00:00 So guys here at XT Extreme Ag, you hear us talk all the time about a systems approach. You know, we, we, we test a lot of products. 00:06 We use a lot of products and, you know, a product standing alone, sometimes they work pretty good, 00:11 but the synergistic effect of applying products together, whether it's a fertilizer 00:15 and a fertilizer additive of some sort, uh, you know, that systems approach seems to be the key to gaining, to gaining bushels. 00:22 And, uh, we have Brad Benson here today from FGS. Uh, they're a activated carbon company, I guess is how I would say that. 00:29 That's right. You may have a different name for it. Yeah. But, uh, Brad and I have been working together 00:32 for a little while and, uh, he's done some real special things here in Arkansas. He's, uh, right behind, 00:38 or he's the, the mastermind behind the state record soybeans that's been cut in Arkansas that hadn't been broken yet. 00:44 Unfortunately that wasn't by me, is by someone else. But when I've seen this, I, I said I got to do some business with Brad and start working with 00:51 Brad some, and here we are today. So, explain FG S'S systems approach, I guess you would say to, to, you know, a crop, whether it's corn, 00:59 beans, cotton, or whatever. Sure. What, uh, really what we do is, is we, we're not looking at a singular product. 01:05 We're not selling a single component. We're really looking at issues that, um, that agriculture faces from, from soil issues, 01:15 um, um, compaction, chemical issues, environmental issues. And we're trying to address those 01:20 because everything we do, as, you know, whenever you open the bag of seed yield starts diminishing right away out of our control. 01:26 So we're always trying to find the elements that we could address, or the stressful conditions that we can, that we can, um, 01:35 eliminate or alleviate to, to, you know, increase and elevate our, our yield goals. Um, on, you know, in this particular case, we're looking at, 01:43 um, a corn crop in which we applied our activated carbon complex with your nitrogen application. And really what we're trying to do is increase the use 01:52 efficiency of that nitrogen, um, you know, as well as balance the potassium output and intake of that, of that crop to achieve our, you know, 02:02 230, 40, 50 plus yield, uh, or bushel yield that, that we're, that we're on right here. From a potassium standpoint, the most limiting factor 02:13 in the soil is not so much the, the total potassium, whether it's available or unavailable in the soil. It's a, it's a release rate. Okay? 02:22 So what every soil has a, has a finite amount of potassium from a daily standpoint that it can release and be a plant soluble form of potassium. 02:34 Okay? So think of it as, um, it doesn't matter if you have a hundred pounds of K two O 02:40 or 10,000 pounds of K two O, the soil has only so much ability to release a soluble form of potassium in soil solutions. 02:49 So the plant can take it up. There's only so much potassium that can, that can go from an elemental form into a 02:56 soluble form into the plant. That makes a lot of sense because Lane and I were looking at some cotton fields yesterday 03:01 where we have potassium deficiency. Mm-Hmm. You know, it's not that we don't have it in the soil. That's 03:05 Correct. From a grain field and, and protein and, and photosynthesis. Driver potassium also regulates respiration, 03:13 the plant's ability to breathe. And whenever you get, you know, hot dry conditions, it's taking more potassium to drive 03:21 that physiological function in the plant. So then, you know, you're, you're robbing your grain field to, to regulate the stress. 03:30 And that's a, that's a really big important, whenever we start talking about our activated carbon, not only from a soil standpoint, 03:35 but from a foliar standpoint as well. It's a, it's a vehicle, it's an entry, it's a, it's a carrier into the plant, 03:41 but it's also a growth hormone. A a sheer energy source. You know, God gave us, uh, very few things to, 03:49 to screw up in farming. Um, you know, 97 plus percent is carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. 03:55 Um, you know, and, and really we try and Dr. Drive and, and maximize the effect of, of carbon, um, you know, while delivering the, you know, 04:06 a nutrient source or, or a, a growth regulator, so on and so forth. So Guys, what you're seeing here is you're seeing a problem 04:13 which is getting enough available potassium, say in a plant in the right amount of time, regulating that, speeding it up, giving it a better opportunity 04:22 to get in there because the plant's gonna, if if the plant's gonna use potassium to live or to grain field or 04:28 to make higher yield, it's gonna live first. It's always gonna choose the path, the least resistance, which is to stay alive as long as it can. 04:33 That's correct. So Brad actually farms in Louisiana, so, uh, you know, it's good to hear from a guy that, 04:39 that provides products and also farms too. So we appreciate you being here. We appreciate you working with us on these flights. 04:45 And now I need to state record and going That's right. Be, yeah. Yeah. Alright. Appreciate you. Absolutely.