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Heath Huizinga with XtremeAg, and we have Kurt Knight from TitleGrow, and we're going over our Spectra plot.
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And if you've been following along at all this year, it was muck boots weather again, and we actually can't even be outside to film because it's so wet and muddy. So we've basically
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been damp and wet the entire year, which I still think even with those conditions, we're seeing some really interesting things going on with the
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plant. So over here, we have Spectra in-furrow and foliar applied versus just foliar applied. And some of the things we noticed whenever we dug this up was just the sheer root
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mass. And I'd also like to add the reason why we wanted to try Spectra on our farm was because of the cyst nematode pressure we've had.
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And the tests we've done in the past are just off the charts, and we thought this would be a really good fit.
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So do you want to go over some of the stuff that we're seeing in the field here? Yeah, absolutely. So this is a high cyst nematode pressure field.
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We are not seeing that much soybean cyst present on these root systems. But like Heath said, we have Spectra in-furrow plus foliar
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and then Spectra foliar. And Spectra's a nematicide, fungicide, and we have some biostimulant properties which are really showing their face here.
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Yeah. For sure. You can see the difference in root mass. We're seeing especially a major difference in
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stem thickness, right? Mm-hmm. So especially near this base and some of these nodes, these early nodes look way different between these two plants.
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As you can see, the early nodes here are very thick, and they balloon out right in a pretty drastic manner.
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Whereas here, it's more of a thinner line bean right compared to the in-furrow. With the stem thickness, you have better standability late in that
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season. Theoretically, you have better vascular tissues- Mm-hmm
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... so you have better nutrient and water flow in that plant. Mm-hmm.
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So I think that's something that will really hopefully stand out when you're driving the combine through these treatments.
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Yeah. I can't wait to get the combine in the field and harvest these. I won't say what I have my money on, but you can probably guess just by looking at
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the picture here. But stay tuned. Our next video, we'll be getting ready to cut them or maybe even cutting them.
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So again, this is Heath Huizinga with XtremeAg and Kurt Knight with TitleGrow.
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