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Johnny Verell Extreme Act. We're out here today looking at a little bit of corn and you know, this year has been a
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challenge from start to finish. You know, we've had excess rainfall, we've had, you know, fertilized shortages.
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It seems like trying to get our liquid fertilized put out on our corn is a challenge this year.
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And so, you know, you're thinking about what things are and how things are gonna be different. What we could plan for different, well,
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one thing we've been doing the last few years on our farm, we've been using a product with Pivot Bio called Proven 40.
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And it's actually a standard practice on our farm. We've been using it for several years. We got a good fit for it in our operation,
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but it does allow us to reduce our nitrogen by 40 units. And on a year, like this year when we've had, what, 13,
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14 inches of rainfall just a few weeks after we planted our corn, if we'd had that nitrogen up front, the loss would've been excessive in
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that amount of nitrogen with that amount of rainfall, especially when corn wasn't even up yet. But we use, you know, pivot bottle proven
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before we actually seed treat our corn with it, just how it grows on the roots and consciously pulling more nitrogen from the atmosphere, things like that.
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It's always supplying that plant what it needs. You can see it behind us here. The corn looks great, it looks happy.
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We've had a lot of rain this year. Uh, nitrogen is gonna be an issue on a lot of farms. It could be an issue on ours,
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but as of right now, everything we're seeing in the plots looks great. The corn looks good overall.
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And like I said, the other thing we ran into this year, another thing I like about it, it reduced us by 40 units, and that was 40 less units I was trying
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to find when nitrogen did get tight this year, and the cost of it went up so high. So there's a, there is always a fit for these products.
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You gotta figure out how they work best on your farm, but once you get in sync and figure out exactly how it's working
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and where you can use it, it really makes things a lot 00:01:25.775 --> 00:01:25.975