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Nitrogen, you know, it's an essential part of the amino acid package. It's the building block of the proteins
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and enzymes in a plant really needed a lot in corn. Really needed a lot in rice cotton. Same way actually soybeans produce their
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own through nodulation. So I can only make about 80, 85 bushel beans with the amount of nodules that it's gonna make for itself.
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So at some point, I gotta figure out a way that I can add to that. If we can use micronutrients like Molly, iron, copper,
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uh, even a one that nobody talks about cobalt, they all help in that nitrogen processing. And once we start processing nitrogen efficiently,
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we don't need as much as we thought we did. You know, you've heard the saying too much of a good thing.
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Well that's kind of where you can be with any nutrient. But nitrogen is one of those that we're learning through our sustainability efforts that can be reduced.
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You know, nitrogen is pretty easy to leach, it's pretty easy to run off. So when you're farming in those really
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deep sandy beach type soils or you put out nitrogen at the wrong time, get big heavy rains on it, it's going in the ground
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or it's running out the end. It is one of the most strategically managed nutrients that we use. What you need to be careful
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with is if you front load nitrogen on soybeans, you're gonna get a giant leggy plant super tall, and then it's gonna end up making all this foliage.
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It's gonna fall over and it's gonna not stack your, your nodes. Like your nodes will be this far apart.
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I wanna stack 'em, you know, an inch apart and stack, stack, stack, stack all the way up it. Because if a high yield situation, those plants get heavy,
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they fall over and they break. We need to process the nitrogen, make it do what it's supposed to do in that plant.
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And we use micronutrients that are key in the enzyme reactions of that nitrogen processing of the plant.
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So that's when somebody asks, how can you tell? Well, what we're learning is you can't, you gotta use certain testing methods to find
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that out and then employ, right. Products help us alleviate the issues. Now with nitrogen on soybeans, the problem is,
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is if you go out there and let's say you use chicken litter or you use some other form
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and you get too much nitrogen out there on soybeans, what you can do is one, you can make the plant lazy and it's not gonna nodulate at all.
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It's not gonna put anything on there where it's gonna make its nitrogen. 'cause you just made the plant way too lazy.
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So how to do that is, is if you're gonna put something down, you can strip till it
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and you can strip till it down real deep. So by the time that it gets to it, it's in the reproductive stage
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and that's when you're gonna want your nitrogen. Anyway, We figured out what we think the best thing
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to do is spoonfeed it. We don't go eat all of our food at breakfast. If that works for us, that should work for plants too.
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So we spoonfeed, we do that with our other nutrients too. But nitrogen is probably one of the, the biggest ones
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that we do that with and we get the most benefit from. But keep in mind, you gotta figure out a way that you can feed that into the plant closer
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to the reproductive stages. So when you're reproductive, you're making pods, beans, blossoms, all that, and vegetative,
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you're just making vegetation and biomass. We don't sell biomass, we sell the seed. That's how we gotta figure it
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