The Importance of Seed Treatments for a Successful Planting Season

00:00:00 So we're coming up on planting season and uh, one of the things I would advise you to always do is make sure you have a good 00:00:07 quality seed treatment. There's several different kind of seed treatments out there. We're gonna go the field just as soon as we get, um, 00:00:13 you know, a, a time that the weather looks right. It's been raining cold here, didn't get my February bean plot in which I normally 00:00:21 get in three years in a row. Got it. In this year, the weather just wasn't conducive to planting soybeans or corn, either one. 00:00:27 So no February plot this year. Behind me, you see the, we've got a box to box treater here. This is a UFC brand. It's just the one we chose. 00:00:34 We think it's one of the better ones on the market, but if you don't have your own seed treater, all the different retailers will treat your seed. 00:00:43 A couple of years ago we tried to plant some soybeans without putting seed treatment on it. It was later in the year, warmer conditions, 00:00:49 and we thought, well, we probably don't need the seed treatment because the weather's perfect conditions. What we found out in that situation, 00:00:55 even though the weather was good, uh, the conditions were right, we were about 30%, 20 to 30% off on population even though it was almost too warm. 00:01:05 So we got in a situation where the ground was hot, actually, soil temperatures were in the high eighties, low nineties, 00:01:12 and, uh, that seed treatment where we put seed treatment out versus where we didn't, was about a 20% better stand. 00:01:18 Didn't have to replant the other ones, but it taught me at that point, no matter what, I'm gonna have a seed treatment on every single commodity 00:01:25 that I raise, whether it's rice, corn, cotton, beans, there's gonna be a seed treatment on each one of them. Warm weather, cold weather, there's gonna be a fungicide 00:01:33 and insecticide on both. So one thing I would encourage you to do, definitely look at a quality seed treatment. 00:01:39 Like I said, there's several different treat seed treatments out there. Different companies make different kinds, 00:01:44 but at some point in time, pick out one that fits your budget that you can use, because I think it's something 00:01:50 important when we go into planning. There's also different other types of seed treatments. Uh, we actually the other day was treating, you know, 00:01:58 our corn seed with Pivot bio. That's a nitrogen, uh, type product that produces nitrogen through through biology. 00:02:05 There's, uh, nides out there if you have any kind of nematodes. Those are good too. We use those 00:02:09 as well either in an infrared treatment or a seed treatment. There's phosphorus, uh, stabilizer polymers 00:02:16 and things like that you can use. There's all different arrays of additional seed treatments besides fungicide and insecticide. 00:02:23 To me, every seed needs to have that on it, the fungicide and insecticide, and then just take a part of your farm 00:02:28 and start researching it with some of these other seed treatments. Uh, a lot of those you may have to have a treater to do 00:02:34 or talk to your retailer into doing it. If they're not actually selling a product, they may frown on that a little bit. 00:02:39 So that's why we went to our own seed treater. But there's all kinds of different tools out there that's a seed treatment value that will enhance your crop. 00:02:47 So I encourage you to try some of these, you know, maybe 40 acres, a hundred acres, 200 acres of these different types of, uh, treatments, 00:02:55 but always have a fungicide and insecticide on your seed At planting. It's 00:02:59 something that's kind of scary when you think about buying your own treater, but once you get it, once you figure out how to use it, 00:03:05 it's, it is not near as hard as you think it is. Lane does a great job and his team of, uh, you know, getting our seed treated. 00:03:12 And like I said, if you're trying to do something extra, sometimes you have to have your own treater to do it. 00:03:16 So y'all be sure and check out, uh, some of our videos on things that you can do prior to planning 89 00:03:22.645 --> 00:03:24.965