00:00 Hi, this is Kelly GI from Extreme Ag. I'm sitting here by the field where our WHOLEGANICS trial is. Holganix is a biological company. We put Bio 800 inferral. 00:08 It's advertised to increase nutrient uptake by making the nutrients more available. Why do we want to do this? Anything we can do to improve soil health, 00:18 improve the microbial system, improve nutrient uptake, improve nutrient availability, is a very sustainable act that also leads to high yields. 00:28 If we increase nutrient availability, the plant has an easier time, spends less energy bringing the nutrients up, 00:34 more nutrients are available to the plant, thereby leading to higher yields. And any product that I can try that is advertised to do this, 00:42 I sure want to give it a shot. Holganix and Bio 800 are new products and new company for us this year, but we're happy to conduct a trial and see what works. 00:50 Not all biologicals are gonna work in all areas of the country. You've got to see what works for you on your farm. 00:55 You've got to make sure you treat your water. You know, uh, I've heard of other people using chlorinated water and then they don't 01:01 understand why the biological doesn't work. Well. The chlorinated water kills the biological. You've gotta treat your water, you've gotta treat the biology correctly. 01:08 I do believe a lot of the biological products will work, but we as farmers have got to use 'em correctly. 01:13 We've gotta dot the i's and cross the T's. The product will take a lot of blame if it doesn't work correctly, when in fact it's probably us that is at fault. 01:20 So please pay attention to the directions. Please use good quality water, good quality handling techniques when you're using the biologicals. 01:27 And don't forget to pay attention to your chemistry. I believe that agronomy is chemistry plus biology. And if your chemistry's not in order, your biology will not behave properly. 01:37 So we make a big focus on the farm here, Evans, windrow, Vern, and I, of trying to make sure that our chemistry is balanced. 01:43 And then we find that the biology acts and produces a lot better, acts 'em a lot more efficiency. And uh, you know, like I say, 01:51 anytime that I can improve nutrient uptake, I'm gonna improve yields. And I'm probably gonna reduce my dependency on synthetic fertility, 01:59 which of course is a very sustainable act. There's nitrogen reduction dollars out there with the Extreme Make Soil Health Initiative. 02:05 There's different programs with trutter when we're reducing our needs for synthetic fertility. So we're always keeping an eye on that too, 02:12 because that's like, to me, that's free money as a grower because I wanna reduce my dependency on synthetic fertility because the fertility that's in the soil is gonna give me a better 02:22 yield, a better r o i anyway. And then the sustainability dollars are just a bonus on top.