00:00:00 So we're gonna talk about the results that we had. This is our second year in this trial and as y'all have followed us, you know 00:00:06 that we like seeing a couple years of data before we can move it across the farm. Generally we'll add a few more acres to it each year 00:00:14 and then after about three years, we'll just go ahead and make it a grower standard if it makes some profitability in yield for and uh, the yield's nice 00:00:22 but profitability's where it's at. And these are pretty tough economic times on the farm right now with low commodity prices. 00:00:28 So, uh, what we've done here, one of the issues we run into is zinc. We really need more zinc in, uh, in that corn plant. 00:00:36 It's zinc is the candy to microbes. The, the microbial activity loves zinc and they feed on it. And what you do is you create a healthy environment around 00:00:46 that corn plant and the roots of that corn plant just get much bigger. If you remember last year in our trial, we went 00:00:52 and dug some plants with and without the zinc adding the quart. Now, now remember this zinc's being added on top 00:00:59 of my regular grower standard program that I've got some zinc in that micro pack, but apparently I'm not putting enough in there 00:01:06 that it's needing a little bit more for our soil types. So it was pretty dry year this year. The yields weren't that great, 00:01:12 but the fact was that's the card that Mother Nature give us. So we gotta make money with what we get. 00:01:19 And so we carried it all way last year. We didn't put enough replicated strips across the field to have multiple areas to know, okay, 00:01:29 did this or did this not pay? It looked like it paid, we felt like it paid, but we just couldn't a hundred percent go to the table 00:01:37 and say, no doubt about it, black and white. They as a positive ROI adding this product in Piedmont, North Carolina. 00:01:44 So what we done was we made 4 24 row passes all the way across the field and those were with our grower standard. 00:01:55 And then the rest of the field was planted with one quart of Z nine from concept agritech 00:02:02 and the compatibility with all the components we put in there, there was zero issues, it mixed grate, easy 00:02:09 to clean the jugs out, uh, quarter of acres, easy use rate. I'll probably be buying a tote of it next year 00:02:16 because this is two years now I wanna get some more acres on a wider scale. Now what we've seen, this is our first 00:02:22 grower standard pass right here. We got some pretty good girth. This was planted at 22,000 00:02:28 'cause we knew that it was gonna be dry and it was planted later in May and that's why we even made it 00:02:34 to a hundred bushels an acre or more. The corn planted before May in North Carolina. A lot of it, a lot of it didn't get harvested. 00:02:40 We had a really tough year. But what we ended up with on this one right here, this grower standard number one was 131.25 bushels an acre. 00:02:52 So then we went to the zinc one quar of zinc added, which is number one Z nine. We was at one 40.18, so 00:03:01 that's a positive 8.93 bushels an acre. I will tell you, I don't believe you're going to get that. The way the field laid, that was a little bit 00:03:09 of a low area in the field and I really believe that had a lot to do with. So the very next 24 rows, we was at 1 44. 00:03:18 And so when you look at that, you know our grower standard was better than our Zeke, right beside it, our Z nine. 00:03:26 Well then we go on across the field to the next pass and uh, we're at 1 37 0.7, so we're off at 1 44. We was right in that low place. 00:03:35 When you look at the yield map, you look at the soil map that is the real good dirt in the field. 00:03:41 I'm sorry, but our fields is very variable. They're not the same. So when, that's why we need multiple checks. 00:03:46 So now we're going to go over here to the number three grower standard. Then we drop down to 1 34. 00:03:54 So then we're at a three and a half bushel yield advantage. And then the next pass we was at 1 36 0.25. 00:04:01 And then our next zinc pass was at 1 44. At the end of the day, if you look at the average across the whole entire field, the zinc added us about 00:04:10 four bushels acre. I'm pretty confident with that because you know, it is a 16 acre block and again it was striped all the way across the field. 00:04:19 So the blue areas represent the grower standard and the yellow one is the zinc trial. So that's how we measured it. 00:04:27 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way across the field with and without out. Again, why are we using it? We are feeding them microbes. 00:04:37 Why did we see a yield response two years in a row? We was dry on a farm last year this past year we was very dry this season. 00:04:47 Extremely high heat, about 40 days with no rainfall and that big root mass at that microbial activity helped built them roots on those 00:04:58 corn plants is what made the difference right here is we had it had more area to pull nutrition in and try to sustain. 00:05:08 So I encourage you don't overlook what zinc can do for you. Z nine concept agritech. 00:05:16 I'm glad they allowed me to try it for a second year and I will tell you I'll be using more of it across my farm this coming year. 119 00:05:22.935 --> 00:05:23.365