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Kind of a weird topic, but we're very conscious of the livestock above the ground, like your cow herd, but probably not so conscious of the livestock below the ground. Now that might sound weird, but we're here to talk about that beautiful synergy where you're feeding life above the ground, feeding life below the ground. So a lot of people think of taking feed out, you're feeding your cow. What we're doing is feeding the bugs that feed the cow. When you're taking care of your soil, you're feeding the bugs that feed the plants. So it's a very strong parallel between feeding microbes in the rumen of a cow, unlocking nutrients, feeding microbes in the soil, unlocking nutrients. One set of unlocked nutrients goes to the cow, the other set goes to the plant, but it's all in one system, isn't it? When you start doing the math between increase your production by, we see ten to thirty percent, and then fifteen to thirty percent in feed savings on on Riomax. It's Welcome back to that ranching podcast where you join us around the kitchen table to talk about topics that really matter to ranchers, and I'm joined this morning by Daryl Pasquitz and Twain Manning. So kind of a weird topic, but we're very conscious of the livestock above the ground, like your cow herd, but probably not so conscious of the livestock below the ground. Now that might sound weird, but we're here to talk about that beautiful synergy where you're feeding life above the ground, feeding life below the ground. Starting with feeding life above the ground, Darryl. A lot of people think of taking feed out, you're feeding your cow, you want to keep them happy and healthy. And what we're doing is feeding the microbes, feeding the bugs that feed the cow. The same thing takes place when you're taking care of your soil, you're feeding the bugs that feed the plants. And that's what we want, is that nutrient dense plants that have high production. You don't only want a lot of them, but you want a lot in them. You want a lot in your plants that in turn goes on to feed the cow. There's such a strong overlap here between feeding microbes in the rumen of a cow and feeding microbes in the soil. Let's dive into the rumen of a cow, Twain. For the listeners, we talk about microbes every day. They might say this is sounding kind of weird. Why does it matter in a cow? When we feed the good bugs in the cow's rumen, they're more active, there's more of them. That means they're breaking down whatever she's consuming, the grass or the feed she's eating on a daily basis. And she's doing a better job processing it. So there's more she's getting more protein and more energy out of that feed. So in turn, she doesn't need as much feed to actually meet her daily requirements. So that's where we see the fifteen thirty percent feed savings on the Riomax tubs. It's awesome. So to sum up that feeding the microbes thing that sounded kind of fuzzy actually looks like fifteen to thirty percent hay or forage savings. So taking that same science, applying it below the ground, now we're feeding microbes in the soil. And the more life there is in the soil, the better job is done of unlocking nutrients, liberating nutrients, mobilizing nutrients and making them plant available. So it's a very strong parallel between feeding microbes in the rumen of a cow, unlocking nutrients, microbes in the soil, unlocking nutrients. One set of unlocked nutrients goes to the cow, the other set goes to the plant, but it's all in one system, isn't it? Yeah, it's where Q50 comes in really. It's our quest as a company to get to fifty percent ranch efficiency. When you start doing the math between Rhyzogreen, what we see of increased production, be it hay ground or pasture ground, and then really just forage crops in general, and then what we see with Riomax the fifteen to thirty percent feed savings, the financial benefits of being able to not only save feed but increase the production is huge over time. You were running some math on it earlier, if you can increase your production by ten to thirty percent and then fifteen percent to thirty percent in feed savings on Riomax, we're over fifty percent efficiency just on the math there. Yeah. And the numbers I took, Twain, were just historical data, you know, on Riomax fifteen to thirty percent hay or forage savings and on, and that's twenty years of data. Then on Rhyzogreen six years of data, ten to thirty percent increase in production. And we say production because that covers hay ground, which could be measured in tonnage, but it also covers pasture ground, which it's like more grass, just more grass. And I think of it as this Q50 journey is truly exciting for the people we serve because there's levers they can pull to increase their efficiency and hence increase their profitability, which comes full circle. Our purpose, what we live out here at Rio Nutrition is driving profitability back to rural North America. That's who we are. That's how we eat, sleep, and breathe, we do it without any apology. So Thanks for joining us on that ranching podcast. Thanks for joining us on that ranching podcast.

There's a lot of waste that goes on. No rancher anywhere likes the word waste. What was supposed to last a week is now gone, and they don't have anything for the next five days. You get way more peaks and valleys where they have it, and then they don't. And we know a cow does the best when it gets consistent daily intake of nutrients. So coming into summer, a lot of folks are faced with this decision. Do I do what I normally do or do I consider a tub option? Which one will get a rancher the bigger bang for his buck? Well, the one that well, welcome back to that ranching podcast, around the kitchen table, where we discuss topics that really matter for folks in the ranching industry. Joining me today is Daryl Paskewitz, Twain Manning. So coming into summer, a lot of folks are faced with this decision. Do I do what I normally do? You know, use a loose mineral through the summer or do I consider a tub option? You know, maybe not as traditional. People sometimes think of tubs as protein tubs only for the wintertime or cornstalk grazing. Let's talk about what is the best for folks. You know, we have a loose mineral. Riomax has a loose mineral. Obviously, tubs is the main thing we do. But just to sort of showcase the differences between loose mineral and tubs, what are some of the negatives that guys run into with a loose mineral? Yeah. And like you say, we have our own loose mineral as a company. So by no means, I mean, we're more just talking objectively. This is the the problems. There is windproof, you know, waterproof, and really waste proof benefit of the tub is you're not getting, you know, a bull a bull can't tip over a tub and it blows everywhere, gets wet and clumps up. Like, that's just some negatives as a as a rule of of loose mineral that you hear. There's a lot of waste that goes on, would you say that? Think of sorry. No. Was just thinking of that word waste. No rancher anywhere likes the word waste. Bull dumping it over or even the wind blowing loose mineral is very painful for for people to watch happen because that ain't helping nobody's bottom line. One of the things with a loose mineral versus a tub is that a loose mineral is more difficult to, keep out all the time. We know a cow does the best when it gets consistent daily intake of nutrients. Don't care where they're coming from out of the grass, or the feed, or the supplement. If it's eliminating peaks and valleys and you can have a program that delivers consistent daily intakes, the cattle do much better. So if you have put out a week's supply or two weeks supply of loose mineral, maybe the cow comes and devours it in a couple days, or, like you said, gets tipped over and what was supposed to last a week is now gone and they don't have anything for the next five days, You get way more peaks and valleys where they have it, and then they don't. The tub, we often see our tubs, for example, lasting three to four weeks when you put out a feeding. So it's there twenty four hours a day, day or night. It makes a big difference daily intake. The other benefit of a tub in general is the licking action. You probably got the stats better than I do on saliva production. Doctor Fransky always used the phrase saliva is the start of the digestive process. Yep, it starts right behind the lips, he used to say. Yep, so it's a natural buffer for the rumen and it's a key part of the digestion process. But the amount of saliva that a cow can produce, like you mentioned Twain, varies dramatically. I think different studies have shown that a cow could produce between ten to forty five gallons of saliva per day, depending on a bunch of factors like their diet, and in this case, in this discussion today, the tub, licking on the tub will greatly increase the amount of saliva a cow produces. You think it's important to note that saliva is high in pH and it's a buffering agent for the rumen? So it comes back to it's not just saliva for saliva's sake, but in that licking action, we're starting to make a big impact on the stability and the balance within that rumen to digest the grass that cow's eating. Yeah, the rumen environment, the engine of the cow. We wanna have a very stable functioning rumen environment. And that's a big, big part of it. But when it's if it varies between ten to forty five gallons, it's a huge variance. And and if we can impact that and create more saliva, the tub is a better option. If If you think of it, even if we, like for Riomax, have basically the same ingredients in our loose mineral or our tub, which one will get the rancher the bigger bang for his buck? Well, the one that aids digestion the most. And what you're saying is that licking action is just working, you know, in a natural system. I I think that's that's huge. But the other side of it, this whole waste idea, it really hurts, you know, like you get a rain event, which you're always thankful for moisture, but then you're if if you don't have a cover over your mineral and it clumps up and turns into a brick, you know, then you end up dumping that out. Nobody enjoys that. So looking at this through the lenses of what's gonna make the biggest impact on pasture and what's, you know, dollars and cents, what's the biggest return? Guys guys are also using the tubs. It's a lot easier with a tub to move it around, you know, or when you put your next tub out pasture utilization. So if there's an area of the pasture the cows don't typically go to, you can put it out, you know, in that area and they use it as a management tool. It's just a lot easier than a loose mineral bucket, you might say. Yeah. I remember a guy in Idaho telling me that he said there's parts of the ranch that the cows have never grazed before. Now with Riomax, they're they're grazing it. Well, that's music to his ears and to ours because we're getting more out of every acre. But he also said they're eating star thistle, which he said they've never in the history of this ranch have consumed star thistle. So what it's doing is you're working with the digestive system, that cow is in better shape to digest poor quality forages, but we're also, with the tubs as a grazing management tool, sucking them into the far flung parts of that pasture to help folks get more out of every acre they have. The final thing was a lot of loose minerals out there. They could be even a good mineral program, but they tend to not have the digestion side of it. Daryl? Yeah. When, when we're looking at a formulation, we want to do everything. We want to pack everything possible into that formulation. That's how we look at formulas as a company: what all can you put in there? And there's only so much room, but we have our formulas packed, jam packed full of minerals, vitamins, trace minerals, covering all those bases, and then doing everything possible we can in the in the form of digestion support. So you don't wanna overlook any of those areas. The the one thing guys do sometimes say is, well, I'm just gonna, you know, cheap out or skim by this summer and just use a loose mineral. It's a lot cheaper. You know, it's only thirty bucks a bag or fifty bucks a bag or whatever it is. But if you do the math, and I'd encourage you to do it on your own operation, what we find in over a six month period, a lot of guys are spending say twenty to thirty bucks a cow for their summer's worth of mineral, even on a a lower cost loose mineral could be upwards of forty or fifty on a more expensive loose mineral. And if you compare it to the Riomax tubs on average, because forage quality is good in the summer, we could have lower consumption on the tubs. You're gonna be spending typically in the neighborhood of fifty to sixty bucks a cow. So realistically, you know, we're only talking the difference of about thirty dollars a cow. Look. Cow calf pair, I should say. And we're talking twenty five hundred dollar calves right now. What a thirty dollars investment will get you in terms of feed efficiency. The cow's doing a better job breaking down their feed. They're not eating as much grass, milk production, increasing weaning weights, and then overall fertility conception rates as well. All those things add up and make a thirty dollar investment look like a pretty small blip on the radar at the end of the day. Yeah. Which comes full circle back to our purpose of driving profitability back to rural North America. And, when you talk about those levers we can pull, you know, grazing management, managing your resources, you know, weaning weights, fertility, these things are huge. So, well, that wraps us up for this episode of That Ranching Podcast. See you next week.

Is Riomax a breeding tab? I have much higher conception rates these days. What's not to like about that? All he says is I have less open cows and I have no It's really hard to go back and pinpoint what happened. You're six months out. If things dried up in June, right as you turn the bulls out, it could have a massive impact on your bottom line. We don't worry about what we can't control, do we? What we can focus on is what we can control. Sixty to ninety days prior to bull turnout really is when you want to start impacting breeding. Trevor, help us on looking at all the different ways that Riomax can help with breeding. Probably the first thing on most people's minds is what's in the mineral pack. But I want to talk about something that's probably a little bit more unique and and overlooked, and that is Welcome back to That Ranching Podcast. Joining us today around the kitchen table on this Thursday, we've got Trevor Greenfield and Twain Manning. So today, we're diving into are we diving into? We're exploring how do we help conception rates in your cow herd. Big question. Is Riomax a breeding tub? How does Riomax help with breeding? There's a lot to uncover, isn't there? Yeah. One one thing you run into is a lot of a lot of times, I mean, obviously, guys aren't preg checking till fall, typically speaking, if they're spring calving cow herd. So you'll be you're six months past when the bulls were actually first turned out by the time you finally preg checked the cows. And it's really hard to go back and pinpoint what happened last spring or early summer that had the impact, whether good or bad, you know, knowing what you did or you didn't do. If things dried up in June, as you turn the bulls out, it could have a massive impact on your bottom line or on the actual conception rates. But you're six months out and you really don't know what was happening at that specific time. And I think it's really important to know the things you can control that we often talk about is the supplements and what you're putting into those cows through that time period to maximize those results. Would you say? Yeah, I agree. We don't worry about what we can't control, do we? But what we can focus on is what we can control. And that is how we're going to supplement that cow to improve the nutritional success and give them the maximum chance. So Trevor, help us on looking at all the different ways that Riomax can help with breeding. Probably the first thing on most people's minds is what's in the mineral pack. I'll probably leave that one to Twain to talk about the, you know, copper, zinc, manganese, selenium. But I want to talk about something that's probably a little bit more unique and overlooked, and that is the power of Nutrizorb in Riomax, and that is the digestion pack. And this is a little bit different from your average spiel on why to buy our mineral, because this is how to get more out of what you've already got. Your pastures, your resources, with the power of NutriSorb, we not only get more protein and energy, but we get more of all the naturally occurring trace elements or trace minerals, vitamins, minerals out of that pasture. So the first thing is, let's get more out of what we've already got. And maybe that can lead on to then, as far as the supplemental trace minerals, maybe Twain could talk on that. Yeah, absolutely. One of the big things with our mineral package, Esqort, is we use a hundred percent protected minerals. So chelate crystal blend to minerals, but it's a hundred percent protected. What you'll find with a lot of programs out there is they'll use a partially chelated mineral. So they'll have some sulfates and oxides in their mineral program, which is a cheaper form of the mineral and less available to the cow. So when we're using the one hundred percent protected minerals, flax, and then as Trevor said, with Nutrizorb, those different ingredients really all work together to provide the results we see. Yeah, think that's the thing to summarize and to get your head around, isn't it? What we're doing with Riomax is we've got highly bioavailable ingredients and we provide a host of nutrients in there to feed the good bugs and improve digestion. So when you supplement a big range of minerals, vitamins and trace minerals that are highly bioavailable so the cow can use absolutely every piece possible, and along with that you supplement a bunch of ingredients that improve the feed conversion so they can get the most out of their feed, you have a powerful package. There's not any one thing that's contributing solely to the success. It's the combination and synergy of everything that we're putting in there. Yeah. We like to sometimes think of putting stuff into boxes and like, oh yeah, I got the flax in there or the zinc or whatever for breed up. No, it's looking at the whole picture, including the diet, like the grass that the cow is consuming. And just on the trace minerals real quick, with the one hundred percent protected key trace minerals, that is huge because when they're protected, we help them weather the journey through the rumen and get to the small intestine where they're absorbed into the bloodstream. It gives them the highest scientific chance of getting to where they need to go. And that is one of the levers, a big lever that we can pull to impact fertility and conception. One thing that we hear from guys is they want a breed up tub, you know, and they're calling about this two weeks before we turn bulls out, you know, and realistically, we're way behind the eight ball at that point, know, your sixty to ninety days prior to bull turnout really is when you want to start impacting breeding. So thinking about a breeding tub just in a box like you say Trevor, like we're going put the breeding tub out, you know, at breeding time or as the bulls get turned out. And I'm not slighting anyone that does that, but I would say to get the most bang for your buck or the most return on your mineral program, thinking ahead sixty to ninety days is critical to really get those minerals absorbed properly into the cow, get her levels up so that breeding season rolls around. She's ready to ready to roll. And I guess the bulls are the same, you know, they're half the equation. Making sure they're on a good supplement well prior to breeding as well. The term you use, like I need a breeding tub, almost makes me think of we're going to take our feedlot animal, you know, through almost treating it as a feedlot animal through the winter and into the spring and suddenly, Oh, we got, this thing's a reproductive animal. So we're going to give it a breed up tub. It's like, no, it's always been a reproductive animal. And we've got to be mindful of that. You said ninety days out and ideally, you know, year round or in the fetus of its mother. And if a cow, like if a cow needs a high level of copper and zinc and your key trace is manganese, selenium, your key trace minerals, like if she needs a high level of that just through breeding, why doesn't she need it through calving as well and then back it up through the winter third trimester, you know, as she's raising that? There shouldn't be a time when we're pulling levels down because we think we can get away from it. If it means impacting that calf's performance or the cows' health overall, that's as a company, we believe that if if they need it at some times of the year, they they need a year round to maximize performance. One, I mean, one of the other things, so we get guys sometimes that say, you know, hey. I'm well into the nineties on breed up or a hundred percent heard that before where they run the bulls year round or six months of the year. And in their mind, the vast majority of those cows get bred. I mean, maybe the, a lot of the cows do get bred, but over a six month window, you're selling the calves in a lot of different groups and it's really not a very good measure of your fertility. Whereas if we can get majority of those cows in the first twenty one to forty five days realistically, first couple cycles, that's when you know you have a cow herd that's fertile and performing at their maximum, and then you have a more consistent calf crop as well. Twain, have you had feedback from customers where they've seen they're getting more caught in the first cycle or more in the second cycle versus Yeah, we hear it quite a bit that the cows are more calves in the first cycle. But one of our guys this last year was talking to him. Said, yeah, it was back in January, I think it was. And I asked, I was like, oh, so when do you start calving? At Christmas. And I was like, well, I thought you were like February. He's like, oh, no, we are. But he said, last year we had couples right after some of the cows calved, got neighbors bull got into the pasture and got four cows bred. And this is this would have been within a couple weeks of them calving. Those calving. Those cows bumped up a couple cycles from when they had literally calved, got bred, and bumped up about forty five days roughly speaking. So that that just show I mean, obviously not an ideal scenario, but just shows what what the power of Riomax when you can get those cows cycling back faster. And that was a mistake, you know, that was a neighbor's bull type situation, but it tells a bigger story and that is with fertility and that reproductive performance, you tighten up your whole breeding season so that you get more caught in the first cycle, and then that directly flows onto more pounds, you know, a bigger calf, a heavier calf come weaning. I think there's two things going on there, isn't there? You've got the moving them up and it's what you can gain. You can get a tighter calf crop and a more uniform, get them all bred in the first cycle ideally if you could, and then along with that it's what you potentially could lose with them not cycling back, they're not nutritionally successful and that they aren't cycling back and they're not breeding and slowly they fall out of the program and you end up with a bunch of open cows. That's the other side of that. I was talking to a guy once and he said, yeah, I'm not too happy with the Riomax. And I was like, you know, what's going on? We take that seriously. And he's like, well, he said, have much higher conception rates these days. I'm like, what's not to like about that? Well, he says, have less open cows and I have no beer money. But I would say, you know, all all in the spirit of keeping cows in the herd, keeping your getting more out of your cow herd and more production, more profitability for your ranch. And less beer money. Yeah. That kinda sucks, but there's probably other ways. You could sell a bred cow or two if you have to, I suppose. That wraps us up this morning on That Ranching podcast. We look forward to seeing you back around the kitchen table next Thursday.

People hate seeing their cows all bunched up. And it has a real cost to it. Lower milk production on the cows, weaning weights, conception rates for fraud, pink eye. There's just a lot of things that just come along with fly pressure that sucks. There's no silver bullet to fly control. No perfect method, but you definitely can help it. Welcome back to this week's episode of That Ranching podcast, where we sit around the kitchen table and talk about topics that actually matter for folks in ranching. So we wanna talk about the fly issues in summertime. People hate seeing their cows all bunched up. You know, they've got all this grass, all this pasture, and the cows are bunched up in the corner. Dwayne? Yeah. And and it has a real cost to it. I mean, yes, there's the emotional factor that nobody likes seeing their cows bunched up, but it means higher stress on the cattle. So typically lower milk production on the cows, hurts weaning weights, can hurt conception rates for sure. And the cows get stomping and they'll step on each other's hooves. You can get hoof rot, pink eye from them, their tails flick any, the eyes are they'll irritate their eyes. So there's there's just a lot of things that just come along with fly pressure that sucks. They're really not grazing a lot while they're in a corner, are they? Like and probably not getting bred either standing in a corner and probably not the easiest for that calf to actually nurse all hunt you know, bunched up. They're a bad thing every which way. They don't They don't help anybody. They don't help anybody do anything. Mean, fly pressure varies on the year. Right? You get some years, dry years aren't too bad. A wet year gets real bad. And and honestly, even as a company, I mean, we're gonna talk about our our fly control products here. There's no cure all. Like, there's no silver bullet to fly control. Right? Guys try oilers, tags, they feed different items. There's no perfect method, but you definitely can help it. When you, control the flies, then you enable those cows to be cows and do what they need to do. And that is get out and graze, produce milk, nurse their calves outside, get bread, all of those things, and utilize the resources on your ranch versus being bunched up in the corner. But, Daryl, maybe you can speak a little bit to the technology or the ingredients we use for fly control and how that may differ from others on the market. It's an important thing how we go about what we do. As we said earlier, there's no perfect way, there's no perfect cure, there's no silver bullet, there's no thought even of trying to get rid of one hundred percent of all the flies. What we want to do is take the load off the flies to the point where they're comfortable. They're spread out grazing, they're doing what they're supposed to do. That's what we aim to get to. A couple of the products we've got, one of them is Repel. You hear the Repel term a lot being used often year round by a lot of producers, but through the summertime the benefit is it's got a powerful garlic extract product in there. A big proponent of pushing the maximum amount of repelling that you can do on a cow to repel the flies from spending time on the back of the animal or biting them. We can also do a formula that has the UltraCit IGR, so that's going after the fly population to reduce the number of flies that are around kill them in the larva stage before they become mature flies. The challenge with the IGR larvicide approach, while it works, there's two things. One is that if the neighbor's not using something, you're killing the flies on your pasture, they're coming over from the neighbors, that's a negative. The other thing is that it's not an all natural product. Although, like you say, we have it in one of our formulas, but I'm more from the results we see, I really love the way the Repel works, and that is, the name says it, those flies are repelled from the cow. They don't want to land on the cow. And in doing that too, we've got the heat stress benefit and all the digestive benefits and antioxidant benefits of those natural ingredients. So you're cutting a much wider swath and just, you know, going after a certain The other thing when you're working through the manure is there's a lot of your horn flies lay their eggs in the manure, but there's a lot of flies that don't. So your face flies in different things that can travel a lot further distances that you really, no matter how much you put in the manure, you can't control that population. So rappelling is really the best method. Rappelling is the best tool we have. The one thing I will add there is we hear from customers like, oh, I still have flies on my cows. You know, I'm still seeing some flies. A big question I would ask is, are they fighting them or are they just there? Because on a especially on a wet year when you got a lot of flies around, you're still going to have flies on your cows. There's, there's no two ways about that. But what we do see with the repel is you might have flies there, but they're not biting them. You know, the cows aren't bunching, they're not fighting them. And if your cows out grazing, I don't care how many flies she has on her, that is a clear indication that she is not being bothered by those flies. She's out there doing her job. If she's not fighting them, they're not bugging her. Let cows be cows and do their thing. One other ingredient that we have, and it's one of a bunch that we use, but is diatomaceous earth, and that helps with internal parasites, but it also is passed through into the manure, and that is an all natural product that works as like a mechanical kill for the fly larva in the larva stage. It's not an IGR, it's not a chemical or a drug, it's a natural mechanical kill. So that's in all the formulas, rest assured. And we have it at a higher level in all the Repel formulas we put a higher dose of it in. Bottom line is flies themselves obviously are a pain, but it's the cost of not dealing with them that ultimately hits the bottom line. Costs hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the North American beef market. And what it costs you is unrealized gains on your calves, unrealized milk production on your cows, unrealized conception rates, you know? So the cost is huge. What we're trying to end up with is cow comfort. There's no silver bullet. We're not trying to eliminate one hundred percent of all flies. You want the cows comfortable and you want them content. You want them laying down early in the day, they're content, chewing their cud, and they're very efficient animals. That doesn't happen when they're getting flies driving them crazy and they're stamping their feet in the corner of the field where it's nothing but bare dirt and a giant dust cloud, and they're all getting pneumonia and watery eyes. Yeah. The other thing, I was in South Dakota once and this guy's like, how come some calves have tons of flies around them, others don't? So we went out and looked, and he said, like, see that one there? And it was a droopy eared kind of a a little bit sick looking calf, you know, more of a suppressed immune system. And all the good doing calves had almost no flies. So he says, why is that? Well, it's because flies are you know, they go after the weak or immune suppressed animals. So if you got a healthy functioning cow herd, that's probably your best defense. And then repel is a a great way to keep them out and let cows be cows, be comfortable, graze, get bread, pack on the pounds, all those good things. That wraps us up for today's That Ranching podcast episode, and the better one is coming next week.

What if I told you you could get more out of every dollar you spend on fertilizer? I'm all ears, Trevor. You feed the rumen microbes, so you get more out of every mouthful. Well, with Rhyzogreen, we feed the soil microbes and we get more out of all the nutrients in the soil. Isn't it like fifty percent of the fertilizer you put down really is in the unusable form for the plant? Life is the key or the catalyst to unlock and and liberate that. If you're spending thousands on fertilizer every year, but your soil isn't improving, there's a good chance you're leaving money on the ground. So welcome back to that ranching podcast around the kitchen Table, where you join us to talk about topics that actually matter to folks in ranching. A big topic right now, I'm sure you would agree, is fertilizer prices. We've seen fertilizer prices spike recently, but in general, fertilizer prices are always on top of people's minds. It might be for hay ground or for your forage crops you're growing. What if I told you you could get more out of every dollar you spend on fertilizer? Twain? Yeah. I'm all ears, Trevor. Well, it does really come back to working with mother nature and getting more out of what we've already got. On Riomax, always say, you know, you feed the rumen, feed feed the rumen microbes so you get more out of every mouthful. Well, with Rhyzogreen, we feed the soil microbes and we get more out of all the nutrients in the soil. So then people say, well, does that mean I can quit or eliminate or reduce fertilizer usage if I'm using Rhyzogreen? Daryl? That's a great question. If we can reduce or eliminate any fertilizer, any inputs, input costs, it's what we're trying to do. So if we're going to able to feed the microbes that unlock nutrients, this is one way we can use nutrients that are potentially tied up in our soil. Yeah, exactly. On the flip side, that doesn't mean that we can continually mine the ground until there's nothing there and hope to still grow a happy, healthy crop. If there's something missing from your soil and you've mined it totally bare, we may need to bring in different types of fertilizers to replenish the food source. Is that right? It is. You know, we often talk about the nutrients in the soil as a bank account, and Rhyzogreen helps us to unlock that bank account, make those nutrients available to the plant, not just this year's fertilizer, but the last five years, ten years. Right? There's fertilizer in a tied up form that's not plant available. And so What's the math on that again, Trevor? Isn't it like fifty percent of the fertilizer you put down really isn't in a usable, or up to fifty percent in a usable form for the plant? Right. Life is the key or the catalyst to unlock and liberate that. The first thing is let's get more out of the fertilizer and the nutrients that we already have in our soil. And secondly, let's get more out of every fertilizer dollar. And the way we do that is by feeding life in the soil. Now we've done four hundred forty seven side by side tests on how Rhyzogreen impacts rumen soil biology, and we see an average increase of fifty six percent. So while we're not sitting here telling you, Oh yeah, you can completely cut fertilizer, we are saying that the science shows that you can unlock or liberate or use more out of the fertilizer you already have in your soil. And for future, for every dollar you spend on fertilizer, you can simply get more mileage out of it. We need to remember that when you feed your soil potassium or some type of fertilizer, it doesn't automatically just go into the plant, does it? It's microbes that move nutrients from the soil into the plant. That's how even water, like it's microbes that enable that. That enable the movement of nutrients from the soil into the plant. So that is why the success or failure of your crop, of your plants, of the forages, all depends on how healthy the microbe environment is. What you've said is absolutely that's a principle that functions with or without Rhyzogreen. But when you add Rhyzogreen to that equation, now the things that mobilize nutrients are up by fifty six percent. So if you take you know, an acre of soil in the top six inches, you'll have between a thousand and two thousand pounds of soil microbes. People say, well, what does that matter? Well, just to visualize it, you know, let's say a thousand pounds. And according to our four forty seven data sets, we now see a fifty six percent increase. So we've got fifteen hundred sixty pounds of soil microbes. They're the guys that are moving your water and your nutrients into the plant. They have a life cycle, hours or days, and as they die off, they become soil organic matter, of which a certain percentage of that dead organism is going to be nitrogen or phosphorus or sodium, Boron, yeah, it's nutrients. It's nutrients. Right? And so while so many folks are worried about fertilizer and shipping around the world and all these, this price hike and stuff, which, hey, it's real. We're like, but wait, if you work with the microbes in the soil, you can unlock and get more out of what you've already got. And if you are, you know, putting fifty pounds or a hundred pounds or whatever your program is, it's still a good idea to get more out of every dollar you spend on fertilizer. It says here, if you're spending thousands on fertilizer every year, but your soil isn't improving, there's a good chance you're leaving money on the ground. Yeah. It's all there is to it. Thanks for joining us on That Ranching Podcast, and we'll see you next week.