Farming Video | What Happens When You Miss That Final R4 Application?

00:00:00 Nature's cool me test plot our field day. You got to come out and see everything. So how did the yield go? Did you pay attention to what Mr. 00:00:07 Tommy said? We had one more application to make to complete their program and that was what was going to boost the seed size, 00:00:15 get good grain fill and maintain that length and girth of that ear due to the kernel size. They ain't gonna add no more kernels. 00:00:22 Kernels is already set by the day of the field day, but what we can do is add the size and thickness of those kernels. 00:00:28 Well guess what? It uh, rained the day of the field day. It kept raining, it kept raining, 00:00:33 and finally we got down to about a hundred gdu left. It was still too wet to get the sprayer in the field. When it finally got it dry enough 00:00:42 that I could get her haggy in, we had hit black layer. So I canned the last application. I just could not see driving back 00:00:51 through the crop at black layer. Maybe I should have went ahead and sent it. As Chad would say, I held up. 00:00:59 Our normal grower standard program has got is pretty much the nature's program up to that last point. And then that last application is 00:01:09 where Tommy really throw some new stuff in there for us to try some Moneyball different things to try to really build that kernel size. 00:01:17 So I'm not surprised that we only had a one bushel advantage that could actually just be in the area 00:01:24 of the field, the soil type. But our grower standard is a very intense program. It almost mimics the natures 00:01:31 because we've had so many years of success feeding this crop throughout the season. But the one application that was going 00:01:39 to set this plot apart was that late R four application. We couldn't do it. Mother Nature said no, 00:01:47 you ain't getting in the field. And we did not get in the field. And I know a lot of you folks say, 00:01:52 well I didn't use an airplane. Why didn't you use a drone? Um, the gallons that we were putting out, I wasn't comfortable doing it 00:01:59 with the drone and airplanes are not much of an option here. And helicopters, we just got way too many 00:02:06 houses, too many power lines. It's just too dad gun dangerous. And quite frankly, if they wanted to spray for me, 00:02:13 I don't think I'd let 'em just out of their safety, my concern for their safety, it just ain't worth it. But this is what we got. 00:02:21 It's impressive that our program and his program, even though they're nearly the same, is only one bushel difference. 00:02:29 But I can tell you right now, when I was picking this corn, I was really disappointed. 00:02:34 And right here's why. When I looked in that grain tank window on that big Alexion and I seen them little bitty kernels right there, 00:02:43 I knew what it was going to be. You are not going to grow big yields with those little kernels. 00:02:50 But one thing when you're over 270 bushel acre corn, that's pretty dadgum good. Now, I don't care who you are, we was really expecting 00:02:59 We had a yield goal, 3 40, 3 50. If I could have got that last application on, you would've seen that number north of three 30. 00:03:07 We've done it many years. We know it works. And we always try to have a replicated test on the farm so we can prove the difference In that last application, 00:03:18 we couldn't do it this year on this farm. We had it in other areas and it absolutely shined. We're picking some corn right now that got 00:03:26 that last application on it. It was planted at 26,000 and it's picking around 2 72 80. This right here was planted at 30, 34,000 is 00:03:36 what this was planted at. When you're getting 2 60, 2 70 and um, and you planted at 24,000, 26,000, 00:03:44 you're getting some big kernels. And that's what you gotta have. You gotta have a real good solid program to do that. 00:03:50 And um, nature's can cater that pro program to your farm's, soils, your farm's environment 00:03:57 and uh, kind of get it in a budget and a price range where you can afford. The big thing I like about these later season applications 00:04:04 is we had this been a, a normal grower standard. The money that would've been spent up front would've been weighted to have been spent here 00:04:14 and you would've never spent that money due to we couldn't get in the field. Don't, don't read me wrong here. 00:04:21 We're not telling you to spend more money on R four application. What I want to go 00:04:26 and use the words that Chad Henderson uses so much, we're gonna reallocate, we're gonna take some money up front and we're gonna save it. 00:04:33 And if the good Lord bless us with a good crop, then we're gonna spend it on the tail end. But if we hit a big drought and we don't pollinate 00:04:39 and we ain't got nothing to sell, we're gonna keep that money. Or we ain't gonna borrow that money from farm credit 00:04:43 and we're gonna leave it with them and we ain't gonna owe it and we're gonna reduce our liabilities 00:04:48 'cause it's all at the bottom line is net profit. We gotta have net profit. ROI is where it's at. It's a fun and games for boys. 00:04:55 This farming is a business and if you don't believe it, uh, you're going to believe it because these low commodity prices 00:05:01 and these high input prices, you've got to stay on top of the game. I hope you've got some tests on your farm like this 00:05:07 so you can actually see, did this make money? Is what I'm doing making money? It's always humbling to see. It's also humbling to get humbled when you, uh, 00:05:18 only have a one bushel yield increase. The nice thing is these programs are almost identical dollar wise. 00:05:24 They matched dollar wise. Tommy with that one bushel, he actually beat me by, you know, he netted me $5 a bushel. 00:05:33 Um, you know, $5 on that acre, $5 ain't much. But you multiply it times enough acres and I at this market, we'll take it any way we can get it. 00:05:42 Any questions about what we've done throughout the year on this, please get with us at extreme ag. 00:05:48 Send us an email and, um, don't be afraid to call your nature's representative whether they're salesman or agronomists for nature's. 00:05:57 They're all extremely familiar with the programs that we do on these trials throughout the United States with extreme ag for them. 00:06:02 We go in really deep with these different programs to try to figure out what products work. 00:06:08 And a lot of the products that they have on the market now are products that we've come up with and it worked 00:06:13 and they put a name on it and made 'em commercialized available to the public. So again, if there's something you wanna try, 00:06:19 something you wanna see and um, money's too tight to do it, just let us know and we'll try it on our farms 00:06:26 and we'll get nature's to get involved or some of these other companies and we'll see what we can do to put ROI on your farm. 156 00:06:32.855 --> 00:06:33.285