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So guys, we're here today looking at some of the corn. Got Mr. Tommy Roach here from Nature's, got Jacob Appleberry down here from Live Oak Agronomy. We struggle a lot of times trying to figure out a plot to
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do, because the majority of our growers standard practice is Nature's products. So we're always looking for something out of the box that maybe we
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need, that we don't address on a normal basis. So this year, Mr. Tommy decided on this plot to do a calcium trial.
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We're always low in calcium, in our plants and in the soil too. We try to keep our pHs around 6.5, but our base
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saturation calcium's always low. Right. So we did a plot here. I'm going to let Jacob explain exactly what the plot looked like, and then Mr. Tommy's going to tell us why we did the plot we're
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doing. So the grower standard practice was mainly Nature's products, Inferra.
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Had the streamer going across it, and in addition to the grower standard practice of what was in the streamer,
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it got a half a gallon of calcium acetate and a half gallon of K-Flex Max. Then whenever we came through at
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V4 with the Y-drop on top of the 28-0-0-5 and the other mixture we're adding to it, we did a gallon of calcium acetate and another gallon of K-Flex Max.
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So right now you're sitting on a gallon and a half of calcium acetate, gallon and a half of K-Flex Max at V5, V6 corn.
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And we've had less than two inches of rain since we planted this back in the first of-
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March 19th, March 20th ... yeah, March 19th, March 20th. So tell us why that's so important today versus if we had had a rainy season.
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So when I was coming over here, I'm not used to seeing big old Texas dust devils, but they're all over the place.
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Very dry and like Mike said, less than two inches of rain. So there's a couple of nutrients that help in stress
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mitigation, potassium being one, calcium being another. And this works out great because basically I've not had enough moisture to move the nitrogen, calcium,
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or potassium to the root zone. So, hopefully it rains this weekend, which it's supposed to. You couldn't ask for a better scenario.
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If we get the rain, it's setting up. You've got calcium laying there, potassium laying there, nitrogen laying there. You got humic with K-Flex Max
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and it all moves by diffusion. Mass flow, excuse me. Mass flow. So it's setting up to really enhance this playroom.
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It should make it really start off. Oh, it should, yeah. We did get the streamer activated, but that was only a
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small portion of what we put at the Y-drop. Right. So we'll be following this all year. It's really exciting to me. Calcium is something that we definitely have a problem with.
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We almost can't afford to get enough out in a lime situation, you know?
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Right. It's costly. Exactly. So if we can do something like this, it's a lot cheaper. So Jacob, you got anything to add?
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There's going to be another round of calcium going out at V10, V12, I think is what we talked about later.
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Yeah. Right. Right in front of tassel. So just going to keep pouring it to it, trying to make up for a droughty year right now.
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Y'all got a potassium problem here every year, especially with cotton, but people typically address it with, how? Dry fertilt.
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That's right. And in the meantime, you got to figure out a way to feed the plant. So that's why laying it right here where the plant can get to
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it, I mean, it makes perfect sense. Yes, sir. 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:32.460
