Farming Video | Can Chad Henderson Maximize R3 Soybeans with Just $40?

7 Jun 252m 16s

In this video, Chad Henderson sits down with Gabe from AgroLiquid to break down their R3 soybean application strategy. Working with a $40-per-acre budget, they focused on spoon feeding potassium to meet the high nutrient demands of soybeans later in the season. The duo also added a micronutrient mix including zinc, boron, manganese, and molybdenum—emphasizing the importance of secondary nutrients that often get overlooked. They touched on adjusting fertility based on soil samples, especially for double-crop beans, and how nutrients like sulfur from Kapitalize and nitrogen from FertiRain play a key role. The approach is lean on gallons but heavy on precision—designed to keep the crop actively pulling nutrients and performing all season long.

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00:00:00 Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson. I'm here with Gabe from Mag Liquid. We are sitting here and we're discussing our bean program. 00:00:05 You know, the rules are 40 acres and if we get 10 acres outta that, the other guys get 10 a piece. 00:00:12 Okay. And then we get $40. Right? Right. And we're gonna spend that at R three. Correct. One application. Yep. So let's talk about what me 00:00:20 and you come up with, what you mainly come up with, what I agreed on. And then we went back and forth on it. Well, we went 00:00:25 Back and forth a little bit because I kinda looked at your soil samples and I said, well what do we really need? 00:00:29 Now I know that in previous videos they talked a little bit about the base saturation and magnesium and, 00:00:34 and they kind of got went with that. I think We were like, oh Well yeah. Anyway, I mean it's just one of those things where we, 00:00:40 later on in the season, do we really need it? I don't know. Maybe we do, maybe we don't. So we started to focus a little bit on spoon 00:00:47 feeding the potassium side of things. I think that's, that's really good. 'cause they're potassium hogs as we go through this. 00:00:51 And then I thought, we don't pay enough attention to the micronutrients. So then we thought that, okay, how do we combine zinc, boron 00:00:58 and manganese together to get that, to move through the plant? Then we throw a little bit of Molly in. 00:01:02 'cause you know, soybeans love Molly and we don't ever give 'em enough love. So I think we just need to pay attention to some 00:01:07 of the secondary micronutrients while spoon feeding potassium across the top. Now when we get to that situation where we're making 60 00:01:14 to 80 to a hundred bushel beans, maybe we feed a little bit more nitrogen. So even in our plan we took a little bit of fer rain, 00:01:20 which is some nitrogen, a little bit of, we took some sulfur out of the uh, capitalize and some other things like that. 00:01:26 So I think we moved along pretty good. You know enough, These boys over here listening, like one of 'em fell down in the dirt over, he was listening so 00:01:33 Hard. So we did have really a long list of things. But when you think about it, gallon per gallon, we're probably going about the same as they are. 00:01:40 'cause we're, we're using quats and pints and stuff versus gallons. And you gotta remember with this being double cropped 00:01:45 beans, we put our fertility out in front of our wheat. Yep. So then the wheat uses it up. It's in the stove. Stove, so then it goes back down. Yep. 00:01:52 And so we're going to, we just gotta keep that plant going and keep it pumping. 'cause we gotta pull it back outta the ground again. 00:01:57 And I think that's where the spoon feeding part up is gonna come in. That's about like the potassium, sulfur, zinc. 00:02:02 I think we're gonna be good with it. We're gonna be In good shape. Hey, we're gonna be in good shape. We win. We'll celebrate, You know, like I said, 00:02:07 they're all shooting for second and third. 'cause we ain't. 00:02:10.465 --> 00:02:11.805