Farming Video | Kelly Garrett Talks Calcium & Magnesium Base Saturation Fixes

10 Jul 251m 11s

Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg shares practical advice on tackling base saturation issues in corn fields, straight from lessons at Matt Miles' recent Field Day. He explains the difference between calcium saturation problems in hill ground and magnesium saturation in bottoms, emphasizing the need to actively manage soil balance to unlock nutrient availability.

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00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Gear from Extreme Ag. We're out here looking at some corn this afternoon. Uh, I just returned home here a couple days ago from Matt 00:00:06 Miles Field Day, and I wanted to bring up a couple of the questions that I was asked at the field day and are commonly asked questions. 00:00:13 What do I do when I have a calcium based saturation problem? What do I do when I have a magnesium 00:00:18 based saturation problem? One of the things that I do is ammonium sulfate. Uh, one of the other things I would do is look at a product 00:00:26 like Titan from Gerson, put it on that phosphate, put it on that 1150 2.0 00:00:31 and treat that to allow it to become available. I do several things to work on my base saturation, just like we do several things that'll work on our residue, 00:00:40 and it's a huge problem in the hills. You're gonna have a base saturation calcium problem in the bottoms. 00:00:45 You're gonna have a base saturation magnesium problem, and you constantly need to be treating that. It should be your number one priority in your soil is 00:00:52 to help balance it, to allow your nutrition to become available. One of the solutions 00:00:57 to those problems can be a product like Titan from Grason where it encapsulates 00:01:02 or protects that 1150 2.0 from being tied up from the magnesium and the calcium. It's something every grower should look at in this economic 00:01:10 time with tight margins and a shrinking ROI. How do we turn down that input budget to protect the ROI 00:01:17.285 --> 00:01:18.085

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