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So we're out here today, it's a Friday afternoon in our, uh, Alan in furrow corn plot.
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And, uh, it's about 93 degrees here today. Gotten a little warm and, uh, went and pulled up a couple plants here, one in the Alan Plot
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and one in the, uh, check. If you don't know what a, what Alan is. Alan's a product by, by vibe we've been using in the cotton
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last year, and, uh, getting better results than the competitor at, you know, way less money.
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So we have a lot of root knot and, and this is for root knot. So we have a lot of root knot and nematodes in this area.
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This field here behind me is, uh, you know, one of the, probably one of the worst that I have on my farm. So we put a Alan Vero root knot
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nematode test together and, and put out an application of that. So in both of these, the check and the, uh,
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and the Alan plot, we had our grower standard practice, and then we added Alan to the, to the mix on, on this plot. And, uh, you know,
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I went through there, looked at the plants. I've dug up two plants. I randomly went out there about the same depth off the lower
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end, just pulled my shovel down. And that's the plant that I dug up. Were both of them as far as maturity is the same, uh,
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where three leaves before tassel on this one, and we're three leaf before tassels on a check bow. So, you know, I was looking at maturity.
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One thing I do see, and, uh, I don't know how much you can tell it here, but you know, this, the,
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the Alan plant's got a little bit more girth to it and a little bit healthier stalk. Now that could be from, you know,
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just having a better root system. It could be from the root knots not really attacking the plant as much.
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Uh, you know, there's several different factors that can make that happen. Both plants look similar,
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but what I've seen here that I really like is, in my opinion, we've got the, we've got the ever land plot here,
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and you see these big robust, you know, longer roots. And then on the check, you know, it looks pretty good too, but it's more little small fibrous roots
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and not as many of the big robust roots. Well, one thing I see straight off the bat is we've had so much moisture.
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This plant has actually went deeper down than the check has. Now, I would assume that might be because of root knots.
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We've never worried about root knots in corn. Corn is a host for root knots, but it's not a yield robber. Let me back up. We didn't think it was a yield robber.
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So this is gonna be a telltale test. All we having the same yield reductions on root knots with corn as we do in soybeans
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and cottons, one of our real huge yield robbers in, in soybeans and cotton are the root, not nematodes. So therefore, we're gonna run, you know, products there
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to try to, try to curb the appetite of the nematode, eliminate the nematode, you know, rotation is the best way to do it.
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There's, you know, with corn being a host, that's, that's a rotation that's good for the soil, but not so much for root knot.
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So, but if we could keep the root knots from being active in the corn plant, then that's, there's something
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to value there to take into the next year's soybean crop. If they can't get active in
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The corn plant, then maybe they're not as active in the soybean plant. And that's up to, you know, sometimes I've seen it up
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to 40 bushels difference with, uh, varieties that were planted that were non-resistant to root knot and nematode plant, the soybean variety.
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And there'll be places in the field where the yields are zero root knot and nematodes a huge problem here.
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And if the corn, the corn could actually make a better yield. Also, like I said, I, you know, my opinion and,
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and 50 cents no used to be 50 cents, my opinion, and a dollar 50, I'll buy you a coke sometimes, but I just think that root system
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looks a lot better than that root system. They're both about the same diameter. This has got more smaller roots, which is
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where I think the root knots have kind of attacked this plant a little bit. This one's got a robust, longer root system,
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which should pick up more nutrients. Now having said all that, you know, there's not a lot of of things we can check on this plant.
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The plant looks healthier. There's a little bit more girth to the, to the bottom of the, of the, uh, the stalk.
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You know, I do see that. I like the root system better. But as far as you know, really knowing, is there a lot going on?
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Like I said, we're three ta we're three leaves from tassel. So we're probably looking at seven to 10 days, you know,
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with this heat, it may be five or six days before that tassel comes out. Then we'll start developing an ear.
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Then we'll be able to come back in here at that point, count rows around, count, count length, you know, say 10 ears from each one
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and see if we see a early yield difference. We don't see anything there. Then the combine will be the, the, the next determinator.
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But what I see so far, just in this one root dig, uh, I like the root system better here. I know what root knot nematodes do to cotton and soybeans.
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If we can keep 'em from being active in the corn, then maybe we can suppress 'em better in, in the soybeans. So just say that these plants yield the same,
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but we get some more suppression from the root knots by having a active ingredient in our corn crop, then does that reduce the amount of nematodes we have
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to fight when we're in soybeans or cotton? So these are some things we're gonna look at all year. So far, I like what I see.
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I've loved the product in our cotton so far that we did several, several tests last year and it outperformed the competitor.
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Uh, there's a lot of other products by vibe that are really, really good. This is the one I completely concentrate on mostly
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because this is one of my biggest limiting factors. We'll watch it through the year. Hope we'll have yield out at the end of the year
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to verify everything that we're talking about and we'll see what happens. 00:05:23.665 --> 00:05:25.005