00:00:00 Achieving yield even when the elements are working against you. I'm with Temple Roads here in Maryland in 00:00:05 a pretty good field of corn. Given what you dealt with this year, I heard you complained about it from April onward 00:00:09 here in Eastern Shore, Maryland. You did not have great weather. You're still gonna pull 180 bushel corn here, dry land. 00:00:15 Okay. I know that there's somewhere that they're gonna say, I get two 50 whatever, 180 dry land 00:00:20 and the conditions you dealt with pretty big, uh, pretty, pretty big deal. What'd you do right, to make this happen? 00:00:25 Well, we, you know, we, we talked about this all year long, how we cut back on fertility, right? So we cut way back on our fertility to the point 00:00:33 where this corn right here has only had about a hundred and twenty five, a hundred and thirty pounds of ax, actual nitrogen on it. 00:00:39 And it had no dry fertility whatsoever. So it went with a complete liquid diet from foliar to, you know, just straight UAN. 00:00:46 So what we ended up with is we ended up with a pretty good yield. So I'm really impressed with the yield 00:00:50 that we have on this particular farm. We got a lot of farms that are worse than this, but being able to know that we can hold our own 00:00:57 and we can release, release some nutrients outta the soil and go back to our soil test, that's, 00:01:03 that's what the key point is. But some of the reasons that, you know, this dry land that we have yields that, you know, sometimes, 00:01:09 and this doesn't seem that bad, but when you look at these, you know, all of this right here, this is, it's got ear rod in it. 00:01:16 Yeah. And we've got mold issues. Look at the mold issues. I see, I see this, see the mold here. I see this. Yeah. 00:01:20 Oh, this is, you know, this is unhealthy. And even though that this had fungicide and stuff like it, look at the discoloration in that. 00:01:27 Right. You know, that's terrible. And that the, the weight on this ear versus weight on a ear like this, you know, it's very, it's very different. 00:01:35 Okay. So here's the deal. It's still not great. Still not great, but, but you're salvaging probably better than, than somebody down the road 00:01:42 because it's been a tough year. Well, I was able to cut back on everything and I gave the plant exactly what it needed for the weather 00:01:49 that we were having and I didn't give it anymore. Mm-Hmm. That's the secret. Okay. That's the secret UE about this mold. 00:01:55 What, what's is this? Can we do anything about this? There's not much you can do about it. This is a, this is a dry weather year 00:02:01 and when we ended up having some rain, these shucks, you know, when they're up like this and they, and we had dry weather, they started to open up 00:02:08 and the ones that opened up, we ended up getting rain later on. Got down in here and created some of this mold that we have. 00:02:15 We're gonna have alpha toxin issues this year. Um, you know, vomit toxin, we're gonna have these kind of things. 00:02:21 Take a dock, you will either take a dock or some situations that'll get turned away and sometimes, depending on the yield 00:02:26 and how much alpha toxin you have out here, they can turn you down completely. And insurance can come in at that point 00:02:32 and say, I need you to destroy the whole crop. I'm not saying they would do with this, but it has to be like, I think it's 20 parts per 00:02:38 million, um Right. I think it is. Or 20 parts per million, billion. I can't remember what it is. But they have a level 00:02:44 that they will throw it out. Is that Gonna happen on this field? No. Okay. It's not gonna happen on this field. We 00:02:49 Got what's gonna happen in fields in the, in the neighborhood, There's gonna be fields in 00:02:52 the neighborhood that it happened to. Um, we just got lucky that we basically, we, we cut back on upfront 00:02:58 and we only give the plant exactly what it needs. And I think that we're, that's some of the things that we're learning in extreme ag 00:03:03 that we can continue this process. Okay. Alright. So what you did right was you limited inputs, but you did it at the right time. 00:03:10 You knew you were tough dealing with a tough year. The mold part of it, you can't do anything about that. 'cause that was a plant physiology thing. 00:03:15 And then the time of rain and you're not convinced that you're not gonna lose this to the aflatoxin 00:03:20 and have to do crop insurance on this field. Nope. Tough. Your, your, your less is continue to cut back and make the adjustments all on the fly. 00:03:26 You, you have to cut back for the right reasons. You gotta know what your soil is. You gotta know what's in the soil. 00:03:31 You gotta have to, plenty of soil tests. You gotta know, you gotta have some of that data before you make that that cut. 00:03:36 You gotta know what, what, what's in your Ground. And you're still gonna salvage a profit. 00:03:41 I would say with this corn I will have a profit Temple roads coming at you from a pretty tough year and a decent field. 00:03:48 Certainly this is nothing that, this is not one for the textbook. There's not one for the record books, 00:03:51 but it's one for, you know what, sometimes you're still getting across the finish line. That's exactly right. Got it. 00:03:56 Till next time, I'm Dave Mason coming at you from Lovely Maryland in this field right here that, hey, 123 00:04:00.685 --> 00:04:03.205