Leveraging NutriCharge for Sustainable Farming: A Season Review
20 Dec 242m46s

Kevin Matthews reflects on a challenging year with low crop yields, citing it as the worst corn harvest since 1998. Despite setbacks, NutriCharge emerged as a key product in mitigating challenges by enhancing phosphorus availability in low-phosphorus soils, improving nutrient uptake, and reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers.

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00:00:00 All right folks. We're here at the end of the season. We've got our soybeans cut, we've got our corn cut, everything's harvested. 00:00:06 What little crop we got this year's into bin corn was very disappointing. The worst year of corn I've ever growed since 1998. 00:00:15 Uh, a lot of products that we know maybe was a game changer over the years that some of 'em didn't show out as good this year as others, 00:00:23 but the one that stood right by us that, uh, continuously kept us in the ball game where we had a little bit of moisture nutri charge. 00:00:31 One of the things I like about the Nutri charge is our soils are low in phosphorus. 00:00:35 That's a benefit to me. It helps bring those low fo, low phosphorous. The availability of that low phosphorous soils, 00:00:43 it actually brings it out more to where the plants can utilize and metabolize the phosphorus. And I actually personally think it's bringing other 00:00:52 nutrients along because if I look at the amount of synthetic fertilizers I apply when I'm using these type products, I'm cutting back on it. 00:01:03 I'm being very, very efficient and I'm protecting waterways. My streams, we're right here on the bank 00:01:08 of the Yakkin River right now. We're, um, three quarters of a mile north of the, uh, water intake pipe for the city of Winston-Salem. 00:01:16 And it's very important to me that I protect this waterway. And that is one of the products that we use, 00:01:23 that we keep all the fertility in our fields. We don't have to put no excess fertility. You can see in the tree behind me, you can see 00:01:30 where the flood debris got up from Hurricane Helene. Of course, it got a lot higher. And what you see right there, 00:01:36 when we have these extra floods, we're going to take it out of our fields and we're, it is going to hurt. 00:01:42 We know we're gonna lose some phosphorus. However, what we're trying to avoid is just having to put copious amounts out there 00:01:48 that are not necessary to grow a crop. When I can add products like Nutri charge in and offset that amount. 00:01:55 But this is our fourth year going into our fourth year with UltraCharge, uh, 2025. It'll be a grower standard just like it was in 2024. 00:02:05 One thing I do want to do differently for 2025 is I actually want to go ahead and do another test with and without and see 00:02:14 'cause in 2024, we just used it across the board. We, we did not hold back every acre of corn, every acre of soybeans got nutri charge put in for a but 00:02:23 before you do something like that on your farm, I really want you to try the product, do you some with and without test, 00:02:29 and see if it's something that'll fit into your program, because I can't tell you you're gonna get the same response 00:02:35 in your soils that we've been able to see in Piedmont, North Carolina, in this River Valley. 00:02:40.615 --> 00:02:41.245

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