How Can Layering Residuals Prevent August Uglies in Soybeans?
18 Aug 244m 32s

Matt Miles from XtremeAg visits Clinton, Missouri, to discuss soybean weed management with fellow farmers Wayne Boden.

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00:00 Hey guys, many of you know me. I'm Matt Miles from Extreme Ag and uh, I've got a special treat today. 00:05 I'm in a, kind of outta my, my comfort zone here. I'm in, uh, Clinton, Missouri with Wayne Bowden, who is also a member of Extreme Ag. 00:13 And we've got a special, um, guest I guess here today, or, or one of Wayne's partners that he is working with. 00:19 You know, Caleb from BASF. We got some different videos we're gonna do. And this one is about the August uglies. 00:25 Kind of tell us, you know, what, what you think the August uglies are. I you got 'em in your hand. 00:29 So I, I kind of know what they are. I do, and this is one of the problems that we have when sometimes we don't get complete burn down 00:36 control of our weeds and then we try to burn 'em and fight 'em again all year long. And what happens is, is just like these weeds were burned 00:43 down and sprayed with chemicals and the growing points were knocked outta the top, then they branch back up just like pig weeds do. 00:49 Mm-Hmm. And they come up and then you think that you have 'em controlled and then you come drive in later 00:53 and you see 'em poking outta the canopy. And a lot of times we joke that, uh, some folks don't see those until August. 00:59 So that's why we call 'em the August uglies. And by the time they're sticking outta the canopy, then we end up being where a spot where 01:05 that's the beans are really too far along maturity wise to treat. If we spray 'em too late, 01:09 then we can knock some bushels off the beans and it kind of, one bad thing turns into three, if you know what I'm getting at. 01:14 Yeah. And that's, that's, that's waterhemp there. Right. This is Waterhemp, which is the same, you know, first cousin 01:19 to, uh, what we fight in the delta as a pigweed. Yeah. And, and spraying these beans late with the blooms on them, then you, you could give up yield 01:26 trying to get those weeds taken care of. Right. So our goal and the things that Wayne and I discussed early on is trying to customize a program 01:33 that fit what he was wanting to do, the way he was wanting to farm. And that's what I try to do with farmers in this area. 01:38 They don't all farm the same. So certainly not every crop protection program's gonna fit the same. 01:43 Right. And so we set up something that would be a good test for Wayne to compare to his, you know, 01:48 conventional treatment or normal treatment, uh, versus kind of the full BASF program. 01:52 Right. Right. And some of the problem we had down here too is when we did the original burn down, we got a good kill. 01:57 Everything was controlled good and then it set in raining for forever. And then when we come back at planning time 02:02 and run our residual and a burn down at planning time on some of this, we just didn't hit it hard enough 02:08 and it just, we can't get on top of it. I mean, well, didn't y'all mention earlier that, you know, you went almost 30 days 02:14 before you got back in the field from one, one application to the other? We did. We did. That's a long time. 02:18 And by that time they was, they had really had a big head start and it was hard to catch up with them. 02:22 That part of the world. We had a drought in April, a flood in May and the first week of June. And then we had a drought and a flood in June and July. 02:29 So for areas that don't deal with weather extremes, we've certainly had everything we've done it. Yeah. That's part of the world and that's a big part of 02:34 what took place here. Right. But that's also some of the stuff we try to incorporate into the plans that we put into place. 02:40 And sometimes we have to do a little bit extra to have that risk aversion, if you know what I mean, because Oh yeah. 02:46 Uh, sometimes we can save money, but then it's a little higher risk sometimes we can spend too much money and, and then we don't get a plant 02:52 for 45 days and all our residual's gone. So. Correct. We try to find the right balance, um, in that. And I try to help farmers with that. 02:58 Like what's a, a good return on investment for the way they farm. Right. And that's important too for farmers like Wayne 03:03 and I is what you said, customizing the program that fits Wayne. You know, it may not fit me if you were, 03:09 if you were my guy at home, I may do it totally different than him. But being able to take these products, you know, 03:14 crop protection products and customize 'em, that's important to us as farmers. 'cause we got the way we're gonna do it, you know, 03:20 and if we can incorporate what y'all need or what we need from you into that program, it helps. And I think this plot down here really shows, you know, 03:28 how well the BASF program did work when we got really tough conditions and tried to get back on top of it. 03:34 It it got in there and controlled it better than the other program did for sure. Yeah. Well you can definitely see the line, distinct line. 03:40 Wayne was sending me pictures, you know, as this thing was going on and, and there was no doubt where, where your product was 03:47 UA Pro two four D and Roundup and a burn down. And we came back with Liberty and enlist and some more residual posts. 03:52 So we layer those residuals, especially in a 30 inch environment, we gotta Right, right. Have the residuals that have the kind 03:57 of horsepower to do that. And that's again, why I chose those products is 'cause they, those are what fit Wayne's farm the best 04:03 and the way he was gonna go at it. Well, and you hit the nail on the head when you said layering residuals when you've got resistant, uh, 04:09 water hemp pigweed, you know, we have it now in ryegrass, uh, layering residuals is, is the, the only, that's the key 04:16 to being, to have a clean crop at the end. Our goal is to try and avoid the August ugly. Yeah. So Well, and the difference in this plot 04:24 and y'all's plot, I think you avoided it. We did. We did.

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