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So we're out here today. We got, uh, the boss man, Mr. Tommy Roach with Nature's. If he don't know it, he'll tell you he does.
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So it's all good. But, uh, nah, It's good to have friends. Good to Have friends. It's good to have friends.
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But no, this rascal's pretty sharp laying all jokes aside. And uh, he's, he's taught Chad and I a lot
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and we've, we have pushed some limits like you wouldn't believe. And if we would listen to him, it'd be even better.
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It's something about we know we need to do it. Personal problem. It's A personal problem. Yeah. It's a
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hundred percent a personal Problem. We know we need to do it, but it's, do we really want drive
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through this crop in such a late stage? That's The question in Hand. Pretty. We don't want do it. That's the
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question in hand. Or Do we want to, you know, do we, can we get our airplane? Well, I don't wanna spend no money.
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Bean prices is down everything, but Yep. You know, when it comes to seed size, Tommy, it's the easiest money we can make in soybeans
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to influence the seed size. So you could stop right now and have a decent bean crop Out, have a great bean crop for Alabama,
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like a amazing bean crop, Alabama, You can look at these beans and they are still putting on pods all the way out to the end.
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Yep. So you could quit right now, make great bean crop, but why would we do that? All you're doing is giving up, giving up yield. Yep.
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Giving up R oi. Because you know, it's not always about the bean, it's about the size of the bean.
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We're trying to fill that bucket up. We gotta fill the bucket up, right? Yep. So whether you got a bunch of beans in
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there, a bunch of big beans in there. Well we gonna have a bunch of beans in there, but now let's get the size of that bean.
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You gotta keep pushing. You know, lay luber talks about all the time, you gotta keep rounding the bases you round.
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This is rounding the bases. So how big a difference is it? So if you take a 3000 seed count bean
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and you bring it down to 2000 just for easy math, you're basically picking up about 30, 40 bushels. That's right. Yeah, that's right.
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Just off six if you're looking at a hundred. Yeah. Yeah. And, and so guys, that's, that's, that gets me interested. I, I listening
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And you know, that's what we wanna talk about here, you know, is we talking about k you know, to influence that. But we also got other things that he had early in the game
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because the structure, the way it is, it had to be a good load of calcium in here, you know, to do what we've done. There's
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Calcium on here, there's magnesium on here, there's K on here. Uh, we're fixing to do application of K
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and add micros into that. It doesn't matter if we're talking about that corn over there.
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Beans here, North Carolina, Alabama, it doesn't matter. K and micros late. That's what makes kernel size bean size makes
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weight. Yep. Makes shield. And we're talking late, we're talking past R three. We're talking R
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Four. Me and me and Tommy had this application application. Me and Tommy had this con conversation this morning. We did.
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And what we talked about, he said anytime before, what, 40% Half, a little less than half mill line on corn, send it.
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Yep. And we, we had Jackson, which is Chad's son. Yeah. Go out in the field, break kernels. Well guess what? It was less than that.
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So we canceled the airplane, but we're gonna do it next year. But we bring the information to Kevin and guess what?
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He's still trying. I got a chance 'cause he went first. That's right. That's right. He time
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One thing that we wanna look at in these beans and when, when y'all folks are out there scouting your beans, this dr dump few years ago, he said, Kevin, he said,
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the one thing that I like about your program is these did not come from the edge of the field. They was out in the field.
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Typically when we see a thick bean crop like that, these were at 110,000 population that planted. But the foliage is still green all the way down.
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And what you, you're bad to see when you get 'em real thick where they can't get sunlight in there,
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is you'll start seeing it die out and you just have your leaves green up in top of the plant. So this is a, you know, it is, it's a energy factory
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with these leaves here. Chad pulled the leaves off this to show. I mean, we're not,
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I'm not nowhere near the good grower that Matt is. He can five bean pod these things to death. We've been blessed with a lot of four bean pods on here,
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but, um, we're after that seed size. And so we, we are gonna hit this and we'll put another growth regulator on it
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as well when we go in there. Right. But we're gonna keep pushing this thing and we'll, we'll push it all the way to the end
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and, um, we'll just see how they turn out. But the, the a PH on this farm is, is just a shade over a hundred bushels irrigated
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eight years prior to this. We've been over a hundred bushels Right. For North Carolina. So we gotta see if we can do it on the ninth year.
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You don't ever know. It might happen and it might not, But just don't forget calcium. I mean, um, potassium.
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Just don't forget potassium and micros late. Yes. Just keep it, keep it going. Right. 00:04:22.365 --> 00:04:23.325