00:00:00 If it's not obvious already, we're standing 25 feet over the Chesapeake Bay. I'm with Temple Roads and a field 00:00:05 that he farms is 25 feet from where we are standing Temple. We talked about nutrient management plans since the first 00:00:12 time you and I got together on extreme active dual recording, you were faster to nutrient management because of regulation, 00:00:18 because of the proximity of you to this bay. Literally, your, your rows of corn are 25 feet from this water. 00:00:25 And this is gonna come to more farms in America. It's happening with the Des Moines River and Iowa. It's happening now with water management 00:00:32 and nutrient management in Nebraska. It's happening in northern I, uh, Ohio with the Lake Erie algae bloom. 00:00:38 This is coming. And you're ahead of the curve, I gotta tell you. Well, we, we did get forced to do it, 00:00:43 but for what it brought out of us, it brought farmers that, um, really you had to learn how to reinvent yourself. 00:00:50 Because when they take away everything and say you can't do this and you can't do that, and it's something that's the only way 00:00:56 that you knew how to farm. You had to figure out a way to reinvent yourself. So a lot of the things that we're doing now, um, 00:01:01 in extreme ag and you know, with Kelly, you know, we're cutting back on nitrogen. Yep. And the things that were proven, these are things 00:01:07 that we've been made to do and mandated to do over the years. Phosphorous was first, phosphorous, phosphorous, 00:01:13 Nitrogen was all together. Yeah. One time. There's A strip of grass between this cliff and your corn field. Is that by design or does it, I mean, is 00:01:19 that to buffer? Yeah. We have buffer strips that go around every field. It's about 20, 25 foot. 00:01:24 Some of 'em are 30 foot, depending on where we are, but that's meant to be there to catch some stuff. That's one of the things that is so important for us, 00:01:32 learning what we are learning now. Put nutrients on at the right time when that crop needs it. You know, when that crop needs something. Yep. 00:01:38 We need to be able to put it on there. So why would you go out there and front load it all Yep. When you can put it on exact timing. Right. 00:01:45 And still grow a great crop. Well, you Know, there's an economic benefit to that. Then the environmental benefit is you're not putting a bunch 00:01:50 of stuff out there that just leaks away and goes into this bay. That's correct. Um, the benefit also is you've gotten better 00:01:56 yields, you've gotten better at farming because of it. The, the whole Del Marva has definitely gotten better at farming because of what we went through. 00:02:03 Now, the first eight or 10 years, like we talked before, it was rough. Is this water behind us in Chesapeake Bay? 00:02:09 Is it better now because of what you guys have been doing for the last 30 years? It's, It's a hundred percent better. 00:02:14 The commercial fishermen will tell you that they went through some rough spots way back when. Right. You know, when this allergy bloom happened, 00:02:20 all these different things happened and we're curved in all of that. All of these things. So a lot of that stuff has changed now. 00:02:25 And the bay is a hundred percent Healthcare. So the farmer watching this that knows that nutrient man, 00:02:30 if they don't think nutrient management regulation is coming their way. I got news for 'em. Yeah. Yeah. 00:02:35 It's definitely coming. It's, it's gonna hit the whole country at some point. This is an environmental concern. Yeah. 00:02:40 All the regenerative agriculture that we're doing this backs up exactly what we've been doing. 00:02:45 All right. So, big points. Big big points. 'cause you've got more years of experience, nutrient management regulation 00:02:50 that's gonna be coming to Don't be Scared. Okay. Don't Be scared. Don't be scared, number one. Number two, 00:02:54 There, there's a lot of ways that you can get around this. Pay really close attention with how you put on fertility. 00:03:00 That's what we've had to do. And that's how we've maintaining our yields that we're maintaining. Yeah. 00:03:04 Or even growing your yields. Or even growing. Okay. So don't be scared. Uh, be really, really dialed in on just in time 00:03:10 nutrient management is really what we're talking about. Just in time fertility. Is there anything else? Uh, f nutrition really changes things for us 00:03:15 because what happens there is in nutrient management, it only counts when it hits the dirt. Right. So if it hits the dirt, it counts. 00:03:23 But if it's on the plant and the uptake on the plant is so much more efficient, yeah. That doesn't count. So foliar nutrition made 00:03:30 a world of difference for us. Meaning You're using it, but it is gotta make sure it gets absorbed. 00:03:33 Mm-Hmm. Got it. And then that's three things. And then I'd throw a fourth thing in. Are these buffer strips, is that gonna become ubiquitous? 00:03:39 Are we gonna see protections from waterways? Yeah. And and that's something that came to us a long, long time ago. 00:03:45 I mean, you can see the washing Yeah. That we have here on the edges. Yeah. You know, and that's the only thing that's, 00:03:50 that's holding those edges back. Temple roads. Amy Mason coming at you from extreme fa uh, from extreme Ag, uh, 00:03:56 just about 25 feet above Chesapeake Bay. 00:03:58.405 --> 00:04:00.645