 Hi, I'm Jennifer Walker. This is my husband Art Walker and we're standing on our farm in western South Dakota just east of Belfouche in Butte County. And we're here talking today about a grant that we got from north central region SAIR to investigate the use of winter camelina in this in this area. We don't actually have it this year but that's not because it's not a great crop and it does work really well and it could work really well for western South Dakota especially there's a lot of forage producers much like us out here. We do a lot of forage production. We do the the cover crops this is when we're usually going in between a alfalfa grass max that'll be in a hay crop for maybe a decade. We'll run a couple of years of this type of stuff to to grow feed to try and build a little soil structure and whatnot camelina worked really well in that out here. So it's a cover crop that's also a cash crop and the product of the camelina seed and the camelina oil and the meal. There's a lot of emerging markets for those things. I think they're they're not they're not all well developed yet but I think between between the BTUs involved in that crop for biofuels particularly jet fuels so sort of a renewable renewable jet fuel there's a lot of interest in it for that reason it's a high omega-3 crop so the potential for being used in livestock supplements and even human uses there's a I just between one thing and another if you get to if you get to looking into camelina oil it has a ton of potential as I say emerging markets that could be really exciting coming down the you know coming down the pike if you're selling it for seed and you need to get that seed clean so that you can so that it can be sold as you know pure live seed of winter camelina that little seed and pennycrest seed are really hard to separate and so can't be done so if you're selling it as jet fuel like pennycrest is great jet fuel but if you're selling it as camelina seed you really need to be able to separate those out or else really have your field clean which might be hard to do if you're in an organic situation where you don't want to be spraying out your your pennycrest before you plant camelina it was kind of a weird year 2020 where there was drought and that we also had a bad a bad time with alfalfa weevil and so early on in the spring when our bee guys had brought the bees out the alfalfa weevil the the weevils had wiped out the blossoms on the alfalfa so when I did sweeps to to see you know where we found all the bugs and bees in particular they were like I found I spent the morning and found like one bee in the alfalfa that was probably on its way to the camelina and when I swept I swept the camelina for bees um and I pinched off my net I went to open it to count bees and there's just a whoosh of bees I counted 60 you know I guessed 60 but really it was I was trying not to be stung because it was just so many bees we tend to get alfalfa and in the spring time this this whole valley we've been just getting pounded with alfalfa weevils well the answer seems to be to spray and spray and spray and so then your insects take more of a beading and your birds take more of a beading and we just wanted to get away from that so we're trying to do as little if any spraying as possible especially with the insecticides just don't want to do that so we're going to diversify and we go to thatches we go to different clovers we go to different grasses that we're you know we're not going to get completely hammered by the alfalfa weevils if we've got a crop like camelina to fill in some of those gaps great