Farming Video | Can This Stop Deer from Wrecking Your Beans?

15 Jul 255m 37s

Temple Rhodes sits down with Bert Riggan from Concept AgriTek to tackle one of the most frustrating challenges farmers face—deer pressure. Temple shares his past struggles with costly, rain-washed deterrents and how they’ve often failed after just one thunderstorm. Bert breaks down the innovation behind their new deer deterrent (Buck Barrier) which uses natural plant extracts and essential oils that deer avoid in the wild. The real kicker? This product gets into the plant, not just on it—offering up to 21 days of protection, even through heavy rains.

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00:00:00 Hey guys, it's temp. I'm here with, uh, Bert Regan from Concept Agritech, and I kind of went to him 00:00:04 and I, I I, I asked a question, Bert, what is so much different about, we've tried different deer deterrents for years 00:00:11 and you know, we've always had this constant problem of, you know, you put it on where we are 00:00:17 and where a lot of people are, you know, on the East coast, but all really all across the country. 00:00:21 You know, we get a heavy shower, rain in the spring. We get these freak thunderstorms, we get two inches of rain that a product that we applied a lot of times is upwards 00:00:31 of $20 an acre and it's immediately gone. So like, we're not getting anything out of it. And we've went through these constant struggles 00:00:37 and I know that we've talked about this for quite a few years. So you came up with a product. 00:00:41 So can you tell me like how yours is different than everybody else's? Sure. So essentially what we did was we went 00:00:49 and we took a look at plants in a natural environment that deer just simply don't feed on and tried to figure out why they didn't feed on them. So 00:00:58 You're talking about like you went to the woods where Yes. Or like some of the brush 00:01:01 and some of the brows that they just never touch. That's correct. You're Looking at Them. Yeah, that's 00:01:07 correct. And I also taught, I've got some wildlife biologist buddies and I consulted with them. 00:01:12 And so what we did was we found out, we identified several different plants that, uh, behave this way. 00:01:18 You know, that, that the deer won't predate on. We were able to actually get, uh, essential oils or plant extracts from those Right. 00:01:26 You know, certain species. We were able to put 'em together and then introduce our Trans Max technology into it. 00:01:33 That's the game changer. The Tmax technology allows those essential oils, those aromatics that, that make the deer's nose, you know, 00:01:42 run, you know, kinda like you getting hit with tear gas or something. They don't really like to be around that environment. 00:01:48 The Tmax gets all of those into the plant. So you've changed the whole thing. Like it's not gonna wash off 00:01:54 No two hour rain fastness. It's in the plant. What we've seen on average is about 21 days. 00:02:00 And so every time the plant is respiring, it's putting those aromatic compounds out into the air. So You're getting 21 days out of it. 00:02:09 A lot of the other deer deterrents that are out there, like what they have, they say the same thing. 00:02:13 Like, you know, we are getting 20 to 25 days somewhere in that range, but that's if the everything's perfect. 00:02:20 Correct. Like, you know what I mean? Like, we don't get a rain, you have certain weather, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:02:26 Like, and sometimes, like what I find is, is I only need like 20 or 30 days to get it to like grow away from 'em. 00:02:34 Like that's my biggest problem. So what, what we've seen is, is that if you have enough foliage, uh, a couple 00:02:41 of true leaves, maybe the first tri foliage, that's enough to get the product into the plant. 00:02:47 You gotta have decent coverage. We never really thought about it as with an infra application, 00:02:53 but we're tinkering around with it. And what we've seen is, is that To try to pull the essential oils 00:02:58 and get it immediately right. So that way when it pops Off, that's part of my problem. Like with soybeans, you know, you get the cod leading up, 00:03:04 they nip that cod leading off, right? Then you got this bean plant that's trying to push these little tates out and the, 00:03:10 and the leaves on it is never get as bigger than the squirrels here, right? Like they're tiny, there's nothing 00:03:15 and it'll never make anything. So if we could get, if you, if you like, master that to a point where we could put it in furrow, 00:03:22 I mean this could be a huge game changer for these guys. 'cause that's, I mean, think about the millions and millions 00:03:28 and millions of dollars that are wasted because of wildlife pressure. Right now we have on the label, uh, a, a ground applied 00:03:37 or surface, you know, broadcast. Right? We have seen some efficacy there. Unless of course you wind up with a big flood 00:03:44 after it, there's nothing for it to hold along because the transex technology works on living tissue, which is why we started looking at the infer. 00:03:51 And so, you know, if you want to try it, infer a give us a call, we'll kind of kind of talk to you about your soil type and whatnot, right? 00:04:00 To kind of help you choose the right rate, infer a uh, 'cause it is different for soybeans than it is corn. What we've seen so far, right? 00:04:07 We're also looking at the possibility of down the road even trying it as a seed treatment. Well, I mean we, I, if anything that we, that we do, 00:04:16 we see in this new technology that's coming and we see some of these things that are, is a massive help us at CMF Ag 00:04:23 and uh, me as a farmer, like I want fool with the stuff that kind of separates the men from the boys. And I feel like this is one of those things that kind 00:04:30 of separates the men from the boys. We talk about crop protection all the time. Mm-hmm. You know, whether it's fertility, 00:04:35 whether it's a fungicide, whether it's insecticide. And we haven't played in this realm. I know that there's a bunch of companies out there 00:04:41 that claim that they can do this, but I have actually seen this. I've had, you've sent this to me for three years now, um, 00:04:48 for f testing and you know, this is the first year that us at CMF Ag we're selling some of it and it seems to be really working. 00:04:54 I sent some to Harrisonburg, Virginia and they were seeing 130, 140 deer in the field and now they'll see two or three, maybe two or three. 00:05:03 So I mean, it's making a massive difference that that rate there. It's started out with, um, 20 gallon purchase 00:05:11 and I've sent a pallet down there to those guys. So I mean, that's what they're seeing and that's only been, that's in two weeks. 00:05:17 Right. So guys, if we can help you out at CMF Ag or give concept Packer tech a call, um, this product really is one of those ones 00:05:24 that we're promoting at CMF and at on my farm as well. And it's because these are the kind of products that separate the men from the boys. 145 00:05:31.825 --> 00:05:32.325

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