High-Yield Farming: Changes We Wish We Made Sooner

00:00:00 So Jack asked the question, what do we wish we would've done earlier than what we'd done? 00:00:06 And, and Lane and I, you know, kind of sat here and talked about this, we, we started making these higher yielding beans in 2013. 00:00:15 We were blessed enough to, you know, we entered the Gulf for Green contest. We, we got the state record that year. 00:00:21 We were exposed at that point to a lot of smart people. Not that the people before that or, or wasn't smart, but, you know, we were able to go to Hefty, 00:00:31 uh, for their field day. So we were asked to go to Hefty in 2014, go their field day. And I was around such a group of talented men 00:00:40 that were thinking so much above the level that I knew to think of that I wish we'd had done that earlier. So what that made me do 00:00:50 is it made me start looking at these crops a little more intensive, intensively. 00:00:55 So, you know, temple and Chad make fun of me a lot about, I'm still looking, I'm looking for acres per hour instead of quality. 00:01:02 If they would've seen me in the past, they would really think that. So we were, we were more of a status quo. 00:01:08 What does it take to make, you know, 60 bushel beans? What does it take to make 1300 pound cotton? We weren't really looking at all the new stuff since we were 00:01:17 exposed to some of these guys that have really set the bar high. Uh, it got me thinking in a different mentality. 00:01:24 It got me watching what they were doing. You know, the old saying is you, if you surround yourself with smart people, you can really be a dumb dummy. 00:01:31 And, and I feel like that's what I've done, you know, in the last 10 years. So, to answer that question, for me, it would be, 00:01:38 I wished I would've had this same mentality towards farming 20 years ago, 25 years ago. 00:01:44 I guess I'm on my 35th crop. So 25 years ago if I'd have started this way, you know, where would I be today? 00:01:50 I think I would be in a better position I'm in now. But I do think all the guys that's helped me get to the point that I'm at. 00:01:57 Uh, you know, like dad said a minute ago, uh, Jack asked the question of, you know, what's some things we wish we had adapted sooner? 00:02:04 The dad was adapting a better style of farming than we were before. High yields, trying different things, uh, 00:02:12 testing different products. For me, I'm gonna go more towards like the, the production side of it. 00:02:18 I wish we'd adapted, uh, liquid fertilizers more, not just wide dropping or streaming, you know, 28 0 0 5 00:02:27 or uh, 32%, whatever it is. But also into, you know, spraying fo your, fo your Ks fo your PS whatever. 00:02:35 Adapting some of those things that we do now to make higher yields. Wish we would've done that a little bit faster, just 00:02:42 'cause all the whistle we would've left in the field several years ago. Um, I was fortunate enough to him 00:02:49 to have adapted higher yielding testing, different products, stuff like that. So I've been doing that my whole career. 00:02:55 Wish that we would've tested some of these things a little bit faster 00:02:58.445 --> 00:03:00.905