 Well we purchased this farm here it was 280 acres in 1958 and I was on the number one list in Cottington County for their draft so I was being pushed pretty hard as to when the uncle was going to come and take me to the military. But I had some cows and I needed a place to put them and we started looking before I got drafted or was about ready to get drafted and a good friend of mine north of Watertown that had a hired man and he was from up in this area and he says there's a farm for sale up there. So Dad and I come up and we looked this over and that's how we ended up in Grant County here. So we had weeds on that 80 acres where we got the CRP now that was as high as your tractor. So I got that started to plow on that under so we could do something with it and I had to leave and Dad finished it. Two years later I come home and bought some more herford cows and put them out here and then we started the improvement. Initially we started grazing that as a one pasture. Finally got it all so we got one in homogeneous area and that way we could get our grazing going and we put some corrals up there on the south side so the guy could put the cattle in there. This 10 acres right to the south of us here in 1964 I think I seeded that to native grass. The first time anybody up here had tried to do that and I brought a drill clear from McIntosh South Dakota. Seeded that, got it on, big blue stem Indian grass, switch grass, side oats, grammas, little blue stem. I had some western wheat grass in there and also had some green needle. Especially on these gravel slopes where we'd lost so much soil it really showed up. Then that's kind of where I start planning that quarter over there is what we were trying to try to transition to and it took some time and then finally struck them along as a tenant and he had some of the similar goals I've had and we decided that they one time and dollars would afford it you could start transitioning that pasture over there. Me and Dwayne had a lot of the same same theories and same ideas and practices that we wanted to develop and it was just a matter of putting them into a working motion and it took a lot of talk a lot of ideas and we ended up putting in these paddocks that we really believe are truly a good thing for the pasture. My father-in-law farmed Dwayne's land for many years and when he got injured I took over the cattle and I had my own cattle at the time but I farmed the land. Chuck's father-in-law, Jordan's grandpa, Melvin, my dad and him farmed together for over 50 years I believe which is a long time I think that's pretty important and then it went to Chuck and now Chuck's been in the picture for 20 years or more and so it's been a lifelong deal between our family and their family and I think that's pretty neat there's a few other outsiders you know that rent different things and we're close to them too but nothing like the Breyer and Walsh auger tie. These guys are not just you know landowners tenants this is a family you know there might not be shared blood but that's what this is I grew up thinking of Dwayne as a grandpa that's just where we were. The relationship that these guys have is amazing a lot of times when I work with landowner or a tenant they're dependent on their backgrounds is you can fight tooth and nail trying to get something across but with Dwayne's background being a conservationist and what Chuck wants done and then what they're looking for the future it's so much easier to sell the program or sell something. The relationship that these producers have had working together between the Breyers and the Walsh lagers is is what makes the prairie come to life all of the things that they've been able to do with their relationship working with NRCS throughout the years. I have four children one of them actually is named Breyer after a strong relationship we've had with Dwayne and Mary growing up A lot of my memories are from being up in this neck of the woods and life lessons I was able to learn pounding balls with these guys so very strong connection and some of the things I want to do is just get my kids out on the farm so they're able to see and learn the same things that I was growing up. We've had some rough times weather markets you name it but Chuck has used the positive side through most of this and been an equal partner and you might say in keeping this thing afloat. It's possible to rejuvenate these resources if we go at it in the right way and I really appreciate these outside help in being efficient in wildlife you'd never think you know when I first started you'd never think they'd be involved in something like this now the game and fish is you've got presidents forever you've got ducks unlimited you've got a lot of people that realize land owner is still the key and if we can get him interested like Chuck and his family is all of a sudden you've got a nucleus from which to start to get something that's going and keep it going if we kind of take the best land and farm that and put the rest in the things that will make us a living provide the wildlife that we should have and proceed in a probably lower key form slow down a little enjoy life most of us aren't here that long hopefully we'll see more here than there was when I first started