Farming Video | How Temple Rhodes Tackles Stress in Saturated Soybean Fields

00:00:00 Hey guys, it's Temple here. So, um, I, I questioned Bert and, and Kyle from concept Agritech 00:00:07 and I said, you know, with the, with weather that we have in this year, Bert and Kyle, you know, it's been rough on the south, 00:00:13 mainly like it's been rough, like major thunderstorms, tornadoes, you know, just constantly wet, cooler weather. You know, we can't get the gdu 00:00:23 and these plants that we normally have, they're behind the, everything's gonna be shorter. 00:00:28 It, it is environmentally shortened up the nodes. But we do have these problem areas, right? Like we we're standing in right here, this is wet ground 00:00:37 that is in, you know, we had these inherent holes in our, in our fields, and they're yellow, they're spindly, 00:00:44 they're unhealthy, they look terrible. You know, some of these areas, you know, we've had to go back in and replant 'em 00:00:51 and you know, we're just, you know, saving face sometimes, right? Maybe. So what I want to know is, you know, 00:00:58 Kyle's got this tool out here, um, where he can actually pull tissue samples. Is there something that is different in the plants 00:01:07 that are good and then, you know, or bad and or better stuff, you know, and is there something that we can do sometimes to, like, 00:01:15 I've seen it before, you've helped me out with this stuff before in the past, and we've used some stuff 00:01:21 before to kind of bring 'em outta their funk. You know, I don't wanna say sunlight in a jug, but how many times have I heard from a retailer? 00:01:28 You know, don't worry about it. You just need sunlight and heat. And they're right. They're right. They're a hundred percent right. 00:01:35 But man, as a farmer and as a, you know, a guy that is, you know, doing a little bit of ag retail, that's the one thing 00:01:42 that actually p****s me off. Like, it actually, I, it makes me angry because I feel like with all the technology that we have 00:01:49 with concept agritech and some of these, um, companies, that we actually have something, we have tools in our toolbox. 00:01:56 Why are we not using some of those tools if we can? So that's kind of what I wanna see. Yeah. So yes, the South has got a bunch of rain. 00:02:05 You've got a bunch of rain. The, I states, you know, Indiana, they've been getting tore up. I I mean it's, 00:02:11 The southern parts of those states is Rough. It's, it's, some of 00:02:15 'em just got done playing corn within a couple weeks and it's the end of June right Now. Right. So 00:02:20 when you have the environmental stress, we can't do anything about the weather. No. And like you said, the old advice of, you know, 00:02:27 it just needs sunlight and some, some heat units. That's true. But that plant's suffering. If you have poor quality sunshine, 00:02:35 if you're not getting your Mac, you know, your gdu for the time of year that plant's not actively growing. What we have to do is we have to help mitigate that stress, 00:02:44 which means that you have to start lining up and giving these plants supplemental energy and other tools so that they can navigate that stress. 00:02:55 These plants are young, but they're still capable of producing things like cortisol and, and ethylene and whatnot that retard their growth. 00:03:04 If you can help provide that plant with things that needs to overcome that, those negative hormone 00:03:10 or stress hormones, then you can maintain a positive growth habit. There's no such thing as sunshine in a jug, 00:03:16 but what you can do, there's several products that you can provide that plant with energy. It doesn't have to manufacture from the sun so 00:03:25 that it can get through this period. And then when photosynthesis is good, It can take off and it Could take off 00:03:31 and run. So if you Had to guess, so I'm, I'm, I'm basically, I'm, I'm challenging you. 00:03:37 Okay. So if you look at an area like this, the plants are yellow, they're small, they've definitely been hurt by the wet weather. 00:03:45 Cool, wet, all of that. If you had to guess what nutrients do you think would help this plant? 00:03:51 And then we're gonna, Kyle's gonna use this leaf tech, um, technology to, to take a tissue sample here 00:03:57 and then take on some in the good area and we'll see if you're right. So it's not even usually micronutrients help quite a bit, 00:04:07 simply because due to saturated soils, lack of a positive growth habit, the plant's not really, you know, able to pull the micronutrients 00:04:18 that you may have put down in the soil or that exist there already. So usually a good micronutrient, you know, shot in arm, 00:04:24 kinda like you getting a B12 shot when you don't feel good. Yep. One of our products, well it's, it's a duo. 00:04:30 It's probably the best rescue treatment that we've ever seen. It's a product called Folio Rx. 00:04:36 And then you throw in sweet success with it. I was Gonna say, I, I, I wanna go with the sugar is what I'm gonna go. So 00:04:42 With those two, you are getting all the energy and, and different contracts of sugars from the sma, black strap molasses product sweet success. 00:04:53 But the foliar RX has also got a lot of other good things in it. It's got a micronutrient package 00:05:00 and it has some, you know, very good kelp extracts and enzymes in it that really help that plant, uh, get through these low GDU environments 00:05:10 and maintain a positive growth habit. That's what it's all about. So what do you guys think, like what key elements 00:05:17 that we have right now that you think that is keeping us from getting photosynthesis the most? Like, 'cause that's what we need. 00:05:25 We need something to promote that. Like, or just off the round, like what do you think it'll be the lowest in? 00:05:31 So more than likely, due to the saturated soils, these beans are, are at a growth stage where they need to be putting on nodules. 00:05:39 Yeah. But due to the saturation of the soil can't do it. They're not really being efficient at it, you know, 00:05:45 a little bit of hydrogen, you know, probably wouldn't hurt, but sulfur, you know, manganese, all at this growth stage, 00:05:53 you're still not, you're not too late on manganese, no, uh, zinc, you know, things like that. 00:05:59 You know, that's where a product like Nutri Tech comes in. It's a transex product. 00:06:03 You don't have to worry about what the soil conditions are. You come over the top, 00:06:07 it's got the transex technology in it, so it gets into the leaf and those micronutrients are able 00:06:11 to move around through the plant. The really torn up spots, you know, folio RX and Sweet Success would be my go-to there, 00:06:19 you know, the rest of the field. That doesn't look bad. It doesn't mean that it, that they're not damaged. That's correct. They can help the whole field. 00:06:27 Like, I mean, I know where you were going and I, and I feel like sometimes like, Hey, can we go in and rescue these spots? 00:06:33 But like that out there might look nice, but what you don't realize it's hurt is it's hurt and it can be brought around. 00:06:39 Sure. And that's what we wanna see. So, I mean, that's kind of the nice part about, you know, being tied to some of these companies like concept Agritech, 00:06:46 you know, they've got the technology behind them, they have the, the manpower to come out here in the field and speak to you guys. 00:06:53 And, and for me as a farmer and as a retailer, you know, firstly like that's, that's a very powerful tool that we can use. 00:07:01 So we're gonna take some of these samples 00:07:03.145 --> 00:07:04.805