00:00 Johnny Rell with a extreme ag. I'm out here in the cornfield. This is actually the double crop cornfield. I'm out here today with Brian Adams. 00:06 Uh, we're gonna look a little bit about the structures of the roots that we're seeing, what's going on under the ground, 00:10 and also what we're seeing above the ground. So, Brian, when we, when we planted this corn here, you know, 00:15 we did a lot of things to really stimulate the root growth and try to see what we could really push. So Sure. The crop into, and, you know, we got, 00:22 we like what we're seeing. Absolutely. There's a heck of a root structure, especially in my opinion, for a corn plant that's pollinating that hasn't been in the ground two whole 00:30 months yet. Um, as, as Johnny as Johnny showed, I mean, you can see really good root penetration there. Excellent rooting depth. Um, a lot of, uh, a lot of secondary roots feeding off of that, 00:42 able to grab these nutrients. Um, these nutrients here that are available, especially after this, uh, first crop of wheat that we've got going on here, uh, 00:50 Johnny's got a handful of the stubble. What exactly are you doing to help try to break down some of this stubble, maybe release, uh, release some of these nutrients out? Yeah, 00:58 We're, we're, we're playing with several different stubble digesters to see which ones are gonna get the stubble breaking down the fastest for our, for our location. 01:05 'cause there's several companies out there that are, you know, got their claim to fame or their new one coming out. 01:09 And so we're using one that we've been playing with a couple years. Um, it, it seems to be doing a great job for us. This, this residue is really, 01:17 really brittle and you can hear it crunching. And this is first thing in the morning when we got a heavy dew. So anytime you start getting that residue breaking down and actually falling 01:24 apart, that's what we're need to do because this corn was planted and I didn't, uh, 01:28 I didn't know last fall when I planted the wheat that I was actually gonna plant corn here. So I actually fertilized for a double wheat bean crop, 01:35 not a 200 plus corn crop. So we're really needing the residue to break down and release the nutrients that are there. 01:42 Yep. So, like Johnny said, we've evaluated several and we're kinda most focused on one that's, uh, consortia biology, 14 speciess, um, 01:51 as well as combining that with hemic acid to feed these microbes. There's a lot of phosphorous, solubilizers residue digesters, 01:58 and even a couple of in fixtures in this product. Um, and as you can see, I think we're, I think Johnny's definitely getting what he's paying for. 02:06 When you look at the bottom of this canopy, again, you start to look down at the ground and, and yes, there is a lot of stubble out here, but if, 02:12 if you're raising a hundred plus bushel weed crop in the south, there's gonna be a lot of stubble. Like Johnny said, I think the, uh, 02:17 acceleration of breakdown is definitely, uh, moving into high gear now. Um, those microbes are just, you know, just like us when it's really cold outside, 02:26 folks in Minnesota don't wanna go out in the winter. It's just like a microbe warmer. It gets, the more active it is, it's starting to break down. It's starting to feed this back into this crop. 02:34 And I think you're seeing an an excellent example of that here. Wouldn't you agree, Johnny? I, I 02:40 Agree a hundred percent and not only does it help break down the residue, it just really helps stimulate that plant throughout this year too. 02:44 So lot of things going for us. And you know, the corn that we're seeing, we shuck several ears of corn back, you know, 02:50 is in that 18 around probably going to be 36 to 40 plus long, just depending on how the next, next day or two go. 02:57 But we got the cool temperatures helping us and uh, you can really see there's really no light penetration going down in the canopy. There's a little bit here where the sun is shining down on us, 03:05 where we made a hole in the corn, but it's really capturing everything we needed to capture.