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Hey guys, it's temp. I'm here with Brian Strider from, uh, from Holganix. So Brian, we're out here.
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You asked, um, what's new and then what's exciting. So I do what I do and I change some things up. So, um, Holganix generally goes out a full application
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and then a, a spring application. I did those, but I wanted to see if I could drag some late season
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fertility into the plant. So my late wide drop, what we're standing on right now, um, we came out here and we did a trial where we put whole gangs
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as a half gallon, an acre in and with our UAN and I'm hoping that I can drag some late season fertility into the plants.
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Now, whether it happens or not, I don't know, we might not see anything at all. Well, you know, it, it always, it never hurts a try
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because, you know, the more options you have to do something to make your soil better
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and actually make your plant better, why not give it a shot? Well, I'm kind of more like, for me, it's really hard for me
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to be able to chase the combine, right? Like, I gotta get the sprayer out, I gotta chase the combine, and
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I just don't have enough time. So it was more of a, a of a thing for me. Like I know what the uptake of a plant is, especially corn.
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So I thought, well, if I can get late season, I can put it in with ride drop. I'm still getting my two applications per a year.
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I'm just getting it in a more crucial manner to me, what I think will drag some nutrients in. Absolutely. And you know,
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the big buzz right now is soil health. It's, and um, and it's become more and more every day as we talk about these high commodity
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prices or low commodity prices, high input, input prices. And it doesn't look like we're gonna see much relief
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in the next two to three years. I don't believe. I don't think that we're gonna see a lot of relief, so we gotta find some niches here that,
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that we can kind of fall into. And, and Sowell health is a big four portion of it. I mean, yesterday we had 4.63 inches of rain
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out here overnight. I mean, it was overnight, it was last night. I mean, we, the whole entire field where the field day is,
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is it was completely at six inches of wood drain. Well, at that point last night, y'all were flipping coins to either have a field day or hunt ducks.
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Yeah, no kidding. And I mean, at that point we really were like, where we gonna have the field day out?
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We thought we were gonna have to have the whole thing in the shop, but we got here this morning, um, you know, the,
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the ground kind of took it up, took away, took it away from here, and we're out here today and we had our whole field,
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they out here, and it was a success. Well, that's the cool part about soil health is actually when you get your soil back in shape,
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this soil will actually become a better sponge for both nutrients, for moisture. And we're standing out here, I'm in tennis shoes,
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So Standing out here less than 24 hours ago, and this is what healthy soil does. Yeah. So I mean, healthy soil is not a bandaid.
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It is a fix. And we're starting to see where we're reducing our fragility. We're making all that happen, getting our soil healthy.
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We don't have those bottoms out there that drowned out all the time. I mean, we're literally standing in a bottom that had four
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to six inches of water on it, and there's none on it right now. Well, and the, and the thing is, temple is
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so many years we put bandaids in agriculture to try to fix this quick, try to fix that quick look more fertilizer on here,
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put more fertilizer on there. And I think in the, at the end of the day, all farmers have done a good job of doing
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with the knowledge that they've had. But now we have some new, some new products and new things
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that we can actually help the soil work synergistically to make better plants. I, I really do believe that as well.
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I mean, but we talked about it on another video. Look at like how, uh, woods or a forest are packed. Absolutely. You know, when you have all that biology
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working, it kind of takes care of itself. Now am I saying that we can replace fertility? No, no. Not at all. I'm not saying that,
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but you can cut enough fertility out to pay for products like this and make your soil healthy and still obtain the same yield. That's what I'm,
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It is, and it's very crucial this year for the farmers especially to, to really look at that and try to manage their operation a lot better on an input
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side to make things better. Yeah. So we're gonna let you know how this plot turns out. I think it's gonna be better.
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I'm hoping it's gonna be better. Yeah. So I really don't wanna make that fall pass. 00:04:10.585 --> 00:04:12.645
