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Hey everybody, it's Lee Luber from Gregory South Dakota with extreme Ag and today I'm gonna show you the value of the systems approach that we all practice
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and preach about in extreme ag and what happens when you miss a step. So this is gonna be interesting.
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Here are our standing in the wheat field. Uh, we're partway through winter wheat harvest and, uh, grinding away at it.
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In this field we have four power poles that we have to go around and normally we back in
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and get the corners everything. And Rich was, uh, spraying vis ace at head scab time and I said, just go around it.
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I said, let's leave it as experiment. Who knows? Maybe we'll see 10 or 20 bushels different. Well, we're seeing a lot more than that
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and it's one step that we missed, but we missed it on purpose. But it shows the value of a systems approach.
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You can see standability is terrible. It's kinking over falling over a lot of heads, uh, just very little weed in it.
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Uh, instead of 10 or 20 bush hole, we expect it to be half. We're gonna have to cut it on the ground.
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Uh, when we cut it, it'll be interesting to see what the difference is in the yield monitors, but we're anticipating probably cutting the crop in 50%
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and you come out where you start getting coverage and it changes in a hurry. And this is not spectacular ground.
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This ground does well for us, but a lot of our wheat, we're running a lot of one twenties, one thirties.
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We've even ran higher in fields. But this, that field is a pretty average representation for wheat crop this year.
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It's a very good wheat crop here in South Central, South Dakota. And look where we didn't miss the step
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night and day difference. You go, Hey, there's a crop that's crap. It's one step we missed on purpose
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and wow, we were anticipating maybe 10 to 20 bushel an acre reduction, more like 50%, and it could even be worse.
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So huge difference. We go from a bumper crop in our area to one that's not gonna pay the bills in those corners.
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So I'm glad we did it. We learned a lot. And uh, it just shows the value that you don't wanna miss a step as you're pushing
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for higher yields, trying to do better. As you push higher, you also amplify potential negatives. That's where you miss a step.
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It can get rather costly in a hurry. So we learned a lot by doing that. But a huge difference that made
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if we were in doubt and wondering, Hey, I wonder if this pass pays. Oh yeah. And we actually were getting dry when it happened.
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Uh, we were getting some dues, but uh, the rains have really cut back since then. So in a really wet year, wet period, right then,
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I'd hate to think what the difference would be. It could be the difference whether you harvest or not. So yeah, it definitely paid.
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