 Hi, my name is Tyler Chaldea, I'm the Irrigation Agronomist at the Wilson Research Extension Center and we're changing things up a little bit this year. This is the new field day for 2020, I guess, in front of the camera. I guess what I'm here to talk about today is just give you an update of the Neston Valley project since this is going to be video. I'm sure if you're watching this, you maybe have never been to Neston. Neston Valley Research Site was first started in 2005. It started in 2005, purchased in 2003. I've been there since 2008, so this will be my 13th summer at the station. And basically we've came a long ways in 13 years as far as the research we've done, the staff, the crew. Currently there's three of us down there, full time staff, myself and two irrigation specialists, Justin Jacobs and Adriana Turnquist. Our primary focus is irrigation. We do a lot with variety trial testing. We also do a number of things with irrigation management practices. A lot of disease management because we've came to have an under the irrigation, we're getting more and more disease down there. And so the plant pathologist, Dr. Audrey Kalyle from the center, she's got a number of trials. We do a lot of collaboration with other scientists across the state. Pathologists from NDSU on campus and also Carrington. In those 13 years, like I say, I've the one that's been there 13 and people have came and gone. It's been a great 13 years to say the least. One of the primary, some of the projects that we've worked on since I've started is water use efficiency. Managing our water, we manager the amount of fertilizer we put on, the amount of seed we put in the ground, we manage the chemicals we put on the crops. So why are we not managing the amount of water we put on? How can we be more efficient with that and possibly minimize reduced inputs? And so this year we've changed it up. We've included soybeans and corn in this water use project. Primarily in the past, if you're familiar with nesting, you would have seen potatoes and barley. Potato acres, there's only one grower in the area. Barley acres have declined and we thought we had enough research with that. So we thought, let's try two other crops that are really taking hold here in the area. And so that'll be some preliminary data this year. We've also, I've been working on a project since I started a tillage project, where we're looking at the three tillage practices, conventional, minimal till and no-till, under irrigation. I grew up on an irrigated farm just 30 minutes from Williston. And we tilled the soil till it was black every fall. We continued, everybody in the valley does. And we started this project in 2008. So 2009 was the first year that it deals with corn, soybeans and barley in rotation and the three tillages. And over the years we've found that at least minimal tillage is as good as conventional tillage. And a couple of the crops, the no-till has done just as well as all three other two. And so why are we tilling these soils? Just trying to answer some questions. And it's kind of interesting now at home, my dad's 100% no-till under irrigation on flood irrigation. So he's converted to it just based off what we've seen here at Nesson. And there's been a number of other acres that have. The one thing that I'm finding now and well, dealing with it yesterday down there was I was out walking, and the crew was too, walking sugar beet fields with hose in our hand trying to get rid of rounder resistant weeds. So now that we're going to more no-till practices, we're really struggling with some weed management. And so that's going to be new research in the coming future. How do we manage these weeds? That's the number one thing I see in the no-till. I mean the conventional till, we always got rid of them because we worked the fields and we got rid of the weeds. Now that we are no-tilling and these herbicides getting resistance, how are we going to manage these weeds? So that's a big project going forward. We've got I know at Nesson rounder resistant Kosha. We've got rounder resistant Maristail. We've got rounder resistant Hawksbeard when it gets to a certain stage. So we're really starting to see some weed issues. So that'll be research upcoming and that's just things that have kind of developed in the last couple years. So kind of excited, well excited, but trying to figure out what, how we can take care of some of these issues. I guess other projects and I think the next speaker or there'll be a speaker talking about some of his projects from Nesson. So I'll let him kind of talk about those. But this year it's been kind of a crazy year. Like I say this is field day now. I mean standing in front of a camera and it's kind of discouraging because you put a lot of effort into these projects and stuff and it's always fun to show them off and have people come and you can talk and the interaction that is one thing that interacting with farmers and producers is always fun. Finding out their problems, getting input from them on what they would like to see done over the years. There's been a number of the projects that we've done at Nesson that have been just based off of farmers' interest. And that's what this project is about trying to answer their questions. Yesterday I actually had a farmer show up while I was working on a linear and I want to talk about herbicides and we just sat and visited about weeds and the issues and stuff that he's seeing and what we're seeing 45 minutes we sat there and talked sitting along the linear. So the interactions with farmers that's the part that I enjoy. I guess to just sit and write a paper that's never been my strong suit as far as just a publication. I want like you look around and what's going to benefit these producers. And that's the primary focus of mine. The vision of the Nesson project is how we can help irrigated producers. I know we've been working on the water use efficiency for can we increase acreage of irrigated production. As everybody's experience in western North go to this year I don't not sure about the eastern part of the state. We're dry. We're extremely dry. And the irrigation is what's going to produce this year. This is dry land field here. You can tell I mean they're going to be a crop but it's not going to be is it going to have any return to the farmer's pocket. I mean that's where the water being able to flip a switch or flood the field is pretty important. And so if there's ever any questions concerns anybody watching this once has any ideas for projects for the Nesson Valley Research Site you can find me on the Williston Research Extension Center web page. Phone numbers there, email address. Always willing to look into projects visit with people. Do it again. I'd rather see myself fail down there so somebody else doesn't. I guess I don't have questions in the video so that's kind of nice. Let's go around. Thank you.