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you saw me holding one of these. You see that Orange Dome is the top of this thing right here.
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And it's a soil sensor that can help you farm better. I've got Johnny Verell and Preston, Martha, uh, Johnny is with Extreme Mag
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as you know and our friend Preston is with Crop X. You start explaining what this is and I want you to explain how it works
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and how it helps Johnny Farm better. This thing is screwed into that ground. What, two to two and a half feet?
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So yeah, you got 26 inches depth here from your bottom sensor to the top. You can also offset.
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So you've got eight inch, eight inch, 16 inch. And what you look at here is we can actually offset this to where instead of this being at the eight,
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it now starts off at the six. Mm-hmm. Or it start, you know, or it starts off at the four depending upon
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how deep you put it in the, so What I think it's really cool and we'll show this on the camera.
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This little metal looking thing, that's a sensor. That's correct. That's a sensor. These are sensors. These are sensors
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and then this makes it, so this is Transp responding the information to John's phone.
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Am I right? That's correct, yeah. And you wanna show me that Mr. Per, yeah. So you know, we got a simple app and it goes,
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you can sit here and start tracking. We're in a refill period. It's been probably close to three weeks since
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we've had any measurable rain here. So it's steadily ticking off, but it's actually predicting
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how much it's ticking depending on temperature, evaporation, all those type things. So if this was in an irrigation environment, which most
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of my sensors are, we did this one at the field, A just to get some more data, it would actually help you start predicting when you need to be watering.
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Once you get the optimal level, it tells you kind of how long you're gonna stay optimal. It'll start telling you when you're gonna be tapering off.
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So it's pretty neat. All it's doing, it's simple to put in. I've, I've been messing with moisture
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sensors for almost 15 years. I've done post holes and boom, try to push stuff in the side.
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It's good. Have to start, screw it, right? Yeah. Today would not be the best day to probably do that because you said
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We haven't had moisture for three, three weeks. But They actually send you a little auger bit. You drill a hole, then you manually screw
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that in the ground, you pop the top off, scan the QR code And I noticed you put this up here.
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Yep. On a higher space. This uh, so that, that way there's no problem TransParenting the information to uh uh, somewhere
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that's a receptor reciprocal and then it gets to your phone And we got it for that. And also
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market for harvest. Uh, what do, uh, I mean you've been in this game, you're with crop X, so, uh, Johnny can't irrigate.
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Why does he need this right here when he can't do anything about the moisture level? He can't put more water out here 'cause it's dry land. But
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Kind of covered that last time a little bit, Damien. And the fact that when you have a non-irrigated situation, you can still make decisions as far as what's going on from
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what we're telling you with the disease management and what we're telling you as you know, because if you're dry
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and you're not able to put any more water on it, why are you gonna go out and treat it? That's it. So has it helped you do
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That? And, and I think it does. And also we've got about 12 different varieties of soybeans right here.
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And we can actually see which ones are starting to wilt at what stage. So they start to wilt and then we can actually start
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checking root depth and stuff like that on different varieties. It's pretty neat what it's able to tell you.
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So it's multiple things. We knew we couldn't water here. Yeah. But there's a lot of other data you can get. You the
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First year you're using this, did you make any mistakes? Oh yeah. Okay. Should
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Have put more out. And that what you hear from a lot of people. Absolutely. Yeah. So like Lay's potato
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chips, you can't just have one. Yeah. I think it's more importantly it health field make a lot of good decisions.
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Absolutely. Um, this from a technological standpoint, somebody says, man, I'm really frightened of technology. There's too much technology. This seems pretty easy. It's
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Simple. It's a simple app. Go straight on your iPhone and like I said, I like the predictive models. It starts Producing. Last thing I need
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to know, Preston, if I wanna put one of these in my farm next year, is this long-term contract? Am I one of those subscriptions? How's it work?
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No, you, you're gonna buy the equipment the first year. Yep. And then every year thereafter you're gonna do a renewal for your data subscription
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and the platform that we have, I mean, you know, which is pretty all encompassing. This Works off of a battery.
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Yes Sir. It does. You have to come out here and change it every month. No sir. No. Last all season.
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No, we can, we can do every four hour reporting. Yep. And then once we do every four hour reporting for the entire season, even the, even some
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of the longer season crops we've seen, the lowest of battery gets the end of the year is like 30% Fantastic. All season for us. Got
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It. It's all season for you. And you got a long season here. Yeah. And you've doing double crop stuff. That's right.
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Okay. Uh, if I wanna learn more about this, where does the viewer or listener go? Uh, they go to crop x.com,
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Crop x.com. His name's Johnny Verell is joined by Preston. Martha, I'm Damian Mason. Not here.
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Bring this court street we've talked about at a field day, we talked about a commodity classic
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and we're seeing it in practice. And here we are recording this in August. You're gonna yank this outta the ground about another month
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or so when these beans run. And, uh, do it all again next year. That's right. 00:04:18.175 --> 00:04:18.845
