 Hello, my name is Jan Knudel, I'm the Extension Entomologist for North Dakota State University. It's sorry that we can't be with you today, but I still would like to talk to you about the Integrated Pest Management IPM Crop Survey. Each year growers have to face damage on their crops from insect pests and diseases. So pertinent information about pest problems on these crops is essential for growers to have a productive year. So the IPM Crop Survey, we hire scouts to work out of the RECs and NDSU main campus. We have the RECs involved Mangan, Minot, Williston, Dickinson, and Carrington. We hire the scouts in late May, early June, and we train them on proper scouting protocol and pest identification. We survey four major crops, wheat, barley, soybean, and sunflower. These scouts will go out to the field and check the fields using the proper protocol for different diseases, the main ones that impact the crop economic yield losses and quality of the crop. We also monitor for several pests that are not here in North Dakota and they migrate up into the state like sunflower moth, cereal aphids, and also like wheat rust that gets blown into the state each year. So the scouts are looking for these important pests and when they find them, we can then let the growers know that we're going to have some problems perhaps with this pest and that it's here in the state. The information from the scouts is collected every week and compiled and it's put together into a map that is posted on the Integrated Pest Management website. Just Google NDSU and IPM for the maps. We also put alerts into the NDSU extension crop and pest report for growers so they know to get out and scout for certain pests that may become an economic problem. So we also use traps to monitor for some of the insect pests and here we have the wheat midge trap. Wheat midge is an economically important pest of wheat causing severe yield losses and quality losses in both hard red spring wheat and germ wheat when the populations are high. In addition to doing the crop survey, we also collaborate with the North Dakota Department of Agriculture for serving for exotic pests of wheat. This we use the pheromone traps for serving for two exotic insect pests, the Egyptian cotton worm and the old world bull worm. We check these traps and then they're sent to a identifier for proper identification. We also survey in the field when we're out scouting for several exotic diseases, black stem rust, flag smut and dwarfbunt. In addition, the scouts collect soil samples in the wheat fields. These samples are compiled and then sent to a nematode lab for identification of exotic nematodes in wheat. We've been doing this survey for 10 years with the North Dakota Department of Ag, so we've established a fairly large database and this database has helped us reduce hindrances of phytosanitary certificates on wheat exports of North Dakota. So in summary, the IPM crop survey has helped growers make informed decisions about pest management and using pesticides only when necessary in the past are economic. In addition to our collaboration with the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, we have enhanced wheat exports of North Dakota into other countries. Thank you. Have a good day.