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Hey, y'all, it's Jason Birkenfeld here. We're out here in the Texas Panhandle at our XtremeAg cotton trial using Tidal Grown's Oceanic. We're getting ready to make a
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fertigation application. We're going to go through that setup, but we'll be fertigating a gallon of Oceanic along with our standard
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fertilizer program. For this trial, we're only running Oceanic on five zones
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in this drip system, so a little bit of extra setup required here, where normally you'd get to blend that right in with the fertilizer in the
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tank. So we're going to be applying this trial just using an Agrinject chemigation pump. I do this a lot on trials just
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because we're not going to be doing every zone in this field. Normally, you could just blend it right in with your
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fertilizer, whatever you're running out of your standard tanks. But in this case, we're going to be using this chemigation unit.
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We're going to be putting 28 gallons in and running it through five zones tonight. All right, so the cotton's coming along nicely.
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We're starting to see some blooms, which means this cotton's going through a major physiological change where our nutrient sinks change from
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leaves, stems, vegetation, into our reproductive parts of the plant. Along with that comes a very big change in nutrient
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demand. We're going to see elevated demand for phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, boron, you name it. As well as we need to
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be looking at whether our nitrogen is converting from nitrate and ammonium forms into protein. Protein's what makes lint,
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and we hit this reproductive stage, that becomes really important. So hopefully with our Oceanic application, we're seeing that
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root zone, that rhizosphere improve. We're seeing improved nutrient uptake, stuff like that. But we'll be monitoring this as we have been weekly with Sat, and we'll get to
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