 I work in four different counties here in northwest Wisconsin. We have in each county four farmer-led watersheds and the goal of those watersheds is to bring farmers together to create leadership, education and outreach around soil health and water quality improvements. And really it's a fantastic partnership between UW Extension, Wisconsin DNR and the land conservation departments of Pierce Polk, St. Croix and Dunn counties and Wisconsin Farmers Union as well. And we really those councils are at the heart of how this project that we're doing with our SARA funding got started which is really a way to try out things on the land and see what works and what doesn't for farmers who are interested in trying new practices. And for us our farmers are really interested in cover crops and no-till which we don't have as much of as in other parts of the Midwest but we know that they're really important practices for achieving the goals that we want to achieve but given the growing season and things that the farmers here that I work with is going to talk maybe a little bit about we know that we need to see what works and what doesn't and so this gave us a great opportunity to try some of that out. I'm Brad Peterson and the farmer operator with this plot. I've been with the Rocky Branch Watershed since it started and helped move it into the South Kinney Watershed now as we expand and we've done a lot of physical structures to help improve water quality and we're looking now to change some of these farming practices we have to help reduce runoff and minimize our P phosphorus index and so we've been here with this field behind us we've got no-till corn on corn that we're we've got a study out here where we're using no-till versus tilled versus tilled with cover crops and no-till with cover crops and we are also investigating the yield differences and soil health differences between the multi-species cover crops and regular cereal rye as a cover crop. Our intent is to come in here with a high-boy cedar and apply the seed probably at around the end of August at physiological plant maturity here on the corn and we'll see see how that goes so hopefully we can get through here if not we'll try to come up with a with another another way to get it. My name is Dan Sitz I'm with the Pierce County Land Conservation Department I'm a conservation technician my involvement I guess I work with farmers and landowners in the county try to provide financial and technical assistance on on any conservation practices try and help them out any way we can I'm also helping out Julia with the South Kinney Farmer Watershed Council just providing technical assistance for them when they need it and and you know our overall goal of course like these two mentioned was reducing the phosphorus that gets from our fields to our surface water and you know through cover crops and a variety of other practices our goal over the years is to reduce that as to document reduction in phosphorus in the sub watersheds of the South Fork and the Rocky Branch