00:00:00 So here in the Delta, we're just, uh, we're just right on the cusp of being able to, you know, get these corn planters to the field. 00:00:07 Corn and bean planters. And one thing that that, uh, you know, we talk about a lot is in furrow 00:00:12 and there's, there's so many different types of in furrow you can run. The first thing that to go to a farmer's mine, 00:00:17 or used to go to my mind prior to running in Frow was a popup phosphorus fertilizer. There's so many other opportunities when you put the in frow 00:00:25 on your planter that you can go with. If, you know, if you've got high phosphorus, fertilized, you know, fertilizer in the ground, then 00:00:32 that may not be the choice that you put in the, in frow. But there's so many different products. 00:00:36 You know, there's phosphorus stabilizers, there's uh, humic acids, there's different micronutrients. Um, you know, they have combo packs. 00:00:44 You can put individual if you wanna go with just a calcium product, you can do that. Or a zinc product. You can do that. 00:00:50 It's not all just about, you know, a phosphorus type fertilizer. We choose to actually run a combination of all those. 00:00:56 What we've seen in the research that we've done in the past is, you know, it's a synergistic effect with different products. 00:01:04 I've took the same products and put 'em, you know, take, took 'em out individually and run 'em and, you know, I get, 00:01:09 seems like I get a better buck by the synergy of putting several different products in there at the same time. 00:01:15 Whether it's a sugar, uh, you know, a phosphorous stabilizer, a phosphorous fertilizer, uh, humic acid. 00:01:22 Uh, we combine all those different things together, PGRs. So, you know, when we're talking about in furrow, 00:01:28 it's not just phosphorous fertilizer, even though we choose to use that in ours, 00:01:33 we feel like it gives the plant a little extra boost in the phosphorus that it needs the corn plant. 00:01:38 Uh, you know, there's several different ways to look at that. And in different areas you get different results. 00:01:44 Temple, uh, temple in Maryland gets a, a real good ROI outta running a infer on soybeans. We haven't seen that yet. 00:01:51 We've been trying to find that magic bullet with infer and soybeans. It doesn't work for us. We do see a benefit in the, 00:01:58 in furrow for corn. And adding all these products together even makes it that much better. 00:02:03 We took that same mentality into the cotton and we see it in cotton. So, you know, each individual area has different places 00:02:11 that the infra fertilizer is, or in there, I said it again, infra fertilizer that infra products are, are, are good. 00:02:19 You just gotta kind of figure out which ones those are. And you know, in my, I encourage you to have a research and development, um, budget or piece on your farm. 00:02:28 I stole this idea from listening to Chad Henderson in a meeting one day, but he asked the audience 00:02:34 to raise their hand if they knew any successful business in the United States that don't have an r 00:02:38 and d department embedded into their business or a budget for r and d. No one raised their hand. I used that same scenario 00:02:45 and other meetings, no one raised their hand. Any successful business in the United States has some kind of research 00:02:53 and development, you know, program to see what works best for them. And as farmers, we do everything different up 00:02:59 and down the country, east and west, north and south. You know, some things work the same, some things are different. 00:03:04 So I encourage you, you know, if you've got an infra kit on your planter, which most, you know, the low percentage of people do, I encourage you 00:03:11 to get a, uh, infra a system installed on your planter. There's so many different tools that gives you a toolbox with several different tools in it. 00:03:19 Like I said, I called it infer fertilizer a while ago because that's just like saying, Hey, do you want a Coke? Well, which Coke do you want? 00:03:26 Well, I want a Diet Coke, you know, it's, it's labeled as a coke because, and down here 'cause that's just the way it is. 00:03:31 And the same thing when you talk about infer, infer fertilizer, there's a lot of different products besides just fertilizer you can put in there. 00:03:38 So you got all these different tools in your toolbox, but you can't get 'em into the, you know, close to the seed if you don't have an 00:03:45 infrared system on your planter. Same thing with a tuba tube. You know, a UBA tube's another tool that you can use 00:03:51 to be able to, you know, apply different type products in your soil at the right place at the right time. 00:03:58 As you can see here, we've got a, what we call a three point hitch planter. So we're carrying this planter on the tractor. 00:04:04 The tank behind me carries a seed. There's no room for a tank anywhere else. So to be able to adapt to being able to put out the tub 00:04:10 of two we would to streamers on the back of a sprayer and everything's banded. We've learned that if, you know, 00:04:16 we can reduce fertilize rates, we can do a better job where we put the fertilizer where it needs to be and infer and two by two are two places that, 00:04:23 that you can really pump your crop up. Now I'm talking about in an irrigated situation, if you're dry land you may not wanna front load as much 00:04:30 'cause you don't know what kind of year you're gonna have. We pretty much know with our irrigation that these products 00:04:35 that we put out are gonna be utilized because if we get in a drought situation, we're able to turn on the water and keep the plant going 00:04:42 and keep the plant active and, and picking up these nutrients and products that we use. So that's where it works good for us. 00:04:48 The tub of two, the infer five years ago I was a dry only guy. Didn't have in furrow on my 00:04:54 planter probably seven years ago. We made that move. We made the move to, to better placement and abandon a lot of this stuff 00:05:02 so we could utilize the whole amount of the product that we're putting out. We were scattering across the ground in a 00:05:06 broadcast situation. Some of it was going in ditches and different places where it didn't need to be. So we started precision being able 00:05:13 to put our fertilizer into places it needs to be by using the infra and the two of two. And when you're putting out urea, 00:05:19 you might throw some bore on or something in there. But when you go to that two to two situation where you're putting out a liquid fertilizer on the band 00:05:27 right in the seed zone, then we're able to add products like cix and fulvic and uh, sugars and phosphorous, uh, stabilizers and nitrogen stabilizers 00:05:37 and different things to add to that value of the fertilizer, which has also allowed us to cut back on the amount 00:05:42 of fertilizer we use in this same scenario. So if you don't have an infra or two by two package on your planter, there is a way 00:05:49 to do it on a three point hitch raise bed system by using the sprayer and also gives you more tools to be able to work with 00:05:55 to, uh, enhance Your crop. For the, for the fall harvest, this is what we use in place of a two by two on our planter. 00:06:03 Uh, what we've done is we took an older sprayer, it had a 90 foot boom. We, we took the ends of the boom off, 00:06:09 we took a wide drop set of wide drop brackets and we actually mounted what we call a streamer on here. And this just goes over our, on our 38 inch wide row, 00:06:18 we've got a, what we call a 19 inch band. So we've got four streams going on that 19 inch band. So we're able to place our, our 28 0 0 5 on that band, 00:06:29 same as you would a dribble two by two on your planter. We just don't have the tanks on our planter with it being a three point hitch to be able to carry that. 00:06:36 So this sprayer is an older sprayer, a thousand gallons depending on the amount rate we're putting out. 00:06:40 We can get some pretty big acres out of this. And it gives us the opportunity to do what some of these other guys are doing with a two to two, 00:06:47 put our fertilized placed in the right spot on a band rate, reduce the amounts we put on there, 00:06:52 and also reduce the amount of the other inputs we're putting in there. So if a court of fulvic is a thing 00:06:58 to run on a broadcast rate, we can cut that down to, you know, half a half rate. 'cause we're placing on the band. 00:07:04 It's not out there in the middles too. So we're not, don't have any waste from that and are able to do a pretty good job. 00:07:10 Since we went to this, we've been able to increase our bushels of corn, you know, by putting it in the right place, increase the bushels 00:07:18 of corn acre, decrease the amount of fertilized breaker. So it's something that, that we're doing that's pretty cool. 00:07:24 I didn't come up with this idea. One of my buddies in Mississippi, Adrian, be come up with the idea of the streamer 00:07:29 and placing that fertilizer on a band 00:07:31.355 --> 00:07:32.915