Farming Video | Wheat Showdown: $30 Budget Challenge with Verell, Rhodes & Garrett

30 Aug 252m 51s

Johnny Verell, Temple Rhodes, and Kelly Garrett go head-to-head in a wheat competition with one simple rule: stay under a $30/acre fertility budget at flowering. Each farmer took a different approach—Johnny kept it simple and under budget, Kelly focused on micronutrient balance, and Temple leaned on phosphorus and sulfur to boost late-season energy. With just five bushels separating the lowest and highest yields, Johnny took the win on his home ground, proving that simplicity can pay off.

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00:00:00 Johnny Verell Extreme Ag. I'm out here today with Stephanie Linco, temple Rose, Kelly Garrett. 00:00:04 We're talking about the big wheat competition we had this year. And we're talking about getting ready 00:00:08 to get to see the results, right? We do. The results are in, so just as a recap, this was an economic challenge. 00:00:13 We had a $30 per acre budget for a full year application at flowering. So above and beyond his grower standard, um, 00:00:21 fertilizer programs, we each spent $30 and put those programs out. So quickly go through 00:00:26 what you guys did for your programs. Yeah, I stayed simple. I actually went in around $25 an acre. I just stuck. 00:00:31 He, he has to stay simple. He doesn't know the difference in colors of a vehicle. Yeah. We're 00:00:34 Basically moving on colors of vehicles again. But at the end of the day, we kept it simple. I went in under budget 'cause I was thinking if it was gonna 00:00:40 be close, maybe four or $5 savings might, would make me win the competition. I did my typical approach, all of the micros to try 00:00:47 to achieve mineral balance, improve nutrient density, improve plant health, improve the quality of the grain. And I spent just about all $30 really close. 00:00:56 I'm surprised you didn't spend it all on calcium. 'cause the last two years that's all you've done is calcium. I've learned, I've evolved Livered ca That's right. 00:01:02 That's I'm Kelly Garrett slash livered ca. That's my middle name. I, I took the same approach. I mean, I kind of look at things the same 00:01:10 as I do in everything at Chesapeake Bay. I'm used to putting that phosphorus portion in, adding more sulfur. 00:01:16 But the reason that I did at that time, you can add a lot of weight to grain quality when you give the plant energy 00:01:22 and that late season like that, I was hoping to kind of build more energy, give that plant that extra jump. All right. So who do you think won? I th 00:01:30 I definitely did. We don't wanna hurt temples field. I would like to think Johnny won on his home turf to, So there was five bushel between the low yield 00:01:38 and the high yield five bushel. That's typical five bushel. So our yield goal was 120 bushel. Alright, 00:01:43 Wait, I'm now predicting Stephanie won. Nobody. Nobody. I didn't participate. You guys participated. Nobody hit the 120 bushel. 00:01:50 Um, but 1 0 9, 1 11, 1 14. So it goes in that order. 1 0 9. S**t. 1 11, 1 14. That falls for us. So 00:02:03 You guys stood in the right order. Keep it simple. So Johnny won, won On your own ground And I saved $5 an ac. Yep. And he 00:02:09 Sent the mustard. This money Amber Would tell you second place is the first loser. You know what third place 00:02:13 Is? I don't anymore. I, yes I know I'm here. I spend a lot of time in this circle. So here's our results. We're gonna have 00:02:21 that information with all the programs. Um, you can see what the yields are and we have a lot of fun and we look forward to the rest 00:02:26 of the results coming in throughout this fall. And we're gonna send Temple our programs to try to help him out in Chesapeake Bay. 00:02:33 He can use those as training videos. Yeah. He Told me all his, I'm gonna eat them. Yeah. What 00:02:37 Do you think con is the winner, if any, was say, wanna make A speech? Nah, I don't have no speech. 00:02:42 You expected to win? Yeah, 00:02:43.585 --> 00:02:44.785