Farming Video | Can Real-Time Leaf Testing Save You Money on the Farm?

00:00:00 I am holding an on demand tissue analysis tool by Leaf Tech and partnership with our friends at Concept Agritech. 00:00:08 I'm standing next to Garrett Hensley and Matt Miles at the Miles Farm Field Day in McGee, Arkansas. 00:00:14 This thing, at first, Matt got all geeked out about it, said We gotta show 'em this. I thought it was a view master. 00:00:19 I thought it was one of those things like when I was a kid where I put stuff in there. 00:00:22 But turns out it's a very valuable tool, can help you make important decisions on your farm. And as Matt said, we're not using 1940s 00:00:29 concepts and technology anymore. We're using stuff like this. What is this? How does it work and why do I need it? 00:00:34 This is a tissue analysis tool. So what we do is we are able to scan tissue with it and you know, traditional tissue analysis will come back if 00:00:43 you send 'em on a Monday, you may have 'em on a Thursday. We can have tissue analysis in four hours. 00:00:47 What we do is, is open this up. Right. Once it's turned on we take our, Is it a soybean leaf right off 00:00:52 of this plant behind us? Yeah. Yeah. And then you can use cotton. We've used it on corn in the past as well too. Right. 00:00:57 Crop any, so you take it, you set it in there, make sure it's nice and flat. Okay. This is like 00:01:03 battery operated, like my cordless drill. Yes sir. Absolutely. Yeah. It's easy Plugged, it's not plugged into my computer, 00:01:07 it's not plugged into an extension cord. It's just as simple as that. Bluetooth To your phone. Bluetooth 00:01:11 Into my phone. And so All you do is you get on the app, you click scan. When you click scan on the app, 00:01:17 it will take about five seconds to scan it and you're done. Two hours you'll have it. So normally 00:01:22 what we do is we'll take 15 or 20 samples out within the fields or in your corn fields like we did 00:01:28 and just to get a more accurate representation. Alright. So You said take about how many samples, Garrett? About 00:01:33 15 or 20 is what we're Per field per basically decision making. It's got like SAP or anything else. Is this the next thing? 00:01:40 I mean, sending samples off to a lab. Used to be tissue samples, took you a week or two and it was SAP sampling. 00:01:46 Like, uh, the guys like, uh, uh, you know, Evans talks about is this replace all that? 00:01:50 Well I don't know if necessarily they were replace SAP sampling. 'cause that's a whole different way of doing it. 00:01:54 You're using old leaves and new leaves. This is revolutionary for a person like me. We do a lot of tissue samples 00:02:00 and try to stay ahead of those demand curves with our nutrients that we buy from them. Yeah. Right. So if we send that sample off, 00:02:06 we get it on Monday, we send it off, we don't get it back to Thursday. What if we need to spray on Tuesday? 00:02:10 Right. Prime example, we had terrible weather. We didn't get all our nitrogen out. I started panicking. They brought the, they brought that scanner down there. 00:02:17 We went to all my fields that I didn't have enough nitrogen on. I thought they all looked good. 00:02:22 So I mean it's instant, you know, everything in this world now is instant. The thing Is this, this is like 00:02:27 almost sounds too good to be true, Garrett. Yeah. And, and you know, it's really cool and a big thing. What we've done with this is if you take a test, 00:02:34 I'm gonna use Midwest Labs for example. When you get your analysis back, it's gonna tell you low, sufficient or high. 00:02:41 But those values are based on the millions and millions of tissue tests that they've got in and their averages. 00:02:46 So what we've done here at Concept Agritech is made a value sheet based on yield for what you're seeing. 00:02:53 So we've made a sufficient chart for just your standard production. Yep, yep. And then we've also made one 00:02:59 for higher production stuff. So Real quickly, you're going to, you've already been using this. Mm-hmm. And so this result on what we put in here, 00:03:06 how long is it guy sitting here, Garrett? Oh, it's done. Oh yeah, it's done. Yeah. Yeah. You're good. Yeah, 00:03:10 We take our leaf out and now you've got it on your phone within Two hours, most of the time, 00:03:16 Two hours you're gonna know and then you can go into your office and start making decisions. 00:03:20 Okay. It turns out that soybean is better off than I thought. And we're measuring for everything. 00:03:23 Yes sir. The same things you see on a waters or a Midwest Lab sample Money. I know. We 00:03:28 always have taught money. You're a money guy. Um, this saves a lot of hassle. This saves, we're not sending stuff off. 00:03:33 What about decision making? Have you already used it to save money? Oh Yeah. We've used it to 00:03:37 put less than nitrogen on. Yeah. You know, already. I mean, and just, just having, not having to wait four days to know 00:03:43 what you're gonna put out it. Just say you do it on Monday, you, and you don't get it back to Thursday 00:03:48 and you need to spray on Tuesday. My consultant calls us, Hey, plant bugs are eating you up. You gotta spray what fertility I put out. 00:03:53 Well, I don't know 'cause I don't have a tissue sample. Okay. You can run out there with that. Pop, pop, pop. This is what we need. Add the 00:04:00 right things at the right time. That way you're not wasting money. It also drops pins where you pull a sample. 00:04:05 Okay. I was gonna say, so the traceability, because if I'm out covering as many acres as these guys farm, I'm like, I'm in a lot of places. 00:04:10 So now I know where that leaf came from. So I can say, this leaf came off of this field. I put it in right here. Boom, boom, boom. 00:04:18 And I know it came from this place on Highway 63. Yep. It'll drop a pin every time that you submit a scan, it drops a pin where that scan was done at. 00:04:25 Get me outta here. I think this is a hell of an idea. Yeah. It's It's revolutionary to me. 00:04:28 You know, and what we've seen so far, it hadn't failed yet. They, they've took tissue samples from the lab, 00:04:33 put 'em side by side with those. It's as accurate. It it's as accurate. And the thing is on a tissue sample going in the lab, 00:04:39 you lose during that transit to the lab. This is instant. So this should be better. Yeah. Because instantaneous, he's Matt Miles joined 00:04:46 by our friend, uh, Garrett Hensley. We're at the Miles Farm Field Day, McGee, Arkansas. We're talking about some technology 00:04:51 that's gonna help you make better decisions in real time, which is very important to you 00:04:54 because you know what, we're out here to try and make money and we know that commodity prices are depressed, 00:04:59 bringing the technology, the tools, mostly the information. And we do that at all of our field days. 00:05:02 So check out some of our field days. If you have not been to one, go to Extreme ag.farm and sign up. 00:05:06 We run these through August 21st. This is just the second one of the year. So you know what, you still have time. So next time. 00:05:12 Matt Miles, Garrett Hensley, Dave Mason coming at you 00:05:14.635 --> 00:05:17.085