Farming Video | Can You Cut 40 Units of Nitrogen?

31 Aug 251m 29s

Johnny Verell of XtremeAg shares results from ongoing nitrogen reduction trials using Pivot Bio PROVEN 40. After four years of using the biological, it’s become a standard part of his fertility plan. This year’s replicated field plots test how much synthetic nitrogen can be replaced while maintaining healthy crops—even after heavy rains. Johnny walks through a visible side-by-side comparison, showing stronger results where Pivot Bio was used to replace 40 units of synthetic nitrogen. With high fertilizer prices, he encourages others to try it on their own acres and evaluate the results.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell at Extreme Ag. You know, there's always some trials we're doing and stuff like that. 00:00:04 And actually a standard practice on my farm the last four years now I guess, has been using Pivot Bio, proven 40. 00:00:09 And so we got plots again this year. And what we're trying to do is maybe how low can you reduce your synthetic fertilize if you're 00:00:15 using a product like Pivot Bios Proven 40 to carry that crop along the way. And you know, everybody's always talking about, well, 00:00:21 does it work, does it not work? And all that stuff. And I always tell people, try it on your farm. 00:00:25 And when fertilized prices are where they are right now and using some of these biologicals is a lot less per unit. It, it is a no brainer to actually try 00:00:32 and if it works, use it on your whole farm. And that's what we're doing. And I got two leaves here. The trials are actually side by side right here beside me. 00:00:38 You got leaf right here still. Solid green looks great. This one right here is not, and really the only difference is, is the Pivot bio piece. 00:00:46 We replaced 40 units of synthetic nitrogen with this and this one right here. We did not, and I'm going to contribute to a lot 00:00:51 of this issue we got going on right now is from all the rainfall we had early on in the season. So we actually did this fertilize was, uh, 00:00:58 all put out at like a V three timing and so we had a tremendous amount of rainfall since then. And you can just tell the pivot bio was actually working 00:01:05 and the biologicals are working out really well for us here. This corn's at our field day, 00:01:09 we got replicated plots going all the way across here with different, different, uh, rates and nitrogen, stuff like that, just to see 00:01:14 how low we can actually cut it. So say it to me. We'll keep you posted on how the yields turn out this year, 00:01:19 but everything looks pretty good right now and it actually looks like the products we're putting out 00:01:22.405 --> 00:01:23.565