 My name is Kyle Shell. I'm a fourth generation rancher on our family ranch near Wasta, South Dakota on the Cheyenne River and the Cheyenne River Breaks. We run about 400 cows and we've got about 600, 800 acres of crop ground that we try to put up some forage on to feed our cows. Our limiting factor is probably moisture. We don't have the moisture that we need, but I say that and then the last two years we've had exceptional amounts of moisture and so we dealt with some flooding. Our main goal is to try to increase our organic matter on all of our ground. If we can get those soil organic matter levels up in our soils we can get to the point where we can get a crop off of it every year. That's where our resiliency is coming in, having that organic matter there to manage that water when it comes and then hold it there when it's dry. Resiliency on our operation is being able to get some kind of production off of that ground every year, no matter what the weather throws at us, whether we're extremely wet or extremely dry. You know, it's a family operation so I'm operating with my dad every day which is important to me and now I have a young family and I'm bringing them in and that's important to me too. With that, having that goal of improving the ground and improving soil health and improving our pastures and our farm ground and sharing those goals with everybody involved in the operation from my dad to my kids and my wife and all that, that really brings a lot of satisfaction to your life when you know you're doing something valuable to the ground and to improve it and for that next generation. I think as long as you keep soil health fundamentals in mind with all your decision making it'll get better all the time. I would say it's our biggest goal to improve our water holding capacity so that when that rain does come it can stay with our ground as long as we need it or until we can get some good out of it, I guess. We're improving things and we're working with Mother Nature as we do it so I'd say it's definitely less stressful than it was in the past for sure, at least for me. I would encourage any new beginning producer to attend a lot of these types of workshops, soil health, grassland coalition, all these workshops there are to surround yourself by people that have this passion for soil health and these types of practices because it's therapeutic when you go to them and learn about what somebody else is doing and how you can try to do some of that at your own operations. I'm very confident in my operation. I really think that we're on the right path, we're making improvements all the time. I think we're going the right way.