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Johnny Rell, that stream ag. I'm out here in a wheat field today kind of looking at some things.
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You know, we're getting ready to go out with the fungicide here in the next couple of weeks. And you know, one of the things we started using almost 10
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years ago is a product called Palisade. And we always, you know, we all hear about, you know, growth regulators and stuff like that
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and you know, does it work? Does it not work? And for us it's been a game changer 'cause we always had a really hard time, uh,
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keeping our wheat from lodging in the late season. We can make it stand all year long when those heads come out and those heads get full and they get heavy.
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We get some really bad storms come through, you know, in May. And it usually makes that wheat crop start large, uh,
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lodging towards the end of May. And so we started playing with different, different rates of PGRs and this product called Palisade came out,
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like I said, it was, it really changed the, changed how we farmed wheat and because we could add more nitrogen late season
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and really push that wheat on. And also it allowed us to keep that wheat a little bit thicker throughout the year
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'cause we didn't have to worry about it lodging from being too thick. So for us, you know,
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it's just been a really good thing for us. And we, we run about 10 ounces is what we run as our standard practice across our farm.
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Some years if we think you might have some excess growth because of lack of rain in the previous corn crop
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and having excess nitrogen, we might bump it up, especially on the end rows and stuff like that where the yields are really off on the corn
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'cause of a drought or something like that. We have sprayed more, uh, palisade around the ends. And so for us, like I said, it's about 10 ounces.
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I got some pictures I'm gonna throw in there and you'll be able to see the difference. And when we did five ounces, 10 ounces and nothing,
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and you know, the other thing it does is when we do it, you even change, you change the height of the plant, but you also start to change the thickness of the,
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the stem itself and the cell walls. How thick the cell walls is, is I guess what you're changing is.
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But it's pretty eye-opening when you can actually see what the product's doing and how it manipulates that plant into, you know, starting
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to stack up a little bit, being a lot shorter in between the inner nodes. You know, in cotton country where we are here in west
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Tennessee, we've always used PGRs to regulate the growth of the plant from a vegetative standpoint.
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And so basically we're able to do the same thing now in wheat. And like I said, it's been out about 10 years,
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but it's just one thing I look back on every year. We'll never forget it on our farm because the few years that we have left it out in the last
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10 years, the wheat falls on the ground and we shell wheat at a mile and a half per hour all day long
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and it's the most miserable thing in the world. So it's been a learning experience for us, but it's a standard practice for us now.
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And like I said, 10 ounces has worked great 00:02:15.125 --> 00:02:16.085