Farming Video | Will Kevin’s New Seed Treatment Boost ROI?
14 Jun 252m 17s

Kevin Matthews is trying out a new fertility solution designed for farmers who don’t have in-furrow or 2x2 setups. He shows how he applied it to seed, set up field trials with check strips, and is watching closely for yield bump, plantability, and any issues at the planter. It’s layered on top of his usual fertility plan to really see if there’s any measurable gain. With an easy application process and a careful trial setup, Kevin’s hoping for good ROI results by harvest.

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00:00:00 So we're right here today. This is a first for us. We're using a product called Power Plant. This is a fertility option In the event you don't have, uh, 00:00:09 infer or two by two or one or the other, and you want to have a little more additive in your planter. It's a pretty good option. We hope they tell us it is. 00:00:20 So what we're doing here today, we put this on some Pioneer 1511. We've already planted this field behind us with, um, 00:00:28 all the turn rows and we've got check strips put across it 24 rows of different check strips. 00:00:35 So now what we're going to do, we've added this product in to 1300 pounds of seed. 00:00:41 It goes, uh, three ounces per unit of seed. It's pretty easy to use. I do recommend that you use a 00:00:48 respirator if you try this product on your farm to see if it's something you wanna make as your grower standard. 00:00:53 We've got the corn in there, we've got it treated. It was pretty easy to do. It was easy to measure, self-explanatory, uh, especially 00:01:02 where I got scales that made it easy for me. Now we're going down and planting another field that's about five acres in it. 00:01:09 It's just a small little bottom right here. So what we're gonna do is plant that. Then we're, then we'll plant away from the check strips 00:01:17 and then plant towards the strips. That way we ensure I wanna make real good, ensure I've got good coverage on all the seed. 00:01:23 And these central commodity tanks is going to blow it through there very well. But as we field it, it, it appeared to get decent coverage. 00:01:30 Hopefully this will have a ROI for us. We are running our traditional grower standard fertility, and this is going to be added on top of it. 00:01:39 So we'll be able to see does it make a yield difference against our grower standard? And, um, from what I'm hearing from the other guys, it, it, 00:01:48 it does also on this product, we um, we did not add any talc. We used that for our talc and graphite. 00:01:55 So, uh, the question's going to be plantability. That's what we're looking for. How does it plant, how does the planter like that stuff, 00:02:01 does it build up on my disc? You know, those are things we need to know when we're testing these products. 00:02:07 Y'all stay with us this season and we'll see how this power plant from agritech USA works 00:02:12.785 --> 00:02:13.005

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