00:00 Normally we talk about stress mitigation, which we do a lot here at extreme Ag. We're talking about the stress of heat and drought. 00:06 You know what, what if your spring is wet and you have a lot of cloudy days? That's also very stress inducing, 00:11 and it's exactly what we were experiencing here in the Midwest. I'm at Kelly Garrett's farm with Dale hanky 00:17 of Corteva Biologicals next to him, Mike Evans with Integrated Ag Solutions. Also the agronomist here at Garrett Land and Cattle. 00:23 And then of course, one of the founders of Extreme Ag. Matt Miles. We're in a field that's a plot. We're gonna be doing a field day later on. 00:28 Dale, you and I talked about this, came out here and said, all right, you know what? Normally we're talking about stresses. 00:33 It hadn't rained in forever. It's a hundred degrees. And you said, the problem here is now these soybean plants are stressed 00:39 and we gotta get 'em out of that and get 'em to perform before we start losing daylight. And, and they go into reproductive mode. 00:46 So tell me what we're talking about here and then show me the plants and then what we can do. Yeah, The, the, the beans are stressed, but, 00:51 but mainly they're behind schedule. We gotta get caught up. You help get those beans caught up on the seasons. 00:55 Main thing we're focused on right now, as we get later in the season here, we get to summer solstice. 01:00 Well, those soybeans are gonna say, okay, it's time to go reproductive mode. Well, let's get that plant built as much as we can now so 01:06 that it can put more pods, more beans on in the reproductive timing and get caught up. We can't do anything about the past, 01:11 but here we are, we're about middle of June, and these beans are not at a height that anybody's gonna want to cut 01:17 them at the end of the season at harvest. So you get some height on these things. We're recording this on June 13th. 01:21 These beans are obviously behind schedule. Is there anything you could have done besides, uh, you know, come out with a, a helicopter 01:26 and dry the field off and get 'em planted sooner? Is there anything you could have done to mitigate the stress that you experienced that caused 'em to be this behind? Not 01:34 Really. I mean, we had like a month of rain here, uh, that kept us outta the field and then we planted them. So, you know, we kind of wanted to, we put 'em in a, an area 01:43 where we got a little stress so we could do some work here at this field day plot with, with Dale and the team. Matt, 01:48 You talked about a thing called auxiliary branching. So go ahead. Let's just go ahead and pull the plants up here. 01:52 These plants are behind, obviously even, you know, here we are second week of June, we should have soybeans that are bigger than this. 01:59 Now what are we doing to try and get these ahead of schedule? Because they're way behind schedule. 02:04 Well, that's where the, you know, your plant growth regulators, uh, stimulators. Mm-Hmm. Uh, stress mitigators, all those things will, 02:12 will give this plant the ability to, to catch up. The big problem, and it's been all across the United States, is there's been so much rain. 02:19 Yep. It's not all about the rain as much as the cloudy weather. Okay. And so the cloudy weather, 02:23 you know, reduces photos census. So these plants are not doing what they're supposed to do. They're stressed. They've been 02:28 stressed from the day they come up. Yep. All over the United States. It's not just Iowa, Arkansas. 02:33 Yeah. So my part of the world, we've had the same thing. I mean, the beans we got 02:36 soybeans are going in the ground, right. Today. What do you do? What's your recommendation, Dale? To them, they're going in late. 02:41 They're gonna maybe be now heading into heat stress, but they're emerging slowly because of that. What's your recommendation? What can we do? Yeah. 02:50 We either want to protect or promote. So right now we need to promote growth. We need to get that plant pushed. 02:55 And we can do that with some of the plant growth promoters we have. And a lot of times they're called called 02:59 pgs or plant growth regulators. But we're promoting growth right now. So typically what we do with soybeans in normal conditions 03:05 where they're growing fairly regularly on their own, it's because they have a really good healthy root system 03:08 supplying everything they need. The roots have been compromised. So what we're doing is helping that crop get caught up. 03:13 And we wanna get some height on these beans. When I think of putting height on these beans, I think fertilize the heck out 03:17 of it. That's not gonna do it right, Necessarily. No, there's not a fertility problem here. Is there? 03:22 No, there's just a time, there's a time problem. Yep. So how do I make up for lost time? You Have to have the roots to actually 03:27 take advantage of that, that it's a recipe. I mean, you gotta have the fertility there to even to make any of these products work. 03:32 You come out here and you don't have any fertility, but over applying fertilizer is not gonna do it is not necessarily, especially on stacking the roots. 03:39 It's gonna make, it's gonna be an adverse effect. If you come in here and dump the fertilizer to it and you're wanting to stack nodes, that's counterproductive. 03:45 Okay. So what's the answer? The answer is it's a, it's a multifaceted approach is what you're gonna tell me. Yeah. So the 03:51 Challenge is we need to have a healthy root system that's gonna in turn, help the top of that plant grow and be vigorous. 03:57 And we're gonna get the height that we're looking for. So we're gonna help, we're gonna supplement. So what I would suggest with 04:02 what we do in these conditions is use some Bio-Forge advance to help with the stress that crop is dealing with. 04:07 Yep. But then fortified stimulate yield enhancer plot has four PGR four growth hormone components in there. 04:12 So one of those is gonna help with more root development. One's gonna help with above ground growth. 04:16 Another one's gonna give you a little bit more height in that plant. And that's really what we want to push for. 04:21 Now typically we're not looking for taller plants. Yes. But where we are here in the middle of June.