Farming Video | Johnny Verell Trials Tidal Grow’s Spectra for Better Fungicide Control

29 Jul 25
Johnny Verell

Johnny Verell is diving into on-farm trials with Tidal Grow’s new product, Spectra, exploring how it performs in different fungicide programs. From solo Spectra applications to combinations with premium fungicides—both full-rate and reduced-rate—Johnny's testing three large-scale, replicated blocks on his farm to evaluate performance. At mid-July, with disease pressure on the rise, this timing is critical for checking how Spectra holds up in the field. Clean ear leaves and good control so far—this could be a yield booster worth watching.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell, the Stream Ag. I'm out here today. We're doing a bunch of trials on the farm 00:00:04 and we got a lot of core plots this year and one of the companies we're doing some trial work with is called Tidal Grow. 00:00:09 T Grow's kind of new, just heard about 'em last year, had some real interesting things, how they're using kind of like the biological space but with the fungicide twist. 00:00:17 And so the products that I'm trialing this year is, is called Spectra. So at VT M, we came out here on this farm 00:00:23 and we actually used our ground rigs. We went across the farm and we actually put spectra out. Then just by itself, we did a check with our standard uh, 00:00:31 fungicide and then we took Spectra and added it to our standard fungicide. And we did this on large blocks. Blocks, about 70 acres. 00:00:38 It's got replicated trials in it here. So we did this on large blocks. I've got an ear leaf in my hand here. 00:00:43 Everything looks good and clean. Right now. We're out here today using a drone 'cause the core's gotten quite a bit taller. 00:00:48 So we're doing a drone today. We're actually running 12 ounces of Spectra again, just in the Spectra block. 00:00:53 And then we got our control block. And then also we have in the second trial that we're doing with 'em, where we did a reduced rate 00:00:59 of a premium fungicide. So we basically took a fungicide and reduced it by roughly 30% 00:01:04 and added spectra to it at a reduced rate too. So we ran eight ounces of spectra and then we used a premium fungicide at a reduced rate 00:01:11 and we got that out there also. So we actually got three different trials going on with the products to see what you're gaining 00:01:17 by adding a product like that. Is it gonna be an extra that you add into your standard program to get that extra yield bump or that extra control? 00:01:23 But right now we got great control going on. It's gonna be interesting how things look the next few weeks. 00:01:28 It's the middle of July, so usually when we start getting rust, it's about this time of year. 50 00:01:32.055 --> 00:01:33.735

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