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Spreading out your fertility spend and applying fertility even when you maybe in the older days would've thought
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it was too late in the season. That's what Johnny Verell's doing in this field right here beside us.
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Uh, you're doing experimentation with our friends at Nature's and the old you, meaning five years ago would've said,
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I'm not putting on fertility when we're approaching black layer and now you're spreading out your fertility
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spin. Talk to me. Yeah, So we've always kind of done some things, you know, somewhat with a fun,
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with a fungicide application with an airplane, right? So sometimes I could be at an R two application, but you can only put so much in the plant then.
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And so this past winter, I was talking to Tommy, kind of telling him what I thought some of my holdups were on my yield, the limiting factors I was dealing with.
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He's like, look, let me build you a plan, start to finish. You just gotta be willing to do a couple extra
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things throughout the growing season. So I was already doing like a V five shot. I was doing a V 10 shot.
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So we were already kind of doing those. We put in some products there to address some micronutrients issues that we were facing.
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But then he is like, Hey, what about it V 14? I want you to put your last slug of nitrogen in and then I want you to do a foliar shot at the same time.
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So that's an extra shot that I haven't been doing. But we took stuff that I normally would kind of front load with in the growing season
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and put it out there at the tail end. And so then after that phase there, you know, I was talking to him, he's like, look, you're always gonna do like
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a brown silk shot, aren't you? And I said, yeah, we'll do like an R two R three shot. That's not a problem. So he came up
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with some products there for me to knock out too. So he kind of, we took programs that we were already kind of, or products we were already doing,
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but kind of spread 'em out and had a better timing. And then it, now it's up to the weather. 'cause here we are, it's been, what, three
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weeks since it's rained here? What it's taught me is, is it's more about the timing than the application. You're a month away
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From harvest. Are you done? Yeah, We're done here. Okay. The last time you went over this
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and put a fertility product on was Two, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. And so the question is, are you spending any more money?
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Are you spending less money the same? It's roughly the same money. It's an extra application cost in there. Okay.
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But I am, you know, spending same, so The same amount of money on the spend except for the application.
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The application's a seven to $10 an acre. Yeah, Probably more like 15 to $20 an ac what we're doing. Okay. So you need to grab yourself five more bushels
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of corn with doing that late, uh, spend right now on these commodity prices. Somebody might say at $4 corn,
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I'm not gonna put the sprayer out there. One more time. Also, I knocked down a little bit of stuff you say,
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Yeah, I wanna keep pushing that crop and feeding it with my budget I had in place. And so one thing he was telling me is I was telling him I
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usually fly on some late season nitrogen. He's like, if you got the capability to do some wire dropping, how about we wire drop
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that nitrogen and also let's add some other products like potassium and stuff like that for that late season shot.
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Did you eliminate the cost on a flyover then? Yeah, We didn't u we actually used the sprayer to Do this. Okay. So you
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can, you can actually take, can reallocate A little bit, Reallocate the money from there. So, uh, this is this gonna be a standard practice.
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I think the coin for this could be a standard practice for us Late later season, later season, later season.
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And then you'll know you made a mistake if you pull the Chad Harrison and you said, oh, that didn't do me any good.
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I went on, I I I pushed it too long. Chad's motto, more is always better. It's probably not true on, especially on a year.
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Like this year, you know, we started out so wet, so it was a good thing we didn't put it all out early. 'cause how wet we were, we had our yearly rainfall almost
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by, you know, the middle of May for the year and then it's turned off dry in July. We've had one rain basically.
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And you can see we got replicated plots all the way down through here. So this isn't just like one pass through the field.
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This is replicated all the way down through here. And then Tommy asked me to do it. I did it on a 75 acre farm. Replicated too. Yeah.
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So we got small scale plots here that we're gonna do at the field day. We also got a large scale to kind of rule out some,
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you know, anomalies and stuff like that that's going on. Big Difference, what you did five years ago. Yeah.
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It, like I said, it's almost the same budget. It's the timing. Yep. His name's Johnny Verell. My name's Damian Mason.
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I'm coming at you from his field day in Jackson, Tennessee. You know, here at Extreme Ag we bring field days to you.
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But until then, I'm Damien. And this is Johnny. We're coming at you from Jackson, Tennessee talking about late season
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