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All right. I'm Jason Birkenfeld. We're out here in the Southern Texas Panhandle and looking at an XtremeAg cotton trial using
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AgroLiquid products. So we got this field planted. As you can see, it's planted in some pretty tough conditions. We've been extremely hot, dry, windy,
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you name it. No rain, which makes drip irrigation really fun to get some planting moisture. So it's just hard to get moisture to the top. It wants to go down.
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So we had to furrow down to get some moisture, but we're there. We got cotton growing,
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but this won't be one of those perfect condition trials. It'll definitely be real-world West Texas.
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So some of the objectives here, we're going to be looking at AgroLiquid products applied foliarly. But the way we're determining that, it's
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not some set thing where we're going to throw fertility at a crop and hope for the best. But we're going to be monitoring this field using
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soluble soil analysis, irrigation water analysis coupled with that soil, as well as plant sap analysis. So the plant's going to be telling us
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what it wants and when it needs it. All right? So one of the real driving factors I see this year with it being so hot and dry
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is going to be our soil and irrigation water chemistry. That really determines nutrient flow to the plant. You look at your irrigation water, when we struggle with
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carbonates, bicarbonates, chloride, sodium, even calcium really being driving antagonists in the soil and even in the plant as functional antagonists.
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So our plant sap's really going to show us that as far as how those antagonists and how just nutrient
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concentration is affecting metabolism in the plant. And then we'll be able to come in behind that, look at that, and use AgroLiquid products, not necessarily just to
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add a nutrient, but really correct that system and metabolic function. So really excited to bring you this this year.
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We'll continue to monitor it all season. Like I said, we're going to be pulling data all season and then looking at these foliar applications at critical points of influence.
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With this function conversation, I think it's really important when it's hot and dry, which is pretty common here. But if you look at this poor
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West Texas cotton crop here, it looks like it's going to be hot and dry. So this will be really important to the conversation and matter
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