[Scene opens with a shot of young soybean rows with the Soy Masters badge and "Field Notes" overlaid on it. Drum and guitar music plays in the background. The text "Inoculant Key to Soybean Success" shows. Scene switches to Doug standing in a hotel lobby, speaking to the camera.]
DOUG: A strong inoculant program is one of the most important things you can do on a soybean crop, especially when you look at the last couple years that we've had. They've been on the drier side so that's posed some challenges for inoculant survivability. We've seen, especially last year, probably poorer nodulation than we normally have. And then when you take that into account and then when you look at some of the conversations that are out there about where can you save a few dollars on a soybean acres, sometimes that inoculant conversation comes up and I just don't think that's the way to go. When you look at inoculant, there's living organisms within that and they don't like certain conditions, right? And one of those conditions they don't like is dry. So I think if I'm a grower and I'm planning for next year, even if I've had some history of soybeans on a particular field, I still don't think I'm pulling back on my inoculant because I think that the chance of the survivability of the stuff that we've had in the past might be kind of gone. That that dry session that we had last year probably hurt it quite a bit. So I still think we need to to forge forward and keep that that program solid. I mean, there's different ways of getting inoculant down, there's different types, and honestly they all work. So work with what you have with the type equipment that you have and just work with it that way.
[Scene changes to a shot of young soybean rows with the Soy Masters badge overlaid on it with the text "Field Notes". Guitar music plays in the background.]