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other words, soil pH, NPK, micronutrients, base saturation, sulfur, sodium, soluble salts, excess lime, um, everything that we're looking for.

Yep.

So that's part of the question.

So this caused a huge spike in our emissions simply because the farmers didn't necessarily have enough money to spend on good fertilizer to use on their crop.

This doesn't just impact the emissions profile, it also impacts the crop because the fertilizer is less complete.

So maybe they're just using a straight urea versus the standard fertilizer, which is an NPK, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, which is giving the plant a lot more nutrients than just urea.

It's like...

if you're eating just potatoes for three months or if you're eating potatoes, veg and meat, you know, it's like that.

Our next conversation is with Mr.

Fertilizer himself, Josh Linville, the director of fertilizer at StoneX.

Josh, thanks for talking with us today.

Hey, happy to do it, man.

The longer you wait, the harder it's going to be to get those tons in place when you need them.

Start those conversations.

Josh Linville, Director of Fertilizer with Stonex.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

And then of course, all of the other nutrients that are required by plants.

So NPK for sure.

And then all the way down through your secondary and micronutrients gives an agronomist a full picture of what that looks like.

A lot of guys focus on just that NP and K, but hey, boron might be a limiting factor.

And while most of us spend considerable effort keeping animal poop out of the house, gardeners have been known to actually pay money for this stuff.

Why? Because bat guano can be a concentrated natural fertilizer.

Bat guano contains the three major nutrients you see on a fertilizer label, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium or NPK.

But here's where it gets interesting.

Not all bat guano has the same nutrient levels.

The nutrient content varies depending on the bats, what they've been eating and how the guano has been processed.

Commercial products can therefore have very different NPK numbers.

For example, one commercial sold bat guano fertilizer is labeled 7-3-1.

And then of course, all of the other nutrients that are, uh, required by plants.

So NPK for sure.

And then all the way down through your secondary and micronutrients, uh, gives an agronomist, full picture of what that looks like you know a lot of guys focus on just that NP and K but hey boron might be a limiting factor zinc might be a limiting factor and And even those levels and how they're imbalanced with other nutrients, I mean, you can have a good decent zinc level, but if your phosphorus is super high, that might throw some balance issues off there and we need to address that.

And so that complete soil test gives an agronomist a good picture of what's going on and how to address those issues on each particular farm.