Winter Malt Barley Stand Evaluation: Optimizing Crop Decisions

00:00:00 Hey everybody. What's going on? You know, they say the best thing for a crop is the agronomist or the farmer shadow. 00:00:07 Here we are. We're out here in the malt barley field in southern Idaho, end of January, 2025. Just trying to do a little stand evaluation. 00:00:17 We've got some specifications of what this stand was when it went into winter because it's so open. 00:00:23 We don't have any snow cover. We're trying to evaluate now to see if we're losing any plants to winter stress cold, 00:00:31 maybe pathogen attack. So we're out here just doing some stand counting, seeing what kind of stand we have 00:00:37 and what our production possibilities might look like. While we're here identifying some weeds, we got a little red stem fillery. 00:00:45 We got a little yellow mustard. Start getting the dynamics in place so we can start making the right decisions for this crop. 00:00:52 If you guys aren't doing this now, might be wise to take a look at what your crop is. 'cause we see from time to time 00:00:58 where there's a massive shift in plant stand from fall to winter to spring green up. Good outcomes are managed by good input data, 00:01:07 and that's what we're trying to do today, is collect the right data so we can make the right decisions. 31 00:01:11.635 --> 00:01:13.765