 Yeah, good morning. It's a beautiful Saturday morning here. The sun has come back. We had two or three days of horrible rain, which made me worried, but now it's nice. It's 64 days after transplanting, so one of our last management decisions to make today, whether we need some more nightage and fertiliser or not. I have a good old friend with me here, Thomas George, who also is an agronomist and is keen to see what we are doing here. He's been around and eerie in the 1990s, so I'm asking Thomas right away. When you look at our crop here, do you see a difference in the field somewhere? What do you see? I definitely see a difference. That side is not bad, but slightly behind. Yeah, so that's what we see too. This side is the hybrid over here. This is a bit ahead in crop development. It's five days ahead basically, so some pannacles are shooting out already. We're getting close to flowering stage and it seems more vigorous in general. We may need some nightage and when we made the nutrient management recommendation using our software or mobile phone application, it told us that the hybrid should receive another 20 kg of nightage per hectare at this stage to really fully utilize its yield potential. So so far we have applied about 100 kg on the hybrid and on the inverts are not much different, but it is likely that we need some more because we have set a higher yield target for the hybrid of 7.5 tons versus 7 tons for the inverts. So what I need to do now is basically assess the nightage and start at both and then make a decision on what we do in terms of applying the last nightage. I'm standing in the hybrid and you can see there's the first few pannacles shooting out. So we're really at that stage where we need to figure out whether a little extra nightage could support the grain filling and the expression of yield potential. So the way I'm going to do this is using this leaf color chart that was developed many years ago by various research groups. So that's the version that was developed about 10 years ago here at Erie and there's four pannels. And basically what I need to make sure is that on average the crop has at least the color of number three, which is this one here. If it's less than that, then I think there's an indication that extra nightage is needed. If it's much more than that, I probably wouldn't need it. So what I have to do is I have to walk through now here and stop at about 10 to 15 places in the hybrid and also the inverts and then pick a hill that is disease free. That's important. You don't take disease plants. I got to pick a hill that is disease free and I have to take a leaf. I don't rip it off normally but for showing it I'll do it right now. And then I put the leaf on this color chart and try to see which of the color it matches best. So if you can see that, this one seems very much close to number three. Would you agree Thomas? Yeah. So it's definitely not four, definitely not five, definitely not two. Sometimes I interpolate, I say well it could be a 3.5. And of course some precise people might think why don't we call it 3.15 or 3.27. That makes no sense. This is a rough indicator. We just want to know are we in the right ballpark and do a little extra nightage or not. I'm going to go ahead now, walk through here at a few places. I will record my observations on this sheet and then take average. There you go. Yeah, I see a lot of red damage here as a whole patch. Just very fresh, just very recently. You see that it's still green, you know? Yeah, that's you and last night. Maybe just last night they came in and chewed it off. It's all chopped but bitten off here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to have substantial year losses because I saw a lot of it everywhere here. Yeah, I just finished my assessment and I'm quite disappointed. From the outside the crop looks pretty good but when you actually walk through I see a lot of problems. The canopy is not fully closed as much as I wanted. There's gaps and the most surprising thing is that in the hybrid I see a lot of very fresh red damage. Stamps being completely cut off. That must have happened in the last two or three days. I see nothing like this in the inbred so I have no clue why the rats went after the hybrid and left the inbred alone even though it's in the same field. So there must be something in the hybrid that makes it taste better or attracts the rats. Maybe they're sweeter, they have more non-structural carbohydrates or sugars, whatever it is, I don't know. So the only thing that was different in the last three days was that we had a tropical depression going through. Two or three days of rain, I don't know whether that inspires the rats to go into the fields. I have no clue. The nitrogen status, the hybrid on average between 2.5 to 3. So I think from a theoretical point of view it's okay to put some extra nitrogen on whether it will make a big difference or not. I have some doubts because of the other problems we have in the crop now with the rats too. The inbred, my leaf-cutter chart reading will average about three so that should be just about right. I'm not going to put any nitrogen on there. So I put the urea on and then that's pretty much the last operation we can do before harvest and then all we have to do now is hope for the best. No more rats and plenty of sunshine to get at least some good yield out of it. Thank you.