Why Molybdenum Matters: Boost Your Farm's Soil and Crop Health

00:06 Molly, I don't know how to say the whole thing. So, Maum Maum. So We're just gonna say Molly today. So we're gonna call it Molly for 00:14 short 'cause nobody can say it. Maum or Molly, as we call it. Uh, it's just a, it's a micronutrient 00:21 and really in the last probably year, uh, we've learned a lot about it. Never really paid attention to it. 00:28 Uh, never really thought we needed it much. Uh, very scarce in the soil. There's only a couple different companies out there 00:35 that actually make just Molly without building Molly with boron. You know, most of them are Molly Boron blend. 00:43 And I don't know whether I should say this or not, but I'm gonna say it. I've tried to use straight Molly on corn 00:49 and I've never seen a response. Probably its main role. It is a key nutrient in the nitrate brick duct taste enzyme. 00:56 And you're like, what's that, Mike? Well, nitrogen can come in two forms in the plant and it's just not nitrogen just 01:03 doesn't come plant as nitrogen. It comes in as a nitrate, which is NL three, or ammonium, which is NH four, which is a positive charge. 01:10 Nitrates the negative charge. So when we get nitrate, which is typically the biggest one we get, uh, that uptakes into the plant is nitrogen 01:18 and nitrate form, it needs to be reduced into plant available nitrogen. So to do that, we need the nitrate reductase enzyme, 01:26 which is mo lived. Ofum is a part of that. So if we don't have a variety enough amount, amount of moley in there, we're never gonna get 01:33 that nitrate reduced into the end available, which we converted to protein. Which plant needs to do many functions throughout itself. 01:43 So that's the biggest thing we're learning. And it's been pretty cool to learn about and actually employ, um, using Molly as a, 01:50 as a foer feed on corn, soybeans, soybeans really are bigger 'cause they're such an end fixing, uh, end hungry plant. 01:57 Uh, they're legume so they really like it. So we need to process that nitro nitrogen continually, or the nitrate and, 02:04 and it's been fun to watch Pine Molly getting that response and seeing what we can use that micronutrient in small doses 02:13 and help us be more efficient. What moley does on, on a corn plant, we don't actually know. 02:19 But when you accompany mo with boron, those two things are very synergetic and we get a, we get a bigger response out 02:27 of the boron when we add the moley to it. Boron does a lot of different things in a plant. One thing that it does is it helps translocate stuff. 02:35 Well, that's kind of some of the same similarity things that Molly does in soybeans, but Molly and soybeans do something very different. 02:43 I found where when Molly and Boron are combined, it makes the boron more efficient. And that's the only time that I've actually seen a payoff. 02:52 But when we add the Molly and the boron together, we get a result. When we aid just boron, we get a result, 02:57 but the result's not quite as big. If we add just to Molly and nothing else, we don't get a result. 03:02 So we're thinking that there's a synergetic effect when we add those two together and it helps drag things into that plant. 03:09 So that's what, that's why we use boron. And by the way, we use boron all the time. If we can use micronutrients like Molly, iron, uh, copper, 03:21 uh, even a one that nobody talks about, cobalt is another micronutrient that's very well talked about. 03:26 They all help in that nitrogen processing. And once we start processing nitrogen efficiently, we don't need as much as we thought we did. 03:34 And you can look at these fields out here. They're nice and green, but they're, they're not deficient in nitrogen. 03:41 We can test you sample 'em and they say they're, well, we're pretty good range, but we're not processing it, right? 03:47 We call it affectionately. We're, we're fat and obese. They're fat and diabetic here. Uh, the plants, they look good, but they're not healthy. 03:53 So we need to process the nitrogen, make it do what it's supposed to do in that plant. And we use micronutrients 04:01 that are key in the enzyme reactions of that nitrogen processing of the plant. So that's, you know, when you, 04:06 when somebody asks if, how can you tell? Well, what we're learning is you can't, you gotta use certain testing methods to find that out 04:12 and then employ right products, um, to help that. Now what I'm trying to do on corn is instead of just adding boron, you know, 04:21 when we make a pass across the field, whether it's a foliar or pass or whatever else, I'm adding the Molly 04:26 and boron component and then I'm actually adding a little bit more boron to it. I'm helping drag more of that boron into the plant. 04:33 And that's how I use Moy on corn. 'cause there's not actually any proof out there that I have on my farms where when it's just by itself 04:40 that it actually gives me a positive ROI.