When to Push Forward And When To Give Up on Your Crop?

00:00 Hey, we're talking about throwing in the towel. When's it time to throw in the towel on a crop? And when's it too early to throw in the towel even though 00:05 you're tempted to, I've got Jason Worley with Natures and I've got Kevin Matthews. We're doing this right before the field day, 00:09 which may be upset because of a hurricane. We hope not. And Kevin, you have some very tough conditions in North Carolina 00:15 for your growing season this year. I'm sure that you were tempted, especially on your 90 year giddy ground more than once 00:20 to throw in the top talk To me. No doubt. So we went the entire month of June with zero rain. 00:26 We had some soybeans that we really thought we wasn't gonna harvest. I mean, they looked really bad. 00:31 The rains finally started coming in July and some areas was later to get rains and others. But the beans turned around and responded. 00:39 A lot of our late planted corn has responded quite well. But what we've done is, is really delayed the maturity 00:45 of these soybeans because they just sit still for 30 days. They couldn't grow. I mean, 00:49 you've seen it all over the state in the south, a lot of crop. And so now we're doing what would, 00:54 traditionally we would spray our R two R three fungicide application, put some folders in and walk away from it on a normal routine. 01:02 But we, we gotta pick up that extra. And these beans is rebo, they've gotten more pods on and we've got to fill those pods 01:10 and make all we can make. You're a Fertility expert, not a seed man, but you've been around this your whole career. 01:14 Soybeans can hang around and almost look like they're gonna die for a lot longer than corn in general. 01:18 Right? Right. So did you have any of your customers, any people that you're out in the field say, Hey, I'm thinking about being done with this. 01:24 And you had to counsel 'em and say, do one more treatment just in case All of them. Yeah. Yeah. They said, you know, we, what do we got? 01:30 What are we dealing with? What we gotta work with? Yeah. The thing of it is, is that a soybean plant, 01:34 like Kevin was just talking about, we give up on it too early. Yeah. And we, we leave a lot of yield 01:39 that we could have captured. And the thing of it is we got, we're spraying beans now from R one to R six. 01:44 Okay. On, on soybeans. We're at R three right now on these beans. So why give up on 'em? Now we need seed size. 01:50 Okay. Now these are irrigated. The person watching this can say easy for you to say That's gotten water mine have it. 01:56 Mine looked like crap. What's your response? So our dry land beans actually look very much like this. But what we're seeing is if you, 02:02 you have these small tags up here in the top, here's, here's one that is just tagged off. That's a pot. We gotta feed that thing out. 02:09 And on our dry land, what you're seeing is a plus of those up in the top of the plant. And when you see that flush of them, you gotta feed 'em. 02:15 Even though these down here may be at R three, maybe even you could see 'em some at R four possibly. You got new growth up here and, 02:22 and that could be 25% of your yield, 30% of your yield extra that you didn't know you was gonna have. We 02:27 Are recording this literally 12 hours before a hurricane is supposed to come through here. If we get five inches of rain on some of your dry land acres 02:34 of soybeans, does that actually help 'em? I mean, assuming it doesn't flood them, is that five inches? Is it too little too late? Is it too much, 02:39 Too late? No, we, we are getting adequate. We've started getting adequate rains and soybeans responded well. 02:45 But Damien, what I highly recommend is if, you know, we get this tropical air up here, we get this moisture on the east coast is we're setting 02:52 ourselves up for potential diseases late Season. So if we get this rain, once it dries enough 02:56 to get in there, fungicide, do you put on his products? Also, does a fertility pack need to go out at R three R Four? You need to put 03:02 on a good kay acetate product. You need to put some micros in there and you need to put, in my opinion, 03:09 I'm gonna have a sugar product in there. And you know, a good phobic product. If you can get that something, you just, 03:15 whatever your budget will allow, but protect that plant. There's a lot of, a lot 03:20 of your profit is in the top half of that plant. And By the way, even on your non irrigated, that's to your point, you e curse your customers and, 03:26 and people you're advising Don't throw on the towels too soon. It's still only late July. It's only mid-July. 03:31 It's only 1st of July. I know you're dry. That's the thing. Especially about soybeans more so than corn. 03:36 Yeah. Because you should think about this with these soybeans, you know, with this yield we've got right here, 03:40 Kevin, have we got enough? Did we nodulate enough to get to that look at a 70 bushel crop? 03:44 Yeah. You mean, or just at 70 bushel soybeans, how much nitrogen it takes Yep. On that. So it's a good thing to look at. 03:51 Like you was talking about having some more nitrogen to it being Yep. More potassium to the bean. Okay. 03:55 Or run especially a, like a good micro pack like we talked about. Yep. Because that's the things we need. Seed size. We need, 04:00 Were you doing those three and four weeks ago when people were contempt to throw in the 04:04 tile? Is that when you're doing Those? We had, we had some in some and some bottom land. Okay. 04:06 Where farmers were seeing, I can't give up, I gotta have some average out. Yep. We had some river bottoms that we did look after, 04:12 but I'll tell you, we set, we parked the, the sprayers for nearly three weeks. Yep. It looked so bad. 04:18 I mean they wasn't, there wasn't no fertilized nothing but water was going to help 'em. So The answer there is you didn't throw in the tile, 04:23 but you put a pause on things. You look at a little pause. So your advice to somebody that's wondering, how do I know when it's time 04:28 to throw in the tile on my soybean crop? Well, when, When, when they're dying out and ain't no leaves on you, you pretty well done. 04:34 You need to, in all serious sustainment, you need to really understand your, your development of your soybean plant. 04:41 You need to understand what a R five R six growth stage is in that plant. And re the key to yield is number of beans 04:49 and the size of the bean. The weight and size go hand in hand. When you get that big bean, you're going to get big yields, 04:57 but it takes a lot of beans. So that R four is when we're using a lot of energy to make that bean really big. 05:05 And that's when these fuller applications can make a significant difference. As long as you can get 'em with the right product, 05:12 get your water balance right in your carrier so that these plants can translocate those nutrients into those pods. 05:20 Yeah, I think we're gonna call it right there. I think that's what we need to know. It is a time to throw in the towel on the soybeans. 05:24 You say most people do it too early. They do way too early And, and you say keep treating. You can understand why he kinda stressed. 05:30 You're looking out there. He said, I'm throwing money out the door. But This is a year to really push this crop for a yields 05:35 that we're, I mean our, our our commodity Price, it won't take bushels Bush, I mean it Bush Got Kevin Matthews, his field day's coming up. 05:41 Jason Worley with Nature's one of our business partners. 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