00:00:06 Most all your crops, corn, soybeans, wheat, barley. We grow sulfur, something. Anytime we're putting out nitrogen, 00:00:14 we always add sulfur in with it. We use sulfur nowadays a lot on our soils to amend the soils. 00:00:23 Soils can get out of balance. So if you got cat ions, anions or cat ions are a positive charge. 00:00:29 Anions are your negative charge and everything tries to balance. And sometimes we get cation dominant calcium, magnesium, uh, 00:00:36 get full in the soil and can really have negative effects. So we use sulfur products to help amend the soil, 00:00:43 to help peel it and make it more, get more plant nutrients available when we can balance the soil better. 00:00:48 In turn, helps the plant pull more nutrients in instead of pulling just what's available. You know, another thing with sulfur is important in the 00:00:57 plants is kind of goes hand in hand with nitrogen and the protein synthesis in the plant. So we gotta kind of have a nice balance of nitrogen 00:01:06 and sulfur in the plant to synthesize the protein from the nitrogen. So sulfur's a big key in that piece. 00:01:14 Once we get to the plant, it adds a lot of functions in photosynthesis and, and helps that reaction. And soybeans, it has a key in nodule formulation. 00:01:24 So like every node on a soybean plant's important because that's where you get your soybean clusters and that's where we get our pods and our seeds at. 00:01:30 So more nodes we have the more pods and seeds we potentially can have. And it actually, it helps the plant quality, 00:01:40 it helps metabolize nutrients better. The soil in Iowa especially has great potential and as growers we are so far from it. 00:01:52 It's, it's humorous, okay? But what happens is we get out of balance from a chemistry perspective 00:01:58 and the nutrients in plant foods specifically the sulfur and the micronutrients 00:02:03 and the carbon help us balance the soil. This soil where we're standing right here wouldn't shock me if it's not 80 or 85% calcium. 00:02:10 And we need to sulfur to balance that out. We can't really look at plants and see sulfur deficiency. I mean, unless it's really past past the bad point. 00:02:20 Um, it'll start showing up. Uh, from what the research we've done here at Integrated Ag, there's ways to test for it. 00:02:27 You know, we used to get sulfur from the sky, you know, through, through gases and stuff, either through emissions 00:02:33 from vehicles or whatever. But now with regulatory stuff, uh, take diesels for instance, they, they take the sulfur out of it. 00:02:39 So we've lost that free sulfur in the air, so to speak. So now we're having to learn how to apply more sulfur and more timely matters to the plants. 00:02:46 'cause this plant can't absorb it 'cause there's none there from the sky. So acid rain. Yes. Yes. That's what it used to be. 00:02:54 And used, I, when I grew up in school, we got taught acid rain was gonna kind of ruin the earth. You know, that was a big concern, 00:03:01 but it wasn't as dire as what they told us. But it, you know, acid, the sulfur was in the water when it came down, 00:03:07 but it was plant available. So plants were so soaking it up at the time. So we don't put any nitrogen nitrogen out now 00:03:15 that don't have sulfur to it, you know, whether it's, uh, liquid nitrogen, it's 28 0 0 5. 00:03:21 When you look at the ratios in a tissue sample, you know, and you'll see a, they want a, you know, a 10 to one ratio 00:03:27 of nitrogen to sulfur. You know, it's what's needing to keep, carry that plant further. 00:03:33 Whatever you do, if you're putting nitrogen out, make sure you got some sulfur there for that corn, wheat, and soybean crop because it's, 84 00:03:40.685 --> 00:03:42.725