Key Insights on NewLeaf’s Bio-Stimulant for Corn Root Development and Yield Improvement

00:00:00 Hey guys, this is Temple from Extreme Ag. I'm here, one of my buddies, Charlie Legger. He farms right here in our same community. 00:00:05 So we were kind of thinking that we have a conversation about, um, some of the wrap up at the end of the year. 00:00:12 You know, Charlie had some questions about some of the products that we ran this year and he's the extreme ag member. 00:00:18 So I figured we'd kind of do a little bit of a wrap up video and we talk about this new pink fairy dust, you know, 00:00:25 from, from New Leaf. You know, that's what I kept calling it. But, and it kind of was, you know, 00:00:30 it came in this little teeny tiny packet, you know, and we had to blend it on 10 units of corn. It's comes in the hopper box treatment, you know, 00:00:38 and a couple other different places in some type of a tap powder. But the way that we did it this year was just in 00:00:44 that little, that little bag and then we had to put it on 10 bags of corn with a paint stir and, you know, 00:00:50 make sure it was blended up. Right. Well we found out like some pretty cool stuff. I mean, did you like feel like you saw anything when you 00:00:56 No, I did see, I did see some, I did see some posts on as far as the restructure. It seemed like it really attributed to the root mass, 00:01:03 like right outta the gate pretty strong. So is that the biggest thing that you saw as far as was the root structure 00:01:10 because it did, you know, really, really, really set the tone for a really good root structure? It takes set the tone for that. 00:01:18 What we sell, what you know, and I know you have all dry land acres and I have some irrigated acres. 00:01:24 I feel like it's a huge stress mitigator, you know, so the bio stimulant that's in this thing is making this massive root structure. 00:01:31 And for me, I'm like, you wanna talk about going mine the soil for, for more, um, nutrients or to fight some mitigation 00:01:41 of some stress of some drought. For me it was huge. Like when the lady came out there from NewLeaf and looked at this product, we were kind of like, 00:01:50 I didn't know if I'd see anything. And I walked out to the field and saw the line in the field and I was like, I didn't actually see a line in the field 00:01:57 and it was, the corn was only, you know, knee high. So I kind of thought, well, maybe it's not what I'm thinking. 00:02:03 I don't know. We did root straw, a root dig, and we saw all that. But what I saw, the major thing was is like the corn 00:02:10 that my grower standard practice, it was starting to roll up. I'm talking about in an irrigated field. 00:02:15 But you remember how hot in the dry up and were hot. Yes. I mean, even left, even with irrigated field, 00:02:20 there's the amount of humidity in the, uh, in and the temperature. You know what I mean? My god, that was, 00:02:25 that was stress alone low, the irrigation. 'cause you can't control that. Not something you can't control. 00:02:30 You get the heat outta the Controls. I'm a firm believer of fruit structure. If it's there man, 00:02:35 going deeper in the ground in the, you know what I mean? That's, that's gotta help. That's gotta help. 00:02:39 I mean here we are in Chesapeake Bay, we're trying to save the bay, you know what I mean? Yeah. And we're trying to get all 00:02:45 the nutrients back outta the soil. Everything we put in it. Yeah. We ain't gonna do it with no little root mass. 00:02:50 We need a big structure of root mass. Something that's fibrous and that's what we saw with this product. 00:02:56 So I mean, I was impressed with that. I was, was impressed with the color of the, of, you know, where we did these checks at. 00:03:03 It literally looked like, to be honest with you, it looked like it was a different variety and it wasn't a different variety. 00:03:09 Now how about as far as height? Height of corn? I mean just, just stalk, you know, stall quality, just better stall quality. I mean, so 00:03:18 When we went out there, um, you know, midway through the season, then later on during the season, like towards the end in the, our stages we were like, 00:03:26 I don't know, a little ways away from black layer. The stock was like 30% bigger around than what my grower standard practice was. 00:03:35 So, but I didn't put on any more fertilizer, I didn't do anything any different. Just this technology. Yeah. 00:03:41 So there's something to this that with that root structure, it's mining the soil and getting stuff outta that soil. 00:03:49 'cause I didn't put no more on. So for the guys that are like wanting to chop silos, like for these guys, I'm like, well that's pretty massive. 00:03:55 Now let me ask you this question as far as like, it almost sounds like a PGR, but did you have any problem out of that stimulant out 00:04:03 of the, the the vegetative state? Did you see anything in the production side that took away from 00:04:09 I did from that a little bit. I think that, you know, I strip till anhydrous on and, and you, you plowed in anhydrous ahead of time too. 00:04:18 I think with this technology, what I saw, you know, I was skeptical anyway, but what I saw so far, even though it yielded it out, 00:04:26 yielded my growth standard practice. There was a little bit of tip back in there. I think it used, uh, a lot of the anhydrous ahead of time 00:04:34 because that root, it got into that root. Yeah. And it grew a lot of vegetative growth. And I ran outta gas in, uh, 00:04:42 to free production to finish that year. So I had some tip back in it. So, so now knowing that, you know, 00:04:48 what are we gonna do next year Now, could you counteract that with Quadra or something that come back? 00:04:55 Sure. Late, late season nutrition There. Yeah, we just pull it out of the front instead 00:05:00 of putting on a hundred and, you know what, 120, 130 pounds of anhydrous or even 150 pounds of anhydrous, in my case 00:05:06 with irrigated, I'll pull some out of it and maybe I only put on, you know, a hundred pounds and then I put on an extra 50 pounds to get it to the end 00:05:15 because what I've, I use a certain amount of spray, right. So I gotta be able to, all I'm gonna do is reallocate the, 00:05:21 the nutrients and I think I can get a least in the front load Go to The, so what happens if I, 00:05:26 what happens if I do that next year? I mean, I saw anywhere between, there's three replicated trials 00:05:31 and it was anywhere between 11 and 17 bushel better than my grower's standard practice. Even with the tip bag. With the tip bag. 00:05:39 So where's that coming from? It was more rows around, you know, they gas. That Was my next question as far as growth rules round 00:05:46 and, uh, colonel count. Yep. So when you looked in colonel count the, you know, the, as far as the length, the length was about the same, 00:05:52 but it was, most of the time it was two more rows round. Most of 'em, all the stuff was 16, it was like 18. 00:05:58 So I mean, that's where it made up the difference really. Which goes back to your point as far 00:06:03 as at the early stages of vegetative when it's developing that Yep. Year. So it was developed in that year early on 00:06:09 and it, it was cracking away. So, I mean, that's the kind of numbers that we saw. So I hope all is good 00:06:14 and I, I think that we can make a bigger difference next year with this knowing what we know now 00:06:19 and being able to look forward Now if we were just solids guys, I'd say front load everything. 00:06:24 Sure. And then make this massive plant and then you can get more tonnage. But we're not after tonnage, we're after grain, so, yeah. 00:06:31 So now it something you can use on the Soybeans, stew corn, or is it just corn Thing? It's come corn, it's, 00:06:35 it's coming. Gotcha. We're, we haven't done any testing on the soybeans yet, but we're getting there, but we're just not there yet. 00:06:41 Alright, back to you guys soon, 00:06:43.565 --> 00:06:45.605