00:00 Hey, continuing to ask the question, what's new in 2024? I'm at the booth of Vive at Commodity Classic, 00:07 and I'm talking to David Rife and Temple Rhodes. I'm holding this right here, which we can get very scientific, 00:12 but basically nanotechnology. When we ask what's new and what does it do, Vive is new. You've been selling product for six years, 00:18 but you've been around for 17 years. You're giving away these dog toys and real quickly, what is this? 00:23 So this is a representation of our nanotechnology, and essentially what we do with it is we optimize crop protection inputs for the farmer 00:31 to give them more tools to not only improve their crop, but uh, also make themselves more effective and more efficient when they're actually planting 00:39 because operational efficiency and agronomics go hand in hand together. Okay? This is gonna be the big thing 00:44 for you is what does it mean for him? What's it mean for him? What I think is neat is David, uh, you are a Michigan state educated agronomy guy 00:50 with farm roots in the Saginaw Bay City area of Michigan. So you're a real farm guy, you still are involved 00:55 with the family farming operation, and you do this job. You worked for a large corporation, came to vi. What excites you about vi 01:02 New technology? Bringing something cool, something innovative. Um, I, I've sold pesticides, herbicides, fungicides 01:08 for a number of years in my past life, and this nanotechnology changes the game of how those are applied for farmers like temple. 01:15 All right, so you're the farmer. He's a farmer. How does he use it? And then I want to hear what Temple's response is on how, what excites him? 01:21 Some conversation. Temple said he's the descendant guy. He's throwing stuff in the tank, he's trying new things and undoubtedly has caused some problems. 01:28 I've had massive amounts of problems, you know, tying up tanks, you know, filters stopping up because we, you know, we jar test everything, 01:38 but even if you jar test, sometimes it just settles out and then you end up with a problem down the road. We have a lot of trouble with, with different fungicides, 01:47 Right? So a lot of those pesticides fungicides were based on 20, 30, 40-year-old, uh, ways to make chemicals. 01:54 This is the new technology of the future to, to make them, and really what we're doing is our first, 02:00 our commercial products today are fully fertilizer compatible. So this nanotechnology actually protects, protects the, the, 02:08 uh, the chemical from the salt, interacting with it and giving you all those clumps and, and plugging up your planner 02:14 And all that. I mean, alright, I Want you wast a lot of time. I wanna interject here. You have had plenty of things 02:19 because you're always doing, you're always cutting edge and, and experimenting with stuff. 02:23 And so what we're talking about is you put too many things together. Sometimes it don't work, you know, it's too many, 02:27 too many elements at the party and it just doesn't, it just doesn't gel. So how are you gonna use this to make that not happen? 02:34 Well, this is just one more technology that we're finding out that it makes us farmers more efficient at what we do. 02:40 How efficient am I if I'm out of the cab cleaning out filters all the time? Sometimes I'll make a infer, a mix 02:46 and it'll sit in my tank on the, a rain event comes. Yep. And regardless, all this stuff sits in there and in my jar test, well guess what? 02:54 In my jar test it was fine. I never had any problem. Got it. We just sat there for three days. Got it. 03:00 It sits there for three days. Now I got A problem, David, I'm looking over my shoulder here. I got asteroid FC fungicide. Tell me how I use that. 03:07 Then we're going down to bio fender, then we're going to Alin tell me how each of these work and how he's gonna use 'em. 03:11 Right? So in our last podcast we talked about crown rod, root rot problems across the Midwest. 03:14 Yep. Asteroid is a phenomenal in furrow fungicide that mixes with your fertility products. 03:20 6, 10 34 0 6 24 6, zinc, calcium, um, early season Standability root health, crown health, getting that plant up and out of the ground by fender. 03:31 A lot of corn root, worm wire worm, uh, problems, grubs, really good product that, again, mixes very, very nicely 03:37 with all of your infra products for, uh, insect protection. And then Aand FC is actually a really cool one 03:43 because a lot of corn growers aren't focused on corn nematodes. Yep. And the more I get out and dig fields 03:49 and take soil samples, the more problems I find with corn nematodes. And this is a, it's a great, We did the recording, you spoke about the, we used 03:55 to think geographically it was only in a couple of areas and now with better testing, we're seeing 04:00 that it's robbing us of yield in a bigger geographical footprint than we thought. That's correct. Speak 04:04 To that. Yeah, so there's some great testing, uh, online resources of where corn nematodes are becoming more impactful 04:11 and really across the Midwest, especially with the, uh, reduction of organ phosphates, things like that. Just some of those tough chemicals, corn, 04:18 nematodes are coming back up and, you know, they're not just the sandy areas of where we, we think they may be. 04:23 They're, they're much more across the Midwest. Got it. How are you gonna use this stuff and what excites you? Yeah. 04:27 First of all, I'm gonna tell you this, I'm really excited about, you know, one of them, he talked about 04:31 how you've been using some fungicides in furrow that slightly specific for like pythium, uh, fusarium, those type of things. 04:40 And those are the products, the fungicide products that I've been having trouble with all along of drying down, flaking off in my tanks, settling out. 04:48 Those are my problematic areas. Yep. Those are the things that we fight when we're fighting a cold, wet soil. 04:54 What do we talk about all the time? We can drive more yield if we can get out there in the field. A little, 04:58 A little bit earlier, a little bit earlier, okay. That Cold weather has a problem and this is one of the things that fix it. You 05:04 Might have some experience in that up in the lower, have some experience Central lower Michigan. Yeah. I mean, we always wait 05:09 for the sole attempts to get to 55 degrees. No, you Don't. I never wait. All right. Uh, the technology again is, 05:16 It's, it's nanotechnology. So super, super small and it creates a, a, a better, more effective delivery system for chemical 05:22 and biological active ingredients. Got it. In our jus. Okay. We're gonna be hearing more from our friends at VI 05:27 in the 2024. Uh, David and I are going together and have a lot of conversations we're gonna bring on the farm guys like our friend Temple here. 05:33 Talk about those products, what they can do for you. Some exciting technology that I think is gonna really be good for you to use. 05:39 You know, what coming at you from the commodity classic 4 20 24, throwing it back to you.