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Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. We're standing over here at the farm we call Grandma Donna's, where we've got the intensive rotational
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grazing going on. Uh, Carl's out here right now. He's drilling out buckwheat bayou kale cow peas, 40 10 spring peas and sorghum Sudan grass.
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About 60% of what's in this mix is sorg sorghum Sudan grass. We have pastured it down here pretty tight the way you can
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see this time, trying to allow the, the summer mix to, to germinate. Carl's out here right now drilling it in.
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Really good chance of rain coming tonight. So we're kind of scrambling to try to get as many acres drilled as we can.
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We got about 40 here in this pasture to do, uh, 35 or so at the next pasture. We moved the cows to the back.
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Uh, this is really going, uh, very well last year. I was happy to try it again, but I didn't feel that the growth we had in the grass last
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year was quite up to my expectations this year. I would tell you that the growth we've had has exceeded my expectations.
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Uh, you know, TJ told me the more years we do this, that the soil health will improve. Um, we also took atrazine out of our chemical mix,
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so this hasn't had atrazine for two years from now on the fields we go to, you know, we'll put this in following corn.
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Uh, there's no atrazine. We wind grove has changed our mix. Again, I just can't express how happy I am out here
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with the amount of feed we have. We've chopped extra and piled up the feed because I, I figured
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that we're gonna have to supplement the grass. Now, we're not into the 1st of July yet. We've got two hot old months to go
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through here in Western Iowa, so I still might have to supplement the grass, but holy cow, do we have feed? And it's lush, it's green.
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Uh, I'm excited to put this to corn next year because of the soil health, things like that. And, uh, just really to see what's going on here
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and how we're improving the soil, how, how we're improving the ROI of this farm. Uh, my grandma and grandpa would really be proud.
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As you can see here, cheese, let 'em graze it down tighter than we normally do. But now there's still some cover here, armor on the soil
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as we say, so it doesn't dry out so fast. And to protect the soil, Carl's drilling it in with our John Deere drill
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and, uh, I'm excited to see what comes up. The sorghum should provide a lot of feed. The other plants and things in here will,
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will provide micronutrients, the sorghum will provide protein. Things like that is a big improvement over the, uh,
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