Farming Video | Can You Really Cut Nitrogen This Much?

00:00:00 Matt Miles Extreme Ag. I have a special treat for you today. I've got Brandon Finch here with, uh, pivot Bow. 00:00:06 Uh, we've had the opportunity to, to, to start working on the Gen three type product. G three, I think is what y'all call it. 00:00:12 Uh, we come out here, uh, got inside on the irrigated side of the field, pull some, you know, pull some tops off. 00:00:17 Pull, pull some ears down. This is pretty dang impressive. Yeah, I mean, it really is. 00:00:22 We, we've reduced our nitrogen since working with Pivot Bio. You know, from a 1.2, 00:00:28 probably sometimes a little bit more than that. 'cause we get scared down to 0.8, you know, and that, and that's been a big move for us. 00:00:33 It was a move that I was very skeptical about, but this year alone, just the amount of range we've had, knowing I've got that, that, that true nitrogen in here, 00:00:44 you know, when you put out 150 pounds of urea on wet ground, how much of that are you going to get 00:00:49 In the dried? I'd say 60%. 60%. So what's that? 80, 80 units, right? You know, when we buy this Pivot bio now, now I don't, 00:00:59 I don't consider it what's on the jug. I consider it what I've been comfortable with, which is sometimes what's in the jug, what it says on Jug. 00:01:05 Sometimes not. Y'all went to a new name instead of trying to tag it to a certain amount of units, you know, it's, play 00:01:11 with it and see where you're at. Low CECs, huge amount of rains. Having to use urea in place of our liquid 00:01:19 because the ground was so wet, having to make that dry up. Use ammonia sulfate. 00:01:23 This was a train wreck this year for our nitrogen. I, I can't think of a year we've had a corn crop that we had this much trouble getting our nitrogen out 00:01:31 and this G three plot, you can see it, you know, I mean it's, you know, we, we've got a tip back to it, so we know we used everything that was out there, 00:01:39 but that's still a pretty good looking ear, uh, in my opinion. So, So Matt touched on, on making changes 00:01:45 and they changing the name to a Gen three product, uh, that, that going away from just the proven 40, 00:01:50 which is an intelligent move because what we found working across the, the southern states like I do, 00:01:57 is not every situation is a 40 unit situation. It's the farmer Howie Farms. Some people use a lot, 00:02:03 lot more fertilizer than they ever should have. And then we got a lot that don't use enough, and that's kind of our call to help them get there. 00:02:09 One other thing that we've found over the past two years is one of our best fertilizers options down here is 28 0 0 5. 00:02:16 Anytime we can get sulfur to the ground, it's a good thing. Um, we were making those re reductions 00:02:22 and lowering the sulfur content, which was costing some yield, and it wasn't necessarily tied to nitrogen. 00:02:28 So this year Matt made a concession to where he could get the sulfur in and make the reduction, and this is what you're looking at, which is, 00:02:35 which is a really good outcome. So Yeah, that's something that's really important is there's, there's an X amount of sulfur 00:02:39 that's gotta go per bushel also. And when you start reducing the nitrogen and you're using 28 0 0 5, which is our main source 00:02:47 of ammonia sulfate, then you start reducing your sulfur too. So that was a good catch by pivot to, you know, 00:02:52 to figure out, we still gotta have that ratio, you know, however you, however you make that work, 00:02:56 the plant's gotta have so much sulfur to it. So it may be 40 in a super, super low CEC. If you go to the Midwest, it may be a 15. Right. 00:03:04 You know, so you gotta figure out your ROI and what you can take back, you know, and go from there. But in a situation in the Midwest, if you're lowering it, 00:03:11 you've got more nitrogen in your soil, you got more organic matter, which actually may make pivot work a little bit better 00:03:17 because microbes work really good with what organic matter. That's right. You know, so there's a bunch 00:03:22 of different ways to skin this cat. I just can tell you this, we've taken the pivot product and I, and you are a persistent person. 00:03:29 I'm gonna tell you that right now. Because when you came to me with the pivot product, I'm like, I don't think I can cut my nitrogen back. 00:03:36 As a corn farmer, we always think we fix everything with nitrogen. And that's not always the case. 00:03:41 A lot of times we need less nitrogen, more micros, more sulfur, you know, more of these different units that's not just nitrogen. 00:03:48 So when you came to me and told me I need to reduce my nitrogen, you know, I almost told you, you know, probably order head out that door 00:03:54 because I'm gonna put out a bunch of knives. Fast forward to today's world, I'm seeing how much, how low is too low, and I haven't found that yet. Right. 00:04:03 We're constantly searching for that, and I think when we get to there, that's where the magic's really gonna start 00:04:08 Happening. That's exactly right.