Farming Video | Late-Season Fertility Strategy to Boost Corn Yields
8 Jun 252m 42s

Johnny Verell is reworking his corn fertility program, experimenting with nutrient timing and application methods. He's comparing early-season vs. late-season approaches to see which delivers better plant health and yield. By delaying some applications and using a more season-long strategy, Johnny hopes to increase test weight and ROI.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell the extreme mag. I'm out here this morning looking at one of our nature plots we got going on 00:00:05 and you know, I was talking to Tommy and telling him about some of the issues we always run into and you know, everybody talks about 00:00:09 how potassium's always a hard thing to get in the plant and stuff like that. And he's like, look, let's change it up a little bit. 00:00:15 Let's do some uh, in first, some two by two. And so he had me run Kfl couple different ways in this field here in this trial and different from what I've been doing. 00:00:23 And then, you know, we're at, you know, V five range, V six range going into V six range here on this corn. And you know, we're, we're another probably 10 days, 00:00:31 maybe two weeks before we do a V 10 application with the fungicide. And I've been talking to 'em about 00:00:35 what the next steps are and stuff like that. 'cause we've already knocked out, you know, the kfl and stuff like that that I was 00:00:40 trying to address on the front end. And he was just explaining to me, you know, let's go with some Moneyball and let's do a little bit 00:00:45 of triple option also at that V 10 time there to kind of give that plan another boost. And you know, it's hard to tell. 00:00:51 We're kind of standing right in the middle and the corn kind of looks the same right here, right over there. 00:00:55 I got some pictures where it didn't look the same and in my control I've actually already put out an extra 30 units of nitrogen. 00:01:01 I'm gonna come back with 10 gallons of 28%, uh, wide drop here, late season in this right here to try to compare if I could save it 00:01:09 and spend that money a little bit later and do a little bit more nutritional products later on too, that we've already got out in the control 00:01:15 is timing the issue. And that's what Tommy's been trying to work with me on is timing. I think that's one thing I overlook. 00:01:20 A lot of times we think about, well we ain't got time to do that. We don't have this, don't have that this year 00:01:24 with all the rain we have, all the nutrients I put out front, you know, might not be there now. So the timing thing, like Tommy had an idea 00:01:31 of running more later on could be a big deal for us. We're set up this year to come in late season, uh, with some easy drops 00:01:37 and you know, do some uh, nutritional late season applications with some nitrogen, some potassium, some 00:01:43 phosphorus, all kinds of different things. He's got me putting out late season. Our budget's gonna be real close to the same compared to 00:01:48 what I'm already doing, but I front load more of mine, you know, in that V three V four time. He's just got me going all the way to the end with this 00:01:54 and let's just see what we can push. So I'm interested to see, you know, what all we can do. I think the bio K technology 00:02:00 that they got coming out is gonna be a big game changer for us and how it's getting that potassium in the plant. So we'll see what we can do late season. 00:02:05 We'll keep you posted and Time Mattel and it's all about the ROI, right? We could spend the money on more nutritional products 00:02:11 throughout the year if we don't get rain or if they cost too much, we don't get the return. That's not what we need. I think this system approach 00:02:17 that we got going here is gonna be more in line with what some of the other guys Extreme Mag are doing, like Chad and and Temple and different ones 00:02:23 that are really doing some late season applications. That's what I'm gonna try to mimic this year and see if we can start pushing our yields a little bit 00:02:29 later and getting more weight in our grain. That's what I'm really going for, is trying to get a heavier test weight late season 00:02:34 by putting these nutritional products in late. 00:02:36.575 --> 00:02:37.365

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