Colby Woods

The Micro Nutrient guide had over 100 requests in the first 20 ish hours. I feel this is a telling story- people are hungry for knowledge- dedicated to being the best at their craft - and people are understanding it’s a system approach to managing- not just more N,P,K. Learn together and grow together. Next Levels saying from day one of opening the doors has been : Bring the best in agronomics and balance it with economics. With Agronomy 365 and the team - this system has been growing strong all over the US. Thank you

Got a tip from my good friend Mr cropcast, @sean_nettleton to paste the link instead nextlevelag.com/resources/ hoping this works better.

A lot of people are looking at next year's numbers right now and thinking about trimming fertility. I get it. I'd be thinking the same thing. Here's the thing though. Cutting back is easy. Anybody can write a smaller check. Cutting back with confidence is a different deal. That takes knowing what your ground is actually holding, field by field, and what the crop actually hauled off this year. So before you cut, ask yourself one question. Do I know which acres can take it and which ones can't? If you're not sure, that's okay. Most of us aren't. Ask your retailer what data is behind their recommendation. And ask them if they use Next Level Ag.

Building soil P is expensive. The math and the field don’t agree. Just jumped in the combine helping the family farm . Bean yields around here have been pretty good. Can’t speak for everybody, but overall solid. Quality’s a little off. I was listening to a video saying phosphorus needs to be 50 ppm, preferably 100. We just finished a field that made over 60. Around here most APHs are 43 to 45. Mother Nature gets the credit. She did the work. That field tested 3 to 10 ppm phosphorus. Do you really believe another 10, 12, 15 bushel was sitting there just because the soil test number was higher? I ran the math with Grok on building this ground to 50. 11-52-0 at $1,152 a ton is $1.11 a pound of P₂O₅. University data (Iowa State, Minnesota, SDSU, Tri-State) says it takes about 16 to 20 pounds of P₂O₅ to move a Mehlich-3 test 1 ppm. From 5 ppm to 50, that’s roughly $900 an acre on paper. At pH 7.2, calcium ties a lot of that up. Figure 40 percent fixation and you’re closer to $1,500 an acre before you even count crop removal working against you every year. Then ask how many bushels that takes to break even. Chasing that ppm, I’d go broke — or I’d be better off buying more land. We foliar fed this field several times. No check strip, so I can’t prove it paid. I believe it did. Exudation drives phosphorus uptake, stimulation and plant health drives exudation. The more you stimulate the crop, the more phosphorus gets in the plant. - both are important soil P and Uptake. Can’t spend it all just to get it applied to the soil. I’m not anti-phosphorus. I want P in the field. I’m anti-losing money chasing a magical ppm. South Dakota cash beans are about $12.40 tonight. At that price, $1,200 an acre is 97 bushels. $2,000 is 161 bushels. Spread over five years, you need an extra 19 to 32 bushel every single year just to get your money back. Not once. Every year.

Next Level and Agronomy 365 is always looking to get better, we are releasing our grain analysis test with seed count to better understand what your farm and management is doing for you. 1) Grain Analysis + Seed Weight sets the base of understanding your removal rates 2) Indicator Complete/Max determines the estimated release rates and what the soil can provide for free 3) Baseline recommendations are created by filling the gap (what is needed for yield goal - what the soil can release All in house data driven to create efficiency on your farm.

The standards most use for the base of a nutrient plan is just a guess based off of averages. Your grain is the only real receipt. This is one field. One grower, one 2026 corn crop, six zones. Not a regional average — just what this field actually did. Nitrogen ran 26% under the book. Phosphate 18% under. Potash 7% over. Sulfur 6% over. Same hybrid family, same field, and phosphate removal still swung from 53 to 80 pounds per acre. So the question isn’t whether the book is wrong. It’s whether you’ve ever checked yours. 1) Removal is only one piece of the puzzle. 2) The next step is the soil test — what percent of that need your soil already covers naturally. 3) The prescription file makes up the difference. That gap is all you should be spending on a crop. Grain analysis tells you what it takes to create the bushel. Soil tells you what’s already there. The prescription closes the gap. This is one field. Let’s find out what yours says. Send grain. We’ll show you what actually left.