 My name is George Ayers, my wife and I are partners at Fresh Air Farm in Farmington, New York. We farm 550 acres, about 100 acres of vegetables, sweet corn pumpkins. We grow about 5 acres of small fruit that will you pick, and the rest of the farm is small grains and hay. We moved to this farm in 1988, and the tillage system was mostly moldboard, plow and chisel. And I was concerned about the quality of the soil, the amount of tillage I was doing, the dry and dried out so much in the spring. And when I began to see the zone till introduced in this area, I became quite interested in it. And it solved two problems that I'd had with no till when I tried it. One was to get the seed slot closed and get good germination. And the second problem was how to put fertilizer down with that seed with no till. And the zone till, you're telling a little strip about 6 inches wide, every 30 inches, and the area in between is not till. So the planter and the fertilizer equipment works like it was intended, and the area in between doesn't grow weeds because you're not tilling the soil. And it's really worked well for me, and so we've gradually worked through the farm until now the whole farm is, everything we grow is zone till. This is my two-row zone builder that I built a couple years ago for our strawberries. I started with a commercial unit that's four rows or six rows wide. I needed a small machine for the berries because they're on 48-inch centers, and the commercial machine is 30-inch centers, and it's so big that it's very difficult to move. So this was a project just for our strawberries. This was originally a toolbar that was 15 feet long, and I cut it in thirds. I bought two channel irons and just welded the frame. The hitching course was already there, so I already had it. It was an old toolbar that used to be on a rotary hoe that we don't use anymore. These two shanks were from a chisel that I don't use anymore. I bought years and years ago, and I took two off ones to make it a little smaller, and they just were, you know, around, and so we just simply, they just fit right on this. These parallel linkages are rejects from the commercial zone builder that I had. I changed it a little bit, and I had two of these left over. These can be purchased from the company that built the zone builder. We made the brackets, put it on here, and then I just steel these colters, these 13-wave colters from the commercial zone builder. I put them on here when I'm doing strawberries, and I take them off and put them back on that machine when I'm doing my other work. So I did not buy these. You could, but it doesn't take very long to change them. This thing goes about 12 to 14 inches deep. The discs just form the ridge right up over the slot. The key to the zone builder, whether it's this one, a commercial one, or whatever you do with zone tillage, the key is to do vertical tillage, not horizontal tillage. We don't want the tool that you're engaging in the soil that be pushing the soil sideways, like a moldboard plow, a disc, a field cultivator with sweeps on it, because that's where you get a compacted layer, right where that shearing action is from that sideways motion. Everything on this thing and with zone tillage is a vertical form of tillage. It doesn't have any sideways shearing. That's the key.