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We ended up having a really beautiful spring. We got all the nitrogen on, we got all the corn planted. It's coming up. It looks great.
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But we did save 300 acres to do this stream bar, even though it wasn't necessary this year,
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because I think we should have continued education, continued research. So this 300 acres of corn has zero nitrogen on it.
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The only fertility it has, it has the plant food from last fall. And then it has the Inferral program, which you know,
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is essentially carbon and, uh, different humic acids, full VA acids, and our calcium on our zinc.
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So no nitrogen on this corn whatsoever. We're gonna go out there and we're gonna stream bar on about 30 gallons of 28 0 0 5.
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And then along with that, we've also got a micro pack in there. We've got backbone, we've got humic acid,
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and, uh, a lot of it's gonna have nutri charge release as well because of the different base saturation challenges I have.
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I, I really think nutri charge helps out greatly there. Um, it's part of our grower standard practice, so we're gonna go out and stream bar this.
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I'm excited about it. I a little bit nervous. Will there be a yield penalty here? I, you know, it's just a different form of nitrogen.
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I, I don't know why. Again, I'm acting like matte and worrying about it, but, uh, I'm, I'm nervous and excited to see what happens here.
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Is there a future that eliminates anhydrous here? If this comes back, we'll see, we're gonna go out with the sprayer, put this on.
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Uh, temple has done it, you know, and he's been used to using anhydrous and Temple's done this with great results.
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I'm really excited to see what's gonna happen here. Uh, we've got three 100 acre fields. Uh, we're gonna go out and put, go
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to the first field and make sure everything works. Then in the second field, uh, really big trial that I'm excited about, we're using Infinity from Gerson.
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Their, uh, their new product, uh, three modes of action. Whereas most of the other products have one.
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But Gerson, you know, Scott and Steve tell me that this product with the three modes of action should work better.
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And, um, I'm excited to try this. I'm not always a huge fan of biology. 'cause here in Iowa with the soil that, uh, temple, Chad,
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and Matt gimme a hard time about the soil has a lot of biology. So I don't always know if we need to add extra biology.
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Uh, but I'm always willing to try and learn, especially when we're talking about nitrogen. And I want to continue to turn the nitrogen down.
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Remember, with my SAP analysis that I take and, and what I'm trying to measure there and manage using 95% of the nitrogen to me,
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is a successful season. That's a successful plant. The plant is healthy and strong, pushes away stress, uh, the plant will reach its potential.
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Well, there's so much nitrogen being released from my soil that we virtually don't really need any nitrogen,
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to be honest with you, but we need nitrogen early in the season to get to like that second half of June or early July timeframe when the soil warms up,
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my natural biological system gets to cranking and it releases all that nitrogen. Uh, you know, as part of the agronomy presentation I give,
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I can show you in some of my highly fertile soils, there's over 700 pounds of nitrogen available in July. You know, here
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we're in the middle of, of May, that that's not the case today. So we need to put that nitrogen on to get to
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that biological system getting ramped up when it warms up, um, and, and stays warm, the soil gets warmed.
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Well, we have better soil health from this. You know, we, one of the, you know, a lot of the true blue no-till, people talk about
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how hard are the soil, uh, anhydrous. And it is, it undoubtedly kills some soil biology. I feel that that biology is very forgiving
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and it heals itself and replicates, especially when we put it on in the fall. That's why I make such an emphasis on fall applied.
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But the weather doesn't always allow that. Will this form of nitrogen produce the same results that we always have out of our, uh, uh, our anhydrous
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that has been tried and true over the years? Will this, uh, actually bring an improvement with this trial because of the added soil health and,
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and how we're taking care of the biology by not damaging with the anhydrous? You know, again, we're gonna have to wait
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and see will the infinity bring a yield gain? And I, I'm really interested in a product like Infiniti because as low as I try to take the nitrogen,
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does the Infinity help? Uh, we're gonna, we're gonna find out this year. Uh, Scott is certainly excited about it at Geron, and,
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