{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Felston-solberg-at-farm-forum-qN_FHyDI","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"How Many Pounds of Water Does One Bushel Take?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/4cef2b53-2aee-4e35-a2c3-9bd73bff2ca0/cropped_1788371481783.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Recorded at Farm Forum Event 2019, this session features Elston Solberg, co-founder of EarthDirtSoil and part of the Crop Intelligence team, building a case that water, not any single input, sets the ceiling on a dryland crop. He works through the split between soil mobile and plant mobile nutrients, what boron does to roots and to heat tolerance, what a percent of organic matter is actually holding, and why protein at 13.5 percent tells a producer whether they optimized for the moisture they had. The tension running under it is that fertilizer use across the Prairies has been flat since the mid eighties while yields climbed, which means the reserves in the soil have been quietly drawn down. Producers walk away with a way to read a field that does not depend on following anyone's recipe."}