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Hey everyone. Bye. Kevin's here. Calibrated agro out here with a stream backed field report and the one
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and only Kelly Garrett's soybean field here in Western Iowa. So it's August 13th.
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Uh, we're just out, I'm just out here actually sap sampling this bean field. We applied, uh, a nutritional pass here two
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days ago with the drone. So gonna measure that with a SAP analysis and see, see how well I did on my recommendation of, uh,
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getting nutrients moving the plant. So, uh, the other thing I wanted to talk about here, not only that, but you know,
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through the season we've been trying to balance these beans, learn, uh, do our own research here on the farm for Kelly
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and, and get better at trying to be more efficient at raising beans. So, um, the, one of the ways we do
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that is obviously sap sampling, but the other thing I think, uh, that's probably pertinent to everybody is the disease profile In this field,
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beans tend to have, uh, lot more issues with disease than we, I I think we realize at times, and it, it's, to me, it's getting worse, um, as we move on.
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And this field actually has a little bit of SDS right here, uh, and a little spot.
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And I kind of knew that this, we, we soiled DA of this test. So basically we came out here like a soil sample,
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and we, uh, pulled some dirt and then went into a lab to be, uh, genomics tested for pathogens, biodiversity, all those good things.
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Uh, and learn more about, about the biological profile of this, this particular field. And the area I'm in here is really high in fusarium, uh,
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which makes sense why the SDS here. There's a few stem rots, wilted plants underneath the canopy here as well.
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But, um, I kind of knew that going in. But we, we took the method that we do at calibrate agronomy and we, we attacked it with beneficial biology on the seed.
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Uh, we laid down a bunch of, uh, what we like to use is BioE and the pre-plant at a heavy dose.
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And we've been dosing in biology all season. And so far, um, with the SDS and at least our local area being pretty rampant, a lot
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of fields, I haven't seen it spread very well. I mean, obviously we've got a few plants here and there that are affected, but, uh, nothing too crazy yet.
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Uh, we still got a long ways to go and it could flare up, but so far looking great.
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But I think the lesson I want to kind of implore on people is if you know the pathogen below to your field, that you can make adjustments, uh, to your,
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to your plan, going in to next year's crop and being able to measure that and know what to do is vital. Um, I, I feel personally that some
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of the seed treatment fungicides aren't working anymore, and this is the direction we took.
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Um, and to me, that's wasting dollars and we want to use dollars that, uh, are effective, right? So that's kind of what we're using,
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but we can't know what we're fighting unless we measure it. And that, and the soil genomics testing is
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so vital in knowing what you're fighting. So if you got any questions, reach out to us, calibrate agronomy extreme mag and let us,
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and we can hopefully answer 'em. 00:02:50.785 --> 00:02:53.365
