00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Good from extreme Ag Soybean Harvest has started, and with that, we need to start planting for plant food. 00:06 We need to start planting for cover crops, and one of the most important things we need to do is to start planting for fallen hydrus. 00:13 I very much believe that my nitrogen and the main form of that is an hydrus needs to be put on in the fall to protect the soil biology. 00:19 There's a lot of talk about anhydrous being hard on soil biology, and it's true that it is. 00:25 That's why I want it in the fall. The reason is because the biology is very forgivable. If we give it time to heal, and if we put it on in the fall 00:33 and we wait for the soil attempts to be below 50 degrees, the biology is dormant. 00:37 We're still damaging it. We're still killing that biology in the band where the anhydrous is shot down into the soil. 00:43 When the biology wakes back up, if that's the term you want to use in the spring, it heals itself 00:48 and goes back over the band. I feel that I can see every field that is fall applied anhydrous versus spring, 00:54 and that biology being healthy, trying to protect that biology is the reason that I insist and emphasize that it has to be fall applied at Hydrus. 01:02 Then we take into the account that we use variable rate, nitrogen, variable rate at Hydrus, if you will, 01:06 and we're running as lean as possible. Number one, there's no reason to waste input dollars. Number two, when we started to validate the amount 01:13 of nitrogen coming from our soil and the SAP test we use and things like that, we need very little nitrogen to get us 01:19 until, say, July, when the soil warms up and that organic mineralized nitrogen becomes available. Last year we had a nitrogen test on the farm, you know, 01:28 down there south of Dunlap where Amber grew up, 60 pounds of anhydrous, 120 pounds of anhydrous, 180 pounds 01:34 of anhydrous, 240 pounds of anhydrous in this test replicated three times. They all yielded within five bushels of each other. 01:40 So I would ask you, why do you think you need so much? The yields were from 2 0 9 to two 14, so we're turning it down as much as possible 01:48 to save the money and to try to balance the crop in a high yield area. We're at 80 pounds in a lower yield area. 01:54 We're at 150, 160 pounds. That lower yield area is because of the fertility of the soil, the biological system of the soil. 02:02 Now, because we're turning it down and running as lean as possible, I am trying to make sure I stabilize that nitrogen. 02:08 The product we use is maintained from maim and maintain is just like it sounds, it maintains the nitrogen in the soil. 02:16 It does that two ways. Number one, it's calcium is the main driver that does the heavy lifting in here, 02:22 and calcium combined with nitrogen makes it a more stable product. When you have enough soluble calcium, the nitrogen, 02:28 the phosphorous, the potash are all more readily taken up by the plant. It's a more stable form in the plant. 02:35 The calcium helps the nitrogen convert to a more stable form, more plant usable form more quickly. Therefore, less is leached out. 02:43 The second part of maintain is the polymer. The polymer also helps convert in the upper reaches of the soil. 02:49 The top part of the soil helps the nitrogen convert and stay there, so Les gets away from us. So we still have enough from the plant, 02:56 even though we're running as lean as possible And environmentally less is getting away into the water supply. 03:02 So there's a reason that I'm fall applied. There's a reason that I use maintain. I want calcium. You know, calcium is becoming a bigger and bigger part. 03:10 You know, we talked about liberate calcium with agro liquid, one of a great product. Now we're starting to see where calcium helps us. 03:18 Talk about wheat control, helps us talk about nutrient availability, things like that, and calcium is a big part of my fallen Hydrus plan.