Lightning machine
Devon Zenner (Nezperce) and Eric Hasselstrom (Winchester) are two growers who are trying a new technology called Green Lightning to increase crop yields and benefit the soil they farm on.
Speaker2: Today, the Green Lightning machine is mimicking exactly what a lightning strike does, and the lightning strike puts a lot of nitrogen into the ground wherever it strikes. The years that we traditionally have higher yields, we generally have a lot of lightning storms. We're pulling water in from my well, and it direct injects it with the air that this machine is sucking in. And then this is where it creates a static electricity to change the molecule, to inject the nitrogen in from the atmosphere into the water. And then it just drips down into here. It's in a form that the plant wants it naturally. I would say overall we have 7 or 8 growers around here that are trying this right now. Speaker3: I can put it on as foliar on the fall wheat. I put ten gallons to the acre on a field of fall wheat, and that was all I did. Different compared to the field right next to it. Same rotation, and it was 20 bushel better yield than the other field. So that was good to see. And I only had £50 of nitrogen on both of the fields. Speaker2: If they keep the prices of these units where they're at, it's great for the farmer. The ROI when you're talking 60 bucks an acre of an ROI, that's easy math. You do that all day long. Pay for this machine one year. Speaker1: What's the old expression? Lightning in a bottle?
