Farming Video | Fertility Plot Trials & ROI Focus | XtremeAg

7 May 253m 50s

Kevin Matthews shares an in-field update from his North Carolina farm where his fertility and Pioneer variety plots are officially in the ground. Featuring products from Nachurs, Spraytec, and AgroLiquid, plots are designed with built-in check strips to track ROI across treatments. Kevin details the transformation of his soil—from hard as concrete to sponge-like—thanks to work on calcium-magnesium ratios and the use of products like NutriCharge, C-Cat, and Bio 800 from Holganix.

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00:00:00 Got a little update here. We just finished planting the, uh, pioneer Variety plot over to my right this morning. 00:00:06 Yesterday we planted our fertility plots. So what we've got here, we've got, uh, roughly anywhere from nine to 12 acres per plot 00:00:16 with a 1.2 to 1.4 acre, uh, grower standard in between each test to, so we got a good replication of whether it really pays us 00:00:28 to do the extra work or not. So we got a, um, nature's plot that we started with up on top air, 00:00:35 and that's, uh, Dr under drip irrigation. That's here for the field day. We'll talk about all the different, uh, ingredients 00:00:42 that we have in that plot. It's pretty interesting. Uh, then we're going to come right to the middle section and we're going to have a little over nine to 10 acres of 00:00:52 reson, which is an infinity trial that we're doing, and we're going to see how that stacks up if that product pays. 00:00:59 Then we come further down and we've got a spray tech plot is, uh, roughly about 11 acres in it. 00:01:06 The way the field laid, we couldn't just get it just exactly even on every one, but we, because we wanted to have our checks in there, 00:01:13 we got checks next to ever plot. The one thing that really struck out was the conditions and um, it was amazing all these plots is we also have a 00:01:23 product nutri charge on, and then we run a product C CATT as well. But now the conditions is absolutely amazing. 00:01:33 I mean, it's just, it's just like pot and soil, really good moisture, good seed to soil contact. It's probably the best planting conditions 00:01:44 that I've ever had on this farm. We've done a lot of work on this farm, getting our cows in the mag ratios, right? 00:01:50 If you come to the field day, we're gonna talk about how we took a field. This whole entire farm had a higher mag than it did calcium. 00:01:58 Now we got a six to one ratio, and we're gonna talk about how we achieved that and how we've turned this around from this being a piece 00:02:06 of concrete to real nice top soil, something that's a, a rarity in Piedmont, North Carolina is top soil. 00:02:15 It's gonna be exciting to see. Um, it's always important, you know, we, we run a furrow force closure on this, uh, planter 00:02:22 of mine got the air pushed out. We got a good firm seed bed, and in this four inch span, you cannot find the seed trench. 00:02:31 There's no, you can't, there's no, it's just crumbles, almost like a strip till situation. Pretty impressive. 00:02:39 This land here, we do have a, we did apply bio 800 from organics on it back in, um, in, uh, late March. 00:02:47 Had boley for a cover crop. This is behind soybeans. And then, uh, they're gonna be starting on the soybeans this afternoon. 00:02:54 We'll have some agri liquids plots there. We'll have some nature's plots. Then we'll have the Pioneer Z Series variety plots as well. 00:03:04 So there's gonna be a lot of good information here. There's gonna be a lot of folks come out and John Deere different ones 00:03:10 to talk about the equipment used and what all is going on on this farm and what maybe you can take to your farm 00:03:16 and create a positive ROI because it don't matter what it, you know, what it yields. If it don't create ROI, we're wasting our time. 00:03:24 But, um, pretty excited about this. This is a man, these conditions. It is just like you walking on a sponge out here. 00:03:31 It ain't been many years ago. It is like concrete and we can actually go right over to the untreated area and it still feels like concrete. 00:03:38 It, it is just amazing what we've done for this farm over the years. Stay tuned and looking forward 86 00:03:43.685 --> 00:03:44.725