00:00:00 Hey everybody, it's Lee Luber from Gregory South Dakota with Extreme Ag. Today I'm standing in a growth regulator trial 00:00:07 where we use Palisade on winter wheat. And what made it a little bit unique is we had no fall growth last year planted into bone dry ground. 00:00:18 We got 7,000 rain, we planted it third week of September. Second week of November, we got 70 hundreds of rain on it. 00:00:27 So we got germination then and it was starting to dry out, uh, around Christmas time, getting kinda serious. 00:00:34 And then we got a little layer of snow. It stayed on for about six weeks. It saved it. And then we got a couple small rains this spring 00:00:41 and then I kinda kept going on with it and, uh, it was looking good. Uh, when we, uh, sprayed it with herbicide pass 00:00:51 and I thought, Hey, let's try something different to see if we can maximize yield where we had no fall growth and just try to maximize our nutrients 00:01:01 and our water utilization here in this crop. And, uh, we're seeing some differences here. It's at FES 10.0. 00:01:09 Now it's a visual difference between applied and unapplied. We left a 240 foot strip in the middle of this 80 00:01:17 and then 10 miles away we have another trial in a complete different soil tape. And, uh, we're gonna see how they both compare. 00:01:25 That's how we're gonna learn. That's how we all learn. Here we have on this side is Palisade at FE six, and then we have an untreated 00:01:36 two 40 down to the other flag. Right now we're at FS 10.0, just about right at 10.1. And I can see a visual difference. 00:01:49 This would be the untreated This side's treated. The other side is identical. This will be interesting. We have a trial here, 00:02:01 then we have one 10 miles away on complete different soil types. So we should get some good data this year. 00:02:08 Growth regulators are unique in the aspect of they are a glic acid inhibitor. And what they're gonna do is they shorten the plant, 00:02:18 shorten nodes, compact the nodes, and it shortens up cell division. So it makes the plant shorter, sturdier, less prone 00:02:27 to lodging, and it drives the energy into grain fill. That's starting to happen is what it's trying to do. Energy and nutrients instead of putting it into growth. 00:02:37 We don't need extra growth. We raise grain. We're not into raising straw. If you bale straw, great, you do. 00:02:43 You uh, we're no-till guys. We want it all back in the ground for organic matter. We try to maximize what we're raising for grain every year 00:02:53 and we want good standability and all the things we do from biologicals, PGRs, fertility, all help us in those aspects. 00:03:02 But when the wheat's looking really good, that's when it's prone to lodging because the general rule that I follow, 00:03:08 when you are driving a crop and you're making the positives happen, you're also amplifying potential negatives. 00:03:16 That's when your wheat's gonna go down. If it's 40, 50 bushel wheat, you're not worried about lodging. 00:03:22 If you got 80, 91 20, then you worry about lodging. Or if you have high base saturation K numbers, that's where wheat is prone to lodge. 00:03:32 Also, anybody with a high base saturation, K four or higher, you really need to be looking at palisade to protect your wheat for standability. 00:03:42 And, uh, when we do have some fields like that, this is not one of those fields. This is about a three, but let's see what we can do. 00:03:48 We wanna maximize our investment. We wanna get the most yield we can. Water's been a little scarce this year. 00:03:54 We've been blessed with some rains the last two weeks. We put the full rate of Palisade on. We have a 240 foot strip untreated, 00:04:04 and I can see a definite visual difference. Palisade can shorten wheat. We've seen one to two inches. They claim as much as three to four. 00:04:14 We have never seen that, but one to two is very common. Uh, we can see the joints, the nodes are thicker and the stem actually gets thicker. 00:04:23 The one thing is we're driving for higher yields. Standability gets to be an issue. So we want our crops standing. 00:04:30 That's how we get the most bushels. So that's where Palisade comes into play. It's a management tool for what we're doing, 00:04:37 what we're doing in our wheat program. And I think more people should look at it. So stay tuned. We're gonna keep raising this crop, uh, 00:04:45 here at flowering time. We're gonna come in and do a multi-product pass to maximize things at flowering 00:04:52 and, uh, for pollen fill, get everything going the way we like it. So that'll be the last pass tenderly on the wheat. 00:05:00 Cross our fingers. We've got nine lives. We've only used two or three of 'em this year. 00:05:05.305 --> 00:05:08.285