00:00 I really, really, really hate to do these kind of videos. You know, you hear us talk a lot about, you know, things 00:12 that we do that end up are right or, you know, close to right or whatever. But every now and then, it seems like we do things 00:18 that are absolutely wrong. As you see behind me here, these beans, they've got a little puy yellow color to 'em. 00:24 They're kind of stunted looking. They're gonna be R two beans and, uh, this don't look that good. 00:30 And I pulled in this field yesterday, part of it's my fault, maybe I should have been out here earlier, 00:34 but most of the time you don't catch this until about R one or R two pulled in the field. 00:38 Yesterday I called Lane and immediately and I said, uh, I think we've done messed up a little bit. And he said, what's that? And I said, 00:44 these beans here on this fields that hadn't been in beans for I don't know how many years, I said, 00:49 we didn't inoculate 'em. And, uh, I thought, I don't think we're gonna have any, any nitrogen balls, is what we call 'em, you know, 00:54 to produce an nitrogen for the soybean crop. You know, there's times in your life when you just feel like a, a complete idiot. 01:00 I kind of felt that way here. You know, a lot of people put out an inoculate every year. We've done it both ways. 01:05 We rotate so much that, you know, if you rotating beans normally you don't have to have it. We hadn't seen a big yield bump by putting it out 01:12 where we're doing the heavy rotation back into soybeans. So that's just not something we do on a regular basis. 01:17 This is a new farm that we rented this year, predominantly a cotton farm. We've got quite a bit of cotton on it 01:22 and, uh, we're trying to implement some rotation into this farm. So there's a couple of fields here. 01:27 I think we've got six bean fields here, and there's two of them that have probably never been in beans. 01:31 I'll have to go back, get the history on them maybe, and see, but I learned this the hard way when I was about 25 years old. 01:37 And all we did was farm cotton. And then we started trying to rotate into beans and do some different things. 01:42 And, uh, I found this out the hard way. Then when I say hard way, I should say expensive way, because we can fix this problem. 01:49 This is not gonna be a problem. That's, that's not gonna be, uh, fixable. It's just going to fix my pocketbook when I do it. 01:56 So the problem is, we planted the beans. We didn't inoculate 'em. They're not producing nitrogen balls 02:01 to sustain their blooms and, and their yield. Like I said, it can be fixable. So yesterday when I come out here 02:06 and I dug, I immediately got outta the truck with my shovel and dug the roots. I dug roots here. I went over to the field back here 02:12 that's been in beans several times. And, uh, I feel more like an idiot after I'd done the digging than before I'd done the digging. 02:17 But I dug these up yesterday. There was a nitrogen ball or two on there. I guess you'd call 'em nodules is the, 02:23 is the right correct term. But I knew then that we had a problem. Fortunately on this same farm. 02:28 We had just got through putting out our side dress on cotton and immediately had the tractor come back 02:32 and put, uh, I think I put 14 gallons. So that'd be right at 45 units of, uh, nitrogen. We wide drop, you know, 02:40 the same thing we do on cotton first Sidedress. We came back, did it on the soybeans. I think that will be all we'll have to do. 02:45 The previous time I'd done this in my earlier years, you know, we put out half of what the recommended rate was. We got the beans to go ahead 02:52 and produce some pretty high yield. So it is fixable, but it's just something stupid I'd done by not thinking ahead on a new farm. 02:59 If this wasn't a new farm, it would've been in bees before, just like the rest of our fields. We come in here, we got a dry spell. 03:05 We was able to plant a lot of these fields that, you know, back here that, that I was scared might be this time 03:10 of the year before we'd get 'em planted. We got 'em planted, we got excited. We didn't take time to realize, hey, you know, we needed 03:16 to inoculate the beans. I knew that lane really didn't know that he hadn't had enough experience to know that. 03:21 I guarantee you that after this year, he will have learned that because he is gonna have to write a check for half 03:26 of the cost of the nitrogen to make these beans go to full yield potential. I guess he'll think old dad 03:30 for his pocketbook being less than it was when we started this. But we always like to show you the bad 03:35 things as well as the good things. And I promise you this is not a good thing. So make sure when you're, you know, 03:41 when you're getting ready to plant soybean field, if it hadn't been in beans in in several years, inoculant on the beans, definitely pays. 03:47 It probably cost me $5 an acre. Uh, not even gonna tell you what the nitrogen's gonna cost me to replace that 03:53 because I really feel embarrassed. But, uh, it will still ROI, the landlord should be happy because he gets percent rent, 03:59 but, um, it's just still ROI fine, but it's just gonna cost us a little more money to make this bean crop. 04:04 So it's kind of a test plot. I like test plots. That's what we do at Extreme Ag. So we have a non inoculated field here 04:10 that hadn't ever been in beans and forever that, uh, we're applying nitrogen to. So we get to use our wide drops. 04:17 We get to do some pretty cool things that just cost us a lot of money. Hopefully next year I'll remember this.