Maximizing Herbicide Burn-Down and Residue Breakdown for Better ROI

00:00:00 Johnny Rell, the extreme ag. I'm out here with Brewer, bless it. We're out here looking where we sprayed some herbicides last 00:00:05 week, seeing if they worked, you know, and burn down is something everybody has to do and you want to, you want it to work the best you can. 00:00:10 We already talked about the water qua, you know, if the water's good or not, and pH, stuff like that. But another thing on our farming operation, 00:00:16 and I think Brewer talks about a lot of his consulting business, it's what we can do with the residue that's out here on the ground 00:00:21 and it's a free pass for us, right? We're already having to go across the roundup and stuff and you know, there's some big benefits for getting, 00:00:26 you know, making this residue break on down. That's right. Um, maybe one point to make, uh, also Johnny is, is in addition to the nutrient content 00:00:35 of this residue, um, when this residue does start to break down, it will rob your nutrients in the soil temporarily, uh, while those populations explode. 00:00:44 So that's one of the reasons that we like to go ahead and try to get it to break down before it would tie up your nutrients at a peak 00:00:50 demand time in a crop. We've had, uh, success with some raw biologicals, some other things that just kind of enhance like sugars 00:00:59 and bit dose and nitrogen out there. But we can generally knock this dry matter down to about, uh, by about 30%. Is that what you would say? Yeah, 30, 00:01:06 40% last year is what we're seeing. You know, we did a death last year where we used three or four different ones. 00:01:11 All of 'em kind of worked the same. They're all at different price points. Was probably the biggest difference in the ROI, 00:01:15 if I remember right, we did two x one x, we tried everything we could to, to really see which product would shine 00:01:21 and, you know, show us got better ROI. And the biggest thing is with inputs where they are this year, every farmer's already talking 00:01:27 about how tight things are gonna be. You know, y leave fertilized fertility in this residue. That's right. And not have it break down. 00:01:32 Everybody says in the south we got all this temperature and stuff. Realistically, this residue will 00:01:37 lay here about two years for us. Yeah. Gone. We got, we got corn residue, we got soybean residue, we got wheat residue all here. 00:01:42 And I promise you that wasn't the very last crop that was here. This was beans last year, was it? That's 00:01:46 Right. Yeah. So we had wheat almost, what, six, seven months ago was harvested. Then we've got, you know, bean crop that was harvested 00:01:52 And the corn from the before that. So The corn's been out here two years. So that's where we really think the, the being able 00:01:57 to capture the fertility this year is a big part of our operation this year as far as trying to get those ris where we need 'em to be. 00:02:02 Because at the end of the day, if, you know, we gotta make this money this year to be able to keep going. Final point is, we think about this not just from a 00:02:09 nutrient standpoint, but from the planter ability to function here and remember everything that's above ground, there's that much more below ground too. 00:02:17 So there's an entire root system down there that needs to be degraded and released and, and not tied up nutrients as well. 00:02:22 So let's just speed that sock up and that's really what we're trying to all that Nutrient cycle. It's not an 00:02:25 Extra pass. No, it's 00:02:26.895 --> 00:02:27.455