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So we're out here today 2025. This is uh, the second year I've had the opportunity to work with a company named vi.
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They got some really good products out there that can work in certain areas, possibly all areas. But, uh, the experience I've had is with the asteroid,
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the astronaut, and the by fender, the by fender product. I really liked it to help control Wireworms
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and other insect pressures that I had. So what we're doing today, so we can really keep up with this and make sure
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that we can find out if we do have ROI on these products. And that's all that matters is ROI.
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So we look right here, we got our variety. Beside the variety number, it's got five and then it's got asteroids.
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So we will plant three planter passes with this and then we're going to leave three grower standards untreated.
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Then we're going to plant add the by Fender product in and do three passes. That's pretty long passes.
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So we're going to get a few acres in a pass here and we're going to add that by fender in. And then we're gonna come back on that grower standard pass
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and we'll leave an additional grower standard pass with no treatment whatsoever. But then we're gonna leave 120 foot strip so
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that we can come back at V four and add another treatment that's separate from these here. And then when we go to harvest this plot,
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all we gotta look at is the hybrid number and that's going to tell exactly how many pounds it is. And then if we can't really see much difference during that,
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we'll actually bring the weight wagon in here and measure off the length with a wheel and we'll weigh the pounds
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and we'll check the moisture to verify that the combine is doing the correct job and recording the right information.
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'cause it's very critical that we give the growers and our members at Extreme Mag very accurate information because the last thing we want to do is recommend a product
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that we are saying it's got a ROI and then we found out we didn't measure it correctly. So we're, we're very careful about the method
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behind the process of getting you good, solid information. Pretty excited about this.
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I've been doing these acronyms for many years. You've heard me talk about 'em, but it's easy to forget about it.
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But when you're planning and using products and you need to plan ahead, if you're going to do some foliar trials, go ahead
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and set that out in your variety. And then with your operation center, you can go in there on your phone
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and see exactly where these treatment locations are and make sure we don't mess up. It ain't like the old school days when we had our flags out
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there everywhere and we're running around trying to find 'em or can't seal 'em and the ones stuck behind a cornstalk
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or a bean plant or something like that. So, uh, a little bit of information on what we're doing here today,
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but I will tell you we did have good results with the by fender last year. Our drought kicked everything else in the teeth,
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but um, you don't have to worry about the fungal disease when you ain't got no ear from a drought.
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So, uh, I hope that 2025 is much better to the East Coast than 2024 was. Hope this helps you all.
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