Nutrient cycle

So your biggest concern should be mining carbon out of that soil.

When you experience biological mineralization, what you're also experiencing is potential carbon loss if your crop is stressed or or your crop is not absorbing that CO2 from open stomata, again, mainly from stress usually, then you're going to mine carbon out of that soil and that overall is going to lead to less nutrient cycling, which also leads to less nutrition found in various different pools, right? So in that case, you might see a soil that has a low Bray or Olsen test simply because you actually have less cycling going on in general.

So you have less measured in that form because there's less mineralization, right? So at the end of the day, the number one concern of a farmer should be how bad do you mind the carbon out of the soil? That's something that's measurable easily.

And it's something that drives the largest influence in yield far beyond nutrition, right? That data set from 50,000 acres that you guys gave me, right? So there's a yield maps overlaid with soil tests.

But I still think it's just that availability of it.

If that crop's hungry for potassium, there's a much higher opportunity that you're going to have it available when we get the residue broken down, when we get that nutrient cycling kick-started.

And then down there at the bottom, right, a 200-bushel corn crop can leave four to five tons of residue, well over 100 pounds of K2O an acre sitting in the field.

And so let's put, you know, putting those numbers to it, I think helps, you know, realize the value of what our residue is.