Farming Video | Spectra by Tidal Grow: Cotton Trial Results with Matt Miles

00:00:00 So guys, we're out here today, uh, Jacob from Live Oak Agronomy, and of course y'all know me. I'm Matt from Miles Farms. 00:00:06 We've got a a a, a new company this year that we're working with. We're really excited to work with called Tidal Grove. 00:00:12 Tidal Grove's, a new company to us to extreme ag and they range products everywhere from biologicals to crop protection, right? 00:00:19 So there's soil health and stuff, soil health, all kind of different products that that they do. There. We have a root not nematode issue, 00:00:26 uh, down here into the Delta. So one product we're looking at at different rates, d multiple applications is uh, the product cost spectra. 00:00:34 So guys, we pulled three, well I say we pulled three different prints. We pull some random plants out 00:00:39 of all three, uh, replications. So what we have here on the first one is an early application, correct? 00:00:45 Right. A spectra. Second one, I'm gonna already tell you it looks better. I don't know if it's gonna be better, but it looks better. 00:00:51 Two applications. One early one lake. Correct. Third one is one late application, right? Just visually looking at these plants, the first 00:00:58 and the third look similar. The one with the multiple applications on early and late seems to be the best. 00:01:04 Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna pull all these bowls off. What bowls are there, and I understand we've still got some 00:01:09 cotton be made in the top, but we're gonna pull all the bowls off and see kind of where we're at. We're about three nodes above white flower. 00:01:17 I'm gonna guess I tasked Jacob with, uh, with, you know, putting this trial on, making sure it all get done right. 00:01:24 Uh, on time. Exactly like exactly like that. We needed to get to be done. Jacob, explain exactly what Spectra is. 00:01:32 Spectra goes more specifically towards nematodes by, um, disrupting their digestive system 00:01:39 and the reproductive system. When in nematodes they have a high chitin availability in their body. 00:01:44 The reproductive system is made of Chitin and their digestive system is made of chi. The style that they eat with is made of Chitin. 00:01:51 So whenever you put this product out and it comes in contact with the chitin that's in it, it actually eats their s style it, 00:01:57 so it basically cuts their mouth parts off. The first and second application were applied at five to seven leaf, uh, just over the top 10 gallons acre. 00:02:06 Nothing else in the tank just to run with this lab. The third application was put out, uh, two to three weeks later, which would've been at 00:02:13 that 10 to 12 leaf stage. Mm-hmm. Um, again, just over the top, nothing special. And that was it. You can put them in furrow 00:02:20 with other nematicide and they work as a synergistic um, effect. And you, according to Tidal grow, 00:02:27 you can actually lower your rates of Alan and Vellum when you mix it with this. So you, you can take some money off of there 00:02:33 and still get the opportunities of having tidal grow in that's a, a nematicide only and using it as a biological to maybe not be 00:02:41 so hard on your other positive biology in your soil. One cool thing that we like about this product and it, it is a biological product. 00:02:48 Correct. So it's not out there killing beneficials, right. Uh, it can go infer, it can go foer and, 00:02:53 and it does have fungicide properties too, right? Properties And it's human safe. Very human safe. 00:02:59 Yeah. So, you know when, when you're, when you're trying to select a product to use, you know, 00:03:03 you remember when we used to put some of nematicide out, it was, it was ugly. Mm-hmm. You know, if you was putting out temic you had 00:03:09 to have a mask and gloves and everything else. This is super safe, right? If we can get this to do the same thing as we can get temic 00:03:16 to do, then, then it's gonna be a game changer in the cotton industry Because it, the title grow guys do talk about 00:03:23 how it gives a little bit of a seedling vigor, kinda like Timmi used to do. Yeah. You know, if you had to stop the hopper on Timmi 00:03:28 and you ran a half a day, you could tell every row where, where you were stopped up all day 00:03:32 Long. Just like we've seen in the field day. Exactly. You know those three roads. Exactly. So guys, what we're fixing to do, we showed you the roots, 00:03:38 you know, there's no galling on it. We've showed you the different applications. Now what we're going to do is take each one of these plants, 00:03:45 pull what we know is gonna be a harvestable bowls at this time, size 'em up, see 00:03:49 what they look like, see what we're at. So guys, Jacob, Jacob and I have kind of dissected the plants. 00:03:56 We got the treatment one here, the treatment two here, treatment three here with this with a little bit of seed count and the checks right here. 00:04:05 So I had to write all this down because there's no way I could remember it all. Treatment one, which was the early treatment that's right, 00:04:12 is 32 bowls and 46% of 'em were five. Lock treatment two, which was an early and a late and a late was 27 bowls. 00:04:22 59% of those were five lock. That's something that's interesting to me and I'll explain that in a minute. 00:04:27 Treatment three was 14 bowls and 50% of those were five lock. And the check was 17 with 35% of those five lock, 00:04:36 the seed count average per lock is six and a quarter seeds. So guys, some of you may not know this if you don't go 00:04:43 grow cotton, but you heard me earlier talking about a five lock bowl and a four lock bowl. 00:04:47 So here is a five lock bowl. Here is a four lock bowl. Okay? The difference in these two, they're roughly about the same size. 00:04:56 But look how the five lock's a little bit bigger. Five versus four five is 20% more than four. So anytime you can get an extra lock, 00:05:04 which is called a five lock bowl, you get 20% more in that bowl. Right? Also, the second big influencer on 00:05:10 on cotton yield is seed. Correct? And Jacob's gonna explain to you why we want more seed. 00:05:15 You would think, you would think we'd want more less seed, but Jacob's gonna explain to you why we want more seed. 00:05:21 Part of the reason for wanting more seed is more seed equals more lint. If you have three or four seed in there, 00:05:27 you don't get nearly as much land as having six to eight to maybe nine or 10 seeds in a lock per land, obviously. 00:05:33 So it lengthens lock, the more seed you, right? The more, the more seed in the lock, the more lynch you have. 00:05:38 When you go to the gin to McGee here, you're gonna be between 40 and 45% turnout. And obviously the more seed you have, 00:05:45 the more turnout you have, the better your returns are there. When you say turnout, Jacob, what do you mean? Okay, 00:05:51 At the, at McGee gen, the turnout is the difference in what the, the raw cotton weighed versus what the lint cotton weighed 00:05:59 after it went through all the processes of the gin, the remove, the delineation of the seed from the lint and all that. 00:06:04 However, that's done. Good thing about the gin is they have really tight saws and they do a really good job getting all 00:06:10 the seed off the lint better than than a a lower number of saws in the gin. So by doing that and getting all the seed off the lin, 00:06:19 they're giving you more turnout. There may be a little bit more, not trash, but a little bit of leaf in there. 00:06:25 But you're creating weight and there's enough weight there to offset that deduction if you get a deduction. 00:06:31 And there's not gonna be hardly. So I know what you're saying because you may have a little bit of leaf, 00:06:35 which a little bit of discount, but when you do the roi right, versus the pounds, the pounds always comes out more. 00:06:41 So if you've got a thousand pounds of what we call seed cotton, right? Then you're gonna have 450 pounds of lint cotton at 45%. 00:06:48 T cotton is what's going to the, to the warehouse, right? That's gonna be made into these shirts 00:06:52 or whatever else we're doing. That's right. The seed, the trash, the sticks and all that go to mobiles, right? 00:06:58 And different things there, right? And then the seed, for the most part, the seed here is going 00:07:02 to dairies out on the west coast, right? So they're turning around and using that as another product to positively influence agriculture. 00:07:07 So guys, this is where we're out on the Tidal Grow Lab. Uh, we've got a, a long way to go here on the cotton. This is just a preliminary, you know, 00:07:14 look at what's going on. We've got our yield monitors set pretty tight on the cotton picker. 00:07:18 So, you know, once we get the crop out we'll be able to sit down there with the operation center and tell which application end up with the best ROI. 00:07:26 What's impressive to me is I see of the three apps against the check, there's only one of them that was less than the check 00:07:33 and the other two was quite a bit more. Exactly. I'm just double Exactly. So, well one of 'em was actually double, so you know, 00:07:38 we've got some pro promising stuff here to look at. Like I said, it's good for the environment. Uh, it's very safe. 00:07:44 It takes the mouth away from the nematode, which like I said, I hope my wife don't ever get any of that to feed me. 00:07:50 What's that gonna cost you? You know, we Might, what's that gonna cost me? We Might need to talk about that. 00:07:54 Jacob's already looking for a bonus for Live Oak agronomy guys. We'll see what happens. Y'all have a good day. 218 00:07:58.825 --> 00:08:00.365