Farming Video | Finishing Soybeans Strong with Matt Miles and Kevin Matthews

00:00:00 We're talking to my friend Matt Miles, Tommy Roach with Nature's, and of course Kevin Matthews with Extreme Ag about how we are going 00:00:06 to finish this soybean crop. Tommy Roach, this is kind of cool. You're working on this plot and you 00:00:10 said it's all about the finish. So we just got done with Matt's field date and it's really amazing 00:00:16 how little people carry it to the very end. Yeah. They might get to the say that R two R three fungicide. 00:00:23 Yep. Then they quit. There's a long way to go past that and that's kind of what we're here talking about right Now. Accurate assessment, 00:00:30 by the way, is accurate assessment. Ask the farmers, do people give up too soon or just, or they give up. 00:00:34 Give up on energy, or they decide to stop spending money. Why do people not finish? 00:00:38 Well, a lot, A lot of it we was taught, you know, do everything by R three and walk away from it. And that's just so wrong. 00:00:44 We, we've learned through extreme ag and working with companies like Tommy here at Nature's that there's more to it 00:00:50 and the influence in that seed size, there's so much yield there. A soybean crop, 50 bushel bean crop, 3000 seed per pound. 00:00:58 Right. We bring it down to 22,000, 2100. We just picked up 36 bushels. We got a 86 bushel bean crop. Then that's easy 00:01:05 Money. He equates it to, to test weight and seed size. Seed size. Seed size if you will, which is seed size, 00:01:11 soybean equivalent test weight maybe, I guess. All right. So, well There's a test weight on there, but I mean, 00:01:15 seed si seed size in general is a big deal. And that happens after R three. That's where you finish it off. 00:01:21 It starts, you know, sooner than that, but that's where you finish it off. So what are we doing out here, Matt? Well, 00:01:25 So far we've just got the R three application on there, but there's an R five R five application that'll go on next on Tommy's plot. 00:01:31 Then in the middle plot is just what a standard grower would put out, which is fungicide R free, 00:01:36 and then the advanced egg plot on the end, which is basically the same thing Tommy does too. So it's very detrimental that you do that. 00:01:43 Now we struggle a little more in Kevin because we're nighttime temperatures. A lot of times it's so hot. Yep. We don't get the return. 00:01:49 Tommy and I have been working on this a lot trying to figure out, you know, the plant says Yes, I need a fertility, but it's so hot, I just wanna live. 00:01:57 So we struggle a little more in the south and deep south. Right, right. Than what these other guys do. 00:02:01 But it still pays off And you know, if you look at the weather, what's been going on, yes, there's been a lot of rain. 00:02:07 Yes, there's been cloudy days and I, I don't know if you could ask for any better growing conditions that we're in right now, 00:02:14 but clouds do not help. The plant smoke that's coming outta Canada do not, does not help the plant because plant's not able 00:02:22 to produce energy, produce food. Yeah. And that's why we have to take steps to help finish it out. 00:02:28 Is the finish just fertility? Is there something else? Well, it's a balance. It's ba it's, and Kelly talks about this a lot, 00:02:36 about balance and then that, that's true. 'cause you can't focus on any one thing you need. You know, you need potassium late season, 00:02:43 you need phosphorus, you need sulfur being an OS seed crop. Heck, if you're over 70 bushel beans, 00:02:49 you need more nitrogen, which that's something that people don't think of being a soybean, that you have to apply nitrogen. 00:02:55 But the common thought about microbes is, I don't need very much, or they're easily to drop out. I think that's where you get your size from as micros. 00:03:04 Well, if you put too much nitrogen and you don't put the micros out there, then you're really getting it out of balance. 00:03:08 Now, ours is not just fertility, it's fertility, insects and irrigation. Because Especially with the being the climate you have, 00:03:14 you can't do without the water and you're gonna have insects later in the season than even he would in North Carolina, perhaps. Yeah. At 00:03:20 R six we're gonna have an application for stink bugs no matter what. When that plant gets to R six, 00:03:24 you can just basically know you're gonna spray it for stink bugs. How you finish varies geographically quite a bit, 00:03:30 but still it comes down to some of the basics you'd say. I don't know that it varies that much geographically is is 00:03:37 the insecticide part. We don't have the stink bug issues. Right. That Matt has, but then there's years we do. 00:03:42 And if you're out in that field, making those applications and planning on it, you can see if you're going, you know, 00:03:47 this year could be the year that we have it and we've had them years. Big takeaways from what you were showing people today. 00:03:52 If somebody wanted to come to this field day and was unable to make it to the Delta region of Arkansas today, tell me a couple things you showed them 00:03:59 Late season potassium, uh, we talk about this a lot being in the delta. All the crops in the delta cotton, corn beans, 00:04:08 they are potassium hogs. There's differences in what you can use for potassium. Of course, these guys, extreme ag, are sponsors of bio Kay. 00:04:18 Yep. You drive around, say in August, September, you see bronzing spots out in cotton fields and people say, well, I I applied KCL, 00:04:27 why am I still seeing, uh, potassium issues? It's, you're chasing, you're chasing down a rabbit hole every year if 00:04:34 that's the only thing that you're doing. People ask you questions and they're like, okay, what am I looking at here? 00:04:39 You'd say, we're experimenting with stuff on how to finish this crop. And they say, what is your objective? 00:04:43 Of course, more money, more yield, whatever. What are you gonna look for that tells you I got success on this plot 00:04:49 As far as like prior to an application. Yep. So I'm gonna look at how many pods I've got. Like if there're three beam pods, four beam pods kind 00:04:56 of determine what I think my yield's gonna be. Yep. And then I know kind of where my budget needs to be from there. 00:05:01 And then finish. And the last question I'm gonna ask both of these guys, uh, somebody like our friend Chad, 00:05:04 he might be out there at the sprayer as the combine is pulling into the field, he might take it too far. 00:05:10 How do you keep from going too far, too late into the season, uh, because you just earned this. I'm finishing this crop, I'm finishing this crop. 00:05:16 When's it too late? And just it's time to stop. You know, I've actually caused some rapid, rapid death. I mean, I, I've kind of pushed it a little too far at the 00:05:24 wrong times with a crop under stress and just shut it down. You've got to get them boots in the field 00:05:29 and you've got to know the proper timings and understand the proper growth stages. That is the biggest misconception. 00:05:37 I shouldn't say the biggest, but it's one of the bigger problems would be a better way of saying it, even with myself is not, not knowing 00:05:43 that proper growth stage. And when that plant is truly at a R four or R five or a R six, even with Desiccating, I mean, 00:05:51 everybody's trying to figure out when has the membrane separated? When can I desiccate? 00:05:56 So learning those crop stages is essential. And I will tell you when it comes to geographic, when you go to a dry land situation, it's a lot harder 00:06:03 because when you're irrigated, you've controlled that water. Mm. And you know, you've got a more uniform crop. 00:06:09 And when you're dry land, you've got a low valley that's way further along than that hilltop, or maybe that hilltop's just dying prematurely due 00:06:16 to dry weather or, or whatever. So then you gotta say, okay, well what percentage of my field is ready then? 00:06:23 And so it can get, it can get tough on them. Late seasoned applications, whether it's your f or fertility passable buy. 00:06:29 Okay. Or if it's coming into desiccate. If you Look at that list on our grower standard practice, and I mean, it scares the crap out of people. 00:06:36 It's this longer, it, every product you can think of, you've seen it. Y'all seen it today. It's four bushel. Four bushels at $10. 00:06:43 Man at $10 is four bushel. Yeah. I mean, you can easily get four bushels outta that. You can, you can more than you four. 00:06:49 You can four times yourself. All right. Last question. Somebody walking through this field day day, Tommy said, you know what, I can't afford to finish in a year like this. 00:06:56 Come out, these are too cheap. He just threw the 40, $40 to $10 of spend to $40 of gain. 00:07:00 Is that the number you gave them? But can you not afford to? Yeah, that's what I was Gonna say. His name is Tommy, Tommy 00:07:06 Roach with Nature's. Uh, we were here at the Miles Field Day. Kevin Matthews was one of the presenters, uh, 00:07:10 miles, one of the presenters. We also had Kelly Gar as one of the presenters. 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