Farming Video | Can Winter Wheat Thrive in Corn Stalks? Mike Evans Thinks So
Mike Evans with Calibrated Agronomy stops by Kelly Garrett’s winter wheat field in western Iowa to talk about a new challenge: planting wheat directly into standing corn stalks. It’s a first for the team, and Mike walks us through how they tackled it.
00:00:00 Hey everyone. Mike Evans here with Calibrate Agronomy, uh, here, part of Extreme Ag out here doing a field report. 00:00:05 Um, we're on Kelly Garrett's, uh, winter Wheat Field, uh, here in western Iowa. 00:00:09 And, uh, the little unique challenge Kelly wanted to plant, uh, winter wheat and the staining corn stalk, 00:00:15 something we haven't done at all before. So little, little apprehensive doing that. But as you can see behind us, 00:00:22 we've got a pretty good stance, uh, in here. And I wanna talk about kind of the, the seed treatments that we did, um, here on this particular field. 00:00:31 Uh, first of all, we came into this field after it was harvested, um, here early September, and we work 00:00:37 with a company we like at Calibrate Agro called Earth Optics. Uh, they do a lot of soil biology testing. 00:00:42 Um, and what we can do with that testing is we can look at the soil pathogen loads, um, and, and see what do we have a lot of fusarium do. 00:00:52 We have a lot of pithy, um, uh, phyto for those kind of diseases that would affect this, uh, wheat coming up out of the ground. 00:00:59 And then we can look at, uh, seed treatments to maybe combat those diseases if we have them. So we've got like four or five treatments out 00:01:06 behind me here, down in the valley. Um, some stuff we use at Calibrate Agronomy, but, uh, we work with, uh, 00:01:12 guys at Spray Tech, uh, Nate and Diego. Uh, a couple products that they're, they thought because this field does have a lot of pum, 00:01:19 especially down in this, towards the bottom, um, and we deployed those one's called Ful Tank Zinc. Um, we applied that, which, uh, something they typically, 00:01:27 they, they don't do, but they felt that would really help, uh, uh, fight that pum off. 00:01:33 So we've got a couple strips out here with that, really excited about what that'll show us, um, and working with those guys. 00:01:40 And, uh, yeah, as you can see, we got a really good stand. Um, and, uh, I'm kind of looking forward to now 00:01:46 that we've got a good established stand coming in out of Greenup in the, in the spring here, and seeing what, see what the root's like, 00:01:52 where the plant's at and what it grows. So just a couple things we do at Cal Agronomy as far as diagnostics, earth optics, and then employing a program 00:02:00 and doing some research out back here to see what, 00:02:03.345 --> 00:02:07.485