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Step 2: Give your seed the best possible start 🌱

Once the foundation is in place, the next step is setting each seed up for success.

HyprGerm Dry is a dry biological seed treatment designed to encourage rapid emergence, stronger root development, and vigorous early growth, helping every plant reach its potential from day one.

The goal isn’t simply getting wheat to emerge. It’s establishing a crop that’s prepared to perform all season long.

Next up: Step 3 - helping wheat wake up stronger in the spring.

Step 1: Build the foundation. 🧱

Before the seed goes in the ground, we focus on the soil.

A pre-plant carbon and biological application can help activate microbial activity, improve nutrient cycling, and create an environment where roots can establish quickly. This application can be especially useful after a fallow period.

Healthy soil isn’t built overnight, and neither is a high-performing wheat crop. Start with the soil. The crop will follow.

Next week: Step 2 - why seed treatment is more than just protection.

A stronger wheat crop doesn’t happen in one pass. It starts with a plan.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be breaking down our 3-step approach to building healthier, more resilient wheat:

1️⃣ Pre-Plant: Feed the soil before the seed ever goes in.

2️⃣ Seed Treatment: Set the crop up for strong emergence and early vigor.

3️⃣ Spring Wake-Up: Jumpstart wheat coming out of dormancy to maximize nutrient efficiency and finish strong.

Every step builds on the one before it. Because the best wheat programs don’t start at planting, they start before it. 🌾

Last week we were out in Alma, KS for the Enhancing Soil Health in Native Grass and Cropland field day. Tour stops covered everything from native grass production and quality, to cover crop seed production, dual cropping with soybeans and rye, and cattle collar technology for rotational grazing.

These on-farm events are some of the best ways to see soil health principles playing out in real operations, and this one did not disappoint.

If you want to go deeper, we recently sat down with Jerry Hatfield to talk about production on rangeland and what’s really happening below the surface. Click below to listen👇

YouTube: https://youtu.be/NafURCyed4c?si=GKXu_5yszEq7cKx
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/52XyxtoNlmC1ylputN8Jlh

Weeds don’t show up randomly, they grow where conditions invite them.

That same species coming back in the same area every year is telling you something specific about what’s going on in that soil. Could be compaction. Could be a pH problem. Could be disrupted biology or a nutrient deficiency that keeps creating the right environment for that plant to thrive.

Spraying takes care of the symptom, but reading the field first gets to the root of what’s actually going on.

What w**d keeps showing up in your fields? Drop it in the comments and let’s talk about what it might be pointing to. 👇

Ever wondered what goes on during a farm visit with our very own, Austin Cisneros? This podcast episode is about as close as it gets!

Austin recently sat down with out of West Tennessee and got into all of it. Soil testing, input efficiency, biological programs, and what it actually looks like to farm by design instead of habit.

If you’re serious about your soil health journey, this one is worth your drive time. Go give it a listen.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/DGIPQ1qUuNA?si=8NwF1DeUG06ZiX2AY

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6VhaJqSnkcr3yPWrk2AzUz?si=vBqT2pPzSjCrAycsot2Ctg

Can you spot the difference? 👀

This central Kansas farmer drilled humates with a portion of his newly planted alfalfa. The rest went in without. Once the crop started emerging, the treated acres spoke for themselves!

It’s easy to focus on fertility when chasing a good stand, but getting the foundational things right, like the C:N ratio in your soil, matters just as much. Carbon is what gives your biology a home. Without it, nitrogen has nowhere to go.

Humates can help move that C:N ratio in the right direction. This field is showing you exactly what that looks like when some acres get closer to that balance while others do not.

Do you factor C:N into your soil health plan?

Cytokinins, the hormones that promote cell division and keep your crop in a growth-forward posture, are produced in root tips.

Which means a compromised root system isn’t just a water and nutrient problem. It’s a hormonal one.

A root system dealing with compaction, low biological activity, or anaerobic zones is sending different signals to the rest of the plant than one that’s healthy and active. Those signals determine things like stomatal behavior, ear set, grain fill duration, which all impact productivity.

Our latest blog post connects plant stress physiology, the root-to-shoot hormone highway, and what soil biology has to do with keeping your crop on the right side of that equation.

🔗 https://elevateag.com/plant-stress-hormones-soil-biology/