Farming Video | Herbicide Failure?

00:00:00 Hey guys, it's Temple from Extreme Ag. At Extreme Ag. We always talk about fertilizer, how to save money, PGRs equipment. 00:00:09 We talk about all that stuff. What we don't talk about a lot is herbicides, and sometimes how they fail and why they fail. 00:00:16 I'm a firm believer in, in this, and whether this is right, wrong, or indifferent, I don't know, 00:00:20 but this is just one farmer's opinion. What, what do we do as farmers? What do, the first thing we do is when we have a herbicide 00:00:27 failure, we blame the chemical company. You know, whoever puts that chemistry in that tote, that's the first person we're gonna blame. 00:00:34 Maybe we need to take a different perspective and maybe we need to blame ourself. Let me ask you something. Has anybody used one of these? 00:00:41 This is a pH tester. I've never used one before, so I gotta ask that question that. Have I been, have I been te testing my pH and the chemistry 00:00:51 and the full tank mix that I put in my tank on the sprayers? And the answer is no. I wasn't doing any of that. 00:00:57 So I found out that my pH in, in my area, coming outta my, well, the water source that we use, it's anywhere 00:01:04 between an eight and a nine, which is pretty dramatic. This is coming directly out of the tank. This is just straight water. 00:01:11 And we're gonna put it in here and we're gonna, we're gonna test it real quick. We're gonna see what it is. Here's my little pH tester. 00:01:18 Got it on Amazon. This may test a little different than some of ours. Um, this came out of a different, well, we're usually run 00:01:25 between eight and nine, which it is a little bit different. This one here is 7.7. 00:01:31 7.7 is what it, it's, oh, it says seven four. It went back down. Anyway, we're gonna add just a little teeny bit of 00:01:40 full tech adjuvant, which is a very, very little bit. Doesn't take much. We're using two ounces an acre on our farms, and we're dropping from a, uh, eight all the way down 00:01:51 to like a 5.4 to, to, to sometimes even four. Just depends on, on what we're doing. Let's get our pH tester back out. Stick it back in here. 00:02:03 So it's dropping from a seven right now. It's down into the sixes with just a little drop is all we, all we used was just a little drop. 00:02:13 Now I know that that's not accurate, but this is just showing you how quickly it can drop it. There's a 5.7. There it is. 00:02:22 So this works really, really well. We've been trying to get everything around a five or just a hair below a five is what we've been using. 00:02:30 And it seems like, you know, it's, it seems to be helping us a lot. Go get yourself one of these. It's worth its weight in gold. 00:02:37 A lot of these herbicides that we're using, you know, whether it be, uh, glyphosate or whatever it may be, we're blaming the chemistry company. 00:02:44 I'm blaming my glyphosate. My glyphosate didn't work. I wanna respray. I need to do something different. Come to find out it's a hundred percent our fault. 00:02:54 And what happens when we have herbicides that don't, don't kill something. What do we do? We end up with resistance. 00:03:02 So we have resistant rye grass around here that we've had trouble with for years and we've been putting in cover crops. 00:03:08 Couldn't kill the cover crop all the way. It would kind of kill it, but for the most part, but wouldn't actually wipe it out. 00:03:14 Well, we ended up having rye grass breakthroughs after that. Now we got this massive problem with rye grass resistant. 00:03:21 I'm not saying that this solves every problem, but we've started testing our water now and actually putting in the right amount 00:03:28 and getting the glyphosate or whatever chemistry that we're putting on, it's made to be used at a certain pH 00:03:35 and I was never utilizing like that. Maybe that's why we're having some chemical breakthroughs here and there, or some herbicide breakthroughs. 00:03:42 You know, we're having this problem. Did we create our own monster? That's the question that I have for you. 00:03:49 So I did a little test and I did, I, I just went and treated a little bit of water. I've also treated my tanks, um, on the sprayers. 00:03:57 I use spray tech adjuvant, and it seems to really hold up really well. We had issues where we had rye grass that wasn't dying. 00:04:05 We went back and we applied four ounces an acre on it versus two ounces acre that we applied earlier on 00:04:12 and we smoked our rye grass. I've never had that happen before. Is it because I've created my own monster 00:04:19 with Roundup resistant, um, plants? You know, whether it's pig weed, whether it's rye grass, whatever it may have, there's a bunch 00:04:27 of different roundup resistant or glyphosate resistant weeds that are out there. Are we breeding our own problem? 105 00:04:34.545 --> 00:04:36.045