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Hey guys, Jacob here with Live Oak Ag. Been looking behind the, uh, flooding we got last week. It's been about a week since we've had that.
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Obviously you've seen PS and Matt talking about what's going on, uh, how we've got a lot of water, a lot of crop underwater.
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Obviously, we're not as bad as some other folks around and, and, uh, we're grateful for that.
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The biggest thing I've been seeing the last few days is fields that had pre-plant fertility or infer fertility and had a long-term program on soil biology
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where I've been seeing people that have been taking care of the soil biology and devoting some dollars to that,
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even if it mean taking some dollars outta their program towards soil fertility and reinvesting it towards soil biology.
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I'm seeing a more robust plant that handled the weather better instead of struggling along and having poor stands and having uneven stands.
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Uh, and a lot of, of plant death. Those plants are coming along. Our stands are 20 to 30% better in a lot of places,
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just a more vigorous plant. It's coming out of that, that mud funk that's, uh, been covering up the bud and, and been coming through that
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and open it up and, and turning into some pretty good TFOs in the corns instance where we haven't been having infer
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or a pre-plant then wait until after this storm came through, the plants are struggling a little bit.
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It looks like they're, uh, they're feeding off a little more seed energy that you'd want 'em to instead of having something to,
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to keep 'em going along. So they're, they're proliferating like you want 'em to, they're, they're just kind of hanging on, not by thread,
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but not very well. So if you have the opportunity this year to put some soil biology in to start building on
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that program, even if it means taking a few dollars outta your, your soil fertility budget
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and turning it that way, I think you'll see a gain to where you're kind of weatherproofing your crop, whether it's early season like it is,
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or maybe later season where you're weatherproofing your crop and making it to where it's going to hold up to,
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to the heat, maybe to the cold, or to adverse conditions like we had last week where we got eight and a half inches in four.
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