Farming Video | Boosting Plant Health to Cut Back on Fungicides

00:00:00 Hey y'all, it's Chad Henderson with Extreme Ag. I'm here with my buddy Kelly Garrett, chase Garner, Matt Miles, and uh, we're here in the shop day, spray tech. 00:00:10 Talk about a little cube. Yeah. What you think about the cube. I love that product. I love that product, 00:00:15 especially in the Southeast. Um, this product comes in real handy during the, uh, fungicide season. 00:00:22 You know, with this product you can pair it with a fungicide or you can run a standalone. So I 00:00:27 Know that's what we did on some of our wheat is I run a, I wouldn't say cheaper, I'd say a lesser fungicide 00:00:32 and put in like, I think it's 2.7 ounces of this. Yep. Instead of a, what is it, 2.7 with fungicide? Four ounce alone Four. Yep. 00:00:39 So that's what we did on the wheated. That's what we'll be looking at on some of the corn from B 10. 00:00:43 Yep. This is one of my favorite products. Uh, this is really the product that, you know, working with Drew in Iowa started me on the path that I'm on 00:00:51 where I talk about using that SAP test to measure. And I, I find it always entertaining now when you talk about it being fungicide season 00:00:58 because as farmers we think we have to put that fungicide on to battle the disease. 00:01:02 And what we've learned now with the SAP test, if we measure what we've got out there 00:01:07 and we balance that plant cube helps us do that. We have seen many times where Cube makes the plant healthy enough because we're balancing the plant. 00:01:15 We don't need the fungicide, then we can cut back on that spend or reallocate it, save it, whatever you'd like to do. 00:01:21 This is a great product that really started me on this path of measuring and managing what I have in the plant. 00:01:27 So, yeah, with this, so you're getting the nutritional value mm-hmm. With it. But then also you're getting the copper 00:01:32 of phosphate with it. So you're getting a natural fungicide. So with this product you're getting the nutritional 00:01:38 value and then also with it. So it's good for fungal and bacteria. So you're getting That's right. Two modes of action with it 00:01:43 Too. Well I know that's the, this is one of the first products that I thought of when, you know, two 00:01:47 or three years ago when Kelly talked about, you know, if we get to plant healthy enough, what do we do? We need fungicides. 00:01:53 You know, that time is the question, do we need fungicides at this? And we've proved that E essentially we're raising the brick score 00:02:00 of the plants enough that we don't need fungicide. One of the first times I ever talked to Temple after we met him at the extreme mag, 00:02:05 Matt introduced US Temple called me and he said, I've got Pythium in my beans. And they, and I think it was Chad 00:02:10 or Matt said that to call you about spray tech and what do you have? And I lined temple and drew up 00:02:15 and he put on two different applications of the cube and it saved temple's, bean crop when the pythium was so bad. 00:02:21 Uh, in north of me about a half hour is OBO Iowa the greatest soil in the world. And the white mold is so bad 00:02:27 because of all the nitrogen being released from the soil. And my good friend John Scott called me 00:02:32 and he said, well, they talk about this, uh, spray tech products and what can you do? He said, we can raise 300 bushel corn. 00:02:37 We can't raise 60 bushel beans 'cause of the white mold. Drew worked with him two applications of the cube 00:02:42 and the beans made 96. Yep. Pretty, pretty. It's an amazing thing. This is, and it's just 00:02:47 because we're achieving mineral balance, nutritional imbalance. Well two things. We preach at spray tank, 00:02:52 stress mitigation and plant health. And you get that one bottle right there. If you get plant health, you will have stress 00:02:58 mitigation. Yep. Wait Till we get some of this on cotton with Matt. Come on. Come On. Well see. 00:03:03 And that's the thing on cotton, we don't, we don't use fungicides on cotton, but we've started developing target spot. 00:03:08 Target spot is a light disease that we get that most of the guys don't even treat because there's not ROI to it. We've done some work with traditional fungicides 00:03:17 and we've seen where they at least pay their way if not a little bit more. There's no nutritional value there. 00:03:22 So if you can take a product like this, put it on your cotton, relieve the target spot, which is a lighter disease, 00:03:28 and also get some nutritional value added too, corn, southern rust comes in. That's our main disease. But it's normally so late 00:03:34 that it's not really affecting us. But if you're looking for plant health, you know, a lot of the reasons we put out fun size on 00:03:40 soybeans are for plant health. That's why we go earlier in the year. We'll go in R three, R two 00:03:45 and a half R three instead of, you know, R five or wait until the disease is present. I would caution a little bit on, in our area on, 00:03:51 on soybeans along with frogeye leaf spot. That's the only thing I've seen that we can't control with just nutrition. 00:03:58 Yeah. But I mean the money we save in the corn, the money we save in the cotton, you know, with these lighter diseases 00:04:04 or diseases that don't matter, you're not going to get nutritional value out of a fungicide. Yep. But you can get this 00:04:09 with a nutritional value plus get some fungicide properties that normally if you got your plant 00:04:14 balance, we'll take care of that. Yeah. He's making a great point. That fungicide is what I call a purely defensive spend. Yes. 00:04:20 This is an offensive spend. Mm-hmm. You're gonna get, when you balance the plant, you're gonna get that health, that defense 00:04:25 of the health being healthy, but you're gonna get the offense where you're making more yield. You're never gonna make more yield 00:04:29 with the fungicide. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly right. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. You Put your fungicide out to protect your yield, 00:04:35 you put your cube out to increase it. That's exactly Right. So, you know, with this product, Chad, Chad actually did something this year 00:04:41 with a cheaper fungicide. Running a cheaper fungicide and not running the premium fungicide and pairing the cheaper fungicide with the cube. 00:04:47 And we ran some of that this year on you. Mm-hmm. You've gotta be careful where you're run when you're running the cheaper fungicide. 00:04:53 'cause it won't last as long. That's right. So you gotta be careful of your timing, your application if you're going after a certain disease 00:04:58 and specifically like we're talking about no nutritional. Yeah. You gotta make sure you're at the right time. That's 00:05:03 Right. And or knowing that we're gonna make multiple applications. Right. You know, like you're talking about, 00:05:07 hey I'm gonna make R three, I'm going to make a R five. You know, if you're gonna go out there and you're gonna make one, put this with it, 00:05:13 but use a, the best fungicides you can get. We're not taking away from the fungicides, we just know that we're gonna make multiple applications. 00:05:19 Yeah. With a historically the way we farm and, And, and it's you do that, you can take a half products fungicide, generic fungicide Yeah. 00:05:26 And pair it with that and, and probably control anything you're looking for. Yeah. I know now that I'm gonna make multiple applications 00:05:32 of a product like this because my soul's releasing so much nitrogen, I struggle to keep up. 00:05:38 So they, you, you know, how many for years have we heard about split applying your nitrogen or spoon feeding your nitrogen? 00:05:44 That is the last thing I need to do. I need to splitly or spoon feed the micronutrients and the other products to keep up with the nitrogen 00:05:51 Release. Isn't that a great problem? Yeah. I Let wrap my mind around that. My corn's out here here and it's yellow right now. 00:05:57 But lemme wrap my Ryan around. We're spoon feeding because of rains and leaching and everything else. 00:06:02 And then he's having problems having, having spoon feeding. I just can't keep up man. Alright. 00:06:07 What do y'all wanna talk about? Because we ain't talking we him no more. You know, spray tech, we like the low you rate. 00:06:13 We, we really like the low you rate. That's huge. You know, we deal with jugs instead of, uh, totes. Totes. So Yeah, that's One ure is a nice bonus. 00:06:21 That's one of the coolest things to me about spray tech is you can, you know, we were looking at a, at a load the other day 00:06:27 that was gonna be 18 gallons chasing, I was kind of figuring it up. 18 gallons of a competitor. 00:06:32 I shouldn't say competitor, just a fertility product or to get those same nutrients. 18 gallons per hundred acre load. 00:06:39 One point, was it 1.8 gallons? Yeah. 1.8 gallons of his to 18 gallon Gallon gallon. Yeah. And 00:06:44 think how many less the the the room on your truck on a tender truck. It just comes down to You can put it in 00:06:49 Your pocket. Yeah. Every hundred load. Every hundred acre. Just get it outta your pocket. Yes. 00:06:52 Yep. And that's all of our products, you know, not, not just the cube. That's all of our products. We like the low use rate. Yep. 00:06:58 Two ounce avant. Start with the adjuvant low use rate on it. And then we just, um, Diego likes his low use rates 00:07:05 And one of the things that we have started to do, and Johnny put us onto this, we were always spraying 15 and 20 gallon water now 00:07:11 that we're treating our water and doing a better job. And it's because of the full tech now that we've learned about treating our water 00:07:17 and getting our water right. On our pre, we went down to seven gallons. Yeah. And then you got 154 acre loads in that sprayer. Yeah. 00:07:23 The proficiency goes so far up. Absolutely. So there's more room on the truck. You know, I now tell Richie 00:07:28 and Pat, they wanna argue with me a little bit, but I tell Richie and Pat, you don't need a tender driver. Now I can take that labor and I can do something else. 00:07:34 He park that truck. You spraying 150 acres old, that guy's just gonna sit There and just Oh, but but he needs somebody mixed. 00:07:39 That's, yeah. That's a little different perspective. Richie's here, we'll have to ask him about, but he, he doesn't need a tender driver now. Yeah. Yeah. 00:07:47 That's exactly right. That's a big key to, to Y'all process. Yes. There's a savings there. There's hidden 00:07:51 savings in that efficiency. Absolutely. Like the product, we're gonna keep using It. We'll see how 00:07:56 much is too much If anybody Yeah. If anybody will see how much is too much. Go look at that burn corn down there. Yeah. 00:08:02 Just send it. That is a fact. That is a fact. 00:08:05.755 --> 00:08:06.445