Addressing and Fixing Common Nutrient Deficiencies
In this field day trial, Kevin addresses the common nutrient deficiencies found in the region's soils, particularly potassium and calcium.
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00:00 Hey, we're bringing you Kevin Matthews Field Day to your living room or wherever you watch your videos from Extreme ag, because some of you maybe didn't make it here. 00:07 Kind of a cool thing going on. We're talking to Galen Beer with Agro liquid. Obviously Kevin Matthews, one of the founders 00:11 of Extreme Ag Capitalize. It's a product that you're excited about. You're doing a trial here. It's a potassium, 00:16 a centric product, and you developed it for the Southeast Kevin's in North Carolina. I think that qualifies. What are we 00:22 Talking about? It does qualify. The reason, uh, we developed it for the Southeast, you can kind of know nutrient 00:28 to deficiencies that you would run into in a given's yard if you just based on climate. 00:33 And we know the southeast is commonly going to be low on potassium and calcium. So the capitalized contains both of those nutrients in there 00:41 and that's what was applied to the corn behind us. Do you know what you put on here? Because you said Stephanie won't tell me what all is in, uh, 00:49 capitalize this product. Obviously it's got potassium. Uh, do you have any idea what else is in the product coming? Well, 00:54 It, it has some calcium and sulfur in it too, if I remember correctly, correct? Yep. And then we added deliberate calcium, 01:00 which is another product that they use to help boost that calcium because we're naturally low in calcium here. But the unique thing that we've done different here, uh, Mr. 01:10 Damien, is we did our, basically our standard program and we added five gallons of this product on top of our program and then we replicated it across the field 01:20 and tried it with different varieties to see if there's a variety of response to that extra potassium. 01:25 Okay. Does, okay. First off, why is potassium a problem in the southeast? It sand. I mean, this isn't sand. 01:31 I mean part, partly it's the soil type, but more importantly it's just that mother nature. Every time uh, she sends an event like she'll probably do 01:39 during this field day of a heavy rain, it'll grab some potassium and it'll carry it off site and it ends up, you know, in the rivers. 01:45 So potassium's, more leachable than the other stuff. And Kevin does have a very good environmental record. He does no till he is doing no-till minimum till cover 01:52 crops long before other people. Yeah. But about the leach ability of potassium, that's obviously not just a southeast problem, it's just 01:57 that you said of all the places that need this product bad, it's here. That's correct. And just to be clear on, uh, 02:03 that leaching, it's not that we're doing it over Kevin's lifetime, it's what happens over, across, you know, thousands of years. 02:09 Oh, okay. I mean, you're talking about that type of climate that has made these soils low 02:14 and potassium over an extended period of time. So that's just going to be a chronic issue here. What are you excited to see? What do you expect to see? 02:21 Well, when this corn was coming up right after it was planted, we had a huge rain event about 14 inches of rain. 02:27 And it really, the corn that had the extra potassium recovered quicker. And I think it is the fact that the nitrogen 02:36 and the potassium, everything plays so much better. The synergy between them. Mm-Hmm. And it allowed the roots to get big ass 02:43 and get some oxygen back in that soils where they was, uh, able to get that air in there 02:49 and kind of grow out of that saturated this that we've seen. So You expect to see, uh, you're salvage 02:54 of yield, you're a salvage of crop. You're excited about that. When did the potassium, when did the, when did this this capitalize go on 03:00 At Planting? Yeah, it was at planting in furrow? Yes. No, this was in a tube by two right here. Was added in a tub by two. 03:07 How can I use it? I can only use it in tub by two. A lot of people don't have Tub two. Oh, well you, you can go in furrow with it. Okay. 03:12 Uh, it, you know, if it had a higher sulfur content, we'd be concerned about it, but it's a little sulfur content that's in, 03:18 so you could go in furrow and a lot of guys use it as a foliar as Well. Okay. I'm in Indiana. 03:22 I don't, I'm not in the southeast. Do I need capitalized? Do I have a potassium problem? You do. You're in an area 03:27 that's still potassium will be a bit of an issue. Got it. And you know, the other thing that you gotta look at too is like 03:32 every geography's different. We have a different set of products for California. Sure. Right. So you're trying to match what the climate 03:37 Calls for, but we need a higher Chicago Board of Trade Christ. See, we need to be careful how much we push this. 03:43 That's right. Okay. So we're excited about this. We're seeing some really good corn for this field day. We're using Capitalize 03:48 the trial that we're gonna hear about. If you're an Extreme Ag member, you get all the trial results, all of the data at the end of the year. 03:52 It's just seven $50 a year to become an Extreme Act member. And you'll get all the data results. 03:56 You'll also get a direct line of communication with Kevin because you can talk 03:59 to the Extreme Act guys in the question and answer platform. You also get exclusive offers from 04:03 our, some of our business partners. And more importantly, you get to be on our monthly webinars. We like that. So anyway, 04:08 you're gonna be sharing this data at the end of the year and what we see out here in terms of yield as results, 04:12 how many different versions of capitalizes on this field? So we got three different versions 04:16 with three different varieties. Got it. And so that's really, and you know, what we wanna do is identify Damien. 04:22 Is there a variety that's kind of a bigger hog of potassium than others? Yeah. You know, where's that ROI at? 04:28 Where can we make the most money? You gotta refine that rate. Got it. If you wanna come to our 04:32 field days, they're always free. If you wanna see the results at the end of the year, you gotta be extreme AG member. 04:36 Till next time, Galen Beer Aggro liquid. Kevin Matthews, free Mag me Damien Mason. Thanks for being here.
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