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So guys, we're out here today. You know, I'm standing in these beans. These beans are right about the Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Right about there. These are R three beans, twin row 38 inch. So we're wide row on the twin row. They're at R three.
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They're not above R three. But you go down here to the, no, we count and it's, it's a quarter inch.
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So we got good branching on these plants. Uh, they're planted at 140,000. This is normally one of my high yielding fields
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that I have on the farm every year that I have this field in soybeans. You know, I, I try to do something different to it
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to see if we can push the yield. 'cause if there's any field out here that can, we can push the yield on.
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This is one of the top five that I have. So, R three beans. We just put our R three fungicide application on,
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I call it fungicide application. I need to start calling it R three application. We actually opted to go without fungicide
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and to use a product called BioHealth, which is a product that is more of a nutritional, you know, we're about to get
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to the point where we believe, and Kelly talks about this all the time, we're fungicide for, for plant nutrition, you know, for plant health,
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I guess you should say, if we can keep plants healthy with, with nutrients all through the time, do we need
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that fungicide pass or do we not? I'm scared. I've never done it before. I can punt though. So if we get out here and we start seeing some disease
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pressure later and this, or the coronary, either one, I can punt at that point and I can apply fungicide at that point and not be too late.
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So we're going with this as a trial run. I say a trial run. We're, we're doing it on a hundred percent
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of our acres on our corn and beans with the, uh, with the nutritional product instead of, uh, fungicides.
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So I talked to my rep today. He wasn't real happy with me, but you know, if it keeps us in business
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because it's cheaper and does the same thing, we'll be fine. I told him, you can laugh at me when I have
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to come back at R five, R six and put a fungicide out, then you can laugh at me at that point. So we're gonna see how it works out.
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But, um, we got the R three application done on the Foer side. Now we decided we had time for our wide drops
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before we start our second application to nitrogen on the cotton to do some wide drop soybeans. We're using, uh, kfl and sideswipe from Nature's.
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We're using Upshift C, which is a phosphorus source from Meum. We're also using Nutri charge.
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And last but not least, we're putting in a application to Cowboy at the hefty field days when they used to have the contest.
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We did a decent job in those and we kept, the only thing we would see is we were going through this thing is that, you know,
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we were wide dropping a, a pass with cowboy in it. So this is a high yield field that we're pushing, trying to push really hard.
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We expect, we expect over a hundred bushels on it. You know, we may get 60 this year with the weather we've had, but we just got
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to thinking this year, let's try to push this with the cowboy. They've ref reformulate it.
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It's a lot easier to mix and mix as well with other products compared to what a normal calcium source would mix with other products.
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So we're gonna try it. We're gonna see, we got 40 acres in this field, 40 acres in two other fields, you know, with this combination.
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So it's kind of a smorgasbord of all of several different partners. Proven things that we know have proven on our farm.
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You know, so we're gonna go with this and see if we can get a yield bump out of it and maybe, maybe raise some triple digit beans.
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Let's say we have 40 here, 40 in two other fields of the last 40 in the last field. It's actually not on a high yield area.
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Not only are we looking at this wide drop pass for high yield, we're also looking at it for ROI. So if we can put that on a, on a field
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that we haven't spent the extra money on, you know, trying to see how far we can push it, then you know,
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that's the most important thing in the end. If it's something that we can use on a normal basis, I really try hard not to suggest, you know, anything
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that's not feasible across all my acres. On our high yield plots that we do push, I'll probably end up with, you know,
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probably $30 an acre more, uh, in those. And I do the other beads used to, it was more so used to, it might be $80 an acre,
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but now I've understood that the products I was using to push the beans are definitely grower standard practice products.
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So now we've narrowed that gap up. Now what I put on my high yield beans, I put on every acre I've got except
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for new things we're trying in that year. So it has really helped me to realize, you know, $30 an acre, a little less than three bushel.
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So if you can push, you know, push a plant 10 bushel and it cost you three, then, then there's your ROI. This is a real critical time in the soybeans life
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to take up nutrients. We feel like, you know, it's getting a root system, establishing the root system.
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I pull this and completely outta the ground. So it's no root system on it at all. But, um, you know, this is one we think is one of key times
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to actually go in and, and, and affect the yield of the plant. So R three fos out. We're trying this new R three wide drop.
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Hopefully we'll see some difference out of it. That's what we're hoping. If we don't, then we know that's not the thing to do.