He Skipped Fertilizer On One Field...The Results Shocked Him.
Yeah. I just, I guess, decided to give it a try after after I'd seen what what the Riomax tubs did. I'm like, well, this is the this is the cousin to it. Instead of the animal side, it's the soil side. I'm still kinda learning my way with it a little bit. The first year we tried it, we didn't get the side by side test going like we wanted to and the whole field ended up getting sprayed and we had sixty acres on each side of the road. Then the following year, I kind of rolled the dice and I and I didn't fertilize the one the one side. When we're all said and done, the yield was the same. I'm not saying you want to skip fertilizer all the time because you still got to have the food there for the plant, but to me that Rhyzogreen must have done something of freeing up stuff in the soil, nutrients and whatever, that it was still able to hang with the field that was fertilized. Even probably be conservative, a hundred and fifty bucks an acre fertilizer and the yield was the same without that hundred and fifty dollar cost. Makes you feel pretty good. I don't want to be a proponent of not fertilizing, but yet it might I think it's more along the lines of it can help you tweak your fertilizer program. If it's helping utilize the commercial fertilizer you are putting on things are getting absorbed better, utilized better, however you want to say it, I think that's good for the land. You know, you're building the soil. When you're feeding the microbes and the and the activity in the soil, that's a natural way of doing it. And I guess I've always kind of been a big fan of worms because I think they do a they do a lot for you. That's one of the big one of the things I noticed years ago when we kind of switched to all no till, the amount of worm activity that came about in the soil. When that soil is full of worm holes, it's gonna hold more water. I think the Rhyzogreen just kind of plays hand in hand with all that. They did do the the water infiltration and that result was unbelievable. So that alone says says volumes because, you know, if old mother nature doesn't want to rain, but you have soil that's that's there and ready to to use all the water, absorb it all when when it does come versus just run away or whatever. You know, that's huge. That's that's gonna that's gonna put more tons of hay out right there. You know, if you'd have first told me that was possible, I'd like, yeah, I don't I don't know about that, but you know, when they go out there and dig dig the dirt and do the do the test, then it kind of proves it to you that that it does do it. It seems like every year now we're having to spray our alfalfa for aphids and who knows what kind of bugs. So I guess I'm just starting to put Rhyzogreen as just part of the recipe. When we go spray insecticide, the Rhyzogreen is going with it. If you're using and your cows are doing better and consuming less feed, stretching your pasture or your corn stalks or whatever you're you're feeding. The Rhyzogreen on the other hand can help for the feed that you do need help you produce more feed to feed those cows. So the two working from each end of the spectrum, I think just helps push push that dollar amount up in the middle. Try it on a little bit. Do a side by side. Take your worst field or something. Put Rhyzogreen on fifty acres of it or something. And I think I think you'll see a difference.
Darren Jensen - Bloomfield, NE
Crops
- Row Crop
Fast Facts
- Saved $150 Per Acre
- Improved Water Infiltration
- Didn't Apply Fertilizer On Rhyzogreen Treated Acres
Can a natural soil stimulant help you get more from your fertilizer program?
In this video, Darren Jensen shares how Rhyzogreen helped maintain yield while reducing input costs. After comparing fertilized and non-fertilized acres, he saw the same yield—even with roughly $150 per acre less in fertilizer.
He also discusses improved water infiltration, healthier soil biology, and why Rhyzogreen has become part of his regular spray program.
Watch his story and see why he's encouraging other farmers to try a side-by-side test for themselves.
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Seen a lot of savings on our on our pastures. Generally, figure about five and a half to six acres of pair around through here. We've been even last year through the drought of that we had of twenty twenty, we did four and a half acres of pair on on ours, still had adequate grass left. Cattle came off in good condition. They weren't weren't malnutritioned, weren't low body scores. Been running pretty consistent, six body score better on everything. We're paying right around fifty dollar an acre cash rent up here is kinda kind of a common thing. You can knock out an acre here off of every cow that that saves a lot of money. Mean, fifty fifty bucks and you don't need four hundred another four hundred acres. It's another twenty thousand. So all of a sudden you got forty forty five thousand dollars in your pocket and you still have all the extra added benefits through the mineral, the health benefits of it. And it really saved on the last year too with the drought. We didn't think we'd get through. We put the same amount of number in the pastures and it didn't rain. We pulled it out and we still had old grass in the pasture. I didn't know the tub saved that whole deal. We had stretched it a lot because there was a lot of people selling cows and we didn't sell anything and we didn't pull them out early. And this year, most of the pastures around here are pretty much nothing. And we drove through everything. We still got, you know, shoots of grass and tufts of grass all over the place. Not a lot, but it we kept them. It made a huge difference. As far as paying for itself, you know, you got to feed and you start saving instead of a lot of guys are up to forty five, fifty five pounds. It was figured somewhere in there a big cow and even when they had the calf on them sixty pounds. So if you're feeding thirty pounds, yeah, it's gonna easily pay for itself without you see a bit. I mean, we, you can see it on the cow calf pairs too, bigger calves. We calve in May, June, and we're weaving seven hundred and some pound calves off of Dallas. So it makes, yeah, we can see the difference really easy. You just go through each step and see We're running more cows than we used to run on the same acres. That is a big deal. Because I used to on on my pastures, they're not big pastures, but on my pastures, I used to run twenty five head and they would have it grazed down to nothing in five months easy. Now I can run thirty, thirty five on the same pastures, and they can stay there another month longer easy on any given year. And this year, they got to stay two months longer, and there's still grass left over. Well, yeah, it's high priced, but it's like if if you can afford or not. But I think you can afford it because you cannot afford not to feed it because you can get your cattle to market faster. They're healthier. You could run more cattle on your land or you can stay there longer before you have to move on to an another patch. The cows are way healthier. They're way more content. They're happy. They're happy cows.
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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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