 Hi, I'm Susan Jaster with Lincoln University, and I am a farm outreach worker. We're here in Independence, Missouri. Basically our project was about cover crops and soil health. And we wanted to use goats because goats have a difficult time gaining weight in stressful times of the year when the weather is bad. So when it's really too hot or when it's too cold. So we had three farmers ranchers that wanted to improve their soil and feed their goats and get them to improve with their weight gain. So we took soil samples and we planted cover crops, four different plantings throughout two years. We tried to do plantings for hot weather and plantings for cold weather so they could graze in the wintertime and in the summertime when most goats are laying in the shade just surviving. We wanted to use cover crops that would improve on their numbers in their soil sample. And by using cover crops we found that we could improve active carbon not only from season to season but from year to year. So our cover crops were broadcast onto perennial pastures and we had side by side plots of whatever their perennial pasture was, a 50 by 50 plot and the plot next to it had cover crops broadcast onto it. And each time we planted we saw more cover crops visually could see them. And because goats like to eat with their head up we also wanted to have tall cover crops so they would be able to have some browse. And seems like we had really good results improving the soil from season to season but year to year and we had an average of a pound and a half gain for the goats, average over the three farms plus one thing that we didn't expect because we were adding cover crops is that we had to measure the plots to make sure there would be enough food in the plot for the three to five days that the goats would be in there. So what we did was we took a grazing stick and measured all that and by the end of the whole project we found out that by adding cover crops, annuals in on a perennial pasture it would double our days of grazing as opposed to just perennial pasture. So that was really the unexpected find on our project. I'm Jeff Earrington. I'm the farm manager at Drum Center for Children. We're an independence Missouri. We have a 47 acre farm. We raise sheep and goats and hogs and children. We have children that are here in our foster care and are homeless and aging out of foster care program. They work on the farm with us. We used sorghum sedan, we used cow peas, driller radishes, we used turnips and beets and I also added some chicory into mine. It was a very nice mixture. The soil improvement was amazing. I couldn't believe the difference in the soil in just one season and so I don't know what it'll be like 10 years from now but our soil health has come up. Things that we noticed outside of how it helped the soil and things was I didn't have to deworm my stalk as often. Our parasite counts went down and I think that that's an added benefit. We've taken one field that we hadn't grown anything on, hadn't been able to grow anything on it for four years. We cover cropped it for a season and this year we've gotten truckloads of butternut squash off of it and acorn squash. That's amazing the difference it made in that soil in just a short period of time.