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Hay & forage saving tubs for frugal ranchers.
The tub that pays for itself ®
They ain't making land no more. You need to get more out of the land you've got.
When you increase forage production and your herd gets more nutrition from every mouthful, you've got a more profitable ranch. A ranch better set up to handle what nature and this industry might throw at it. A ranch that stands its ground.
15-30% forage & hay savings
with the cattle lick tubs.
I'm standing in the highest price lick tub in North America. Now what might surprise you about Riomax, is ranchers that would describe themselves as I'm a cheapskate by nature. We pinch our pennies. I am the penny pincher. Are really the folks using it. Now these are ranchers that not only expect Riomax to pay for itself, but they expect to see money back in their pocket. Throughout the video today, we're gonna talk about the results we see on the program, the science behind those results and why we see the results we do, and last but certainly not least crunching the cold hard numbers on what it looks like to feed Riomax. By the end of this video, you'll know if Riomax is a fit for your operation and at the end of this video, we'll be revealing a special something, so stick around you won't wanna miss it. So how did this tub come to be? To understand where this tub came from, we gotta go all the way back to 2002. The year was 2002. The Winter Olympics were in Salt Lake City. Kenny Chesney released The Good Stuff, and Trevor Greenfield started selling vet supplies out of a tiny one car garage in Vesta, Minnesota. He didn't feel like a business founder. He felt like a frustrated man calving me too products. It's vanilla flavored. He thought back to lessons on digestion in high school and asked himself, how could I help impact cattle digestion in ranching? With no answers, he reached out to a long time cattle nutritionist who sat down and taught him one on one how to feed rumen microbes. By feeding rumen microbes, you squeeze more out of every mouthful. Makes sense. Right? In 2006, Riomax was born with a single digestion ingredient. Fast forward, the digestion technology pack has gone from one to five to ten to fifteen, and now more than twenty components, helping ranchers save 15-30% on hay or forage, which is why they say it pays for itself. Hey. I'm Jake. So we've been called fufu dust, snake oil, you name it. However, there is over half a million cows currently looking on the tubs for four main reasons. First and foremost, fifteen to thirty percent feed savings, ten to forty pound bump in weaning weights, three to ten percent bump in conception rates, and just to cap things off an increased overall herd health, less sickness in the calves, cows staying content, hair coats slicking off to name a few. Their hair coats in the spring was like a copper penny. But to bring it back and focus more specifically on the feed savings, after all that is the main reason guys are using the tubs. What we're doing is we're feeding the microbes in the cows rumen, helping them to digest the feed more efficiently, so in turn that cow needs less of it. This can look like increased carrying capacity, reducing protein supplement costs, cutting back hay, or utilize some poor quality grazing while keeping that cow's body condition where it needs to be. Whatever that looks like, bottom line is, Riomax has to be making you money or you shouldn't be using it. Hey, I'm Levi. Now I get it. As a rancher, there are literally hundreds of products on the market that are all claiming to be the next best thing and we've all heard that snide comment, if I use every product that claimed to add fifty pounds, I'd probably wean a thousand pound monsters. Now with Riomax, what most folks don't know is there's two main ingredient packages which make up our 'secret sauce'. I'm gonna hand it over to Loren and he's gonna reveal them right now. Hey. I'm Loren and, work with the ranchers across the Southern US. One of the comments I get from them is, you know, everybody's out trying to sell the the next best thing or snake oil is what they actually call it. Thought to myself, oh, it's just another snake oil. So we're here to explain the two main ingredients that make up the Riomax to where we're seeing it driving profitability back to North America. So what is Escort? Escort is made up of copper, manganese, zinc, and selenium, your four key trace minerals. According to doctor Hall, copper deficiency, selenium deficiency, zinc deficiency, are the most common deficiencies recognized in cattle across North America. Industry standard, if you're feeding a mineral that says it's chelated, it's gonna be twenty to thirty percent chelated to seventy to eighty percent sulfates and oxides. Copper sulfate is actually a bactericide. There's been university studies by doctor Spears that showed that the sulfates and oxides actually have a negative impact on the good bacteria we're trying to feed in the rumen. If you think of a sulfate and oxide, like a sugar cube dropped in a hot cup of coffee, as soon as that copper sulfate hits that rumen fluid, it's gonna dissolve like a sugar cube in a hot cup of coffee. And that's where you start getting your antagonist or your tie ups. So by the time that copper sulfate gets to the small intestine, it's become too large to be absorbed through the cell wall. So there's one way out out the back end of the cow. And there's studies that show as that copper sulfate leaches into your soil, it's gonna have a negative impact on the good bacteria we're trying to feed in the soil as well. On the Esqort package, the copper we're using is is completely protected or or completely available to the cow. So with the with the Esqort, we're focused on getting as much of that mineral into the bloodstream with higher levels and more availability. And it was the first time ever that anything had come back with adequate zinc and copper and kinda made me a believer that it wasn't just snake oil. So using that higher quality mineral, we're seeing increased conception rates, increased herd health, And then the probably the biggest thing is, the cows are cycling back quicker after they calve. So you start tightening up your calving window. It's not uncommon for guys that have been on the program going into their second, third year to all of a sudden get eighty percent of their calf crop in that first cycle. I would say eighty percent of our calves are born within the first cycle. That extra twenty one days in in that first cycle is gonna make a huge impact on your weaning weights. We ship the heaviest calves that we've ever shipped from the Diamond Cross. They're about thirty eight pounds heavier than normal, which I think was, was definitely part of the Riomax program. So that's all thanks to the quality of the Esqort package, in the just getting more done with less. Is really the second second part of the the tub or if you wanna call it the protein side of the tub. It's made up of enzymes, probiotics, prebiotics, yeast and fungi fuel. So what we're focused on there is actually feeding the microbes into rumen. If we're building up that microbe population, hyperactivating them, they're able to break down, utilize the forage more effectively and efficiently. University of Minnesota did a study back in 2015 on a grain or forage. They consistently bumped the TDN by three percentage points. So we know we can take whatever forage is out there, scientifically, and give it a 3% bump. So we can take a poor quality hay, make it act like a mediocre or take a mediocre hay, make it act like a good hay and just help get more out of out of what you got there. So not only are we feeding the good bugs, but we're also tying up and flushing out your scour bugs. So baby calves, we see less sickness when they're get on the tub. Stalker calves, less sickness, but really where we see the biggest benefit is the 15-30% percent forage savings by building up that microbe population, in a efficient rumen. A cow can get up to eighty percent of her protein from microbial protein. The microbe life cycle is less than a half hour. When they die, they become a true usable source of protein. So it's an indirect supplementation versus your traditional direct fed supplementation. So if you think about this dart board as the cow's diet, you know, all thirty or thirty five.. Ow! Frick, that hurt. That was my finger. All thirty or thirty five pounds of feed she's consuming in a day. The bull's eye in the middle represents her supplement. So be that a protein tub, a loose mineral, even the Riomax tub fits into that that little two percent of what she's consuming. Now at the end of the day, whether it's a twenty or a thirty percent of anything, there's only so much protein you can squeeze into two percent of her diet. And that's why, at Riomax, with Nutrizorb, the digestive package in the tub, we're focusing on the entire diet. Industry wants to try and see how much they can pack into that two percent. We're trying to see how much we can get out of the other ninety eight percent. So not only are we packing as much as we can in that two percent, but we're helping that cow utilize and break down her entire diet. So she's pulling more protein and more energy out of her feed, which is why we see the 15-30% feed savings we do on the tub. We've been able to get twenty to thirty percent in savings on the hay that we've been feeding. Those cows are extracting more nutrients out of their feed and they don't need to eat near as much of it to meet those daily requirements. And while it all sounds good in theory, it might be kind of hard to visualize microbes like what Loren was talking about. Now, what is easy to visualize is a change rumen manure. What we've been hearing from guys is that rather than the manure stacking up, it's kind of more like a pancake batter consistency with a little divot in the middle. And when guys are out in their field kind of checking their manure, which might sound kind of weird frankly. But I look at poop a lot. What they've noticed is there's smaller lignins or fibers, which is showing us that we're just helping to squeeze that much more out of what you've already got. Now, we took this a step further. Here, now give me those. What we did is we did a handful of manure studies. We took a group of cows on Rio and a group of cows not on Rio, same feed source and same water source, and thirty days in, we pulled ten pounds of manure from the group that was on Rio and the group that wasn't on Riomax we liquefied it and then ran it through an eighth inch screen and what we found is group that was on Rio, there was fifty one percent less undigested feed. Where is this going? Well, it's not going off the back end. So what does that mean for you? It's staying in the animal to help with body condition and helping that calf development and that's why going back to the Nutrizorb, we're able to help ranchers cut back on their feed and forage costs. Now this all sounds cool, but the question is what's this gonna cost? There's two ways to look at our supplement cost. One is on a cost per ton or cost per tub, and the second is really the proper way to look at your supplement cost is what's it costing on a per head per day basis. So let's start with your upfront cost. Riomax on a upfront cost is four ninety five dollars for a two fifty pound tub. Now I know what you're thinking, that makes this a pretty dang expensive chair. But let's really let's break it down on a per head per day basis and see how Riomax compares to other options. Now if we break it down with our low consumption, a cow is gonna eat generally about point two three of a pound on a per head per day basis. So that means Riomax on a per head per day basis is gonna cost you forty six cents per cow per day. But let's factor in the feed savings and see where that comes out. So, obviously, we hear varying numbers, but let's just take this year, I think pretty conservative numbers, to say a hundred dollars a ton for hay. And if you're feeding thirty pounds of hay per cow per day as a rancher, if we can save fifteen percent of that hay, that means that's four and a half pounds per cow you're not feeding. And at a hundred dollars a ton, that hay savings is worth roughly twenty two and a half cents per cow per day. So if we take the cost of subtract your hay savings would get you twenty three point five cents per cow per day is what Riomax would cost you to feed. So let's discuss the protein tub. So for a lot of guys feeding the protein tub, there's too low of mineral levels in the protein tub, to actually get the cows daily requirements met. So they're feeding a protein tub plus a loose mineral or even possibly a mineral tub. In this case, we're gonna figure protein tub plus a loose mineral. So for a normal, say a twenty or thirty percent protein tub, it's gonna cost you about a hundred and fifty bucks for a two hundred pound tub. Now a lot of those tubs run anywhere from three quarters of a pound all the way up to two pounds a day. For real easy math, we just said let's figure a pound a day. So if you got a hundred and fifty dollar protein tub, those cows are eating a pound a day, that's gonna be costing you seventy five cents per cow per day to feed that protein tub. And if we take a loose mineral for a lot of guys, if you're doing a middle of the road loose mineral, say thirty dollars a bag at a normal quarter pound consumption, so you know four ounces per head per day, that loose mineral is gonna cost you about an additional fifteen cents. So if we compare, you got your protein tub seventy five cents a day, your loose minerals fifteen cents a day, you're gonna be spending about ninety cents per cow per day. So really when you sit down and do the math, arguably a protein tub plus a loose mineral is one of the more expensive ways to supplement your cows through the winter. So let's talk about cake and a loose mineral. If we get cake, you know, for a lot of our ranchers that we work with, they're they were feeding, you know, say two pounds of cake per cow per day. And this year, this stuff, I don't know, anywhere from I'm hearing three fifty to five hundred, but if we just say three fifty on the lower end, three fifty a ton for your cake, and you're feeding two pounds of it, that's gonna cost you thirty five cents per cow per day in cake alone. And if we take those earlier numbers we were running on your loose mineral costs, loose mineral is gonna cost you about an additional fifteen cents per cow per day. So between your cake and your loose mineral, you're gonna be spending about fifty cents per cow per day, not including your labor or the cost of the, you know, the pickup expenses to be putting that out on a daily or, you know, couple times a week basis. Now maybe you're a rancher that says, listen. My cows don't need protein. They can rough it through the winter, so we just do a a basic mineral program or a mineral tub. For most of our guys doing just a loose mineral, they're feeding a higher quality mineral program. So about fifty dollars a bag is what they would figure for a fifty pound sack of of mineral. With that same quarter pound consumption, you're going to be spending about twenty five cents per cow per day to feed just a really good quality mineral program to the cows through the winter. So let's sum up our options here. We got our generic protein tub plus a loose mineral at about ninety cents per cow per day. We have our cake plus our loose mineral coming in at fifty cents per cow per day. Generic loose mineral program coming in at twenty five cents a head a day. And last but certainly not least, we have our when we factoring in the feed savings coming in at twenty three and a half cents a day. So now you've got an idea on a cost per head per day where stacks into the lineup, especially once we factor in the feed savings. Now let's say as a rancher you're sitting here and you're not interested in feed savings this winter, just to be quite frank. You're looking at what am I gonna spend per head per day versus per head per day. So if we're taking that, your loose mineral is costing you twenty five cents a day. Is coming in at forty six cents a day. So that's an additional twenty one cents per head per day we're spending on the program. Again, this is if you're if you're not as concerned about the feed savings. So let's just do some quick math on that. If we're say saying is gonna cost an additional twenty one cents per head per day, through the course of the winter or sale one hundred and fifty days, roughly five months, you're spending an extra thirty one dollars a cow to feed the Riomax program. Now what I'd like to ask you, and I can't do this math for you. I'd love to help if you would like to connect. But if we're looking at twenty five hundred dollar calves and we're talking about a thirty one dollar investment in your herd, that additional per cow expense through the course of this winter, what are you going to get for your money? I'll say it this way, if you're feeding a twenty five cent a day program and you're totally happy, you feel like you're exactly where you need to be for results, and you're not looking to move the needle any further, well then quite frankly, Riomax might be not be the best fit for you here this year. But I would say if you feel like there's other areas you want to move the needle or you could be more profitable in your operation, let's look at that little extra expense we're gonna do, the thirty one dollars a head, and say now what is the potential returns if I achieve those results? Hey, guys. My name's Randy. Now that sounds all fine and dandy. But what if my cows go through the tubs like candy? In a moment, I'm gonna reveal something to you that folks who are using Riomax gives them a lot of peace of mind. What I am going to do is seek to explain to you the Riomax CostGaurd90 in under a minute. What the CostGaurd90 is, is our guarantee to you that those cows will consume between one eighth and one third of a pound per head per day. Across ninety days, if that average is over a third of a pound, we're gonna reimburse you back down to the third of a pound. So one of the things that is really cool about the Riomax product is our forage balancer technology and what that is doing is that is allowing that cow to self regulate her intake based off the time of year. So if she's on good green grass in the spring, her consumption is gonna be a lot lower as opposed to coming into calving when she's building up her colostrum and getting ready to calve and pushing everything into that calf. Now, you might be wondering, hey, with that low of consumption, is that cow gonna get what she needs? How can you get all of that in a small amount they would eat a day? And what Riomax does that's different is we're building our tub to a value point, not a price point. That means that there's no fillers in the tub, and the cow is able to get everything she needs out of that eighth to a third of a pound consumption. So in the Riomax product, at a quarter pound, you're gonna have a lot more feedings than the tub where you're at a pound or a pound and a half per head per day. And roll down the hill. So you've watched the video, you like what you're hearing and your next question is where do we go from here? Let's get in touch. We'll establish what you're looking to get done and then connect you with your local dealer. Before we do that though, there's two things we need to cover. Firstly, we need to establish how long we're going to do the Riomax program for. When we're looking at it for a lot of our guys, a minimum ninety day trial, that's what we recommend. But a lot of our guys for for them a trial period with Riomax looks like six months to a year. So knowing how long you're gonna do the program for and making sure you're committed to sticking with the program for that long is essential to actually delivering on the results we've talked about. The second part to it and most importantly is you as an operation, you as a rancher, you know what success looks like in your herd. You know, we've talked a lot about what guys see with results, different things in the on the program. But to have what you want specifically to get done with your herd with Riomax is I would say the most essential part of it all. Once we're in touch, we can really talk that through. Make sure you know at the end of that six months or that year what success looks like on the Riomax program and exactly how the tubs gonna pay for itself in your operation. At the beginning of this video, we said to stick around for a special something and we weren't kidding. For every hundred people that watch this video, we're gonna be giving away a free ton of Riomax. So if you're still watching, thanks for sticking around. You're eligible to win a free ton of Rio. Just fill out this form on the screen here as well as the form below. That'll get you entered for a chance to win, as well as we'll be getting in touch to talk a little bit more about your operation and see if Riomax is a fit for you. From our family business, thanks for watching, and have a good one.
10-30% increase in forage production
with Rhyzogreen, the soil stimulant.
So the mode of action of Rhyzogreen is it's applied to the leaf foliarly. It's very quickly translocated down into the roots, expressed out of the root tips into the rhizosphere or the root zone. That's where the magic happens. It feeds the microbes that are native to your soil. They then serve to unlock nutrients in the soil and make the plant available. It's really no different than feeding microbes in the rumen of a cow and unlocking or releasing nutrients and making a cow available. Wait, are you the tub that pays for itself? Well, how does it pay for itself? What the heck are we doing talking microbes here, Trevor? What even is a microbe? You know, it sounds like a fuzzy term, but yeah, Twain, it's a good point to loop it all in. Is The tub that pays for itself. And feed and forage savings alone. That's by feeding microbes. Now, rhizogreen is the same science, feeding microbes, the little living organisms in your soil and stimulating them. And we're on a quest to get to fifty percent ranch efficiency, and that is we call it q fifty. That is a journey we're on. We're chasing this goal, and it's really inspiring for us because we're doing it for ranchers to help drive profitability back to rural North America living at our purpose. If Rhyzogreen's gonna affect the the soil and the grass yields and quality and and fertility, then you get them to the cattle side in Riomax, you're also boosting efficiency on your cattle side. I mean, it's a win win. So it's kind of a no brainer why you wouldn't do both at the same time. Save feed, you produce more feed, and that's the the efficiency. Talking rhizogreen, what what is it? Fair question. It's proprietary, so I'm not gonna put, you know, every ingredient up on a billboard, because our family business holds that proprietary recipe. So I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a biological. A lot of folks, when they hear of a soil health product, they kinda tend to think biologicals. We're not here to knock biologicals. Biologicals are like when you're adding microbes to the soil. And the challenge we have there is the native communities, the soil microbe communities, don't always welcome strangers, much like a rural community wouldn't welcome a stranger just walking in. So what we're doing is we're feeding the microbes in your soil, the native microbes. We're not adding microbes. We're feeding and enhancing and awakening your native soil microbes. When you have stressed conditions, whether it's drought stress or compaction or overuse of chemicals or whatever, up to eighty percent of your soil your native soil microbes will be dormant. They're there. They're yours. They're alive, but they're not functioning. And so that's where Rhyzogreen has really shown huge uptick is by stimulating them, awakening them, fueling them, and the net result is you release nutrients, liberate nutrients, and you get more production in your in your plant. What we focus on is the ten to thirty percent increase in production that we see and that's over ninety percent win rate. So over ninety percent of the time, we're seeing an increase in actual production. That could be on pasture ground or it could be on hay ground. One thing guys do question or or is a concern is, am I gonna be lowering the nutrient value or the protein and energy content of that feed just because we're increasing how much there is? Yeah. And and that's a fair concern. I think it comes from the context of guys, you know, let's say Minnesota or Florida where you get a lot of moisture and you get fast growth and the grass is washy or the nutrients are diluted. That is not the case with Rhyzogreen. With Rhyzogreen, we're getting more tonnage or more production without sacrificing quality because think of it, the mode of action is those microbes are releasing nutrients. The nutrients are becoming plant available. So the the nutrients are transferring into the plant. So we're not short on energy or protein or your other naturally occurring, nutrients in the plant. In Nebraska twenty twenty five, a third party trial that we engaged in showed that on on corn silage, we saw a twenty four percent increase in nutrient value. And, that includes your energy, your protein. And so that that's a huge number. But at very least, we're not going backwards. You know? We're sacrificing the the nutrient value of the plant just because we're increasing production or tonnage. Hey. So we almost forgot to add this bit, but we've done a bunch of third party validation on Rhyzogreen. So we 've done tons ourselves, we've done tons with our customers and then people are saying well to trust it we really need third party validation. First of all what we've done ourselves is over a thousand data points on measuring soil health and and tonnage and production and worms and water infiltration all that. I don't think we need to do any more of that. Then we've done on farm trials with our customers it's not our data it's our customers data and we've done over sixty of those but in twenty twenty four, we started doing third party validation. We engaged a company called Agrellis, and they did Five trials for them in twenty twenty four, one in Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, and Washington. And across those five states, those five studies, they saw an average of twenty five percent yield increase. Then we engaged Agri Authority, a completely different third party verification body and they did a study for us in Nebraska and Arizona and they saw an increase in tonnage or production on their studies of thirteen point eight percent. Then, Agrellis went to work for us again in Nebraska measuring feed quality. So we've got plenty of data on tonnage. They went and measured feed quality. It was actually corn silage. And they measured, protein and energy and TDN. And the average increase in feed quality they saw saw on that, corn study was twenty four percent. So, that sums up the third party validation. It's kind of stuff we knew already, but it's good to have it. Let's hop back to the session. We talked earlier driving profitability back to rural North America. We gotta get the numbers and sense out of it. So if you, as a rancher, if you're looking at it, what whether you're talking hay ground, pasture, whatever you might be looking I was gonna say maybe do some math on on hay ground. It's a little simpler to Hundred percent. So if we just take some some rough numbers, if you're running, let's say, three ton to the acre right now on your hay ground per year, and your hay is worth roughly one hundred bucks a ton, we see between a ten and thirty percent increase in tonnage. So let's just take twenty percent increase as an average. So three ton to the acre, you have a twenty percent increase in tonnage, that's zero point six of a ton per acre, you're increasing your production per year. Point six of a ton valued at one hundred dollars a ton, that's about sixty dollars an acre in added hay production per year. Now the cost of rhizogreen is about thirty dollars an acre. So we often, you know, depending on what quantities you're buying, but we'll figure by the time you get it applied, it's probably gonna cost you about thirty five bucks an acre. No. Get it on the ground. So if you're thirty five dollars an acre, is it what it cost you? And you're making sixty in increased hay production. So sixty dollars minus your thirty five dollars of cost. You're coming out twenty five dollars an acre ahead year one, one application. That math answers to our purpose of driving profitability back to rural North America and doing it without sacrificing your the health of your land or the longevity or your your the resilience of your land. We got a lot of guys looking at it. Know, it's been a good year. The last couple of years have been pretty good in ranching, and they're looking at maybe some hay production that they they don't wanna put fertilizer on it every year. They're sick of fertilizer, in fact, and they feel like they've spent a pile of money and not seen a ton of results. I mean, fertilizer jumped real bad a few years ago and this was half the cost, so we went for it. Getting that land, that flywheel as you sometimes refer to it, back up and going, feeding those microbes, and on just that simple math, year one, you're paying for that. You're you're putting twenty five dollars an acre back in your pocket to look after that ground. It makes me feel good that we're putting good stuff back into the earth and trying to, you know, do things a little more natural. It's way cheaper than it was before, and we're getting more hay. You're getting paid to get that ground back producing. Does this mean, Duane, if I'm using Rhyzogreen, that I can quit fertilizer? I think we both know that you're the better one to answer that question. The answer is no. I can't sit here and tell you you can cut back on fertilizer. Many of our customers do. Some eliminate fertilizer. But you gotta understand also that there's nutrients in the soil are like a bank account, and we can help liberate it and and and get more out of those nutrients. But at some point, we may mine those nutrients or utilize them or use them up to the point where that bank account needs to be refilled. When you do need to replenish, we know we're running a more efficient system. Right? So that every dollar you spend on n p and k, you're getting the maximum out. Rhyzogreen will help you get more out of every fertilizer dollar. I'll say that again. Get more out of every fertilizer dollar. Because we're feeding that life, the life is unlocking the nutrients, the the the fertilizer, NPK, whatever, making it plant available. And then it comes full circle with a flywheel. You know, you work with mother nature and you set in motion a flywheel. And we've seen it on extended testing we've done over, like, multiple years and seen the long term effects of feeding microbes, and then the microbes keep nutrients cycling. And But to all of that, between so you're making money on it, but at the same time, you're investing in the in the health of your land. Who doesn't want that for the next year, the next decade, the next generation? That lights my fire. Who's it not a fit for? Yep. I'm I'm jelling up. The the question comes who who is Rhyzogreen not a fit for? Yeah. It's it's a good question because there's Rhyzogreen is not a fit for everyone. I think we might as well address it. Well, just like on the tubs, we always say if doesn't pay for itself on your operation, it probably doesn't have a spot there. So let's talk about that on Rhyzogreen. Yeah. So a couple of the key areas. One is if you got a real high or a real low pH in your soil, we've just found that to be a less effective spot for for Rhyzogreen. Yeah. The soil microbes are already sort of depressed or or suppressed, and so we don't see as much of a response. The the other one would be in a drought setting. So where you're really not applying it on a green leaf, the plant's already dead or dormant. That's not an ideal time to be applying Rhyzogreen. And the third one is, and it might surprise some folks, but row crops. So what we found over the last six years is what we do consistently is feed microbes, stimulate them, and help unlock nutrients in the soil, make them plant available. What that doesn't always mean in a row crop situation is increased bushels or increased yield. And so at the end of the day, we're focusing on improving profitability or driving profitability back to rural North America, we really aren't true to our purpose if we were to stand here and say it pays for itself all the time on row crops. There's a lot of times when if we don't increase the the yield, it's not it's not a no brainer. And that's where with forage crops, with our ninety plus percent win rate, we know for a fact, Rhyzogreen is paying for itself majority of the time, and it's it's a win for the for the rancher. And and just to don't get me wrong. There are row crop farmers that use it, you know, corn or soybeans. And have seen good results. And and and they may be chasing soil health or water infiltration or just investing in their land. Absolutely. But like Twain said, to to really measure it and look at the return, we're like forage crops, baby. Ranching, you know, that could be alfalfa, hay alfalfa mix, pasture ground, cover crops, silage, anything that's gonna go in that cow's mouth, we're increasing the tonnage, increasing the production, and also increasing the soil production capacity. And where guys might use it with pasture is if they're like a calving pasture somewhere they've hit pretty hard, or lower production areas in a pasture. We've had guys do like almost spot spray it where some there's an area where they feel like needs a bit of a pick me up or guys will even look at staggering it. So they'll do part of the ranch, you know, over a three year period. So they'll do part one year, next part the next year, the next part the third year. So they're not applying Rhyzogreen to their whole ranch every year. Certainly could, but financially, to be able to split it up and break those costs up over a few years makes a a big difference. But the take home message is if you're increasing the production capacity of your land and you're increasing the health of your soil, that is a great thing to do not only for this year, but for next year and next decade, next generation. The last place I would say it's not a fit for the guys that should not, should not, should not use it. Guys that shouldn't use it. As if a guy's not gonna measure it, you know, that's That's true. You had a a sort of a one liner on measuring. Oh, yeah. I had an old boy I used to work with in Georgia and one of the things he told me always was, you can't make what you can't measure because you'll never know when you've made it. Bit of a tongue twister, but I think it you were saying earlier, you know, even if a guy just throws a tarp down, stakes it down, and sprays over it, at least you have a patch you didn't apply ryzogreen to you can measure again. So don't overcomplicate it, but give yourself the ability to make a good decision out of this. When you use it, make sure you give yourself a comparison. There was that one guy in Texas, and he he they said dad was so excited about Rhyzogreen that he applied it to the all the all the acres they had. Well, at the end of the year, they they didn't have any comparison, and they couldn't make a good sound decision for themselves. So we'd recommend, you know, having a comparison. So if you've got this far, you're probably wondering how do I use this? How do I apply it? Twin? Yeah. So one one of the most common ways and probably the best way guys are applying it is with a ground rig. So be at a four wheeler sprayer or commercial sprayer, whatever you're using. Rhyzogreen is applied foliarly. And just apply it fully fuller foliarly. I still can't say that word. On the green leaf as far as that. So you wanna get it on the leaf of the plant. As Trevor mentioned earlier, it gets absorbed through the leaf. The one that's a big no is flood irrigation because you're not getting it on the leaf. It's hard to say where all the rhizogreen's getting. It's one gallon per five acres. So one gallon of rhizogreen per five acres, and we recommend it's mixed with between five and twenty five gallons of water per acre. And so what we've seen is with a drone, sometimes it's less, you know, than five gallons of water per acre. Think you can get two or three gallons of Yeah. And a pivot can get quite a bit more than that. So it's not that those methods are bad. It's just you're not quite at the right dilution rate. So in the wrong setting, the results might not be quite as effective if you can get it with a ground rig. But if you can't and, you know, aerial is your best method of application, no worries. Got lots of guys doing that and seeing good results. We got all the way from thirteen hundred and fifty acre tote down to cases. The biggest one's a thirteen hundred and fifty acre tote, six hundred and seventy five acre tote, four hundred acre tote, two hundred acre tote, and then actually now available through our dealers is twenty five acre cases. So pricing follows. It's the cheapest if you buy it in a big tote, you know, so we got guys, you know, maybe you don't run thirteen hundred and fifty acres, but between you and your neighbor, you got enough acres, they'll maybe split a tote. And it's lower cost because you got less packaging. Saves you a fair bit. So it's four bucks an acre off. It's twenty six dollars an acre in a big tote all the way to thirty dollars an acre in cases. For the cases, they are available through our dealer network. So for a lot of guys, it's an easy way. Say if you wanna do two or two hundred acres, you know, as a bit of a trial, you got a few different fields you wanna experiment with, they can go in, grab eight cases, and it's easy to to get applied. And what we find is guys might start with two hundred acres, like what they see, and then buy it in tote sizes there on out because it's more cost effective. The easiest way to get ahold of some would be just to give us a call. As a company, out. As of now, there's some dealers that are stocking it, some that don't quite have it yet. So give us a shout. We'll hook you up with a local dealer that's that's gonna have it in stock or we'll ship it directly to you, make sure we we get you taken care of. The main thing is as you get started is to do it right and and make sure you have a comparison. There should be a contact form somewhere around this this video, but also jump on our website, riomax dot net. You can fill out the chat and and get ahold of us that way. Otherwise, the best way, just give us a call. That's the best way. The main number, it's eight eight eight five zero seven zero one two two. And As a family business, we'd love to talk to you. Just talk to a real person. You won't be talking to a computer. Talk to a real person, and let's see if this is a fit for you. Alright. Your finger's bleeding? Holy cow.
15-30% forage & hay savings
with the cattle lick tubs.
I'm standing in the highest price lick tub in North America. Now what might surprise you about Riomax, is ranchers that would describe themselves as I'm a cheapskate by nature. We pinch our pennies. I am the penny pincher. Are really the folks using it. Now these are ranchers that not only expect Riomax to pay for itself, but they expect to see money back in their pocket. Throughout the video today, we're gonna talk about the results we see on the program, the science behind those results and why we see the results we do, and last but certainly not least crunching the cold hard numbers on what it looks like to feed Riomax. By the end of this video, you'll know if Riomax is a fit for your operation and at the end of this video, we'll be revealing a special something, so stick around you won't wanna miss it. So how did this tub come to be? To understand where this tub came from, we gotta go all the way back to 2002. The year was 2002. The Winter Olympics were in Salt Lake City. Kenny Chesney released The Good Stuff, and Trevor Greenfield started selling vet supplies out of a tiny one car garage in Vesta, Minnesota. He didn't feel like a business founder. He felt like a frustrated man calving me too products. It's vanilla flavored. He thought back to lessons on digestion in high school and asked himself, how could I help impact cattle digestion in ranching? With no answers, he reached out to a long time cattle nutritionist who sat down and taught him one on one how to feed rumen microbes. By feeding rumen microbes, you squeeze more out of every mouthful. Makes sense. Right? In 2006, Riomax was born with a single digestion ingredient. Fast forward, the digestion technology pack has gone from one to five to ten to fifteen, and now more than twenty components, helping ranchers save 15-30% on hay or forage, which is why they say it pays for itself. Hey. I'm Jake. So we've been called fufu dust, snake oil, you name it. However, there is over half a million cows currently looking on the tubs for four main reasons. First and foremost, fifteen to thirty percent feed savings, ten to forty pound bump in weaning weights, three to ten percent bump in conception rates, and just to cap things off an increased overall herd health, less sickness in the calves, cows staying content, hair coats slicking off to name a few. Their hair coats in the spring was like a copper penny. But to bring it back and focus more specifically on the feed savings, after all that is the main reason guys are using the tubs. What we're doing is we're feeding the microbes in the cows rumen, helping them to digest the feed more efficiently, so in turn that cow needs less of it. This can look like increased carrying capacity, reducing protein supplement costs, cutting back hay, or utilize some poor quality grazing while keeping that cow's body condition where it needs to be. Whatever that looks like, bottom line is, Riomax has to be making you money or you shouldn't be using it. Hey, I'm Levi. Now I get it. As a rancher, there are literally hundreds of products on the market that are all claiming to be the next best thing and we've all heard that snide comment, if I use every product that claimed to add fifty pounds, I'd probably wean a thousand pound monsters. Now with Riomax, what most folks don't know is there's two main ingredient packages which make up our 'secret sauce'. I'm gonna hand it over to Loren and he's gonna reveal them right now. Hey. I'm Loren and, work with the ranchers across the Southern US. One of the comments I get from them is, you know, everybody's out trying to sell the the next best thing or snake oil is what they actually call it. Thought to myself, oh, it's just another snake oil. So we're here to explain the two main ingredients that make up the Riomax to where we're seeing it driving profitability back to North America. So what is Escort? Escort is made up of copper, manganese, zinc, and selenium, your four key trace minerals. According to doctor Hall, copper deficiency, selenium deficiency, zinc deficiency, are the most common deficiencies recognized in cattle across North America. Industry standard, if you're feeding a mineral that says it's chelated, it's gonna be twenty to thirty percent chelated to seventy to eighty percent sulfates and oxides. Copper sulfate is actually a bactericide. There's been university studies by doctor Spears that showed that the sulfates and oxides actually have a negative impact on the good bacteria we're trying to feed in the rumen. If you think of a sulfate and oxide, like a sugar cube dropped in a hot cup of coffee, as soon as that copper sulfate hits that rumen fluid, it's gonna dissolve like a sugar cube in a hot cup of coffee. And that's where you start getting your antagonist or your tie ups. So by the time that copper sulfate gets to the small intestine, it's become too large to be absorbed through the cell wall. So there's one way out out the back end of the cow. And there's studies that show as that copper sulfate leaches into your soil, it's gonna have a negative impact on the good bacteria we're trying to feed in the soil as well. On the Esqort package, the copper we're using is is completely protected or or completely available to the cow. So with the with the Esqort, we're focused on getting as much of that mineral into the bloodstream with higher levels and more availability. And it was the first time ever that anything had come back with adequate zinc and copper and kinda made me a believer that it wasn't just snake oil. So using that higher quality mineral, we're seeing increased conception rates, increased herd health, And then the probably the biggest thing is, the cows are cycling back quicker after they calve. So you start tightening up your calving window. It's not uncommon for guys that have been on the program going into their second, third year to all of a sudden get eighty percent of their calf crop in that first cycle. I would say eighty percent of our calves are born within the first cycle. That extra twenty one days in in that first cycle is gonna make a huge impact on your weaning weights. We ship the heaviest calves that we've ever shipped from the Diamond Cross. They're about thirty eight pounds heavier than normal, which I think was, was definitely part of the Riomax program. So that's all thanks to the quality of the Esqort package, in the just getting more done with less. Is really the second second part of the the tub or if you wanna call it the protein side of the tub. It's made up of enzymes, probiotics, prebiotics, yeast and fungi fuel. So what we're focused on there is actually feeding the microbes into rumen. If we're building up that microbe population, hyperactivating them, they're able to break down, utilize the forage more effectively and efficiently. University of Minnesota did a study back in 2015 on a grain or forage. They consistently bumped the TDN by three percentage points. So we know we can take whatever forage is out there, scientifically, and give it a 3% bump. So we can take a poor quality hay, make it act like a mediocre or take a mediocre hay, make it act like a good hay and just help get more out of out of what you got there. So not only are we feeding the good bugs, but we're also tying up and flushing out your scour bugs. So baby calves, we see less sickness when they're get on the tub. Stalker calves, less sickness, but really where we see the biggest benefit is the 15-30% percent forage savings by building up that microbe population, in a efficient rumen. A cow can get up to eighty percent of her protein from microbial protein. The microbe life cycle is less than a half hour. When they die, they become a true usable source of protein. So it's an indirect supplementation versus your traditional direct fed supplementation. So if you think about this dart board as the cow's diet, you know, all thirty or thirty five.. Ow! Frick, that hurt. That was my finger. All thirty or thirty five pounds of feed she's consuming in a day. The bull's eye in the middle represents her supplement. So be that a protein tub, a loose mineral, even the Riomax tub fits into that that little two percent of what she's consuming. Now at the end of the day, whether it's a twenty or a thirty percent of anything, there's only so much protein you can squeeze into two percent of her diet. And that's why, at Riomax, with Nutrizorb, the digestive package in the tub, we're focusing on the entire diet. Industry wants to try and see how much they can pack into that two percent. We're trying to see how much we can get out of the other ninety eight percent. So not only are we packing as much as we can in that two percent, but we're helping that cow utilize and break down her entire diet. So she's pulling more protein and more energy out of her feed, which is why we see the 15-30% feed savings we do on the tub. We've been able to get twenty to thirty percent in savings on the hay that we've been feeding. Those cows are extracting more nutrients out of their feed and they don't need to eat near as much of it to meet those daily requirements. And while it all sounds good in theory, it might be kind of hard to visualize microbes like what Loren was talking about. Now, what is easy to visualize is a change rumen manure. What we've been hearing from guys is that rather than the manure stacking up, it's kind of more like a pancake batter consistency with a little divot in the middle. And when guys are out in their field kind of checking their manure, which might sound kind of weird frankly. But I look at poop a lot. What they've noticed is there's smaller lignins or fibers, which is showing us that we're just helping to squeeze that much more out of what you've already got. Now, we took this a step further. Here, now give me those. What we did is we did a handful of manure studies. We took a group of cows on Rio and a group of cows not on Rio, same feed source and same water source, and thirty days in, we pulled ten pounds of manure from the group that was on Rio and the group that wasn't on Riomax we liquefied it and then ran it through an eighth inch screen and what we found is group that was on Rio, there was fifty one percent less undigested feed. Where is this going? Well, it's not going off the back end. So what does that mean for you? It's staying in the animal to help with body condition and helping that calf development and that's why going back to the Nutrizorb, we're able to help ranchers cut back on their feed and forage costs. Now this all sounds cool, but the question is what's this gonna cost? There's two ways to look at our supplement cost. One is on a cost per ton or cost per tub, and the second is really the proper way to look at your supplement cost is what's it costing on a per head per day basis. So let's start with your upfront cost. Riomax on a upfront cost is four ninety five dollars for a two fifty pound tub. Now I know what you're thinking, that makes this a pretty dang expensive chair. But let's really let's break it down on a per head per day basis and see how Riomax compares to other options. Now if we break it down with our low consumption, a cow is gonna eat generally about point two three of a pound on a per head per day basis. So that means Riomax on a per head per day basis is gonna cost you forty six cents per cow per day. But let's factor in the feed savings and see where that comes out. So, obviously, we hear varying numbers, but let's just take this year, I think pretty conservative numbers, to say a hundred dollars a ton for hay. And if you're feeding thirty pounds of hay per cow per day as a rancher, if we can save fifteen percent of that hay, that means that's four and a half pounds per cow you're not feeding. And at a hundred dollars a ton, that hay savings is worth roughly twenty two and a half cents per cow per day. So if we take the cost of subtract your hay savings would get you twenty three point five cents per cow per day is what Riomax would cost you to feed. So let's discuss the protein tub. So for a lot of guys feeding the protein tub, there's too low of mineral levels in the protein tub, to actually get the cows daily requirements met. So they're feeding a protein tub plus a loose mineral or even possibly a mineral tub. In this case, we're gonna figure protein tub plus a loose mineral. So for a normal, say a twenty or thirty percent protein tub, it's gonna cost you about a hundred and fifty bucks for a two hundred pound tub. Now a lot of those tubs run anywhere from three quarters of a pound all the way up to two pounds a day. For real easy math, we just said let's figure a pound a day. So if you got a hundred and fifty dollar protein tub, those cows are eating a pound a day, that's gonna be costing you seventy five cents per cow per day to feed that protein tub. And if we take a loose mineral for a lot of guys, if you're doing a middle of the road loose mineral, say thirty dollars a bag at a normal quarter pound consumption, so you know four ounces per head per day, that loose mineral is gonna cost you about an additional fifteen cents. So if we compare, you got your protein tub seventy five cents a day, your loose minerals fifteen cents a day, you're gonna be spending about ninety cents per cow per day. So really when you sit down and do the math, arguably a protein tub plus a loose mineral is one of the more expensive ways to supplement your cows through the winter. So let's talk about cake and a loose mineral. If we get cake, you know, for a lot of our ranchers that we work with, they're they were feeding, you know, say two pounds of cake per cow per day. And this year, this stuff, I don't know, anywhere from I'm hearing three fifty to five hundred, but if we just say three fifty on the lower end, three fifty a ton for your cake, and you're feeding two pounds of it, that's gonna cost you thirty five cents per cow per day in cake alone. And if we take those earlier numbers we were running on your loose mineral costs, loose mineral is gonna cost you about an additional fifteen cents per cow per day. So between your cake and your loose mineral, you're gonna be spending about fifty cents per cow per day, not including your labor or the cost of the, you know, the pickup expenses to be putting that out on a daily or, you know, couple times a week basis. Now maybe you're a rancher that says, listen. My cows don't need protein. They can rough it through the winter, so we just do a a basic mineral program or a mineral tub. For most of our guys doing just a loose mineral, they're feeding a higher quality mineral program. So about fifty dollars a bag is what they would figure for a fifty pound sack of of mineral. With that same quarter pound consumption, you're going to be spending about twenty five cents per cow per day to feed just a really good quality mineral program to the cows through the winter. So let's sum up our options here. We got our generic protein tub plus a loose mineral at about ninety cents per cow per day. We have our cake plus our loose mineral coming in at fifty cents per cow per day. Generic loose mineral program coming in at twenty five cents a head a day. And last but certainly not least, we have our when we factoring in the feed savings coming in at twenty three and a half cents a day. So now you've got an idea on a cost per head per day where stacks into the lineup, especially once we factor in the feed savings. Now let's say as a rancher you're sitting here and you're not interested in feed savings this winter, just to be quite frank. You're looking at what am I gonna spend per head per day versus per head per day. So if we're taking that, your loose mineral is costing you twenty five cents a day. Is coming in at forty six cents a day. So that's an additional twenty one cents per head per day we're spending on the program. Again, this is if you're if you're not as concerned about the feed savings. So let's just do some quick math on that. If we're say saying is gonna cost an additional twenty one cents per head per day, through the course of the winter or sale one hundred and fifty days, roughly five months, you're spending an extra thirty one dollars a cow to feed the Riomax program. Now what I'd like to ask you, and I can't do this math for you. I'd love to help if you would like to connect. But if we're looking at twenty five hundred dollar calves and we're talking about a thirty one dollar investment in your herd, that additional per cow expense through the course of this winter, what are you going to get for your money? I'll say it this way, if you're feeding a twenty five cent a day program and you're totally happy, you feel like you're exactly where you need to be for results, and you're not looking to move the needle any further, well then quite frankly, Riomax might be not be the best fit for you here this year. But I would say if you feel like there's other areas you want to move the needle or you could be more profitable in your operation, let's look at that little extra expense we're gonna do, the thirty one dollars a head, and say now what is the potential returns if I achieve those results? Hey, guys. My name's Randy. Now that sounds all fine and dandy. But what if my cows go through the tubs like candy? In a moment, I'm gonna reveal something to you that folks who are using Riomax gives them a lot of peace of mind. What I am going to do is seek to explain to you the Riomax CostGaurd90 in under a minute. What the CostGaurd90 is, is our guarantee to you that those cows will consume between one eighth and one third of a pound per head per day. Across ninety days, if that average is over a third of a pound, we're gonna reimburse you back down to the third of a pound. So one of the things that is really cool about the Riomax product is our forage balancer technology and what that is doing is that is allowing that cow to self regulate her intake based off the time of year. So if she's on good green grass in the spring, her consumption is gonna be a lot lower as opposed to coming into calving when she's building up her colostrum and getting ready to calve and pushing everything into that calf. Now, you might be wondering, hey, with that low of consumption, is that cow gonna get what she needs? How can you get all of that in a small amount they would eat a day? And what Riomax does that's different is we're building our tub to a value point, not a price point. That means that there's no fillers in the tub, and the cow is able to get everything she needs out of that eighth to a third of a pound consumption. So in the Riomax product, at a quarter pound, you're gonna have a lot more feedings than the tub where you're at a pound or a pound and a half per head per day. And roll down the hill. So you've watched the video, you like what you're hearing and your next question is where do we go from here? Let's get in touch. We'll establish what you're looking to get done and then connect you with your local dealer. Before we do that though, there's two things we need to cover. Firstly, we need to establish how long we're going to do the Riomax program for. When we're looking at it for a lot of our guys, a minimum ninety day trial, that's what we recommend. But a lot of our guys for for them a trial period with Riomax looks like six months to a year. So knowing how long you're gonna do the program for and making sure you're committed to sticking with the program for that long is essential to actually delivering on the results we've talked about. The second part to it and most importantly is you as an operation, you as a rancher, you know what success looks like in your herd. You know, we've talked a lot about what guys see with results, different things in the on the program. But to have what you want specifically to get done with your herd with Riomax is I would say the most essential part of it all. Once we're in touch, we can really talk that through. Make sure you know at the end of that six months or that year what success looks like on the Riomax program and exactly how the tubs gonna pay for itself in your operation. At the beginning of this video, we said to stick around for a special something and we weren't kidding. For every hundred people that watch this video, we're gonna be giving away a free ton of Riomax. So if you're still watching, thanks for sticking around. You're eligible to win a free ton of Rio. Just fill out this form on the screen here as well as the form below. That'll get you entered for a chance to win, as well as we'll be getting in touch to talk a little bit more about your operation and see if Riomax is a fit for you. From our family business, thanks for watching, and have a good one.
10-30% increase in forage production
with Rhyzogreen, the soil stimulant.
So the mode of action of Rhyzogreen is it's applied to the leaf foliarly. It's very quickly translocated down into the roots, expressed out of the root tips into the rhizosphere or the root zone. That's where the magic happens. It feeds the microbes that are native to your soil. They then serve to unlock nutrients in the soil and make the plant available. It's really no different than feeding microbes in the rumen of a cow and unlocking or releasing nutrients and making a cow available. Wait, are you the tub that pays for itself? Well, how does it pay for itself? What the heck are we doing talking microbes here, Trevor? What even is a microbe? You know, it sounds like a fuzzy term, but yeah, Twain, it's a good point to loop it all in. Is The tub that pays for itself. And feed and forage savings alone. That's by feeding microbes. Now, rhizogreen is the same science, feeding microbes, the little living organisms in your soil and stimulating them. And we're on a quest to get to fifty percent ranch efficiency, and that is we call it q fifty. That is a journey we're on. We're chasing this goal, and it's really inspiring for us because we're doing it for ranchers to help drive profitability back to rural North America living at our purpose. If Rhyzogreen's gonna affect the the soil and the grass yields and quality and and fertility, then you get them to the cattle side in Riomax, you're also boosting efficiency on your cattle side. I mean, it's a win win. So it's kind of a no brainer why you wouldn't do both at the same time. Save feed, you produce more feed, and that's the the efficiency. Talking rhizogreen, what what is it? Fair question. It's proprietary, so I'm not gonna put, you know, every ingredient up on a billboard, because our family business holds that proprietary recipe. So I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a biological. A lot of folks, when they hear of a soil health product, they kinda tend to think biologicals. We're not here to knock biologicals. Biologicals are like when you're adding microbes to the soil. And the challenge we have there is the native communities, the soil microbe communities, don't always welcome strangers, much like a rural community wouldn't welcome a stranger just walking in. So what we're doing is we're feeding the microbes in your soil, the native microbes. We're not adding microbes. We're feeding and enhancing and awakening your native soil microbes. When you have stressed conditions, whether it's drought stress or compaction or overuse of chemicals or whatever, up to eighty percent of your soil your native soil microbes will be dormant. They're there. They're yours. They're alive, but they're not functioning. And so that's where Rhyzogreen has really shown huge uptick is by stimulating them, awakening them, fueling them, and the net result is you release nutrients, liberate nutrients, and you get more production in your in your plant. What we focus on is the ten to thirty percent increase in production that we see and that's over ninety percent win rate. So over ninety percent of the time, we're seeing an increase in actual production. That could be on pasture ground or it could be on hay ground. One thing guys do question or or is a concern is, am I gonna be lowering the nutrient value or the protein and energy content of that feed just because we're increasing how much there is? Yeah. And and that's a fair concern. I think it comes from the context of guys, you know, let's say Minnesota or Florida where you get a lot of moisture and you get fast growth and the grass is washy or the nutrients are diluted. That is not the case with Rhyzogreen. With Rhyzogreen, we're getting more tonnage or more production without sacrificing quality because think of it, the mode of action is those microbes are releasing nutrients. The nutrients are becoming plant available. So the the nutrients are transferring into the plant. So we're not short on energy or protein or your other naturally occurring, nutrients in the plant. In Nebraska twenty twenty five, a third party trial that we engaged in showed that on on corn silage, we saw a twenty four percent increase in nutrient value. And, that includes your energy, your protein. And so that that's a huge number. But at very least, we're not going backwards. You know? We're sacrificing the the nutrient value of the plant just because we're increasing production or tonnage. Hey. So we almost forgot to add this bit, but we've done a bunch of third party validation on Rhyzogreen. So we 've done tons ourselves, we've done tons with our customers and then people are saying well to trust it we really need third party validation. First of all what we've done ourselves is over a thousand data points on measuring soil health and and tonnage and production and worms and water infiltration all that. I don't think we need to do any more of that. Then we've done on farm trials with our customers it's not our data it's our customers data and we've done over sixty of those but in twenty twenty four, we started doing third party validation. We engaged a company called Agrellis, and they did Five trials for them in twenty twenty four, one in Idaho, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, and Washington. And across those five states, those five studies, they saw an average of twenty five percent yield increase. Then we engaged Agri Authority, a completely different third party verification body and they did a study for us in Nebraska and Arizona and they saw an increase in tonnage or production on their studies of thirteen point eight percent. Then, Agrellis went to work for us again in Nebraska measuring feed quality. So we've got plenty of data on tonnage. They went and measured feed quality. It was actually corn silage. And they measured, protein and energy and TDN. And the average increase in feed quality they saw saw on that, corn study was twenty four percent. So, that sums up the third party validation. It's kind of stuff we knew already, but it's good to have it. Let's hop back to the session. We talked earlier driving profitability back to rural North America. We gotta get the numbers and sense out of it. So if you, as a rancher, if you're looking at it, what whether you're talking hay ground, pasture, whatever you might be looking I was gonna say maybe do some math on on hay ground. It's a little simpler to Hundred percent. So if we just take some some rough numbers, if you're running, let's say, three ton to the acre right now on your hay ground per year, and your hay is worth roughly one hundred bucks a ton, we see between a ten and thirty percent increase in tonnage. So let's just take twenty percent increase as an average. So three ton to the acre, you have a twenty percent increase in tonnage, that's zero point six of a ton per acre, you're increasing your production per year. Point six of a ton valued at one hundred dollars a ton, that's about sixty dollars an acre in added hay production per year. Now the cost of rhizogreen is about thirty dollars an acre. So we often, you know, depending on what quantities you're buying, but we'll figure by the time you get it applied, it's probably gonna cost you about thirty five bucks an acre. No. Get it on the ground. So if you're thirty five dollars an acre, is it what it cost you? And you're making sixty in increased hay production. So sixty dollars minus your thirty five dollars of cost. You're coming out twenty five dollars an acre ahead year one, one application. That math answers to our purpose of driving profitability back to rural North America and doing it without sacrificing your the health of your land or the longevity or your your the resilience of your land. We got a lot of guys looking at it. Know, it's been a good year. The last couple of years have been pretty good in ranching, and they're looking at maybe some hay production that they they don't wanna put fertilizer on it every year. They're sick of fertilizer, in fact, and they feel like they've spent a pile of money and not seen a ton of results. I mean, fertilizer jumped real bad a few years ago and this was half the cost, so we went for it. Getting that land, that flywheel as you sometimes refer to it, back up and going, feeding those microbes, and on just that simple math, year one, you're paying for that. You're you're putting twenty five dollars an acre back in your pocket to look after that ground. It makes me feel good that we're putting good stuff back into the earth and trying to, you know, do things a little more natural. It's way cheaper than it was before, and we're getting more hay. You're getting paid to get that ground back producing. Does this mean, Duane, if I'm using Rhyzogreen, that I can quit fertilizer? I think we both know that you're the better one to answer that question. The answer is no. I can't sit here and tell you you can cut back on fertilizer. Many of our customers do. Some eliminate fertilizer. But you gotta understand also that there's nutrients in the soil are like a bank account, and we can help liberate it and and and get more out of those nutrients. But at some point, we may mine those nutrients or utilize them or use them up to the point where that bank account needs to be refilled. When you do need to replenish, we know we're running a more efficient system. Right? So that every dollar you spend on n p and k, you're getting the maximum out. Rhyzogreen will help you get more out of every fertilizer dollar. I'll say that again. Get more out of every fertilizer dollar. Because we're feeding that life, the life is unlocking the nutrients, the the the fertilizer, NPK, whatever, making it plant available. And then it comes full circle with a flywheel. You know, you work with mother nature and you set in motion a flywheel. And we've seen it on extended testing we've done over, like, multiple years and seen the long term effects of feeding microbes, and then the microbes keep nutrients cycling. And But to all of that, between so you're making money on it, but at the same time, you're investing in the in the health of your land. Who doesn't want that for the next year, the next decade, the next generation? That lights my fire. Who's it not a fit for? Yep. I'm I'm jelling up. The the question comes who who is Rhyzogreen not a fit for? Yeah. It's it's a good question because there's Rhyzogreen is not a fit for everyone. I think we might as well address it. Well, just like on the tubs, we always say if doesn't pay for itself on your operation, it probably doesn't have a spot there. So let's talk about that on Rhyzogreen. Yeah. So a couple of the key areas. One is if you got a real high or a real low pH in your soil, we've just found that to be a less effective spot for for Rhyzogreen. Yeah. The soil microbes are already sort of depressed or or suppressed, and so we don't see as much of a response. The the other one would be in a drought setting. So where you're really not applying it on a green leaf, the plant's already dead or dormant. That's not an ideal time to be applying Rhyzogreen. And the third one is, and it might surprise some folks, but row crops. So what we found over the last six years is what we do consistently is feed microbes, stimulate them, and help unlock nutrients in the soil, make them plant available. What that doesn't always mean in a row crop situation is increased bushels or increased yield. And so at the end of the day, we're focusing on improving profitability or driving profitability back to rural North America, we really aren't true to our purpose if we were to stand here and say it pays for itself all the time on row crops. There's a lot of times when if we don't increase the the yield, it's not it's not a no brainer. And that's where with forage crops, with our ninety plus percent win rate, we know for a fact, Rhyzogreen is paying for itself majority of the time, and it's it's a win for the for the rancher. And and just to don't get me wrong. There are row crop farmers that use it, you know, corn or soybeans. And have seen good results. And and and they may be chasing soil health or water infiltration or just investing in their land. Absolutely. But like Twain said, to to really measure it and look at the return, we're like forage crops, baby. Ranching, you know, that could be alfalfa, hay alfalfa mix, pasture ground, cover crops, silage, anything that's gonna go in that cow's mouth, we're increasing the tonnage, increasing the production, and also increasing the soil production capacity. And where guys might use it with pasture is if they're like a calving pasture somewhere they've hit pretty hard, or lower production areas in a pasture. We've had guys do like almost spot spray it where some there's an area where they feel like needs a bit of a pick me up or guys will even look at staggering it. So they'll do part of the ranch, you know, over a three year period. So they'll do part one year, next part the next year, the next part the third year. So they're not applying Rhyzogreen to their whole ranch every year. Certainly could, but financially, to be able to split it up and break those costs up over a few years makes a a big difference. But the take home message is if you're increasing the production capacity of your land and you're increasing the health of your soil, that is a great thing to do not only for this year, but for next year and next decade, next generation. The last place I would say it's not a fit for the guys that should not, should not, should not use it. Guys that shouldn't use it. As if a guy's not gonna measure it, you know, that's That's true. You had a a sort of a one liner on measuring. Oh, yeah. I had an old boy I used to work with in Georgia and one of the things he told me always was, you can't make what you can't measure because you'll never know when you've made it. Bit of a tongue twister, but I think it you were saying earlier, you know, even if a guy just throws a tarp down, stakes it down, and sprays over it, at least you have a patch you didn't apply ryzogreen to you can measure again. So don't overcomplicate it, but give yourself the ability to make a good decision out of this. When you use it, make sure you give yourself a comparison. There was that one guy in Texas, and he he they said dad was so excited about Rhyzogreen that he applied it to the all the all the acres they had. Well, at the end of the year, they they didn't have any comparison, and they couldn't make a good sound decision for themselves. So we'd recommend, you know, having a comparison. So if you've got this far, you're probably wondering how do I use this? How do I apply it? Twin? Yeah. So one one of the most common ways and probably the best way guys are applying it is with a ground rig. So be at a four wheeler sprayer or commercial sprayer, whatever you're using. Rhyzogreen is applied foliarly. And just apply it fully fuller foliarly. I still can't say that word. On the green leaf as far as that. So you wanna get it on the leaf of the plant. As Trevor mentioned earlier, it gets absorbed through the leaf. The one that's a big no is flood irrigation because you're not getting it on the leaf. It's hard to say where all the rhizogreen's getting. It's one gallon per five acres. So one gallon of rhizogreen per five acres, and we recommend it's mixed with between five and twenty five gallons of water per acre. And so what we've seen is with a drone, sometimes it's less, you know, than five gallons of water per acre. Think you can get two or three gallons of Yeah. And a pivot can get quite a bit more than that. So it's not that those methods are bad. It's just you're not quite at the right dilution rate. So in the wrong setting, the results might not be quite as effective if you can get it with a ground rig. But if you can't and, you know, aerial is your best method of application, no worries. Got lots of guys doing that and seeing good results. We got all the way from thirteen hundred and fifty acre tote down to cases. The biggest one's a thirteen hundred and fifty acre tote, six hundred and seventy five acre tote, four hundred acre tote, two hundred acre tote, and then actually now available through our dealers is twenty five acre cases. So pricing follows. It's the cheapest if you buy it in a big tote, you know, so we got guys, you know, maybe you don't run thirteen hundred and fifty acres, but between you and your neighbor, you got enough acres, they'll maybe split a tote. And it's lower cost because you got less packaging. Saves you a fair bit. So it's four bucks an acre off. It's twenty six dollars an acre in a big tote all the way to thirty dollars an acre in cases. For the cases, they are available through our dealer network. So for a lot of guys, it's an easy way. Say if you wanna do two or two hundred acres, you know, as a bit of a trial, you got a few different fields you wanna experiment with, they can go in, grab eight cases, and it's easy to to get applied. And what we find is guys might start with two hundred acres, like what they see, and then buy it in tote sizes there on out because it's more cost effective. The easiest way to get ahold of some would be just to give us a call. As a company, out. As of now, there's some dealers that are stocking it, some that don't quite have it yet. So give us a shout. We'll hook you up with a local dealer that's that's gonna have it in stock or we'll ship it directly to you, make sure we we get you taken care of. The main thing is as you get started is to do it right and and make sure you have a comparison. There should be a contact form somewhere around this this video, but also jump on our website, riomax dot net. You can fill out the chat and and get ahold of us that way. Otherwise, the best way, just give us a call. That's the best way. The main number, it's eight eight eight five zero seven zero one two two. And As a family business, we'd love to talk to you. Just talk to a real person. You won't be talking to a computer. Talk to a real person, and let's see if this is a fit for you. Alright. Your finger's bleeding? Holy cow.
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"We've been able to save enough hay with Riomax and we're increasing our production with Rhyzogreen. Both of those products have made it possible for us to have the confidence in knowing we're gonna be just fine.
Dan Reinke
Sheridan, WY
"I think it's a pretty cheap way to get way more out of your soil than what we do weithout. More out of what they eat, so they eat less, and Rhyzogreen gives them more grass."
Shane Keller
Valentine, NE
"...It's a win-win. You're attacking it on both fronts and you're nailing it on both fronts, so it's kind of a no-brainer. Why wouldn't you do both (Riomax and Rhyzogreen) at the same time?"
Bradley Franke
Cross Plains, TX
"I saw increased yields on every field I treated, every one...The worst yield increase was 17% up to 85%."
Todd Farrington
Collbran, CO
“The ground I sprayed versus the ground I didn’t was about 3 bales to the acre difference... $300/acre value. The product has more than paid for itself. This is something we’ll continue to do. It speaks for itself.”
Jim Lambert
Whitney, NE
“Went from 40 acres/cow in this drought to 30 acres/ cow . . . that’s $70/ cow/year!“
Raymond Rivale
Des Moines, NM
"My disease in my calves has went down tremendously, and I attribute it to Riomax. That's the only thing I changed."
Leon Mcelprang
Huntington, UT
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