00:00 Do you have roots? That's what we're talking about here on the tailgate of this truck with Allison Jack 00:04 and Kelly Garrett, Allison, uh, we got a plant dig here. We see this sometimes at field days. 00:09 I always kind of think it's cool because it's uh, more illustrative of what's happening at a field day other than just 00:14 going, oh, ain't that corn pretty? We got roots. I am not the expert that Kelly is, but looks to me like these have better roots than these. 00:20 What am I looking at and what are we trying to prove with our field day? Dig? You're looking at the impact of our microbial technology. 00:27 So our ppms colonize the plant, right At germination. You're Doing that thing. PPFM 00:32 is a pink Pigmented facultative, methyl tr say that three times fast. I'll Just call it PPP fm. That's 00:39 why we call 'em ppms. Yeah. It's a technology that goes into other products. Correct. Your company supplies these products 00:47 to three different companies and they go into plant enhancement products. Did this go in at time of planting? 00:52 Did it go in over the top? What happened here? We Go in at the planter box. Okay, so we are a wettable powder. 00:57 Um, but we go in dry, right with the seed lubricant. Alright, Kelly out here in this trial that's at your field day. 01:03 Um, she went out, she dug these at a very fair fashion. Looks to me like I can see some difference. What excites you about this 01:09 and also what are we looking for in the trial? Well, what excites me, obviously you can see the treated, the plants are bigger, healthier. 01:17 The stalks are girth here and it's all at the same stage. We're at V four here. What gets me really excited, 01:21 I don't even know if will can pick it up, is the hairs on the roots. That is the photos synthetic site 01:25 where the trade happens is what I call it. And that's the reason for this vegetative response we're having here. 01:30 It goes all the way down to those little root hairs. That's what I'm excited about. Okay. That's something that I think gets overlooked. 01:35 You can go to a field day, they always go out and do a dig bring, show you a big old corn ball of roots and all that. 01:40 What we're talking about is the teeny little fibers type, uh, almost like little capillaries, if you will. 01:45 Yes. Talk to me about that because there is, there is a definitive difference between this and this in terms of the small, uh, hairs. 01:53 So we've been looking at this feature of this product for a long time now. I, I've processed thousands of photos. 02:01 What we're able to do is image this and put a data set around this phenomenon so you can see it with your eyes. 02:07 Yep. But more importantly you can also measure it, um, with different root phenotyping tools. So being able to put a number on, yes, 02:15 there are more root pairs, uh, there are more root tips. There are more fine roots. 02:19 Kelly. These plants are what we call this V four four. V four. Um, how much does this matter when the combine runs? So obviously we've got a lot of potential here. 02:28 We can see the difference, but we've gotta take this to yield because what really matters is 02:32 what goes in the grain tank and the ROI. But you know, and we always talk about this when we're with an agronomist, plant pathologist in Allison's case is 02:40 this is a very critical time. Why have yet to find out a time that's not critical. However, this is V four. 02:45 This is when we are deciding rows around. Tell me, looking at these plants that you don't think these ears are gonna be bigger than 02:52 those just based on the size and health of the plant. Okay, So this might have 16 rounds on the ear corn. 02:56 This might have 14. That kind of Concept. Exactly. Um, In a different recording we talked about a sexy field at V four doesn't mean it's a profitable field. 03:04 Having really good vegetative growth looks pretty when you drive down by on the road. 03:08 But that don't make you money necessarily when a combine runs. Can you address that? And I 03:11 wanna hear it from the farmer perspective. Well, We've set the plant up for success. What happens for the rest of the season, right? 03:17 If things go well. Yep. Um, that plant is up and outta the ground faster, has a better start, um, has a better ability to deal with stress. 03:27 This particular product also is an EPA registered bio insecticide. So we are in corn on corn. 03:33 If there's corn rootworm in this field, uh, you're gonna see a much better response. And you're only less than 20% 03:40 of your acres are in soybeans. You're gonna have even more of a corn on corn phenomenon this year than not. 03:45 Is that one of the reasons you're excited about this or do you think it's just this that makes you excited? I'm excited about it because of the heavy amount 03:51 of corn on corn we run. But I'm also excited about it. You know, you talk about this sexy vegetative corn. This is obviously sexier on this side. Right. 03:58 But it didn't come from expensive macronutrients. Okay? It came from this insecticide. The seed technology. That's a different kind of vegetative. 04:05 We're not producing vegetative growth from fertility. We're producing it from the nutrients that are in the soil. His 04:10 Point's very valid farmers and certainly landowners that rent to farmers love to see a sexy crop in June. 04:16 That doesn't mean you're making money off it. This isn't about being sexy to prove to the neighbors that I got good corn. 04:22 It's really about setting this plant up for nutrient uptake. I think that's what you're gonna tell me. 04:26 But you're the one with the PhD. Not me. Well, We have a symbiosis, right? So our microbes, yes, they go on at the seed, 04:33 but they change the trajectory of that plant's life for the entire field season. One of the things that TS 2 0 1 does is it turns on the 04:43 plant's own defense system, almost like a vaccine. It helps the plant respond faster and stronger when there is insect damage. 04:52 Insect. So what you've done now is turned on a switch. Got it. You've actually changed gene expression within the plant to set this plant up better 05:00 for when the trouble comes later. Incidentally, if you just heard Allison say TS 2 0 1, that's their product, uh, name on this. 05:07 And again, it sold through other companies to put it on there. Mm-Hmm. Kelly, get me outta here. I think this is cool. 05:12 What am I gonna see one month from now, two months from now and from the combine seat? 05:16 You're gonna continue to see these plants outpace these plants. Mm-Hmm. I would expect to see bigger ears on this plant. 05:22 You know, I would expect to see an ROI here. It's hard to say. It depends on the rest of the season, but we have a lot of potential here. 05:28 You told me once a high yield guy, six tenths of a pound of corn per plant is the Kelly Garrett goal. 05:35 Um, that looks like it's probably more likely to do it than that one. Absolutely it does. Got it. Kelly Garrett. 05:40 Allison, thanks for being here. We're talking about roots or as my friend Kelly sometimes calls him roots. 05:45 It doesn't matter what you call 'em. The main thing is you want 'em to look like this and less like that.