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There is a problem that you probably have and maybe you know about it, maybe you don't. It's called potassium deficiency. Late season.
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We're standing out here roughly at Midseason, at Kelly Garrett's Field Day in northwest Iowa. I've got Tommy Roach with Nature's, my friend Johnny Verell.
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Extreme Ag. Of course. Kelly Garrett's here 'cause it's his field day. Why does this problem and why does it exist?
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I didn't even know about this. Kelly once said in the uh, another agronomic topic.
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Every, every sampling finds that we need zinc. Late season. I didn't know we had a potassium problem. Why do
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We have a problem? Potassium's considered uber nutrient moves everything else around in the plant and it, when it's come time
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for green fill, you got a lot of uh, source sink happening where you're sending a lot of nutrition to that grain.
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So it doesn't matter if it's corn grain or soybean, you, you gotta send nutrition to It. You're doing a sampling here.
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'cause this isn't even late season, but you said it will be. Well, it's kind of two problems that
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that really make it bigger. And number one, the plant is so hungry when the ear is filling
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and things like he said that we can't hardly get enough into the plant through the root system and things like that.
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So some foliar applied late season K really helps put us over the top. And then one
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of our main problems in our soil is a base saturation being out of balance. And when that base saturation is out of balance,
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the K availability can suffer. And we do a lot of things to try to amend it, but we can always get it perfect.
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So it really makes a foliar application very necessary. You have this problem and it's not about Iowa, it's everywhere.
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It's a potassium problem. I Think it can be worse where we are sometimes because The heat, because of the soils. Well
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The soils and probably the heat too to a certain extent. So for us, we're always checking to the plant, seeing
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what it needs at our VT NV 11 application, we're usually putting out a form of potassium there too. And then we'll come back at brown silt
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and hit it again to really push that grain field late season. Alright, So you obviously you, we we're a commodity class
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and you talked about all your stuff K this and K that you're, you're a potassium pusher. You need to be, how am I putting this on and,
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and how am ipu push your potassium on me. Tell me how I'm going about doing it. Tommy. So in his case, I mean he's got zinc problems late season.
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So you, you've gotta have a vehicle to get zinc under the, So potassium potasium is going in just
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as potassium is going in also as a carrying agent. Yes, it does help. Absolutely. It helps with all that. Like he said, it's the Uber. Yeah
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And it mitigates all kinds of things early on. So like when we're doing things early on that might burn the plants and stuff like that, a lot
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of times potassium acetate That's right. Really helps with that. And so that's been a big deal for us.
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'cause Tommy even has some that's already preloaded with humic and stuff like that to help, you know, during those times where we're trying to prevent burn
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during our nutritions that we're putting out. Because you're Not gonna put IDE like KCL,
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you're not gonna solubilize that and do it. You Gotta get it in the plant. You spray, you gotta get in the plant and the bio.
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Do you most farmers deal with this or don't know they have it? Do most farmers deal with this or don't know?
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Farmers deal with this here. Deal with it. Yeah. Most farmers have the problem here, but traditionally just always frontload everything
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with KCL or something like that. And then just hope. Hope you do as good as you can. And It never gets in the Plant.
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Never gets in the plant. So The problem with front loading is it was out there. It was out there in April, but it doesn't do any good.
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It's because the soil has it doesn't mean the plant does. That's Especially
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when you have a base saturation problem Like we do. And that's where Foliar Foliar handles that.
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Foliar handles that. Yeah. The company's name is Nature's, his name is Tommy Roach with Kelly Garrett and Johnny Verell.
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I'm Dave Mason coming at you. Remember we do these field days, we do 'em at all the farms. This is a third of our field days.
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of the border up in Quebec. We round it out at Temple Roads in Maryland. August 21st. Go check it out. We always bring these field days to you.
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That's what we're here to do is help you farm better. Till next time from the extreme Ag crew at Kelly Garrett Field Day, potassium late season,
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