00:00 You all know I had a big problem on my farm because we were deficient in calcium. We couldn't get it into the plants 00:05 because of problems I had in the soil. Stephanie came down, we looked at it. The base saturation problems is in my soil. 00:12 Make it very hard to have calcium available in the soil to the plant. We started using liberate calcium. 00:18 We've applied it with the planter. We've also applied it in a foliar application. Seen great results in corn and beans. 00:25 All of my trials have come back positive, which is pretty unusual. Not everything always works out as a positive. 00:29 That just shows you how important calcium is in the plant's lifecycle. And now we're started talking about taking 00:35 it down the Chads farm. We're looking at other areas. It's become a grower standard practice on my farm. 'cause we're trying to balance the plant. 00:42 I believe that we pay too much attention to the macronutrients, specifically nitrogen. Just because something is a micronutrient 00:48 doesn't mean it's less important. It does just means we don't need as much of For sure. You know, and 00:53 you know, you've had great results with liberate and that's kind of spread across the country. The more you talk about it, the more people 00:58 have interest in that product. And so that's why we wanna test it in other areas. So we've taken it to the other extreme ag guys 01:04 and Chad used that product this year and as we'd expect, didn't see the same results. You know, soils are different, 01:09 growing conditions are different. And so we're not always gonna get that same response that Kelly saw at his farm. 01:15 Kelly's like, oh my God, here it is. This liberate calcium. Y'all heard this? Y'all seen it and it's good. It worked for him. 01:21 So we brought it all the way to the south. We shook it down there in that red dirt. It jumped back in the box. It wasn't that bad. 01:27 But what happened was it was about a bush and a half off of the Grower Standard practice. Uh, the other programs was somewhere around three bushel 01:35 to four bushel to five to the positive. So we have mixed results. Does that mean we're going to ditch it 01:40 and not bring it back? No. It just means we need to find another area for it. Maybe the red dirt, maybe that, uh, 01:46 where we put it at wouldn't have fit for it. We've got some river bottom stuff that we're going to put it in that we'll try again. 01:51 So you know what the point is here. It's not always what works for Kelly, works for Chad, you know. 01:56 So test this stuff out. Test it on your own farm. Find a a tank load, uh, one area, whatever works, and see if that's maybe your limiting factor. 02:06 The takeaway here is that approximately, say 10% of your acres should be research acres. We researched it on my farm. 02:12 It became a grower standard practice. Huge success. Researched it on Chad's farm. Haven't quite found the niche for it yet. 02:18 Maybe won't ever find a niche for it. May not. There's d you know, Chad's got different CECs, different base saturations, different phs than we find. 02:25 Uh, Chad and I visited with Kip Kohlers one time at Ag PhD and he said, if 10% 02:29 of your acres aren't research acres, you're already broke. You just don't know it yet. Think about that for a while.