Promising Results from Mid-August Corn Trial with New Leaf’s Products
Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg shares the latest on his corn trial using New Leaf’s TS 201 bio-insecticide and Terrasym 450 bio-stimulant. Initially doubtful, Kelly was surprised to see a noticeable difference between the treated and untreated corn. The treated corn showed fewer issues like green snap and had noticeably larger ears.
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00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. We're here, it's the middle of August, August 15th to be exact. 00:04 I'm with Allison and Jack of New Leaf. We're here scouting my TS 2 0 1 trial and I gotta say that I'm excited. 00:11 I was excited on June 12th. This corn was about V four at my field day. Allison was here. This is our fifth year doing 00:17 trials with extreme ag. And I gotta say, I feel like I have a pretty good radar. It's pretty hard to get a fastball 00:23 by me when a new company comes, wants to do a trial with us. I feel like I know what's snake oil and what's not. 00:30 I will turn down a lot of those snake oil opportunities because I'm like, this is a waste of time. I'm not gonna learn anything 00:35 because at the end of the day, I'm trying to learn something from my farm. I took this trial on because of Nicole 00:41 and our history of working together and things like that. But Allison, I thought it was snake oil. 00:46 And at V four we could see the difference. Yep. Today we can see the difference. We're standing here on the, on the border 00:51 between the treated and the untreated. I don't know if the camera picks it up, but when we walked out here, I can see the 00:56 visual difference in the corn. We haven't had a lot of wind, but when we walk into the corn, 01:01 the untreated has got some green snap. The treated does not, the ears look bigger. The proof is always in the ROI, 01:07 the proof is in the yield monitor. So we shall see. But I gotta tell you, I thought this was a waste of my time 01:12 and I really, I'm very confident that it's not. What do you see when we go out there? That's great to hear. Uh, again, we we're in our, oh, 01:20 I don't even remember how many years of testing these, these products and these products together. So what you have in this trial is our corn bio stimulant, 01:28 Tarin four 50, along with our EPA registered corn root worm bio insecticide TS 2 0 1. 01:35 And although you don't see a ton of corn rootworm pressure here, um, there are still benefits. 01:41 So that's one of the reasons that we launched them as a package deal, right? Right. Where, okay, uh, it's a little bit of insurance. 01:48 So if you have the corn rootworm pressure, you're gonna have mitigation. But also, uh, if you don't have corn rootworm pressure, 01:56 you're still gonna see your ROI and we can't wait to see your yield data to see how it shakes out. 02:00 I gotta tell you, next year, because of the way the markets are, the challenging, the only thing that we have here 02:05 that doesn't make money is soybeans. Soybeans are a challenge for me to make money. Next year, I gotta tell you, I'm gonna be 95% corn. 02:11 It probably won't raise any soybeans. It's gonna be winter wheat and corn and cows. Okay? And so with all of the corn on corn, we're gonna have, 02:18 I'm very excited to have your technology from what I've seen here today. Uh, again, we gotta wait for the ROI. 02:24 But, uh, so far I'm very impressed. And like I said, I'm not only impressed, I'm surprised. I love it. So we've dug six plants, three 02:32 with the technology, three without. We're gonna go into the shop, we're gonna wash off the roots, 02:36 we're gonna look at the ears, see if we can pick up any more differences. Excellent. Let's go. Let's do it. 02:41 I'll tell you what, I'm hoping to see the same trend of more fine roots, better architecture, and more brace roots. Well, 02:50 That looks Impressive even without damage. That's what I'm hoping to see. We'll see. He's got surface feeding, he's got corn rootworm. 03:00 Okay. Yeah. But it's just surface feeding. I haven't seen any full nodal pruning yet. So it's real light. 03:06 Alright, we're here in the shop now. We have power washed all of the roots. We have looked at the ears, we've counted the kernels, 03:13 as you can see on my side or the roots with the technology. There's a stark difference. Yeah. 03:18 And I'd like to point out that this trial was in a tough area and that was done purposely to really test the product. 03:23 Yeah. You know, like if we go put it in a 300 or 400 bushel area or whatever, we put this in a tough spot. It's corn on corn, you've pointed 03:31 out there's a little surface feeding. Mm-Hmm. From the root worm, there is a little root worm pressure. 03:34 The roots are glossier. Can you explain what that was? So, uh, our science advisory board was really helpful with that. 03:40 We showed 'em some pictures early on. They're like, oh, you need to look into ation. It's part of the plant defense response. 03:46 And when we talked before in the season, one of the great things about TS 2 0 1 is that it flips a switch and primes the plant defense systems, part of 03:55 that defense system can be beefing up the tissue of the roots to make it tougher for the insects to get into. And that leads to that kind of glossy shiny look. 04:04 Well, it clearly shows, you know, the size of 'em, the shininess of 'em, things like that. But the, the brace roots, yeah. 04:10 Uh, the development of the brace roots is much more, I mean, the list just goes on and on. 04:15 Uh, Allison's got the ears without the technology. I've got the ears with the average is 50 kernels. There's 50 kernels more on the ears with the technology. 04:24 And a 34,000 population, 80,000 kernel count, that's 21 bushel. So that's exciting. Again, we need to wait 04:30 for the yield monitor, but, uh, that's what it's looking like today. And clearly when you look at the plants, 04:35 they look 21 bushel better. And that's what you said last time we talked. Right? You're like, Ooh, if the roots look this good at V four, 04:41 I bet they're gonna put more kernels around. So you you nailed it there. Yes. There, there's they average more rows around. Yeah. 04:47 You know, like more rows around is great, but what matters to me is how many more Kers per year when we're washing these 04:53 off, I'm looking at the kernels. Allison made a strange request. She asked if she could take the roots home with her. 04:58 That's the first time for me. But I said, okay. So, uh, that's how happy she is about looking at this trial. So, Allison, I, this has been exciting for me. 05:04 Like I said, I didn't know what was gonna happen at the beginning. Clearly I was wrong. We need to wait for harvest. 05:09 I know people on social media, they're always like, well, all of the roots and the size of the years, 05:13 what really matters is the yield. And it does. Yeah. But, you know, we, we still need to go out and do our scouting this type of year. 05:18 And I'm excited to see what the yield is because I'm, I'm pretty optimistic. So you came a long way today to see this worth it. 05:24 I'm glad it was a success. Yes. I'm glad it was worth it. And, uh, I look forward to seeing 05:28 how Harvest is. Thank you. Great. Thank you.
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Arion, IA