00:00 You know, the question arises a lot. Why do we fo your feed crops? You know, isn't that a snake oil? 00:05 Shouldn't you put everything down on the ground? You know, you're planning to take everything up from the roots and, uh, you know, for the most part that's true. 00:12 But I'm gonna show you something today, and I come out here to find one of the spots that I knew was in pretty rough shape. 00:18 This is one of the worst spots I've seen in the, in, probably in my fields in my career. But, uh, when we talk about foer feeding, 00:25 so this particular field here has two tons of litter on. It was put out in the fall at about a 70 pound per ton 00:33 analysis on the pot ass. So 70 pounds times two is 140 pounds. 140 actual units of potash. 00:40 That should be enough to grow any crop, right? Well, sometimes we have problems with the soil applied type fertilizer 00:46 getting into the plant. You know, we talk about this a lot. You know, we manage plants, we manage 00:51 what we can get into the plant, not necessarily what's in the soil. And you see this cotton plant right here, 00:56 and that's about as bad as it gets right there. Well, what it is, it's, it's a, it's deficient in potash. I can show you some, you know, some leaves. 01:05 It's a telltale sign when the leaves start turning red and the bracks on the cotton, on the cotton bowls start turning red. 01:12 And what that is, is a sign of potash deficiency of all the places that should have a potash deficiency. This should not be one of them 01:19 because it had two tons of litter, 140 units of, of potash out here. So at the, at that point, there's a lot of foyers 01:27 that you can use, um, you know, to take care of that. Now, we put the micro packs on here. We've done everything that you could do to this cotton. 01:35 And if you look behind me, you know, we're standing in a, in a, well, it's probably about 10 01:40 or 12 acres here that, that has a bo potash deficiency behind that. Everything looks good. This is a red dirt, uh, 01:47 really thin soil that's not very fertile to begin with. So sometimes you have to subsidize that with a foer. K fuel is the product that we used here 01:56 to try to bring this back. And I, and I understand, you know, here that you can't see it, 02:01 but I'll, I'll give you some, some, some places where you know, where you can see it. Now, this soil was already probably past the point 02:09 of no return before we got to that point. But, uh, you know, a foer is, is a foer feed in cotton is very important thing to do. 02:16 We also do it in rice, we do it in soybeans and every crop we have. But this is just an example of what, 02:22 what happens when you think you've got enough potassium for a crop and then you get in some of these soils and these are just little pockets in the field that, 02:31 that just don't make that work. Now we're standing in the field, you know, that where we applied the same amount of K fuel as we applied 02:37 to the spot I was just seeing, and you can see the size of the plants here. You know, they're right here about my, almost 02:43 to my neck bowls all the way up and down. So my point here is, you know, I showed you, you know, this is probably 95% representative of the whole field. 02:52 This is 160 acre field, and this is probably 95% of the representation of the field. What you've seen was 02:58 Worst case scenario, but if we hadn't applied the K fuel to this field, I think some of these, you know, some 03:05 of these better spots would look the same way. And like I said, we've got, we've got 140 units of potash in this field 03:13 and we still didn't have it to get to the plant. So, you know, fold your products. You wonder why we fold your feed 03:19 cotton or we fold your feed. Our crops when we do cotton and rice are one of the things 03:23 that are more receptive than some crops. But we have the same reactions with the, uh, corn and the soybeans that we have with the cotton and the rice. 03:31 But, uh, if you wonder why we fold your feed our crops so much, this is what you've seen, the terrible spot you've seen the better looking spot. 03:38 And I think these spots here would look more similar to those spots had we not put the, put the foe your feet out or the, you know, the k fuel out. 03:47 So always watch your tissue samples, you know, or, or watch your ground, you know, it's symptomatic. You can see if you've got a pot potash deficiency in cotton, 03:57 you're gonna see it by the red tent. And so, you know, not only tissue samples, but just walking through your crop and looking at it and, 04:05 and noticing some of the deficiencies, fertility deficiencies that you should have or could have, you know, as important part of, 04:11 of the farming year.