00:00:00 So you hear people always talk about, uh, being in uncharted waters and if there's, if there's a year 00:00:07 where we are definitely in uncharted waters, this is going to be the year. Uh, my friends in north Arkansas are still flooded. 00:00:14 But um, you know, we started this thing, we planted these beans around March the 19th, got that big rain on April the fifth, 00:00:21 got four inches in one hour, eight and a half. Total beans. Went underwater, stayed underwater five days. You've seen the videos I had, you know, 00:00:29 this particular field here was underwater halfway up for five days. That's the problem we were dealing with was, 00:00:34 was the beans under water came down, beans got better. As the beans got better, we started putting out new growth. Then, uh, rok and pythium set in. 00:00:45 So we had, you know, herbicides out for pre-emerge. We had, um, standing in water. Pythium pythium is a disease, so soilborne disease 00:00:54 that soybeans get from being, you know, too, too much water. So then it started girdling around the, 00:01:00 uh, the base of the plant. So got the beans outta the water, got 'em growing again, then they developed disease. 00:01:07 Actually they've kind of came out of that to a point. We're really not sure. We don't know if these beans are gonna get two foot tall and fall over 00:01:15 or you know, if we got enough root system there and enough stability there still in the stem to make 'em stay. 00:01:20 Next problem is all this water from these additional farms come straight through this one to get to the canal, 00:01:26 which is at the back of this field. And you know, we plant on a raised bed. So we've got this raised bed with two rows on it, one side 00:01:34 of the row completely washed out. We got two rows here on 38 inches. One of 'em is running 55 to 60 population. 00:01:41 The side that got washed out running three to four populations. So we're looking at, you know, 65 in some spots. 00:01:48 Not the whole field, but in, in the upper end of the field for sure. You know, we've got about a 60,000 population. 00:01:54 It's fairly uniform because the one row that was undisturbed out of the two is, uh, is pretty dead gum uniform. 00:02:02 And then you've got the rover on the side that was washed out. These plants are laying down, 00:02:06 they just don't look like they're gonna be much of anything. But we had to make a decision. Do we replant it? 00:02:12 If we replant it, do we replant the whole field? There's no way to come in here. These beans have now got three 00:02:17 trium on 'em, some of them four. There was no way to come in here and spot plant this field. It was either destroy the whole field and start back over 00:02:25 or stick with what we got. So we're gonna go with faith and uh, we're gonna try to make this work. The pythium on the bottom is a problem. 00:02:35 The washed out rolls on the top of a problem and we will just try to manage this the best we can. We think we've still got decent yield potential here, 00:02:44 but only time will tell. As you can see, this plant looks pretty healthy, right? So it's got three tris coming out on it 00:02:51 and looks like a pretty healthy plant. The problem is look at the root system. So That plant theoretically should be standing up 00:03:03 like this so you can see where the roots are actually exposed. I dug this plant up 00:03:09 and you can see that it's still a pretty healthy root system, but right here is gonna be the problem. So we've got a very thin steam 00:03:17 to try to make this plant live. Plus it's gonna be kind of crooked too. So we're actually gonna apply some calcium, calcium strength 00:03:24 and cell walls and if anything needs strengthened, you know, it's definitely gonna be this little 00:03:29 piddly looking root here. We're gonna apply calcium to this at a half a gallon per acre, a calcium chelated acetate 00:03:36 and um, run a quart of ful with it to uh, try to get that to absorb in a plant and see if we can promote root growth 00:03:44 and root strength and then we just kind of monitor it as the year goes. Alright, I've actually moved 00:03:50 down there to the lower end of the field. So this is where, where I'm standing right now was knee deep with water for about five days. 00:03:57 So you can see the bees actually have come out of that. That was our biggest stress. That's what I've been worrying about 00:04:02 for the last two weeks was, you know, are these bees gonna make it? If they don't, it's gonna be a third of the field again, 00:04:08 do we replant the old field or we try to patch it in? So we just decided to give 'em time and see what happened. They kept recouping, recouping, recouping, new TFOs, 00:04:17 everything looked good. Then the pythium set in, uh, a little bit of residual damage from the chemicals, you know, 00:04:24 sitting there, the our pres. But we really think we've got, you know, we think we're probably close to full yield potential here. 00:04:31 The, uh, stand counts are gonna be a little lower, but you know, this is say 30% of the field Problem is we've got this 30% down 00:04:38 here that we're gonna have to baby. And then we've got the upper end where the rows washed out and we've got those plants laying on the side. 00:04:44 There's a few down here that have laid on their sides, but there's more that we know that there's not enough population here to make it. 00:04:50 So we'll come back next week when we put our over the top post chem pass out with a high dose 00:04:56 of fertility at that point. Uh, micros and a and a few things to just try to make, uh, you know, make these beans kind of revive. 00:05:04 We really like to stress beans, environmental stress on beans when they're young. That's been one thing that that equates to yield for us. 00:05:11 Never been in a situation with water though, so water's a new one on us. Again, uncharted, uncharted waters. So we'll find out. 00:05:18 Maybe by the end of the year I'll have some good news to tell you instead of some bad. So, uh, I know this has really got my brain in a different, 00:05:25 you know, in a different realm than it's ever been in before. A lot of guys are, you know, are in the same situation. 00:05:30 So hopefully it'll work out, you know, with inputs where they are and prices where they are. 00:05:34.745 --> 00:05:36.085