 One of the fields we look at had an area of of salinity that we see for that is pretty typical for the James River Valley in South Dakota and so the James River Valley runs right through Hutchison County also and we see these salinity areas popping up because those salts are they're really inherent in our soils deeper down in the profile and when we get these heavy precipitation years that water table moves up and then it through capillary action that water moves to the soil surface it evaporates and it takes the salts with it. Well the water evaporates but the salts stay at the surface and so for not managing the water table in that field correctly or we're not using enough water when we get those salts that move into certain areas of the field wherever that water table is higher a cultural surface or we get some saline seeps the water moving basically horizontally from throughout the field so what we what we're looking at is one of those areas uh really the soil structure in those those places a lot of them also happen to be sodic um so the soil structure is really poor water does not infiltrate well so those are those are areas we're really working with a lot of landowners on how we remediate those areas and put them back into production. Right and yeah it's my understanding really that you can't just treat the saline area you have to treat everything upslope as well so you've got to use that water upslope and then you're also looking at it's more successful with perennials than just with annuals is that correct? Yeah that's that's correct the salinity isn't too isn't too high you can maybe address it through crop rotation and cover crops but often the salinity is is too high to even really make good headway with crop rotation and cover crops so really the the best alternative in my opinion to restore these areas is through perennial vegetation we have salt tolerant perennials grasses that we can establish in a lot of these areas and we also want to establish them kind of throughout the watershed of that field we want to determine where that water is coming from when we want to use that water in the whole watershed so it's some areas you might be able to plant you know just a few acres and kind of remediate and correct your issues with salinity some harder scale planting but those areas can still be production areas you can still graze those acres you could still hay them if you wanted to so it's not a you're just planting it to a perennial vegetation just just watching it you can still you can still make some money off of those acres which is really what we're trying to do we're trying to show that you can be productive both as far as restoring your soils and productive for your pocketbook that's a lot of our producers are trying to make a living off the land so we need to make sure this stuff is economical for them also