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Hi, this is Kelly Garrett. I'm here with super intern Wonder Woman herself, Reagan Riggs.
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We're right up the hill from the calibrated agronomy office in the field that we call Wimer.
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This farm, this field has been in my family my whole life. This corn was planted April 17th. It's 110 day maturity.
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It was a winter wheat field last year. Uh, Reagan was taking some SAP samples out here. She takes 'em here every two weeks.
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Yeah. So I take 'em biweekly. We have a trial going on out here that we're watching as well.
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So, um, it's nice to do those biweekly. It's, I was really shocked when I took it this week. Um, it, I've come out here
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and it's just a beefy plant that we have going on. Um, it's really setting on those ears and it's some of the furthest along
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and best looking corn that we have, in my opinion, Which is interesting to me. You know, we started planting April 14th. This is 17th.
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That's not a big deal, but we've got some a hundred and 102 day varieties. And here you're saying this 110 days, the furthest along
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that could be the difference in the wheat double in the corn on corn, I guess. But what do you think? I think, um, our nitrogen stream barring has been
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a really big thing here. Um, we have done some later applications with the helicopter too, so we're trying to just pack on
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that ear and really fill it out all the way to the end. Um, but yeah, I'm just really impressed. Minimal weeds out here too, which is always a great thing.
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Yeah, there's always great. Yeah. So I'm just really impressed by this field this week. Yeah, so that's the big thing here, guys.
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Uh, this corn is stream barred on. This isn't the anhydrous. Mm-hmm. This is part of the 300 acre trial that we have
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where we stream barred on the nitrogen. Uh, the only nitrogen that's out here is 30 gallons of 28 0 0 5 that, you know, so not quite 90 pounds.
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And, uh, the average year Reagan has picked is 18 by 46. Absolutely. Uh, you know, we're not predicting yield today.
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It's about a 30,000 stand. Yeah. But we're not gonna predict yield today. That's a big old ear,
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but we've gotta fill it all the way out to the end. The SAP sample looks nice. Talk, talk to 'em about the sap Bit. Yes. SAP sampling, our
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nitrogen conversion is in the high nineties, which is always a good thing that we wanna see. Um, our micros are off the chart,
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which is a great thing too. That's really gonna, where that grain fill is gonna come from.
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Um, just looking at the little things, but also watching it throughout the season, see what it's taking up and what
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it's not. It's also really important. We've got excess potassium, you said. Yeah. But we might be just a bit short of phosphorus. Phosphorus.
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We might be able to address that in the next, uh, helicopter pest. Absolutely. I'm really excited about this.
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Yeah, I'm too just, I, I don't know what to say when there's only 90 pounds of nitrogen. Uh, you know, we talk about being that low on other,
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other fields when we get into high yield area, but this is a different form of nitrogen, which I don't know why.
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Scared me, I guess. 'cause I'm an old farmer now, but it's not anhydrous that I've always used. This is the stream bar. Mm-hmm.
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And, uh, here for this field to look this tremendous is wonderful. Uh, admittedly, we've had beautiful rain this year in Iowa.
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Yes. And at the end of the day, mother, mother nature still trumps fall. Absolutely. But, uh,
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we're, we're excited about this corner. I'm ready. CDN Yeah, We, uh, I'm sad to say that, uh, Reagan's gonna have to go
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home here at the end of the summer. Yeah. And she's supposed to go help Temple. Uh, we have started that GoFundMe page for, for Reagan to,
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uh, be able to deal with temple's issues, shall we call it? We maybe should just keep Reagan
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and it would be better off for everybody except Temple. But, uh, everybody else would be better off if Reagan just stayed here helping us.
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Thank you, Reagan. It's been a great summer with you. Absolutely. 00:03:12.205 --> 00:03:12.485