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Hi, this is Kelly Geer from XtremeAg. This is one of the most exciting trials, not just for this year, but that we've ever done. This trial really is a decade in the making,
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where I keep taking nitrogen lower and lower just simply for ROI purposes. I know it lends itself also to regenerative ag, nutrient use efficiency, all these things.
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But really, how much nitrogen do we need out there to raise the crop? And I go back to 2016, I went out and Y dropped on my irrigated acres 100 pounds.
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Never picked it up in the tissue, probably because I didn't need it. I've well documented the
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different trials I've done for nitrogen, 60 through 240 pounds of anhydrous. We raised 210 bushel corn with all of it in a dry year.
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We're talking about Jared Cook saying, "In my soils, I have enough available, I don't need any synthetic nitrogen." And we've started to measure the soils more and
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more. Now, the last few years, the sap testing, which has all led to this point. This is my brother-in-law, Chad Boersma.
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He has zero nitrogen on his field, and we're about to stream bar a 25 gallon rate. There's going to be two different
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rates of N in this. There's going to be 45 pounds, and the other rate is going to be 60. We're going to take sap tests throughout the year.
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We're going to take soil tests throughout the year to see how much nitrogen is available in the nitrate form, in the ammonium form,
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in the total organic N that's out there, that the nitrate and the ammonium are derived from. I feel that there's the opportunity
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here, potentially we won't have to put any more nitrogen out based on our previous tests. I understand 45 to 60 pounds is not
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much for what we're used to, but the soil we have here in western Iowa is very powerful, and we're learning that.
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We've got a lot more to learn, and I'm very excited about this. So in this rate, in this 25 gallon mix, it's 32%
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nitrogen at a 45-pound rate, and then again at a 60-pound rate. And the difference in the two rates is just going to be water.
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We're going to maintain this 25 gallons of solution, though. We've also got Money Ball from Nature's.
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The components of Money Ball help with nitrogen assimilation, the copper, the manganese, the different things that are in there.
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We're also using Bio-Ag E from Calibrated Agronomy. We're using Backbone from Calibrated Agronomy, and then we've got Nitrasol in there, so for some available sulfur, again,
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to help with nitrogen assimilation. We're starting to learn that we don't need all of that nitrogen all the time, but we do need to make sure that we're assimilating it.
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So again, we're going to follow this throughout the year. In many ways, this is the biggest trial of my life.
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If we don't have enough nitrogen out here through the sap testing and things that we're watching, we've got some other products that we're going to put out here
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