Farming Video | Can One Change at Planting Really Add 9 Bushels? Kevin Matthews Says Yes

22 Oct 253m 13s

Kevin Matthews just wrapped up harvest on his N-Finity plot, and the results turned heads. Even in a wet year with limited nitrogen and no fertigating, Agricen’s N-Finity product delivered a 9 bushel per acre yield bump over Kevin’s grower standard. The difference? Bigger kernel size and impressive stay-green. Everything was treated the same except for the N-Finity at planting—and it paid off. Kevin breaks down the data, talks ROI, and shares why this trial has him excited for another run next season.

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00:00:00 So we've just got done harvesting theon plot. We got everything back here at the farm. We went through the data 00:00:07 and um, the Infinity product, as I showed you in the field, the stay green was absolutely impressive. 00:00:15 Um, picking it, you can notice that it was doing better than our grower standard. Standing beside it is very obvious. 00:00:21 I've showed you the stalks there in the field of the difference in the green on it. This is what pays the bills right here. 00:00:28 So our grower standard was 2 99. Them ears look really good. You would think that that would be the, the better 00:00:36 yield just looking across the height of the year and the girth. But there's something right here I'm really going 00:00:41 to show you that stands out. This infinity was 3 0 8 that had a nine bushel advantage over my grower standard. And remember we had a very wet year. 00:00:51 This is irrigated ground that I hardly ever got to irrigate and I was limited on the amount of nitrogen 00:00:56 'cause I could not fertigate typically our program we fertigate a lot so this one did not get it. And so it kinda allowed opportunity for this. 00:01:05 If this infinity is what they say it is, it it give it an opportunity to shine in our environment this year. 00:01:11 And it did. But here's where it's at. It is simply in the kernel size. If you look right here, these kernels are much bigger 00:01:21 with the infinity. And uh, that's one thing is the late season applications that I normally do, I boost that kernel size. 00:01:29 Well, we couldn't do that on this year 'cause it was too wet, so we missed that late season opportunity. 00:01:35 This was put down at planting and it still held through. The plants are green as you see in the video earlier. 00:01:41 Um, this is pretty impressive. That's your yield. So don't get hung up on the size. If you get small ears like this right here, you know, 00:01:48 these are a little smaller and you know, maybe this one here, but that there's, you know, 22 around. 00:01:54 The thing is the kernel size is so much bigger over here we call 'em thumbnail kernels 00:02:00 and sure enough, you know, you, you cover your thumbnail with a kernel, then you get one of these others, you know, 00:02:06 it's half the size of your thumbnail. That's where you yield's at and that was the difference it made. 00:02:12 I'm looking forward to using this infinity a little more next year. This is our first year with it. 00:02:17 We're gonna give it a second year. Nine bushels is a pretty big deal, but I will tell you if it, if it was going to do 00:02:24 what they said, this was the year for it to shine and it did shine. Pretty impressive, very easy 00:02:30 to use it mixed well with everything. No issues whatsoever. But again, the stay green and the plant health was amazing. 00:02:38 Everything was treated the same after planning. The only difference was this had the infinity at planning. If y'all have any questions, please send us the email, 00:02:46 call us and we can, uh, give you more data on this and see if this is something that might work in a situation where maybe you can reduce some nitrogen on your farm 00:02:56 and save some money and get a big ROI This is profit. Y'all see where the grain markets are. Nine bushels is a big deal and I didn't do anything 00:03:05 but add this product in there. 00:03:08.045 --> 00:03:08.515