Soybean Compendium

The Germination Trigger.
 How do get a No-till stand in Kansas Soybean production.

Seed Row Saturation, Soybean Production. SRS reviewed at 20, 30, 40 and 50 gallons per acre of seed row water saturation with a 20 inch Deere planter.

What rate of water makes the difference in June Planting of Soybeans on sandy, high pH, eroded soils of the Great Plains?

At Wagon Bed Springs, Along the Cimmaron River of SW Kansas.

Right here within just a few hundred feet, is where Jeddediah Strong Smith, famous mountain man and guide, was murdered by the Comanche Indians in 1831.

The Dry Trail of the Sante Fe in the background.

Sandy and eroded Dust Bowl soils, with very low CEC are observed in the pivot corner in the foreground.

Adequate Machinery is required, 2,500 gallon trailer tank, and PD pumps with a good manifold and delivery method. Exactrix SRS tubes help.

Simple to set up, Looking Glass manifolds allow sectional control….application at 1% CV is critical for new germination materials like ZnSO4 and hydrogen peroxide.

Dual tubes required at 65 gallons per acre on 20 inch spacing. No splashing on the planter is allowed with MGPA.

PD pumps from Exactrix require less than 3 to 5 gallons per minute of hydraulic flow. The hydraulic flow control valve is key to using very little oil flow so the planter hydraulic circuits can work properly.

Exactrix systems do not use Pulse Width modulation, the system is the standard of the industry Load Sense with Pressure Compensation circuits. A power head valve is required to reduce oil flow to 3 gallons nominal per minute.

4 cylinder pumps are usable on 30 to 50 foot planters at maximum 50 gallons per minute. The pump actually over revs to 650 rpm at 10 psi maximum pressure. Double bypass is required.

6 cylinder pumps are useable on 40 to 80 foot planters at 70 gallons per minute. The pump is over reved to 650 rpm at 10 psi maximum pressure. Double bypass is required.

Looking Glass Manifolds handle high water flows. Allow sectional control, Line filters can be installed but are not normally required. Large final filters are not required so long as recommended stimulants, and certain commercial fertilizers are used.

At 40 and 50 gallons per acre the stands were up and going 3 to 4 days ahead of the 30 and 20 gallon rates of water per acre. June 19, 2017 a lunch time survey and discovery with Jay and Max McClure.

Seed Row Saturation, Soybean establishment, Hugoton Kansas. June 19, 2017, Dryland Soybeans at 40,000 population on 20 inch row spacing. Deere 1710 planter.

Exactrix® SRS Injection tubes.

Jay McClure and Maximillian McClure, the Max Man. Both young mean learned the value of SRS.

Rod Row Samples at 16.5 feet. A straggler is a plant that is just emerging and obviously well behind (9 to10 days) the soldiers of war.

Something did not trigger the germ properly producing a straggler. Ample SRS water was not the problem. The hard seed coat or a weak germ in the seed.

1. 50 gallons per acre. 23 plants and 1 straggler.
2. 40 gallons per acre. 24 plants and 2 stragglers.
3. 30 gallons per acre, 20 plants and 2 stragglers.
4. 20 gallons per acre, 19 plants and no stragglers.

Bad News Bears, Worst stand, Compacted traffic area, low water in SRS at 20 gallons per acre. 

This area was not used in the tests, but indicative of 2 problems at once. Poor stands could have been corrected with ample germinating water.

Being conservative on the water is not a good plan with field compaction, roads and unplanned weed areas in the field.

The costs to apply SRS is about $2.00 per acre, Hauling costs are anticipated to be minimal.

The weeds utilization of soil stored, germinating moisture can cause a blank out in the stand.

SRS works very well in Kansas conditions, and is applicable in Canola production 100% of the time, with ZnSO4 and other components of the germination trigger.

Scientific Notation

“The Osmotic Gradient is improved in the germination environment of the seed with SRS techniques”, “Thus soils with right amount of oxygen and water are aerobic (oxygenated). The result is conversion of starches to sugars which absorb water more readily to create a strong radical and coleoptile”.

Aerobic soils with adequate water in the germination zone (44% seed moisture) allows the radical root to rapidly elongate with a greater diameter and more turgor pressure for the Coleoptiles, the mystery is now a functional part of Canola and Soybean production, and Sunflowers. The soil must be aerobic or loaded with Oxygen and yet it must have about 44% water potential to the seed. This is another reason to experiment with Hydrogen Peroxide to help keep the zone oxygenated in case of heavy rains.

This is why irrigating the crop up does not work well because the seed is exposed to a flooded condition and the process is now anaerobic (no oxygen). The result of too much water is the critical dormancy enzymes (abscisic acid) are not oxidized in a flooded soil condition.

You can over-apply the water. Just enough water needs to be present to increase the seed moisture from 10% to 44% water in barley malting practices…Water can be excessive and no more should be applied to the seed than to maintain the aerobic wet germination condition for about 12 to 24 hours for Canola and up to 48 hours for large seeds like soybean. It is important to allow an air drying condition surrounding the seed row.

A combination of low humidity and just enough water to swell the seed and expose the abscisic acid to the oxygen in the aerobic zone is the goal. This also explains why a heavy rain after planting does not always produce good stands if the water puddles or stands in the row.

It has been demonstrated that during the imbibition of barley seed under aerobic conditions, the level of abscisic acid, a natural inhibitor of germination, decreases rapidly and germination occurs shortly thereafter.

However, if the seeds are imbibed under anaerobic conditions (flooded), abscisic acid is not degraded and the seeds do not germinate (Yamada, 1985).

The trigger is ZnSO4, the kick starter for the hard seeds, The purpose of the design is convert rapidly to sugars…much like malting barley in some respects. There may be other products (MnSO4) that help drive the germination process.


Too Raise Canola Well. Under warm to hot soil planting conditions from 60 degrees F to 100 degrees F and soils with low OM and low CEC an ideal tool, SRS, can be used to jump start Winter Canola into top yields. A 99% stand in 4 days.

Technical Documents for winter and spring canola growers.
http://agronomy.emu.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Vol15nr2_Nazari.pdf

 

Platte Valley Yellows Overcome, Dryland soybeans.
40,000 population at Hugoton, Joel McClure, Ferrilene, applied with Mustangs.

In Dust Bowl Soils and Difficult Weather Conditions
The Technology of Exactrix Breaks Through the Iron Cholorsis Problem.
The First Soybean Crop Ever on Limiting Soils Known for Iron Chlorosis.

This field wide technology was Mustang Pre-Plant Banded with TAPPS and Ferrilene was injected with a triplex flow splitter at the 2 inch level.

The rainfall has been well above average at Hugoton in August, but very dry at time of planting.

The Deere 1710 planter was SRS equipped and injected water only (No Ferrilene in row with the water). The SRS rate was at 40 to 50 gallons per Acre in 20 inch planter rows.

Water rates below 40 gallons per acre does not work well. The population is 40,000 with DeKalb, 4119.

This dryland field has never been able to raise soybeans, the field is located North Side of the Cimarron at Wagon Bed Springs in Sandy soil.

Seed Row Saturation (SRS) at 50 gpa. SRS results in 24 soybean plants in 16.5 feet, at 40,000 population on 20 inch row centers with a Deere 1710 planter.

Without SRS the dryland planting results were about 18 to 20 plants per 16.5 feet.

With SRS at 30 gallons per acre the plants were responsive.
For more information go to http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_09_2017.html

However the final analysis indicated in the one part of the field that 40 gallons to 50 gallons per acre was the minimum required.

Typically up to 75 gallons per acre is required in Palouse Soils on 20 inch centers with Dwarf Essex, Winter Rapeseed.

Up to 150 gallons per acre on 10 inch rows was highly successful in raising Dwarf Essex, Winter Rapeseed.

SRS on the Deere 1710 Planter. Provides the key ingredient to get the job done. Seed Row Saturation with Water at minimum 50 gallons per acre in these conditions.

Several products like K-Mag can be used in the planter row. Merchant Grade Phosphoric Acid (Green Acid)…diluted may work well.

Similar to Sugar Beets in getting good stands MGPA can be used.

The Ferrilene (Helena Chemical) was banded with the Exactrix® Mustang Tool Bar, not in row with the planter. The Exactrix® Tri-Flow Splitter was used to hold the Ferrilene at the 2 inch level.

In the irrigation production system the Ferrilene was VRT- Site Specific applied at rates of 1, 2 and 3 gallons per acre with the 3rd product metering and manifold, 2KP system.

Due to the high cost of the Ferrilene it was determined that VRT-Site Specific would work very well at a baseline rate of 1 gallon. A 2 gallon and 3 gallon rate was selected in areas of the field with more severe Iron Chlorosis problems.

The Soybeans have responded exceptional well in irrigation systems with a deep dark color providing a uniform field view of the DeKalb 4119 variety.

The Helena Chemical Co, Ferrilene applied in 20 inch bands.

The design is by Exactrix® for Mustang style openers that are indexed in GPS application for soybeans on 20 inch row center.

At 1 gallon per acre the Ferrilene cost is about $15 per acre, high retail, and well worth the investment.

The banding took place just prior to planting 4119 DeKalb, June 22, 2017, the crop was pre-plant banded 2 days before with TAPPS and Ferrilene.

A unique way to apply Ferrilene, An Exactrix® Tri-Flow Splitter, Allows the Iron Chlorosis product to be banded in the row area.

The planter pass on the 20 inch centers allows high accessibility on depleted soils, high pH and Calcareous, these are soils that need crop available iron to overcome Iron Chlorosis.

Pioneering scientists, AJ at KSU or Jim Talbert, Helena may be interested. Jay Goos at NDSU for sure.

Joel was not able to raise beans previously. This dryland field is at Wagon Bed Springs on the Cimarron River Channel, and This river channel is high pH and on the pre-historic riverbank of the Cimarron River.

Joel also has irrigated fields in the area that have been dual applied with Ferrilene and Exactrix Technology.

As Jim Talbert Says. "The most dramatic response I have ever seen is Ferrilene on Iron Chlorosis". 

Water was injected using SRS with a Deere 1710 planter at 40 to 50 gallons per acre. The soybean stand was very even and SRS improved the stand and made for even emergence at 40,000 population.
More information on SRS is helpful…On pivots Ferrilene is used also in the SRS application.

Top Soybean Yields, Corn Yields.

Exactrix Makes a Historical Jump (300 bu. a.) with Binary Banding, Deep and Vermiculated.
New Mustang Tool Bar has Great Plains and Hillside Features.

In 2017 Exactrix® owners applying TAPPS have $60 per acre advantage in dryland corn production and $150 per acre advantage in irrigated corn production.

Exactrix owners begin to challenge and exceed 300 bushels per acre of irrigated corn using $64.00 per acre of nutrients.

The Net Margin is improved 12% by investing 6% and no more than 12% of the gross income in nutrients using VRT-Site Specific application in 5 management zones.

In 2017 Soybean yields in SW Kansas were increased 45 bushels per acre with a $75 per acre investment in TAPPKTS with Ferrilene®.

Exactrix® TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators in Corn, Wheat , Soybeans and Cotton have giant production cost advantages with Yielder® Technology of 37 years.

In 1983, A $40 per acre advantage, No-tillage farming in the 80’s and 90’s was a powerful promise for families making profitable gains with Fertilizer Placement in Yielder® Paired Row.

“No Surprise, 35 years ago NH3 was the preferred form of nitrogen for farmers large and small.”

Good Old NH3, Remains the lowest cost and most crop available form of Nitrogen.

The early No-tillage years with the Yielder Drills and a technology focus on Anhydrous Ammonia made it happen.

Today in the 2018 production year single pass farming can be improved with Exactrix® Mustang Opener application. 

Each seed row gets its own No-tillage vermiculated band, or two Binary Bands of nutrients in preplant and in the growing season. 

Single Pass or Two Pass Exactrix TAPPS is much more powerful than planned with several serendipitous discoveries in 2017.

Two major points were discovered, fertilizing Soybeans and Winter Canola and stopping Iron Chlorosis. 

Mustang Openers with Exactrix® TAPPKTS formulators made the difference along with some good engineers and producers.

When you go looking for answers Exactrix will change your whole outlook on how to make nutrients efficient in No-tillage saving soil and moisture.

Yields jump and less is required with Rotational Band Loading in only No-tillage.

No-tillage Mustang Tool Bars have Yielder® Technology with each seed row receiving a liquid streaming flow at 1% CV application of nutrients at 7 to 8 inch depths. 

Roots develop deep and fast in Binary Banding and get a jump start at depths of 7 to 8 inches.

The developments at Exactrix® are most significant and in fact beyond the planned calculations in efficiency of nutrients.

In 2017 Great Plains producers will reach yield level 300 average bushels per acre with less than .5 lbs. N required to produce a bushel of corn.

Exactrix TAPPS, Binary Banding, Micro-nutrients and Vermiculation at 1%CV is promoting top performance.

Boss Approved by GJS in Series 3 TAPPS Formulator systems for 3 and 4 product delivery in VRT-Site Specific application.

The 7 x 7 dual rank, three section design allows for high speeds to 12 mph with Auto-boom. Placement of TAPPS and TAPPKTS at 12 mph by Exactrix high pressure injection systems. 

Banding Depth to 8.25 inch with No-tillage.

P-51CUE Mustang openers with 3/8 x 26.5 inch diameter blades extreme double edged with threaded TIO’s and 3 product capability using 85 lb. Gyro Counter Weights is $4,417 each.


Banding Depth to 7 inch with No-tillage.

P-51C Mustang openers with 3/8 x 24 inch blades, single edged, Press-in TIO’s and 3 product capability with 65 lb. Gyro Counter Weight is $3,829 each.

Here is a good video. https://vimeo.com/bandbvideo/review/162609745/b8a4c47ab2
P-51 Mustangs with Mustang high speed, positive down-pressure, tool bar work corn on corn at Shelton, NE.

This Mustang PD tool bar is ready from 120 to 160 inch gauge. The gauge is adjustable width lift assist to match up for specialty crops. Cradle mount clamps allow adjustment.

Super wide gauge for dryland hillside at 160 inches in combination with a modified Center of Gravity slide table. Step Center Mustang openers allow in line mounting with no frame set-backs.

Row widths of 20, 22, 30, 34, 36, 38, 40. Wing extensions can be installed for 35 feet widths using the 30 foot frame. And 45 foot widths using the 40 foot frame.

Binary Banding in band widths of 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 20.

Held on the planet with a Steiger 420 Row Track at 50,000 lbs. utilizing a 20,000 lb. 3 point. Great Plains B design allows functional performance to 45 feet in 3 section. Hillside A design is function to 35 feet.

Mustang 3 section tool bars with Positive Down-pressure. Parking position shown supporting up to 20,000 lbs. on the adjustable stands. Hydraulic wing cylinders are in frame mounted for open tool bar positions.

http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_09_08_2017.htm 

Binary Banding results in 100% access of Corn and Soybean roots at emergence. Immediate access to deep bands of TAPPS, TAPPKTS, and TAPPKTS with Ferrilene.

Previous approaches allows 15% of all corn and soybean roots access on 5 degree askew treatments at emergence.

Nutrients are trapped by growing roots. Adjoining T bands allow root access at V-6 and this positional availability is similar to side dressing treatment to further stimulate the corn plant.

The Open Center.

Top notch visibility of the tools, the engines and the NH3 trailer group is provided by Exactrix designers will multiple inputs from producers.

The Positive Down-pressure wings and good visibility of the openers allows operating speeds to 12 mph.

Swivel Hips of the Great Plains.

The true tracking design assures big corn side dress and pre-plant index banding of TAPPS and TAPPKTS with Ferrilene. The swiveling Mustang opener is super accurate mounted to the 7 x 7 tool bar.

The tractor steerage is indifferent to the opener since the Exactrix Mustang opener swivels.

Straight Frame, Articulated, Wheels or Tracks, A great chance for all tractor types to lay down bands in a GPS line control by auto steerage with this Mustang swiveling opener banding to 7 to 8 inch depths.

This Exactrix design is especially powerful in rolling compound angle slopes.

A Row Crop Dream Machine.

This swiveling design allows the planter to plant directly on top of Mustang Exactrix TAPPS Binary Bands…and also to side dress with an opener adjustment.

The tool bar sets the field wide pattern with programmed offsets of previous corn rows in true No-tillage residue management.

A typical Exactrix Mustang tool bar will accurately lay down bands for the planter in double widths.

Ferrilene® can be injected with Binary Banding to assure early and later season access to chelated iron by corn, soybeans, and milo.

A first real chance to increase soybean yields substantially and fertilize soybeans correctly.

In fact one of the most dramatic changes for want to be Soybean producers on the Great Plains.

The Ferrilene access by the roots is superior over planter applied.

Rhizobia can be placed in the seed row without damage from the Ferrilene.

Ferrilene® is available primarily from Italy and made available by Helena Chemical Company, Scott City, KS.

Kevin Medow at Seward Nebraska. A good Mustang video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuCAeCfBUnQ&fmt=37

What out competes N-serve® every time? It is No-tillage with TAPPS and TAPPKTS. It is No-tillage at Seward, NE.

Get the facts. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_03_11_16.htm

Fall November banding with Thio-sul® and KTS® stabilizing nitrogen in liquid streaming flows at 1% CV.

Micro-nutrients in Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS bands assure anti-biological activity of Nitro-bacteria and Nitro-ammonias.

These two bacteria are in charge of converting positive valence NH3 to mobile nitrite NO2 and nitrate NO3.

Avoiding nitrite release into the atmosphere is very important. It is about 200 times more technical than CO2.

You make it pretty tough on the non-functional bacterial bloomers by subtracting out a suitable environment in a very tight nutrient TAPPKS band.

Exactrix vermiculated bands assure highest level of nitrogen stability using Thio-Sul®, KTS®, Ammoniated Zinc and Copper Sulfate all of which are reasonably priced to the commodity.

Thio-sul® is the George Blanda of Crop Nutrients. The Grand-daddy of all nitrogen stabilizers when uniformly applied by Exactrix.

These common crop nutrients S, Zn, Cu are dual and triple purpose and are not overpriced to the cost of side dress like N-serve.

N-serve is tough on machinery and tough on people. Don’t get started with this nasty material, N-serve.

A big Dow marketing rip off for a very poor and unsafe product.

Surgical Cuts, Crop Safe, Vacuum Injection of TAPPS deep into growing roots of winter wheat at Marshall, MO.

What is liquid streaming flow and why is it so important?

Liquid Rhizobia, http://agproducts.basf.us/products/vault-np-soybean-liquid-inoculant.html 
Ferrilene, http://www.helenachemical.com/products/micronutrients-specialized-nutrition/ferrilene/  
DeKalb, Iron Chlorosis Tolerant Beans. http://www.dekalb.ca/soybeans/varieties  
Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators.  www.exactrix.com/EPM.htm
Exactrix Mustang Openers, www.exactrix.com/mustang.htm  
Exactrix SRS. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_09_2017.html  
KMS,  https://www.diamondkgypsum.com/pdf/Diamond%20K%20KMS%20Potassium%20Magnesium%20Sulfate.pdf  
Single Super Phosphate,  http://www.cropnutrition.com/single-superphosphate   
 

Exactrix Plots A Solution For The High Plains,
Iron Chlorosis of Soybeans, Corn and Milo.
 The Soils are different. This is not Iowa.

Why do soybeans need placed nutrients with
 Exactrix® Tri-Flow Injection to get Iron Chlorosis under control?

Why do soybeans need placed nutrients and Exactrix Tri-Flow Injection to get Iron Chlorosis under control?

The pH chart tells the story when soybeans are raised west of the Missouri.

Finding A Solution For Iron Chlorosis.

The availability of certain nutrients is greatly reduced and especially if the soils are cold and wet, loaded with salts, and have high pH. Note that NPKS, Zinc, Manganese, Iron, and Boron must be applied uniformly.

This is why 10-34-0 or Ammonium Poly Phosphate at a 10 gallon per acre rate is needed in combination with KTS® at 3 gallon rate. 

That is 13 gallons plus 1 to 2 gallons of micro nutrients need to be added in a vermiculated band.

Poly Phosphate application allows up to 3 to 4 lbs. of metals to be applied with the Phosphate. Zinc and Manganese are required with a small amount of Boron.

Crystallized TAPPKTS using NH3 is used to crystallize the PKS and micros. A small amount of around 15 lbs. N as NH3 per acre.

TAPPKTS plus micros are formed deep in a vermiculated band to the 7 to 8 inch depth.

Iron Chlorosis Resolved. The critical part of the discussion is Iron and how to get it to work in these soils.

A third product 2KP system is added with Looking Glass Manifolds and this 2KP system can meter small 1 gallon per acre rates of Ferrilene.

The product Ferrilene® is used and it is released in a 2 inch wide zone about 2 to 3 inches in depth.

Operating the planter directly on top of the band assures a soybean stand with Iron inclusive and very close to the row but not in the soybean seed row.

Iron in the soybean seed row damages Rhizobia that must be placed with the planter.

A very critical point is the planter must run directly on top of the TAPPKTS and Ferrilene band to get the great start it needs.

Wherever the Buffalo Roam. You will find high soil pH and calcareous and salty type soils.
Obviously the 40 million Buffalo preferred the Great Plains and this is what they left behind.
Soils in the 7.5 to 8.5 pH range that cannot raise good soybean crops but can raise certain grass species for migrating buffalo.

From no stand of soybeans to marginal stands the problem is often referred to as the Platte Valley Yellows or more commonly Iron Chlorosis.

Nutrients must be applied to raise soybeans in high pH soils that have accumulated salts and high nitrate.
Iron Chlorosis, A great problem for soil scientists to solve.

How to use Exactrix Mustang TAPPKTS &Micros, low CV uniform application with Ferrilene to solve this problem?

Approved techniques time proven by Exactrix, Producers, Helena Chemical…and KSU investigators with the help of TKI.

The Soybean Iron Chlorosis Territory Is:
Western Nebraska.
Western Kansas.
All of Colorado.
The River Valleys of Nebraska.
Oklahoma Panhandle.
80% of Texas.
The Red River Valley of the North.
North Dakota and South Dakota.

The most dramatic fertilizer response ever observed or reported in the last 50 years comes from Ferrilene®.

Thanks to Exactrix, Mustang Openers, TAPPKTS, Micros and precision Ferrilene® placement.

In combination with high quality soybean seed from DeKalb®.

General improvements in VRT-Site Specific Application.

Development of the Exactrix® Tri-flow splitter to release the critical penta-chelated Iron, Ferrilene® in the seedling emergence root zone.

The improvements are so dramatic that 20 to 30 million acres of rotational soybeans can be added to land.

Significant results are also being observed with Corn and Milo.

Here is a good example at 2,800 elevation in SW Kansas.

http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_31_2017.htm 

Exactrix Mustang P-51 C, Binary Banding with P and T bands makes this TAPPKTS technique work to the maximum level of performance.

Check out this recent discovery after years of oversight and planning. It will enhance your bottom line West of the Missouri River.

The technique with add 20 million to 30 million acres to the soybean rotation and at very economical rates.

http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_09_09_2017.htm

Liquid Rhizobia, http://agproducts.basf.us/products/vault-np-soybean-liquid-inoculant.html 

Ferrilene, http://www.helenachemical.com/products/micronutrients-specialized-nutrition/ferrilene/  

DeKalb, Iron Chlorosis Tolerant Beans. http://www.dekalb.ca/soybeans/varieties  

Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators.  www.exactrix.com/EPM.htm   

Exactrix Mustang Openers, www.exactrix.com/mustang.htm  

Exactrix SRS. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_09_2017.html  

KMS,  https://www.diamondkgypsum.com/pdf/Diamond%20K%20KMS%20Potassium%20Magnesium%20Sulfate.pdf  

Single Super Phosphate,  http://www.cropnutrition.com/single-superphosphate   

Uniform NH4, NH3 Pricing
Soybeans, Corn, Milo, Sudan, Iron Chlorosis, Platte Valley Yellows.
 Potential for July NH3 Price drop, More soybeans indicated.
 Low $125 per Ton, New Orleans, High $450 per Ton Iowa

From the Corn Belt to the Pacific Coast.  
Producers, university specialists, economists, and scientists report the changing times. 
Producer reporting gets the news current.  

• CRP interest is gaining, from 23 million back to 40 million acres it could easily happen to avoid an economic collapse. Set aside may be the first signal.
• Export demand for American Beef to China is in the slow lane based on regulations. The Chinese are unwilling buyers.
   
• Ethanol becomes much more competitive (GHG Emissions) over petroleum based hydro carbons. Higher priced oil is also helping as corn ethanol has a good price .
• ANWR opening could drive a bigger supply of NH3 from Kenai, Alaska. Washington State NH3 production is getting closer to the 2020 deadline.
   
• Existing CRP acres will go to pasture land as a simple solution to the economics in maintaining the breeding herd.  Producers with CRP in Southern Idaho regard CRP as good potential for grazing land.  
   
• Wheat acres are dropping.  Hybrid wheat is not viable. Hybrid winter wheat has never been viable on the Great Plains and creates a problem rather than solves a problem. Winter Wheat has high erosion potential with 90% of the erosion coming from winter wheat. These soils are a good place for CRP.  
• Hybrid Corn rotations are not maintaining growth and Exactrix says Less is More in VRT-Site Specific application of TAPPS and TAPPKTS.
   
• Soybeans are looking the best with 20 million more acres potential with Iron Chlorosis and Platte Valley Yellows under control at the end of the decade.
• Hybrid Winter Canola with SRS is a power play with a decade ending event of exponential growth.
   
• Residue gasification has failed for now, lack of good technology or poor conversion values generated by or from Obama DOE.
• Improved genetics winter and spring legumes are more attractive wherever wheat can be displaced. Spillman farm leads the way with ARS breeders.
• German diesel engine producers are working hard to delete the DEF with dual fuel bio-diesel. A big impact on ammonia pricing is coming.

“There is most likely a supply glut of NH3 coming, when is the question.”

“ No-tillage application of nutrients remains the only long term solution to soil productivity.”  

Ben McClure, Kramer Seed, Certified Wheat Seed Producers, at Hugoton, KS reports, Changes in Nutrient costs.
Supporting prices for micro-nutrients, Guy Swanson.

December 2017 pricing.

NH3 pricing dropped to $300 per ton from another vendor.
Ben McClure took it immediately, He had an empty 18,000 gallon storage tank to take the entire transport load.
The Load had been sent out with bad delivery instructions.  

NH3 transport direct to farm storage @ $385 .00 per ton. 23.4 cents per lb. of N.
Stranded Loads with on farm storage @ $300.00 per ton or 18.3 cents per lb. of N.

• 10-34-0 @ $340 per ton.
• Thio-Sulfate @ $250 per ton
• KTS @ $670 per ton.
• UPA Hugoton

Micro Nutrient Quotes for December 2017.

Iron Chlorosis Candidates.
Exactrix TAPPKTS-ZN with Tri-Flow injection of 5/6 chelation’s of Iron. 
Ferrilene at 3 to 4 gallons in VRT, Site Specific.
Scott City, KS Helena.
Hot Batch, Helena, $12 to $15 per gallon dependent on batch size.  

• Ammoniated Zinc. $1.10 to 1.25 per lb.
• Chelated Zinc, $4.50 to $5.50 per lb.
• Manganese Sulfate,____________.
• Merchant Grade Phosphoric Acid. 0-52-0_______.

Lowest delivered NH3 prices reported on the Great Plains for 2017.

July Delivery $220 per ton. 13.4 cents per lb. of N.
NOLA price $125 to $150 per ton, July. 

Inside the Kramer Seed/McClure document you will discover that an additional 12% to 15% margin has been going on for about 9 years.

You can review the attached Power Point presentation written by Ag Economist and Manager, Ben McClure.

Continuous Winter Wheat harvest at Lyons, KS, Averaged 100.2 bushels per acre in 2017. Exactrix TAPPS, Mustang tool bar applied by Mark Ricker, Wheat on Wheat.  

A winner in winter wheat production and every acre is No-tillage production by Mark Ricker, Pioneer dealer at Lyons, KS. Supported by Crop Quest, Mr. Jon French.  

Smaller NH3 plants are part of a new era in pricing and supplying NH3 to the local market.

Manning in Northern Alberta to Culiacan, Sinola, Mexico.  Get it done with big trucks at 14 pH NH3, high quality steel and diesel power.

In the west, you will find better quality and  wider highways built with basalt and glacial granitic deposits of hard rock, or a better rock utilized in construction over long distances?

Why Rocky Mountain Doubles in the West and Canada? 

Close to 17,000 gallons of propane or NH3 on 9 axles.
Rocky Mountain Doubles at the inspection station in Lehi, Utah, October of 2017.
The wide open west allows Propane or NH3 to be delivered from Colorado border westward at the 102^nd   meridian. 

Are older tanks better?

Pup Trailer Tank 5,195 gallons  built in in 1965 at South San Francisco by American Bridge Division, United States Steel  .435 Shell. Head ¼ inch min.
Semi-Trailer, Tank, 11,600 gallons. Built in 1977 at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Mississippi Tank Company, .383 Shell. Head ¼ inch min.

You can only be guilty of thinking too small.  Western landscapes and weather require more efficient deliver in a low population area.  

Low population areas must have low cost transportation across the west. A whole different approach to trucking as compared to the condensed or highly populated Midwest, Texas and California. 

South Dakota has even more axles allowed due to wide open spaces and low population.  

Up to 110 feet total overall length, at 81 feet of total trailer length, 13 total axles, and the load can be 155,500 lbs. A Special Permit required for Interstate 90 or 29. Get it done in South Dakota with 858,643 people that cannot be wrong.

Farmers get a 10% overload grace. That means 170,000 lbs. is legal at no more than 50 mph and within 50 miles of the headquarters.

A 10 axle machine at 18,000 gallons.

Nutrients in TAPPS and TAPPKS become more available at high (7.5 to 9.0 pH) and low pH (6.5 to 5.0 pH).

• The basic reason for TAPPS and TAPPKTS with Ammoniated Zinc and Manganese.
• High pH soils require Less to get More keeping calcium at bay improving P and K availability.   
• Low pH soils must have TAPPS and TAPPKTS to protect manganese and aluminum toxicity .
• High production alfalfa requires TAPPKTS preplant on 10 inch bands. NH3 improves the availability of P and K.
  
  
  
   

Going Expo in Alberta. An exceptional machine for exceptional conditions in Northern Alberta. Running strong in snowy conditions.   

• Three Exactrix Systems on board. 2KC, Series 3, Mass Flow, 2KM Series 3, Mass Flow, 2KR Blender.
• An exponential tool for CPS at Sexsmith, Alberta, Allows banding into grassland as well as pre-plant production for high value Spring Canola.
• High durability track cart has 4,000 gallons NH3, Twin poly tank for 10-34-0 and Thio-sul®, 12-0-0-26S.

• Thio-sul® is key to high yields and good proteins in Canola. Thio-sul® is the base material (10 gallons), The third product injection is low rates of 10-34-0(3 gallons)
  
  
   

Heart of Texas Tool Bar. A power play in Winter Canola. Lohn, Texas. 

Positive Down-pressure, Mustang Tool Bar. Construction is 7 x 7 with band spacing of 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 30, and 40.
The tools are adjustable for Binary Banding. 
The in-frame hydraulic cylinders are oversized for 45 feet of application width at 10 inch Mustang Opener spacing. 
The wing cylinders have a hydraulic weight transfer circuit to apply weight from the center section.  
Cylinders hold the tool bar in the smile position in the corners.  Frame depth wheel tires maintain stability at high speed.

Advanced Tool Bar designs.  Exceptional timing and delivery of Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS in all seasons.

• Rotational Band Loading and Binary Banding.
• P-51C Mustangs band deep and tool bar runs fast at 10 to 12 mph.
• Deep Banding to 7 to 8 inch depth.

Rotational Band Loading in only No-tillage.

From Cotton to Canola, Corn to Soybeans. Binary Banding provides seminal root access.

• Immediate access to nutrients at plant germination.
• A no-tillage power play. At highest levels of root colonization of NPKS stimulants and Ferrilene.
  
   

The next chapter in high production at lowest cost. Corn, Beans, Canola, Milo and Cotton.

Iowa State says, “It does no good to fertilize soybeans in Iowa.” Acidic soils for sure. 
Exactrix says, “It works every time in high pH soils. “ 

• Soybeans get a yield punch from Exactrix TAPPKTS Band Geometry and specialized chemistry for Platte Valley Yellows.
• The same tool can be utilized for wheat, corn, soybeans, cotton, alfalfa, and winter canola.
• Mustang Tri-flow deep banding openers in combination with a indexed tool bar. Pre-plant or in crop.
  
  
   

Directly under the growing plant. Nutrients must be placed in deep bands to 8 inch depth to assure maximum early access to TAPPKTS,  Ferrilene, Mn SO4, Rhizobia and Mycorrhizae.  

Soybean roots go deep to 6 feet but not very wide. About 10 to 20 inch wide.
The start is critical to go with deep 6 foot root program. Ferrilene, Manganese, TAPPKTS, Rhizobia, and Mycorrhizae are positioned for immediate plant uptake.

Directly under the plant, Binary Banding of TAPPKTS with micros, Rhizobia, Mycorrhizae solves the nutrient access problem. 

• Exactrix Binary Banding can produce soybeans in high pH soils. Producers can go where they could not go before.
• Platte Valley Yellows can be greatly reduced with Ferrilene, Manganese Sulfate, Rhizobia and Mycorrhizae.
• Exactrix recommends a 30 inch or 20 inch row design to concentrate nutrients and micro-biology.
• Tri-flow injection with Mustang openers.
• SRS can be used for Rhizobia, and Mycorrhizae.
  
  
   

Deep but not wide. Soybeans must have precision geometry to access nutrients and biologicals.
Proprietary Exactrix products make this happen.

Three farmer generated factors will solve the high nutrient cost problem.  

1. Better NH3 30,000 gallon storage Tanks.

2. Advanced NH3 application tooling will lower the price of all nutrients. Every large and third ammonia plant can be closed.

3. Producers can build their own ammonia plants locally. The pricing all starts with ammonia.

Note: The Achilles Heel.

The Big 4 must have rail delivery to compete with the small NH3 plants. The chances of the railroads retooling their railroad is nil to slim.

Rail delivery is a form of storage. Those who control the storage control the price. The dysfunctional NH3 pipelines are at risk with smaller plants on site making on time delivery. 

Barges on the Mississippi, Columbia and Snake River are the safest and most economical way to move ammonia.

Restraining delivery is a key marketing trick of the Big 4. FOMO, Fear of Missing Out works a marketing technique.

Creating false demand by holding back the supply since the storage of the railroad is gone. That means trucks.

Investments in barges could overcome a lot of economic problems. Meanwhile small NH3 plants in stranded areas make a lot of sense.

Smaller and new plants located more to the demand area provide a better marketing design as the railroads pull out.  Geneva, Nebraska. 2017 

NH3 at $60 per ton?       It is time to review a more competitive stance at $2.50 to $3.00 corn.  

Producers can take back control of NH3 as they originally had control in the 60’s to the late 90’s at 6 cent N.  

As one producer said, “Tell the hedge fund manager to leave us alone. Let us compete for the markets. It is about my margin that counts. It is not about their oversized Canadian margin”.  

Make it smaller, smaller is 75 ton per day, local NH3 plants that match transportation and delivery to your storage tanks makes more sense.  

Storage on your farm with a 1 year advance supply builds National structural strength in war time.  

Farmers must produce at the most efficient level in war time. This is a National Security issue.  

The cold war brought the issue to the forefront as grains were stored on farm sites for years in the 70’s and 80’s.  

The food supply is at risk with large ammonia manufacturing plants which are big targets for a marching army.  

The ammonia plants are a strategic target. Dilution of the target size and locations is very important. Bigger is not better.

Let the small NH3 plants compete and meet the nitrogen needs of the producer.  

• NH3 Storage with on Farm July fill-ups or around the year, when the price is right.

If NH3 storage tanks were installed on 50% of the farm acres the NH3 price would adjust as close as possible to the cost of production of NH3. 

In the meantime Exactrix owners get exclusive price breaks. NH3 manufacturers and wholesalers of NH3 know where the storage tanks are located on the landscape.  

• Redesigned NH3 Nurse tanks. The present NH3 Nurse tank design from the Coops is the throttle point.

• Applications at 10 mph at 60% of the university recommendation is possible with Exactrix designs and TAPPS, TAPPKTS with micros.

• It is possible to fertilize soybeans with NH3, APP, Thio-sul®, KTS®, AZn, Ferrilene, Manganese and addition of Rhizobia, Mycorrhizae.  
  
   

TAPPS Formulator 2KM Weigh Master.                                Liquid NH3 Injection, 2KC Weigh Master, Series 3. 

 Tri-Ammonium Poly Phosphate Sulfate or Crystalline TAPPS.

The Dysfunctional Fertilizer Manufacturing Industry is a mess without the TVA leadership.

Canola Compendium

Why Stick With It? News About Water.
 Dr. Noori, OSU, Imbibed Seed, SRS, Abscisic Acid, Wheat,
 Winter Canola. OSU, WSU, U of I, KSU, Dr. Noori.

Ninety Per Cent of the Erosion of the Great Plains Comes From a Winter Wheat Rotation.  

We are raising the wrong crop.
GJS.

Starting a winter wheat crop in the PNW Chemfallow rotation.  

A good chance for emergence in a No-till soil. A soil with a high CEC with excellent depth for storage of winter moisture.

Continuous Tillage through  the last 130 years provides most of the erosion on the Great Plains.  

The soil stores about 10% to 20% of the original carbon and cannot start a fall crop timely as it did in the early pioneering years.

Seed Winter Wheat deep, the more it is tilled the more difficult it becomes at Hugoton, KS.  

Getting a stand of winter wheat is difficult.  No wonder dryland corn is the backup plan and it is a better choice.

Winter Canola requires SRS for a 99% stand in 4 days.

Time for a better crop. Raising a better crop that is good for the soil and the pocket book.  

News about Water....all and before the Internet, ring your bell.
GJS 

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/3t945t78z?locale=it 

Iranian Student at Oregon State. F. Noori. A PhD in Water Injection, Winter Wheat In Tillage.  

On the plains of Oregon and in the Willamette Valley, the fall start of winter wheat can be difficult requiring special, HZ split Packer drills in heavy tillage, black fallow 2, year rotation wheat on wheat.   

The shallow soil areas of North Central Oregon cannot take much more tillage, since they had virtually no soil to begin with. Travel down highway 97 to Bend Oregon from the Columbia River, Somehow the Ash went right over the top of the Basalt Plain.   

So the intention was to use water to start the germination of winter wheat in black fallow systems...with a soil stored capillary moisture line that could not be maintained well in the germination zone in volcanic ash soils of the Cascade range.

In the Commercial Fertilizer Era, the Beginning of No-tillage in the PNW, 1973-75, the second very beginning.
Stationary Threshers, Horses and hoe drills,1928 was the true beginning.  

At Yielder/Pioneer, Mort and I had a long discussion with Lyle Nagle of WSU Agronomy Department.  We were trying to clean up a shallow soil farm at Palouse, loaded with cheat grass from 5 No-till years of top dressing Ammonium Nitrate in continuous winter wheat 1975 to 80.  

The top dressing drill was Old Yeller. This was a top dressing design and the Comfort King Drill was the copy of Old Yeller.  Since it was shallow to rock at Palouse certain fields were best in Perennial or winter crops.  

The farm was referred to as Granny's Pad. It was intended as a pig farm during the Great Depression. It was not meant to be farmed since it was way too shallow of soil type up against the timber of Palouse River Canyon, and did not have enough soil to 3 feet to store moisture in fallow.   

The Palouse farm (Granny's Pad) did not allow tillage since there were too many rocks and no place to store the 21 inches of rainfall. Similar scenarios are found South of the Snake River Canyon across Idaho, Washington and Oregon. 

Thus Winter Canola is a fit in the Blue Mountains of Oregon and was well proven by Lewis Key at Milton Freewater, Oregon.  

....We had a copy of this Nori paper when we went to water injection for Dwarf Essex, Winter Rape in 1983 to 1985.  

We fired up a friendship with the seed supplier of Dwarf Essex at Julietta, Idaho, George F Brocke and Sons, Dean Brocke became our coach on Dwarf Essex. 

The water injection program appeared to be way far out in left field for winter wheat, but for a July Seeding of Dwarf Essex it might work. 

Lyle Nagel at WSU had seen the paper.  

I directly remember the advance information coming from Oregon State.  I will source the paper from the OSU library.  

At WSU Lyle Nagel was a key scientist in the adaption to no-tillage farming in the 70's and 80's.  

He and Mort were best friends, Lyle had won the Silver Star in the Battle of Bulge so he was "big medicine". 

He was also a good skier, a former farmer and WSU weed scientist, (early developer of Stauffer Sulfasate and Glyphosate, sold to  Monsanto for peanuts)  and a director on the Palouse School Board, so Lyle had a big effect on the Swanson Family.  

Thus Lyle got us started down a good path. Note: 50 ml per meter of row water is the same as 2.21 gallons per minute per row of water at 6 mph.  

The water must be delivered into the row with no splash at .5 to 1 psi pressure of release. 

Two critical points that should not be missed...150 gallons per acre water is required on 10 inch and delivery at 1 psi in the row, keep this in mind when you start thinking an ordinary starter fertilizer system will work, starter fertilizer systems will not work. Since the pumps at 60 feet on twin row planter need to be 92 gallon per minute, most starter fertilizer systems do about 8 to 12 gallons per minute.  

Dr. F. Noori went as high as 70 ml per meter.  He is Iranian as near as I can tell, and maybe he went back to Iran to teach the Iranian scientists how to raise wheat and use water to imbibe the seed. Cannot figure this one out.  It would be interesting if Dr. Larry Stolskoph's discoveries from Iran are a fall out of the Oregon State, PhD thesis.  

Note that 50 ml of flow is the same as .013 gallons.

The tool to Inject Water.

http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_10_13_2017.htm  

At Exactrix, GJS and Joel McClure, we think about 1.5 gallon per minute per row to 2 gallon per minute per row is about it at Hugoton at 6 mph.  It depends on the soil, the temperature and residue.   The rate also depends if producers desire to get the full SRS effect which includes the dilution of Abscisic Acid. Budget 50 gallons per acre on 30 inch, up to 65 gallons per acre on 30 inch at worst conditions.   

In 1983, 84 and 85, our Yielder Drill 10 inch spacing, No-tillage seedings were all completed with a 20 inch deep band in paired row 5/15...at 150 gallons per acre. The seed germination requires a big cart or tank. The program requires is a lot of water and well worth it, a wonder crop with a good stand of a winter perennial in July over the eroded Palouse clay hilltops.  Most of the erosion coming from the plow. Man-made destruction of good land.  

Why did we stick with it? The water cost was totally insignificant as yields were 5,000 to 5,500 lbs., per acre range of Dwarf Essex Winter Rape. The crop was a cleanup powerhouse and established in July on a shallow soil depth.

So once again...the scientist was on the mark in a tillage system struggling to work, Dr. Noori needed a good practitioner to go make water injection work in totally different system and a different crop.  I am certain that no credit was given for the dilution of the hormone Abscisic Acid as SRS does with a small amount of Zinc Sulfate ( 3 to 4 ppm) enhancing the breakdown of the hormone.  

Water Injection or SRS (Hormone dilution effect) worked and it worked every time...and water injection was not required for No-tillage Winter Wheat with the Yielder design, but required for Winter Canola since the Chemfallow would lose the moisture line in July seedings.  

The Winter Rape Dwarf Essex must have an emerged stand in 4 days and 99% germinated and coming out the ground hell roaring in faith, that was the amazing discovery across the land. As soon as the seed went in the ground it was on a march to maturity no matter where it was located in the landscape, up and over the top. The plant must germinate in 4 to 8 hours and  SRS will dilute the Abscisic Acid which delays the germination. This is now called SRS or Seed Row Saturation.  

Certain soil types just required the extra water to get a stand of winter rape and  Winter Canola, the hilltops and areas where weed pockets of wild oats had harvested the moisture could not imbibe the seed. But there was more to the story….the hormone that was delaying germination could be diluted.  

It became obvious water injection(SRS) was going to work at the end of harvest the first year, we were geared up to clean out the grassy weeds with Dwarf Essex since we had a cheat grass control soil active chemical PPG 135, a dry flowable designed to take out grasses for about $2.00 per acre.  

PPG 135 was a powerful chemical.

Sprayed in late October and early November with soil temperatures hit 50 degrees F, a temperature sensitive soil active and a power play to take out he grass of all types. A spin off from pea production in the PNW. It allowed a spring crop to be planted if the Dwarf Essex froze out.    

The PPG, Pittsburg Plate and Glass material was economical and killed cheat grass, in fact all grasses as a temperature sensitive soil active selective herbicide.  Great Crops followed the Winter Canola/Winter Rape and we were on a roll with Dwarf Essex. PPG-135 was a combination of IPC and Sevin. The Sevin was a soil insecticide that delayed the bacteria from degrading the IPC at 50 degrees and less. 

The Sevin in the IPC, PPG-135 mix may have also helped with fall insects, that we today commonly see in Winter Canola. The PPG 135 was sprayed over the top of the growing plant.  

So the answers are there.  Just a little coaching  and SRS is going to be a real success story across the Great Plains and Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Utah as winter wheat fades away for now.  

Yielder Drills were the baseline machines that allowed No-tillage farming to develop in the western US, Canada and Spain. 

We have been raising the wrong crop.

Operating Instructions for SRS.
Dr. Noori. Iran. Water Injection, Controlled in Growth Chambers.

As a reference, 50 ml per meter of row is .013 gallons per meter or 3.28 feet of row.

• At 6 mph this is 2.126 gallons per minute per row or 161 meters of travel or  528 feet of travel.
• 1 acre per minute is 8.25 mph with a 60 foot planter with 24 rows on 30 inch centers.
• At 8.25 mph (1 acre per minute) this is 2.91 gallon per minute per row and this is 221.34 meters of travel or 726 feet of travel.
• This 6 mph at 50 ml per meter application is 50.4 gallons per minute at 60 feet width, 24/30 openers or .7272 acres per minute.

The nominal rate.
Testing showed about 50 ml per meter of row length or about 2.1 gallons per minute per row at 6 mph was a good goal.
At 50 ml per meter application is 69.3 gallons per acre.  at 6 mph at 60 feet at .7272 acres per minute at 2.1 gallons per minute of 30 inch row.

The high rate.
The parameter was set to 70 ml or about 2.94 gallons per minute per row at 6 mph  or .7272 acres per minute.
This 70 ml per meter application is 97 gallons per acre. 

Dwarf Essex water Injection 1983, 84, 85, Not SRS.
The Proven Rate in Palouse Soils in 3 years of testing over about 1,500 acres indicated that 150 gallons per acre was correct with 10 inch rows.   

The place to start with dual purpose SRS, H2O and 3 ppm Zinc Sulfate.
10 inch 150 gallons per acre,
15 inch 100 gallons per acre,
20 inch 75 gallons per acre,
30 inch 50 gallons per acre,
40 inch 37.5 gallons per acre.

• Since the application is No-till with capillary movement 50 gallons per acre has been selected for 30 inch row spacing.
• This is a row flow of 1.53 gallons per minute at 6 mph or 528 feet. This  is 36 ml per meter of row.

This is not a simple decision. What is the real cost of the Water? Will the Return be 10 to 30 times greater than the investment?
What is the minimum return anticipated? About $150 more net income with Winter Canola.  

• High Quality Winter Wheat Seed (Faro and Stephens) is not the same or even close to high quality, planter grade, Rubisco Hybrid, singulated Winter Canola Seed.
• The Cost of Water. Estimated at $5.00 per acre. The Cost to operate a planter at 90% of nominal acres per day.
• How to raise the efficiency of the planter to 98% level of efficiency as compared to no starter fertilizer system on the planter?
• Can the planter reach 98% level of efficiency with the correct equipment and personnel?
• It is estimated that the trailer of 2,800 gallons of water and up to 1,000 gallons on the tractor will require 50 horsepower or about .2 gallons per acre additional diesel fuel.

Factors that affect the correct in row water rate are:

1. Daytime temperature/night time or humidity or evaporation rate at altitude.
2. Windy weather.
3. Soil water holding capacity.
4. Soil type and CEC.
5. Residue protection,
6. Tillage System.
7. Areas of escaped weeds. Poor weed control.
8. The point of injection, No splashing, quick sealing.
9. The design of the planter opener, shank tillage verse offset leading double disc precision planter openers.
10. In Row Seed Spacing. .625 spacing verse 6.2 inch spacing. 10X.
11. Seed size, planter grade vs bin run.
12. Seed condition, coating and specie.
13. Hard Seed Coats?
14. High Abscisic Acid levels of certain seeds?
15. Support of the planter and the quality of the injection determines the water rate.
16. New developments in dilution and or flushing of Abscisic Acid.
17. New chemicals or hormones to stimulate the germination of winter Canola and other seeds.

Aspects of improved performance.

1. Always Check the seed with a 50% humidity test between towels.
2. Make certain the water delivery tubes are fine-tuned, will not splash and make a delivery at 1 psi on steep slopes on the Palouse.
3. Always No-till.
4. Raise water flow on truck roads and compacted soil areas.
5. Low residue means higher water.
6. Poor weed control means higher water.
7. Sandy soils mean more water.
8. Raise the water rate on low OM, high clay soils or hilltops.
9. Study hormones and Abscisic acid for improved germination.
10. Make certain you educate others correctly.
11. There will be failures by others that do not apply the criteria. Find out why they failed.
12. No attempt should be made if the stored soil moisture line does not exist or is too deep for a capillary intersection.

Here is what Dr. Noori has to say. Oregon State University, Doctors Thesis from 1979 to 1982.  

Stand establishment plays a significant role in the development and yield of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).

[1 Availability of soil moisture to the germinating seed is one of the most critical factors affecting stand establishment.

[2 Water injection is a method of applying supplemental moisture to the soil in direct contact with the seed by injecting small amounts of water into seed-zone at planting.

[ 3The purpose of this study was to evaluate water injection as a means of enhancing stand establishment by improving soil moisture conditions surrounding the germinating seed.

[4 Several water injection and combinations of water with liquid starter fertilizer treatments were compared with a check which received no water, under different soil water potential treatments in growth chambers and in field studies.

[5 Two soft white winter wheat cultivars, Faro and Stephens, were compared. In preliminary experiments water was added to the seed-zone of dry soil (-11 bars) at rates of 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 ml/m row in one experiment 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 ml/m row in another (soil at -15 bars).

[6 These treatments increased seed-zone moisture content immediately after adding water and the moisture remained higher for 9 days.

[7 Thus, it appeared that water injection should be effective in hastening imbibition by seeds.

[8 Subsequently, 40, 50 and 60 ml/m row water only and combination of each water rate with 5 ml/m row of a liquid fertilizer mixture, 10-34-0, improved stand establishment over the check under -11 and -15 bars soil moisture potentials.

[9 Higher concentrations of liquid fertilizer depressed germination and emergence rate.

[10 These studies were done in growth chambers.

[11 Water alone at rate of 50 ml/m and the combination of 50 ml/m water plus 5 ml/m 10-34-0 treatments, resulted in greater stand establishment, plant growth and yield compared to the check under -11 bars tension in 1979-80 field study.  

[ 12 Cultivars did not differ in stand establishment and plant growth due to water or water plus fertilizer injection.

[13 Both 20 and 40 ml water only treatments improved stand establishment over the check, but the 40 ml water/m row rate resulted in the greatest emergence and gave the highest emergence rate index under -11 and -9 bars tension in 1980 growth chamber study and 1980-81 field study, respectively.

[14 The 40 ml water/m row alone and the combination of 40 ml water/m row with low rates of fertilizer improved plant development, leaf P content and yield over the checks under -9 bars tension in 1980-81 field study.

[15 All three water injections at rates of 20, 40 and 60 ml/m in 1981-82 field study increased seed-zone moisture content, and improved imbibition, stand establishment and seedling growth over the check in fallowed (-6 bars) and non-fallowed (-8 bars).

Technical Products for raising soybeans in high pH using TAPPKTS and Ferrilene.
Liquid Rhizobia, http://agproducts.basf.us/products/vault-np-soybean-liquid-inoculant.html 
Ferrilene, http://www.helenachemical.com/products/micronutrients-specialized-nutrition/ferrilene/  
DeKalb, Iron Chlorosis Tolerant Beans. http://www.dekalb.ca/soybeans/varieties
Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators.  www.exactrix.com/EPM.htm
Exactrix Mustang Openers, www.exactrix.com/mustang.htm  
Exactrix SRS. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_09_2017.html  
KMS,  https://www.diamondkgypsum.com/pdf/Diamond%20K%20KMS%20Potassium%20Magnesium%20Sulfate.pdf  
Single Super Phosphate,  http://www.cropnutrition.com/single-superphosphate     

Compendium Nitrogen and Phosphate Efficiency

NUE Record Set at .5 lbs. N per bushel produced at Dalhart, Texas.

In the 250 to 270 bushel per acre range. 100 lbs. N to 200 lbs. N There Is No Difference in Yield.

Including N from 82-0-0, 10-34-0, 12-0-0-26S and 10-34-0 starter. 125 lbs. N total produced top efficiency.

All No-tillage with a manure history.

Previously over 300 lbs. N applied with the pivot.

 Millions of dollars of manure cannot compete with Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS with micros.

Over $150 per acre stayed in the producers cash position paying for the entire Exactrix system 2 times over in 1 crop year. 3,000 acres irrigated production, $450,000 additional net.

Where do the nutrients come from?   Documents included.  

The abrupt end of tillage, no manure applications and TAPPS is a powerhouse play.

Record Yields, Reduced Costs, Red Alert for Corn Producers.
Why Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS Is So Successful

The Three R’s from Exactrix, Record Yields, Reduced Cost,
 Red Alert, Nutrients Must Be Reduced for the Top 5% of No-tillage Agricultural Producers.

Why is Exactrix so successful?
Watch Exactrix Mustang banding at 8 mph in heavy corn residue applying TAPPS. Shelton, Nebraska, Gangwish Seed Farm.
(Channel and others, formerly NC+), Click Here For Video

Quinter, Kansas, Winter Wheat Stripper Stubble gets the Exactrix Mustang TAPPS banded deep at 8 inch depth in August 2016 for spring 2017 Corn Production.

Stabilized TAPPS Nitrogen evens up the work load for top yields when combined with snow.
P-51 C Ultra Endurance, Banding Deep with Mustang P-51CUE in 26.5 inch diameter.

Why can Exactrix owners, producers and agronomists say? “Over any other approach or system, Exactrix delivers $60 to $150per acre more net income in irrigated Corn.” 

The highest volume of Exactrix equipment is in Kansas and Nebraska because the nitrogen is 166% more crop available and the phosphate is 200% more crop available.

TAPPS or Tri-Ammonium Phosphate Sulfate is an 8.5 pH crystal that provides yield punch at a reasonable cost with 1% uniformity of application.

The effectiveness of Phosphate is 200% greater when Exactrix TAPPS is reacted in liquid streaming flows with Anhydrous Ammonia.

Micronutrients are up to 10 times more effective when ammoniated in homogenous bands of Ammonium Poly Phosphate 10-34-0 and Thiosul® 12-0-0-26S. Complete metals package is recommended with Exactrix APP/Thio-Sul/KTS and simple ammoniated micros.  

Exactrix irrigated producers in Nebraska and Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, and the Dakotas expect $60 to $150 more net income per acre with Exactrix TAPPS.

West of the Missouri, there is more continuous Corn and or a Milo rotation (soybeans are reduced) which also drives higher utilization of Exactrix TAPPS using Rotational Band Loading and Making P more efficient with less N required. 

Quite often the rotation can also be changed and single disc openers at high speed can be used.

Here is an Oct. 26, 2016 P and K report in Soybean and Corn Digest as reported by Pioneer.

TAPPKTS appears to be successful in sandy soils of SW Kansas. Thus, Some K as KTS is needed in the SW Kansas.

Outstanding Phosphate Efficiency,

Nothing else competes at 500% more efficient than the next best approach.

Finalized at .14 lbs. P per bushel.

Watch Soil Test P go up in No-tillage and Rotational Band Loading.

In tough weather conditions, wind, a 10 inch snowy cover of a planted crop, early start freezing weather with Pioneer 1197 and 1828. The difficulties of 2017 were expressed in less than 300 bushels per acre.

What about the Phosphate Recommendation for 250 bushel corn or the PUE, Phosphate Use Efficiency.

The Exactrix PUE was set a 35 lbs. P or .14 lbs. P2O5 or Phosphate.

Phosphate as 10-34-0 as 9 gallons total with 3 gallons Thio-Sul®.

There was no positive to response to phosphate placed at 2x and 4x rates. Up to 140 lbs. P did no good.

Testing with the Dalhart Double Down showed no advantage to elevated rates of P, S or N.

Big or Small when the margin is close the number 1 reason producers change to Exactrix is more net dollars. PG Farms Track Applicator at 61.25 feet. See Video

When the margin is close Exactrix is the answer
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota producers

If you are in the soybean rotation and use tillage or use manure here is another approach at 140 lbs. N per acre producing 278 bushels per acre in 2016 with Pioneer 1197. Rick Engelmeyer, Tillage system with manure. Click Here For Video

April 2017 at Dalhart, Texas on the XIT. Just before the severe winter storm Ursa, April 28, 17, 20,000 cattle dead from severe storms of the Great Plains.

Cody Cover starts a new Exactrix Mustang Banding TAPPS machine. Oats are March seeded for cover at the field lands.

Time for Training on Mustang Tool Bars operating at field speeds to 9 mph in No-tillage banding.

Saving millions of dollars over your farming career with Exactrix TAPPS and No-tillage production of commodity crops.


Watch the Mustangs run strong in heavy residue.
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The last year for tillage was 2016 in sandy soils. Running Deep and Fast, Moving into No-tillage farming at Dalhart, Texas. 2018 will be the first No-tillage crop. Manure has been replaced. No-tillage or Tillage Mustang Openers get it done.

Training Videos are available at www.exactrix.com/EOYT.htm

More news about Relay Intercropping at www.exactrix.com/RI.htm

Nitrogen Stabilization, Thio-Sul® is as good or better than N-Serve®. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_03_11_16.htm

Mustard and Fumigation at WSU, U of I subject web page at www.exactrix.com/FM.htm

Terminate your Cover Crop Early. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_03_11_16.htm

TAPPS and TAPPKTS at www.exactrix.com/TF.htm

For a good overview of banding deeper go to Center Pivot Corn Production

Need more historical reference of Exactrix Global Systems? Go to www.exactrix.com/EWAC.htm

The first pass is polishing off the paint line of the Mustang blades of Dalhart, Texas.

Banding Deeper in No-till without tillage with Rotational Band Loading. www.exactrix.com/mustang.htm

Need more information about STEEP test plots and how Exactrix performs? Go to www.exactrix.com/mcclure.htm

See Video How TAPPS and TAPPKTS Changed a Kansas Farm. A KSU Ag Economist gives a good review.

Meeting your formulation needs. www.exactrix.com/TF.htm

Fall Banding into twin row corn residue and SDI. The planter is 15 inch average rows. The field moves right back to corn.

Picking your metering systems. www.exactrix.com/EPM.htm

Need more information on advanced crop production? Go to www.exactrix.com/EWAC.htm

Fall banding at Garden City, KS.

Nutrients hit the deck on steep slopes at Sunset, Washington, November 2016

TAPPS application with Deere 1890 set up for Fall Banding for 2017 Spring Wheat at St. John, Washington.

Irrigating a cover crop or raising winter wheat under irrigation never competes with irrigated Winter Canola with Mustang TAPPS and TAPPKTS side dressed into the growing crop. Winter Hardiness is greatly improved with Ammonium of TAPPS and TAPPKTS.

Cover crops are secondary in benefit to the rotational advantage and the ultra-cleanup power of Winter Canola with good cash flow.

April 28, 17, Hugoton, Kansas, Hybrid Winter Canola, Rubisco, Hornet, Cover cropping has very little merit when producers can raise a profitable Winter Canola crop that provides 10% and greater yield punch to the following crop.

Extending the rotation up to 3 to 4 years adds soil health and lowers input costs when winter crops can be produced. Cover cropping is not required.

Irrigated and Dryland Great Plains producers have a solution to low commodity prices using Mustang Openers and Planters to raise Winter Canola.

A typical Exactrix Mustang tool bar will accurately lay down bands for the planter in double widths.

Ferrilene® can be injected with Binary Banding to assure early and later season access to chelated iron by corn, soybeans, and milo.

A first real chance to increase soybean yields substantially and fertilize soybeans correctly.

In fact one of the most dramatic changes for want to be Soybean producers on the Great Plains.

The Ferrilene access by the roots is superior over planter applied.

Rhizobia can be placed in the seed row without damage from the Ferrilene.

Ferrilene® is available primarily from Italy and made available by Helena Chemical Company, Scott City, KS.

Kevin Medow at Seward Nebraska. A good Mustang video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuCAeCfBUnQ&fmt=37

What out competes N-serve® every time? It is No-tillage with TAPPS and TAPPKTS. It is years of No-tillage at Seward, NE.

Get the facts. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_03_11_16.htm

Fall November banding with Thio-sul® and KTS® stabilizing nitrogen in liquid streaming flows at 1% CV.

Micro-nutrients in Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS bands assure anti-biological activity of Nitro-bacteria and Nitro-ammonias.

These two bacteria are in charge of converting positive valence NH4 to mobile nitrite NO2 and nitrate NO3.

Avoiding nitrite release into the atmosphere is very important. It is about 200 times more technical than CO2.

Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS makes it pretty tough on the non-functional bacterial bloomers by subtracting out a suitable environment in a very tight nutrient TAPPKTS band. A very narrow diffusion zone is the result with Mustang openers.

The Exactrix TAPPS diffusion zone is ¾ inch in width as compared to the old fashioned 6 inch wide pressure reducing NH3 application.

Called the bow tie application which is tough on soil and soil life.  The tillage approach with NH4 is deep and wide. As tested by Dr. John Moraghan at NDSU and reconfirmed with Exactrix Wing Injection.

The power of concentrated nutrients at reduced rates hold the bacterial bloomers at bay delaying their home-life. A  vermiculated band allowing crop roots to penetrate in a dilute zone.  Improved targeting for all crops in rotation.  

Exactrix vermiculated bands assure highest level of nitrogen stability using Thio-Sul®, KTS®, Ammoniated Zinc and Copper Sulfate all of which are reasonably priced to the commodity.

Thio-sul® is the George Blanda of Crop Nutrients. The Grand-daddy of all nitrogen stabilizers when uniformly applied by Exactrix.

Get the exclusive pH shift of Exactrix TAPPS, TAPPKTS band.

These common crop nutrients S, Zn, Cu, Mn are dual and triple purpose and are not overpriced to the cost of side dress like N-serve.

N-serve is tough on machinery and tough on people. Don’t get started with this nasty material, N-serve.

Thio-Sul® and KTS® are much more effective with 1% uniformity and thorough mixing with NH3 forming TAPPS and TAPPKTS.

Surgical Cuts, Crop Safe, Vacuum Injection of TAPPS deep into growing roots of winter wheat at Marshall, MO.
An ideal tool for cattlemen raising wheat for stocker/feeders.

What is liquid streaming flow and why is it so important?

Banding into growing winter wheat is a big solution for cattle grazing of winter wheat. 

Double Yields from one crop can be greatly enhanced.
Wheel Tracks on the left indicate the NH3 trailer is a single 1,450.

Winter wheat gets Mustang Treatment with Exactrix TAPPS at low rates of 8% to 10% of the gross income.

Dale Bathurst at Abilene, KS.
An amazing view and the “Last Pass.” Mustang Banded on Both Sides.
This is a lift assist, Mustang, 30 feet on 15 inch band spacing at 7 inch depth, towing a 1,450 gallon NH3 tank.

Thio-sul® exceeds N-serve in yield and cost with Exactrix TAPPS, Uniform Chemistry.

Shipping, Following testing.
2KM, Formulator of TAPPS, Sparging Reflow Blender.
Season Long Filtration.

2KC Series 3, NH3 Mass Flow Weigh Master, Balanced Nutrients, 2KR, Blender or 2KP, Looking Glass, Ferrilene.

Liquid Rhizobia, http://agproducts.basf.us/products/vault-np-soybean-liquid-inoculant.html 
Ferrilene, http://www.helenachemical.com/products/micronutrients-specialized-nutrition/ferrilene/  
DeKalb, Iron Chlorosis Tolerant Beans. http://www.dekalb.ca/soybeans/varieties  
Exactrix TAPPS and TAPPKTS formulators.  www.exactrix.com/EPM.htm
Exactrix Mustang Openers, www.exactrix.com/mustang.htm  
Exactrix SRS. http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_08_09_2017.html  
KMS,  https://www.diamondkgypsum.com/pdf/Diamond%20K%20KMS%20Potassium%20Magnesium%20Sulfate.pdf  
Single Super Phosphate,  http://www.cropnutrition.com/single-superphosphate   

Your Great Plains Reporter,

Guy Swanson.

John Cory Security West Financial

Call your new banker, John Cory, Security West Financial. http://swfinco.com/contact.html   (509) 994-8555 You can go off the balance sheet and work with the best using the strength of Farm Credit and others. John will help you spend about $40,000 annually to make $150,000 more annually by spending only $60 per acre in irrigated production for fertilizer. John understands the cycles of agriculture and how to keep your balance sheet looking good. At the end of five years you will own a powerful machine that continue to produce good returns having already been paid for at the end of the first year.  You can even apply for your neighbors with a Mustang Tool Bar. At 1,000 acres of corn, An internal bottom line savings of $750,000 over five years on 5,000 acres of corn.   An Exactrix Mustang Tool Bar capable of producing $550,000 of internally available funds in five years.

See Video
Top yields, best margin and the new leader in VRT-Site Specific, Small Grains Expert. Eric Odberg at Genesee, Idaho breaking winter wheat yield records. Exactrix TAPPS at Catholic Canyon using 4 management zones. Exactrix Site-Specific, Variable Rate EO.htm	"Paul Gangwish, Drone Video" Track Machines improve production 200%. Application time cut in half at 1 acre per minute. Up to $150 more net income per acre.

The 2017 Agronomy Review.
http://www.exactrix.com/Broadcast_12_29_2016.html