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Johnny Rell, the extreme ag. You know, we're always looking for ways to be more efficient, get that ROI up higher, you know,
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always look for new ideas of being more sustainable, right? So in our area in West Tennessee, we're always having
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to fly lime every three, four years. Having to put out lime. Of course we ated and that saves us a lot of money.
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And, you know, we've been looking at other things too. So over the past few years we've spread chick litter off and on depending on availability.
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And then this year we came across eggshells. And so we started taking delivery of these eggshells here. And, you know, eggshells are great.
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They got calcium in 'em, they got nitrate in 'em, they got phosphorous in sulfur. All kinds of other micronutrients
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and macronutrients are, are based in these eggshells. So we pulled soil samples on our farm last fall and it was calling for a little bit of lime.
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So we thought we'd put, for the most part, about a ton, a ton and a half to the acre on this far of these eggshells here to replace the lime needs we needed.
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And on top of that, it's gonna start giving us, uh, more organic forms of your phosphorus, nitrates, stuff like that.
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So we're giving it a shot. We're gonna see how it works. It's a lot wetter than chicken litter.
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It's a little bit harder to apply. You can't go quite as fast. Uh, just 'cause the machine's having
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to push it out a lot harder than it does with, uh, litter when it's so dry. But it's pretty neat. We'll see how it goes.
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You know, you always try to think outside the box and, you know, always try to see what you can do to, to get that ROI up.
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So, like I said, we're trying this out, seeing how it works.