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Hi, this is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag standing out here in the cornfield today with Mike Evans. It's a hundred day Integra number 50 81.
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Now, most people probably aren't gonna come out and show you their a hundred day number in the middle of Iowa.
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You know, that would typically be somebody further north. But I'm excited about this hybrid
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because I'm gonna combine it right after Labor Day. I believe this corn is gonna be plus 200. You know, this is gonna be 2 10, 2 15, 220 bushel corn.
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We'll take it out right after Labor Day. It'll provide some cow feed. We can turn the cows out. The pastures are starting to get short,
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but the best thing is the positive basis I'll get at the ethanol plant. I believe that we will probably have this year,
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a 20 cent positive basis where we're gonna go, as opposed to getting into the gut shot of harvest.
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We could be 30 under, maybe 50 under. Let's just talk about a 50 cent difference in 200 bushel corn.
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That's obviously a hundred dollars an acre. So, while we all wanna talk about raising big yields, what I want to talk about is raising a big ROI
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and the positive basis here, and the ability to take this corn out is very valuable to me.
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Today. We stand out here in this field. It's Friday, August 9th. On Wednesday the seventh,
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we made the final R five application. Here we use cube and full tech. K cube is phosphorus, sulfur, boron, and copper.
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Full tech K is obviously potassium, cobalt, and boron. We did that because of what the SAP test read. After we made the, uh, R two application.
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Evans took the sample, got the SAP back, we made our final application. This corn's gonna fill out nicely.
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We're packing weight into the kernels. The kernels are huge on this cob. Maybe I'm underestimating the yield a little bit. I hope so.
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About 25% of the stocks out here have two ears. That's something we've been working for to try to, uh, build the best plant.
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We feel that if we nutritionally balance the plant and let the plant reach its potential, the flex that we'll see are, are shooting second years.
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We're starting to accomplish that temple, and Matt always want to say that it's not possible. I hope they're not right, but they're,
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those are two pretty good farmers to debate things with. But like I said, 25% of the ears have two stalks.
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Lot of bug pressure. This year around here we've got FMC Hero also in this R five application.
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It's clean. There's no bugs. We did have to make a fungicide application. We do have a bit of common rust here.
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Some people have talked about it coming in with the hurricane, things like that. But we did make a fungicide application as well
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between the Integra corn, the spray tech R five application, and the hero protecting these plants from the bug pressure.
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This crop looks really exciting. In less than a month, we'll be harvesting. I can't wait to go.