Farming Video | Temple Rhodes on Phosphorus Efficiency

00:00:00 Hey guys, this temple. I'm here with Joe, um, Joe's my area rep for agro liquid. So what we're gonna talk about today is, is like kind 00:00:08 of our inherent area. Yep. Like where we're from, we have to deal with phosphorus. And phosphorus for us is a, you know, 00:00:14 I mean it's a major contributor. Now you're also standing on ground that hadn't had any dry phosphorus put on it in three years. 00:00:22 But yet we still, with liquid products, we can still facilitate it. I mean, you're looking at the plant, you see any purple 00:00:29 and you see any deficiencies, it looks great. Phosphorus stands out like a sore thumb. And the way you're feeding that plant, a lot 00:00:34 of times we see guys that have fo high phosphorus levels and those cells see a phosphorus deficiency in their plant 00:00:40 because they're not allowed to apply much. Yeah. And what happens is that phosphorus in the soil is tied up. 00:00:45 It's not releasing. So you gotta be careful when you're applying a phosphorus, you wanna do it in an efficient way to make sure it's getting into the plant, 00:00:52 not getting up, tied up in the soil. It is one of the least inefficient nutrients there is. And that's one of the reasons we have the issue. 00:00:58 Well, as soon as it touches the grain, you got any calcium in the soil whatsoever. Yep. Boom. It's tied up. 00:01:02 And there's not a lot that we can do. We keep talking about soil balance, we talk about that all the time. 00:01:06 Yep. Absolutely. You know, balance your soil, balance your soil. Well, in reality, I don't have enough time Sure. 00:01:12 In my life to to balance all, balance Everything out. Yep. I don't have enough time or enough money to, to do it. 00:01:19 But what I will tell you is for me, I don't necessarily care. I wanna balance the plant. 00:01:25 Yep. So you can feed the plant. That's what you doing here. I Can feed the plant, you Can feed that plant with 00:01:28 Liquid. I can facilitate it. I know that a crop has certain uptakes and I know that I'm gonna get in front of each one of them. 00:01:34 Sure. Now am I gonna go down, out here and put on two gallons of this and two gallons of that here and there. 00:01:40 Like, as that cycle of that plant grows, I'm putting it just enough on to get it through. And that's what's helping me in nutrient management. 00:01:47 Like, keep in mind our nutrient management plant is, is anything that touches the soil. Right. So I can put a little bit in furrow Right. 00:01:55 Or a little bit in tube or two. Right. Right. And the rest of it I can put it on, on this plant in furrow. And it's made a huge difference for me. 00:02:01 And, and, and the ticket to what you're doing is you're matching nutrients to the, when the uptake is really happening in that plant. 00:02:07 Yeah. You're giving that plant when it needs it. So you're being really efficient with your nutrients. And one of the things we do with agri liquid, 00:02:13 we say we can apply less and expect more. We avoid the tie up and the leaching that happens to nutrients in soil. 00:02:19 We make sure it gets in the plant where it's in the soil or you apply it Foley 00:02:23 or we're driving nutrients into the plant and matching it to that time when the plant's really 00:02:27 ramping up nutrient uptake. That's the ticket to making. And when you really get down to it, like 00:02:32 in agriculture today, there's not a lot of money to be made. Yeah. You know, I had a guy tell me a long time ago is 00:02:38 like, he would always get us talking. He'd be like, it's exciting times to be in agriculture. Well, not if you're in it today, it's not. 00:02:43 But what is exciting in agriculture is, is there is different ways. Yep. And that's the great part. 00:02:49 If you know what that curb is, if you get in front of each one of those windows, proactive makes money, reactive loses money. 00:02:56 Sure. Get in front of them. You can facilitate it. These plants doesn't matter if we're just talking about phosphorus or any of the nutrients, any nutrient. 00:03:03 Yep. If you get in front of 'em, we have a way to do it and we can't do it if we take and we are spoon feeding our plant, 00:03:11 but we're also spoon feeding our finances. Yep. If it turns dry, you can, you can cut it off. Sure. And if you put it all dry down, up front, it's over. Yep. 00:03:21 But spoonfeeding, you're spoonfeeding a lot of different things. So you can, you can cut off whenever you want 00:03:25 or you can ramp it up wherever you want. Yep. So, And you've learned to do that doing these trials and doing what works on your farm. 00:03:31 And I would say everybody should do that. Learn what works on your operation and You, and in reality, we actually cut a lot 00:03:37 of money costs out of a, any little bit of money that we can cut out and put it in the plant. We're growing the same crop. Sure. 00:03:43 We're doing just as well, but yet we're doing it in a better, um, efficient way. You know, and that's the only way 00:03:50 that we're gonna save money in the agriculture today is being more efficient, whether it is efficiency in the field or whether it's efficiency in the plant. 00:03:58 But I would much rather keep this plant efficient than worry about my soil being perfect. 00:04:02 I agree a hundred percent. So we're gonna let you know more as this product goes all throughout the year. 119 00:04:07.105 --> 00:04:07.965