00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Gear from Extreme Ag. We're out here this afternoon. We're gonna show you three different corn fields, 00:05 the different states of residue breakdown that is occurring in each field. This field, as you can see, is pretty barren. 00:12 It was combined in September. The corn was 25, 20 6% went right to the ethanol plant because of a basis play we had, 00:18 it was an earlier number of corn. All three fields we're gonna show you yielded approximately 200 bushels, so that not a different amount 00:24 of residue based on one yielding more than the other. It's, it's all pretty equitable here. But again, this corn was combined at 25, 20 6%. 00:32 So the corn was green. We ran the airway through here. The cows were pastured on these stalks for quite a long time. 00:38 And as you can see, it almost looks like it's been tilled. The residue breakdown's great. The carbon transfer is great. 00:44 The nutrient transfer is great. It's breaking down, going back into the soil. The cows helped us do a, a great job here. 00:50 Help break it down by walking over it, by eating it and pooping it out, the manure, things like that. We're gonna go to other fields. 00:57 One field has got cows on it currently. They're helping with the breakdown. The other field hasn't had any cows on it, 01:02 and it looks like a pretty thick, solid mat out there. Could be some trouble with germination next spring. The row cleaners are really gonna have 01:08 to do a good job in the final field because there's such a mat of residue there. We talk about the cows and how much help they do. 01:14 You know, I know there's a lot of talk about cattle and methane and cow farts and things like that. Carbon is neither created nor destroyed. 01:21 It's transferred, and the cows help us do that. And this field is awesome. I, I'm excited to plant in this field next year. 01:27 I would expect a good yield out of this field just because of how the soil is right now. We get to that last field with that Matt of stalks, 01:34 and it's just tough. The ground will be cold, the ground will be damp, um, and the soil won't warm up very well. 01:41 You know, and we need to, we need to do something to manage that in our no-till system. 01:46 That's what the challenge is, is to, uh, deal with all the residue. So We're out here in a field that hasn't had cows, 01:53 it hasn't had the airway. Uh, the only thing that's been through here is the John Deere 01:57 Anhydrous bar. And as you can see, it's a map. You know, look at this, look at this. Trying to get this to break down. 02:05 It's just a challenge, you know. Um, these stocks down here, potentially even from last year, it's a corn on corn field. 02:12 It's going back to corn. Uh, there was supposed to be cows out here, but the guy we rented the stalks to hasn't put 'em out yet. 02:19 And, uh, it just doesn't break down in this part of the country. You know, temple and Chad, Matt are 02:24 Amazed about this, but this is the challenge we have in a no-till system. That's why we went with the airway to size the stalks. 02:30 That's why we like the cows. You know, there's this talk about if cows are good for the environment, good for the climate, things like that. 02:36 Carbon is neither created nor destroyed. It's just transferred. And the cows are helping to speed up that process. 02:42 The cows are helping to make the soil better. Yeah, Molly's trying to help break them down right now, but I, I think she's got a long way to go. 02:48 That's a big job ahead of her. Cattle are great in a, in a, it's a very holistic circular system. 02:54 This is free feed for the cows. They help with the carbon transfer, help break it down. It helps with 02:58 Next year's crop. Now you can see we're standing in a field that the airway's been through size 03:04 of the stalks, knocks 'em down. The cattle have been grazing. As you can see on the ground. The transfer or the residue breakdown has started. 03:12 This is a lot better seed bed to go into next year. These cattle will stay here till the 1st of March. That's when the frost will come outta 03:19 the ground and we'll take 'em in. So compaction doesn't occur, but, uh, this is, this is beyond sustainable. 03:25 This is regenerative sustainable agriculture. You know, that, that term gets tossed around a lot. But I don't wanna be sustainable. It's not good enough. 03:34 I wanna do better. I wanna be regenerative. And that's what we're doing with the cattle out here. That's what we're doing with this system. 03:40 And that when we talk about carbon transfer, that's regeneration. That's not sustainable. It's regenerative.