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Kelly gear from Extreme Ag gonna share with you today what's in my Inferral mix. There's a fair amount of questions this time of year
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that come into extreme ag and ask us, what do we put on our inferral? What do we not put in inferral?
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What do we think is worth it? Uh, everybody throughout the country, you know, all the different extreme ag members that I deal with,
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extreme egg partners that I deal with, uh, depends on how your soil is, things like that. My unfurl mix started out years ago with 6 24 6,
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pretty basic, uh, commodity type fertilizer is what I call it. You know, it has phosphorus for pop-up and things like that.
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And I felt like it served me well at the time. But as my education progressed and research and things like that, and we got to changing the mix
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and looking at it, it really wasn't providing an ROI anymore. You know, like I started plant,
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the plant food has a really good charge of available phosphorus. So then the 6 24 6 kind of went by the wayside.
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We, uh, we did start putting a lot of potassium inferral. We went with some other cleaner phosphorus type products
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and just a continued evolution throughout time. Now, uh, with what we're gonna do in 2025, there's calcium inferral, there's a micro blend in furrow.
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Calcium is technically a micro, but we feel that we need more calcium. It's one of our most underused underutilized nutrients.
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We see big gains from it. So we have a specific amount of calcium, and then we have another micro that goes in there.
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Uh, then we have three different types of biologicals, which is amusing to me because I'm not a big fan of biologicals all the time,
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that different parts of the country could use different biologicals. The reason I haven't been a fan is
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because a lot of biologicals provide what I call offense that make yield. I think the soil that we have here in Iowa is deep.
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It's rich soil with good organic matter, and it is great soil. It does have its other set of challenges,
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but it is great soil. And because of that, I don't feel that a biological, that I would call offensive
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that helps me make yield is necessarily what I need. I don't know that it's always gonna provide me an ROI, and that's ultimately what I'm
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after the biologicals that I use. Outcompete disease, I guess that's the simplest way to put it.
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I'm trying to outcompete the disease. One of the challenges we have here is fusarium. Fusarium is very prevalent in our soils.
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It's hard on my root system. I think it's makes it difficult late season for that root to stay alive and viable
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because I think it's senes partially because of the disease. So again, I wanna outcompete the disease.
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So we use BioE from calibrated agronomy. We have amino carb in there. Amino carb is the food source for Bio E.
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One of the things that I feel like I found is when we talk about biology, what's as important
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as the biology is the food source for the biology. We don't mix 'em until they go into the planter at that time.
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That's what keeps the bio ag e stable, the shelf life, long-term things like that. Backbone is the third and final biological type product.
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It's, that's really, uh, our source of fulvic acid. And it's a double bonded carbon Product. The double
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bonds is really where we get the good activation from. Things like that. That's a, a great source of fulvic acid. The, uh, fulvic acid in backbone is microbial, digested.
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Microbial digestion is very important for the quality of your fulvic acid. The final liquid product that is in my,
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in furrow is hydrogen Co. It's a very acidic acid. It helps with calcium and sulfur specifically to get it off the soil.
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Colloid, when things are on that, you know, the soil particle is called a colloid. And when things are attached to that,
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they can be unavailable. The Hydrogen Co is to break things loose from there and to make them more plant available.
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So everything that goes into my inferral mix isn't necessarily fertility, but it helps with nutrient availability.
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The final thing that I would consider to be in my inferral mix really is an inferral. It's not a liquid, it's my planter box treatment program.
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It's called power plant. And we have our corn rootworm in there. That's the way we're supplying our insecticide.
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There's some calcium in there, there's some zinc in there. Of course, our nutri charge is in there.
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Uh, that real nutri charge really helps us in our tougher base saturation areas.
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All of the products that are in my in furrow help with nutrient availability. The only nutrition that's really in there are the
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calcium of the microbes. And the more we can get those in there upfront to help supply the plant, I really don't feel that I need
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to split, apply my nitrogen or spoon feed my nitrogen at all the soil's releasing it. I need to spoon, feed, or split apply.
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All of the micronutrients, especially the calcium, especially the zinc, all of those things are there to help with the release of nitrogen coming outta my soil.
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And the final piece, you know, we're standing in front of our new planter here. I'm excited about it. And that's
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because of the exact shot that's on there. This program that I just described to you is $37 an acre, but with the exact shot, it's about $22 an acre.
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So we're cutting off over a third of the input costs of the Inferral program with the exact shot in this planner. And in a tough economic time like we're in,
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everything we can save is, is outstanding. All the money we can save it, it, it pays back. This technology really has an ROI going from $37 to $22.
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