Farming Video | Johnny Verell Tests Tidal Grow's Seafood-Based Fungicide Alternative

00:00:00 What would compel a farmer to put a bunch of fish guts out on his crops? I'm asking Johnny Verell that question 00:00:05 because it's exactly what you're doing. Sorta of kind of, you are doing a trial this year with titled Grow. 00:00:11 They make products that are derived from seafood byproducts and you're putting 'em on your crops and experimentation. 00:00:16 What was the compelling reason? Well, you Know, everybody's talking about trying to make the soil more healthy, not kill the natural biology 00:00:22 that's going on in the soil. Met T Grow at commodity class, started talking to 'em about some things that they had going. 00:00:27 They had a product called Spectra that is either gonna be a fungicide replacement or a fungicide additive and we'll see which one it does. 00:00:33 And so we did it two different, we know trials on our farm this year to try to see which way is the best 00:00:37 case for us. What's the best fit. They make a lineup of products that it goes in the soil, it goes over the top. 00:00:42 The stuff you used is a fungicide replacement or enhancement. That's right. And then they also 00:00:47 have seed treatments, et cetera. You didn't use anything of those? No, I just did the fungicide, you know, application. 00:00:51 What do you hope to see? I Just hope to see, you know, of course a healthier plant. Number one, reduction in disease 00:00:56 or not seeing any disease at all would be great. Do You see a day when you don't use traditional conventional fungicides and you use more 00:01:03 of a bionutrient type of product and it works? I think you're gonna see that here in here in the short future. 00:01:08 You're gonna have those type of options. Do they last as long? Those type things? We don't know. I synthetic might last longer, 00:01:13 but these might be more of a bio And I could make the environmental case that maybe be regulations 00:01:17 That way and it, and it could come down to our cost by the end too. Cool. I want to get into the cost, but 00:01:21 before I do, I want to find out, I called it fish guts, maybe it's not really fish guts, but it is derived from seafood byproduct. 00:01:28 So we're gonna talk about the actual product and the money with Galen beer oft grow agriscience. Yeah, so it is not fish guts, Damian, 00:01:36 but it is the, the product that Johnny's using is derived from the shells of a shellfish. So like lobsters, crabs, it can be shrimp, right? 00:01:45 So CIN comes from kite, which is a protein that makes those shells hard and when we extract it and turn it into chito 00:01:52 and that's when we can find a beneficial use for it on Johnny's Farm. Got it. And, and 00:01:56 in a number of different ways you're using it, it can be used over the foliar, it can be used as a fungicide replacement, 00:02:02 it could be used in the soil. We have a seed treatment, we have a number of waste incorporated 00:02:06 and we're seeing good results every way that it's used because it, it does work in concert with the soil and the crop. You 00:02:12 Farm, he farms. I'm from a farm. I know the question right now is, okay, money, money, money, money. 00:02:18 Do you have an idea of what you expect to see or do you have an idea of what uh uh, the ROI looks like? Yeah, well I hope what Johnny hopes to see is profit 00:02:26 and we don't, we don't plan on detracting from that. We don't expect to take a slim profit and make it less so we don't wanna be an add-on cost. 00:02:34 What we wanna do is we wanna help make that crop more healthy and if we do then hopefully Johnny can pull back his synthetic, uh, chemical treatments 00:02:43 so he could reduce some costs there. The other thing is, is we hope that by making this crop behind us healthier is 00:02:49 that it rewards him on the backside as well. When he pulls this combine in here, That's what we're looking for. That 00:02:54 ROI Right Damien. And it's more tools in the tool case. I mean 'cause if we don't have have options going in the future, it might get us in a bind one day too. 00:03:02 I can be a farmer in my mental state like you if not in practice and I can say commodity prices where they are. 00:03:08 I'm not gonna go around experimenting. But maybe that's the wrong mindset when commodity prices, prices are where they are. 00:03:13 Yeah. Maybe now's when you do need a little tool tool, I think we need to be looking at all times. Like even in down markets like we are right now, we need 00:03:19 to see what options are out there. 'cause you don't know with these tariffs and everything going on. 00:03:23 Yeah. What these tariffs could do to these synthetics. His name's Johnny Verell. He's joined by Galen Beer with Tyler Grow agriscience. 00:03:28 Uh, stay tuned. We will have results from this, especially for paying members of extreme ag 00:03:32 and you'll post about what the Tyler Grow experiment was, what it looked like and what the results were. 00:03:37 Absolutely. Got it. And I can find out all that great information and other stuff. You don't have to be a member. Go to Extreme Mag Farm. 00:03:42 A literal library of information videos. These guys shooting the Fields podcasts and episodes I do with guys like Galen all there free 00:03:49 for the taking Extreme Mag Farm. 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