#83: Turn Residue into Revenue: Setting Up Next Season Now

So a quick rundown of Meltdown.

This one's not going to be long.

We're not going to go an hour, hour and a half.

I don't think we need to.

Meltdown's pretty simple.

It's a residue degrader.

We apply it

on

corn residue or any other residue that you may have or cover crops.

And we use it to break down that residue.

And we think about it from a perspective of where is the true value lie with meltdown.

And sometimes I think it's not about the how it works.

It's what it's doing and why.

why we use it.

So here's the things that I think about a lot when I think about meltdown, especially, you know, kind of moving forward, trying to, you know, trying to find the perfect niche here.

And that is plantability in the spring, right? Making it easier to plant into corn stalks.

If that's what you're doing, maybe some soybeans, warmer soils in the spring, drier soils in the spring we've heard from a lot of folks that that after the spring that we had this past year that melt that folks were going to look at meltdown in the fall of 26 because of how long they were out with planting delays in the spring of 26

that if they felt like if they had used

meltdown if they had you know or if they had made their tillage passes and they couldn't do that in the fall because it was wet too so they had wished that they had they'd utilize meltdown help break down some of that residue to clear that

path, to warm that soil,

and just to make the planter pass easy.

Well, then we think about it from that perspective.

If we break down that carbon and we feed that biology and we recycle some fertility, you know, it all begins with the residue degradation piece, right? Increased plantability.

You can improve soil health because of the breakdown of that carbon and So kind of the back end of that is we gain the nutrient value from the nutrients that are left in the stock.

So a quick rundown of Meltdown.

This one's not going to be long.

We're not going to go an hour, hour and a half.

I don't think we need to.

Meltdown's pretty simple.

It's a residue degrader.

We apply it

on

corn residue or any other residue that you may have or cover crops.

And we use it to break down that residue.

And we think about it from a perspective of where is the true value lie with meltdown.

And sometimes I think it's not about the how it works.

It's what it's doing and why.

why we use it.

So here's the things that I think about a lot when I think about meltdown, especially, you know, kind of moving forward, trying to, you know, trying to find the perfect niche here.

And that is plantability in the spring, right? Making it easier to plant into corn stalks.

If that's what you're doing, maybe some soybeans, warmer soils in the spring, drier soils in the spring we've heard from a lot of folks that that after the spring that we had this past year that melt that folks were going to look at meltdown in the fall of 26 because of how long they were out with planting delays in the spring of 26

that if they felt like if they had used

meltdown if they had you know or if they had made their tillage passes and they couldn't do that in the fall because it was wet too so they had wished that they had they'd utilize meltdown help break down some of that residue to clear that

path, to warm that soil,

and just to make the planter pass easy.

Well, then we think about it from that perspective.

If we break down that carbon and we feed that biology and we recycle some fertility, you know, it all begins with the residue degradation piece, right? Increased plantability.

You can improve soil health because of the breakdown of that carbon and So kind of the back end of that is we gain the nutrient value from the nutrients that are left in the stock.