00:00 Hey, we're talking about summer decline. What is it and what you can do about it for higher yields on your farm? 00:04 Dale Hankey, you are with Corteva Biologicals. I was a commodity classic. Jim Davis and I were in your booth 00:09 and he started talking about summer decline. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa. Remind me during the summer field days to hit on that, 00:15 because I like the term, I think we all sort of intrinsically know what it is, but I want you to explain it. 00:20 'cause Matt Miles even asked when we were walking over here to set up for this shoe. He is like, well, what is Summer Klein? You say it simply, 00:26 It's, it's lots of yield potential throughout the season. A lot of times you don't really visually see 00:31 what's going on in that plant. Plants look good. You have normal growth. You don't see those bushels that are, they're ticking away, 00:36 that we're losing based on that stress that that crop is dealing with throughout the season. Loss of yield potential, you say? 00:42 Yeah. It starts, you start the loss of yield potential when you open the bag of seed. You know, no matter what crop it is. 00:48 'cause we start messing it up some at that point ourselves. Right. Okay. But there's the seasonality. 00:52 I think the descriptive part why I like summer decline is we all know, uh, you know, there's a, there's a flu season, 00:59 there's, there's a stress period, whatever. There's that thing. When we think about someone, a client, it's because generally either pest or drought. 01:08 Right? Generally. Right. Yeah. So we think pest really insect pest disease, pests, weeds definitely have to manage weed competition. 01:15 That fourth pass that people don't really think about is crop stress. Yep. And that can, that can limit yield 01:20 as much as some of those other stressors. Do You deal with this more than maybe anybody? We jokingly talk about your farm down the delta region 01:25 of Arkansas as little Vietnam. It is excruciatingly hot. I've been there. It's a hundred, 203 degrees. 01:31 Do you think that you've got a little better handle on managing summer decline or patching crops through summer decline better than others? 01:39 Yeah. So when, I didn't even know what summer decline was until we were walking up here 01:43 and I always like to know ahead of time where I can get a plan. But it's pretty cool because all the things y'all talked 01:47 about with summer decline, I can manage those. I can manage pests, I can manage uh, weeds. I can, I can manage irrigation. 01:54 Kelly can't do that on every acre here, but Right. The only thing you can't do is stop the heat. 01:58 That is the one I cannot do. You stole it from me before I got to the end of it. But heat is something that no farmer can manage. Right? 02:05 No farmer can control. Yeah. Okay. So products like they have stress mitigators things to make that plant think it's not as hot as it is 02:12 or it's not as cold as it is, you know, through, through the plant. Those are the things that, that we can do. 02:18 Now, there comes a point in time, you know, we talk a lot about that R five application on soybeans. If it's a hundred or 110 degrees 02:25 and 85 to 90, 95 at night, those don't work for me 'cause I can't manage that intensive heat. But you come to the Midwest where it's not quite as hot 02:34 as many days in a row, right. There's a lot of management you can do with the heat also. What is your recommendation? 02:39 The person watching is like, okay, great Summer Kline, I got it. Um, I'm not irrigated like Matt. Uh, he's right. 02:45 I can take care of the weeds, I can take care of the fungus or the debugs or whatever. 02:49 What am I supposed to do? Your recommendations. Yes. We talked about heat. That's one of the big focuses in, 02:53 in the summer is when we look at summer decline. But you know, that even can be, uh, summer decline can happen as a 02:58 result of, of a weak root system. But that root system's making some of these hormones that, that plant needs to deal with that heat stress 03:04 because we always attribute, uh, pod and flower loss and beans to heat, uh, yeah. Tip back on corn to, to heat high temperatures. That's true. 03:13 That's what's happening. But what internally is happening in that plant, it's a breakdown of cytokine. 03:17 Cytokine is responsible for the, the seed development and the fruiting of that plant and, and even branching on soybeans. 03:24 So we wanna make sure we're providing enough cytokine for that plant. So we just supplement what 03:29 that plant would normally make on its own in healthy conditions. You know, that root system is gonna make 03:33 those hormones in natural conditions. How Do I get cytokine in? So we have a product called ex excite. 03:38 Do I put that in that time of planting? Do I put that in a first pass? When do I use this? We typically put it in that herbicide pass eight ounces 03:43 of ex excite with the bio forge advanced, come back in and you're reproductive of timing because excites very important early for in soybeans 03:50 for branching and for that early flower development. And then later we want to keep those pods on that plant. I heard 'em talk about roots. So obviously a part of 03:58 managing through summer decline is making sure your plant goes into the hot part of summer with 04:02 as good a roots as possible. So it's got a lot to pull from that's fertility or is there something else? Man, 04:06 It's, it's a combination of everything. You've gotta have the fertility, you've gotta have products like they have cool thing about their product. 04:12 You said it's reproductive or vegetative? Mm-Hmm. So there's some pgs out there you gotta watch because you put the wrong one in the wrong stage. 04:19 It actually adverse affect you. What that will help me do I hope, or what we're working with is slow our 04:24 grain field process down. Okay. When it gets so hot where we're at, that plant's racing so fast to get through that. 04:31 We have a shorter grain field period. Even here if it's, if they run into a huge heat wave, you know they're gonna have a shorter grain field period, 04:37 which automatically is detrimental to yield. So these kind of products will let the plant say it's not as bad as I think it is. Do you agree with that? 04:45 Yeah. And I think the thing too, when we look about, when we talk about heat 87 degrees corn and soybeans, 87 degrees is where 04:51 that cytokine is starts to break down. So when was it 87 degrees in, in Arkansas Starts in what March exactly. 04:57 Yeah, Six in the morning in July. So, alright. Is there any other recommendation, uh, root development, getting your plants off to a good start? 05:03 Uh, the, the cytokine and application you talked about. What else do I need to know to manage Number decline, to prevent loss of yield because of summer decline 05:11 Early is, is do everything we can to develop that root system. Once we get that root system developed 05:15 and we're building that architecture to set the stage for Lazar stages. So it's a step by step process, 05:20 really a start, grow, finish. We start at planting, we, we work through those growing times and in vegetative stages 05:26 and then we finish it out with our Station by the time we get to August and when it is the dog days of summer in many parts 05:32 of the world, is it too late or is there still something I can do? We can't go backwards and 05:35 build an architecture of the plant. Yep. But what we wanna do is preserve the yield that we have. 05:39 Got it. We build the yield up until June 21st after in soybeans and then after June 21st. We're preserving what yield we have there 05:46 because the sunlight determines what we're gonna be doing as far as how much reproduction 05:50 Last quarter is the person that absolutely deals with more summer decline, probably lost potential than anybody 05:55 because of the heat, the humidity, the bugs, et cetera, et cetera. One thing you learned or last note, 06:00 Build the foundation, just like he said, build the foundation to protect yourself for when you get in those situations. 06:05 Foundation being the roots and the health of the plant early. Got it. He's Matt Miles with extreme Ag, one 06:10 of the original founders of this, uh, extreme mag where we've got now hundreds and hundreds of videos just like this. 06:15 Also podcast. We've been putting him out now for three years, cutting the curve. He's Dale hanky with Teva Biologicals giving us more great 06:21 information to help you manage your summer to clients so you can get bigger yields. And you know what? That's what we're all about here, 06:25 is giving you information you can use. Take him to your farm for more profits, better ROI and a better farm experience. 06:31 Till next time, I'm Damon Mason. Thanks for joining us. No, I think we need to go back.