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Hey y'all, this is Chad Henderson with the Extreme Ag and there's always a reason why we're laughing 'cause it's, you should see the takes before the takes.
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So we have a good time here, but we're here with Mikayla Todd, she's come, come to see us here, check on her trial.
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This is a trial that, uh, that they put in with us. We're second year in, I think this is second year in maybe third crop
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with the way we do our wheat bean corn rotation. Yes. But it's been, it's been good. It's been really good. It's been interesting.
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You know, a lot of times the trials are tile, no tile. Mm-hmm Lift station, regular drainage. Yep. And you know, you're sitting here
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and you go, you know, you know, like you're going to sleep during the trial, you know. But this one has got my interest perked a little bit
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because it's the times we're in. Mm-hmm. Right. You know, we're sitting here and farmers are struggling right now.
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You know, I mean, look at, look at where we're at in the world. Look at what we're doing with the markets, you know, and,
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and man the price is interest rates, you know, so, and people wanna pull back like, Hey, we don't, we can, we can't afford to put extra money out right now.
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So this trial kind of hits home with that. Do you wanna talk just a second about what we're doing on this trial?
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Uh, or do you want me to take it and run with it? What do you wanna do? Yeah. Tell us where it's at, what it looks like.
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So, so Mikayla said, you know what? I'm gonna let you do this whole thing. I'm like, that's a bad thing to do.
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So we're here in this trial, if you looked around and we looked to the north here, we would see a pivot. When you see the pivot, everything from the pivot
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to about this ditch, which you see is four inch on forties. Then from there we go three inch on thirties
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and then from there we go three inch on forties. So we have about a 40 acre grid, 40 to 45 acre grid here. And this was, some of this is a very peak, good,
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productive piece of ground, but it had those little swells in it where it would just hold a little water.
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And we, we've talked about before, it's all about the farm average. Yep. You know, it's all about making all the little
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holes make something. So that's what it's done as you take, see for instance, see this ditch that runs up through here,
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this ditch was draining into those woods and it kind of kept what was out here off. Well now as you see,
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we're growing a full crop in that ditch. We don't need the ditch. The ditch is tile through,
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so the water's coming off from that. Sure. If we got a huge rain, the ditch would still work, but there's no sign of it.
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You didn't even know that. I said, well you know, this was our ditch that drained that bottom. You're like, that's not a ditch. I'm like, it's a ditch.
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What we're looking at here though, in this trial is seeing where we can type, we know four inch on 40 works.
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Yeah. Because people spend four inch on sixties or four inch on fifties and then they come back and split 'em, you know, four inch on 30.
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It's like, we know this, this is a good deal. When now we get into the three inch world. If we was here like this farm
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and don't own this farm, we did a cost share with the landlord. Man, it's a great guy.
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You know, that won't see the farm go up. So we're doing this trial. Do we go three inch on thirties? Do we go three inch on forties? That's what it's all about.
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We definitely know we can save some money on three inch tile, but can't we go that route and will it pay out or do we stick with the forties?
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Sure. What would y'all have at a DS if I come to you, what would that look like? How would y'all present a plan?
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What can the company provide me as a farmer to say, Chad, this is direction we would point you in with a state,
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with a state, uh, with the place you're in. Yeah, So we are the pipe manufacturer. And so when Chad's saying three inch on thirties,
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four inch on forties, he's talking about three inch, four inch pipe. Um, on 30 foot laterals, 40 foot laterals.
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And what he is got is those, that pipe is all going out to a lift station, which is being pumped into the woods. Over here we have the tile
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and then, uh, we have resources for contractors. We have resources for design work and we can help you, you know,
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decide do you need three inch on thirties? Do you need four inch on forties? What works best for you? So,
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And y'all can look at, what is it called mean? You can't explain it, but the coefficiency of Yeah. Drainage coefficient.
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So we can't really explain that, but let's look at the way that the water flows, how much, what kind of soil type it is.
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You know, all that plays in. It's not like, oh, I just need three inch tile because it's $10 foot cheaper.
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And to miss $10 foot, you know, let's say 20 cents a foot cheaper. You know what I'm saying? So let's just be, not just
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because it's cheaper, but because of this reason. You know, this soil type will do with three inch or this soil type must have four inch, you know?
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Right. And y'all have all that data in which we're trying to build onto y'all's data portfolio now.
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Yes. So what comes about here is we're gonna keep this trial going, um, and make sure that we stay in
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and figure out what works best. Keep collecting the data. We know lift stations have been a given for us.
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We can't get this drained without 'em. Lift stations been on point all year cuts on and off. And the thing about it is we can change those levels.
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We'll get into beans or something and we can bring that float level up with the way it's designed or we can let
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that float level down, you know, to take more water off. Yep. Chad, he from, from extreme ag,
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we look forward to posting these. We look forward to giving you results. We look forward to keeping farmers on the
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