Farming Video | Can This Tool Make Fungicides Work Harder?

00:00:00 We're talking about a fungicide and enhancement product that our friend Chad is gonna be trolling as Alabama farm in conjunction with Galen Beer 00:00:06 and Tidal Grow agriscience. It is a product called Spectra. We use it on my farm. You're gonna put it through a much more paces than 00:00:12 we did. Whatcha you gonna do? Well, we're going to keep plant health. What plant health is, you know, I mean, we wanna get ahead 00:00:19 of it, you know, anytime we can be proactive instead of reactive, we know the plant's gonna be better. So that's kind of the way I look at things, you know, 00:00:26 and on our regular, you know, we're talking about irrigated ground, high yield corn or what, what have you. 00:00:31 But on even our normal ground, the most benefits you can have is to keep that plant healthy. And this is one of those pieces to it. 00:00:39 You know, whether you wanna put it out with a herbicide or whether you wanna put it out at a B 10 shot or BT whatever, it's going 00:00:44 to enhance the fungicides to keep that plant health where It needs. What are you gonna be looking for 00:00:47 Galen? So, yeah, as Chad alluded to, one thing that, uh, CIN does is it's an elicit. 00:00:52 When you put it on a plant, it, it stimulates the plant to put out. It's on defenses. So 00:00:56 that's the first thing it's effective at. The next thing is, is cin, which is in Spectra does, uh, it kind of erodes the outer membrane of a disease. 00:01:05 So if you're going to be going out there as a fungicide, you can add this in there. It sharpens it up, it creates some pathways 00:01:10 for the fungicide to be more effective. Long-term, big picture, you and I both think that there's going to be 00:01:17 regulation on fungicide usage coming to farms across America, just like we're gonna see it on other, uh, herbicides 00:01:23 and also obviously nutrient application. So is this the future? It's certainly gonna be a tool for the future, Damien, 00:01:29 because in California on those specialty crops, they're already seeing those maximum limits and they're having problems controlling disease within 00:01:37 those maximum limits. So a tool like this can help stretch that out for them. Again, we've gotta keep this thing, you know, as farmers, 00:01:45 you know, a lot of times we get the bad vibe about, Hey, we're putting more stuff on, we're putting more stuff on. 00:01:49 Well, we're just, anything we do to protect the plant, we don't wanna buy any more fungicides than we have to, right? 00:01:54 Right. But we gotta have a quality product to sell. And that's where these pieces come in. Is, is is going other ways to stretch fungicides further 00:02:01 or to stretch fertility further, you know, or other avenues that we have to do that with. You know, we wanna be efficient as possible. We talked 00:02:07 About the fun, fun fungus to bacteria ratio in the soil, which is something I never even knew about when I was 00:02:13 growing up until a few years ago. We started talking about it. If we use stuff like Spectra, do we then get that back in ratio 00:02:20 back to where it's supposed to be? Is this a, is this a tool for that case? Yeah. Does it matter? I don't know that it really helps 00:02:25 or hurts one way or the other. I do know that, uh, oddly enough, the beneficials are not chitin based. 00:02:32 And generally your harmful diseases are chitin based. So the spectra has, you know, action against the, the non beneficials leaving the beneficials there. 00:02:42 Besides yield, is there anything else you're looking for? Uh, well it's always plant health. 00:02:47 You know, plant health will evolve to yield. Yep. Right. So that's where we're at with it. 00:02:52 I mean, we know that, you know, as I mentioned it over there earlier, I know when you harvest cornfield, 00:02:55 that cornfield is solid brown, right? And you're harvesting it. Those top leaves on that plant, the last couple leaves, that the last few leaves it puts on 00:03:03 are the first leaves to start deteriorate. So the longer you keep those leaves, you can see it in the yield monitor, 00:03:07 those leaves if they're laid out there and even though they're solid ground, but they're laid out there and they're still intact 00:03:12 and they're still pretty, that is the high yield corn field. You're gonna use this on corn 00:03:17 Only. Uh, corn. And we'll probably run on some beans as well. You're Right. And you got it. You're gonna 00:03:21 do it on some canola, I think. Yeah, we'll have it on. We'll also have it on wheat. 00:03:24 We've already got products there trailing right now on wheat, you know, with other products. But we'll use it in all these stages. 00:03:29 We'll have it on four different crops. We come back here next year, we're going break bend. This thing will be just what we doing. His 00:03:37 Name's Chad Harrison. If you wanna learn more about this product, where do they go? Oh, they go title grow ag.com. 00:03:42 Title ag.com. Dave Mason, Galen Beer, Chad Harrison coming at you from the floor of commodity class at 2026. 114 00:03:47.365 --> 00:03:48.205