00:00 Is Kelly Garrett from Extreme Ag. I'm here with John Torrance of Gladstone, Illinois. John is an affiliate of extreme ag. 00:05 I was in the area today, so we stopped and looked. We've been driving around looking at his farm. His beans look nice. The corn looks nice. 00:11 The number one thing I notice is it's flat. It's not like my hills in Western Iowa. I keep saying it, but holy cow. 00:17 It looks like I would like to run the combine here and let John run the combine at my place. John, you probably don't have a 00:23 hillco on your combine, do you? I don't, yes. We have a hillco on our combine. Combine. Do you even know what a hillco is? 00:27 I do. I'd love to run one. Just you'd love To run one time run. It feels like you're on a boat sometimes. Yeah, I bet it 00:31 Does. Yeah. You know, John is asking me one of the things that we do to, to talk about nitrogen efficiency and things like that. 00:37 What we do is we're always trying to talk about the balance. You know, Mike Evans, my agro side, the balance of the plant 00:43 and looking at this soil muscato Yes. Is the soil type and the organic matter that's in it. You know, we've not verified this yet, 00:50 but we're talking about taking a SAP test to see how much nitrogen is available. And John, I bet there's a lot I looking at the corn, 00:57 looking at the soil, looking at the organic matter. I can't imagine how much nitrogen is being mineralized here. And you're using NKBS from meristem, correct. 01:05 As a foliar application. And I would tell you what you're doing in my opinion, is you're balancing that crop with the nitrogen. 01:12 You know, a lot of times in sustainable regenerative agriculture, we talk about nitrogen over application. That's true. But it is, it, it's not a complete statement. 01:21 Nitrogen is being over applied relative to the micronutrients, but you're putting those on with 01:25 NKBS. What results do you see? Uh, so positive, you know, obviously, or we wouldn't be doing it or you 01:31 Wouldn't do it. Yeah, yeah. Um, it's, you're getting an ROI, Right? Absolutely. Yep. 01:34 I can't tell you exactly what that number is. You know, hybrid, hybrid field to field is different, but we really like it 01:40 because it's a nice balanced micro pack. We all know that when this corn or beans are really surging, 01:45 they can't pull enough nutrients in on their own. They can't. We have to, we have to balance the plant, supplement the plant, because I don't believe all 01:52 of the potential you've got here can't come up through the root system. You've gotta supplement foliar. 01:56 Right, exactly. We feel like it checks a lot of boxes for us. It's a great product. There's no mixing issues, 02:01 so we just really like it and we use it, uh, on corn and beans both. And, and so then, uh, in my opinion, 02:07 what you're doing is very sustainable because you're balancing the nitrogen, you're assimilating the nitrogen 02:12 and you're increasing efficiency. And ROI on your farm, that's what it's all about. We really like the foliar application of MKBS. 02:19 Uh, you know, in the R stages, obviously, that's when the nutrient demand is the highest. And, uh, we just feel like we really need 02:24 to help supplement and feed that plant. And, uh, that's the most efficient way to do it. Why try to, you know, 02:30 apply more dry fertilizer if the plant's not gonna take it up anyway? Well, I agree. You know, uh, when 02:34 I was a kid, uh, you know, we started farming 25 years ago. We just front loaded everything 02:38 and then you just hope for the best. And now, you know, we we're cutting back on those early dollars and we're applying these foliar things in the R stages 02:45 and we see a big ROI from it every year. And it's sustainable because we're cutting back on that bulk synthetic NP and K 02:52 and we're treating the plants. So we're being sustainable, regenerative and ratting to an ROI at the same time. 02:58 Uh, that's what the goal of farming is these days. I it's, it's changed a lot. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you.