 Thank you for letting us join you from Minnesota and like Andy said, we don't have anything growing here. We're working in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and Becker, Minnesota mostly. This is the fourth year of our breeding program, so we're up to looking at the clones we started looking at four years ago for yield for the first time, which is pretty exciting for us. So we're able to grow them at our trial location and we're able to grow them in multiple replicates. So up until this point, we've mainly looked at quality traits and skin color traits and specific gravity and that sort of thing, and now we're really getting a sense of yield which we're excited about. We have about 55 clones in our field year four. We're also looking at our field year three in single replicates in the same trial in Becker and we've got about 154 clones there. We work in four market classes. We work with russets and chips and reds and to a lesser extent yellows. And one of the things we're really trying to do is speed up the breeding process so that we can respond more quickly to environmental changes or to changes in what consumers are interested in. And one of the ways we can do this is with mathematical models and that's called genomic selection and we basically use genetic data and data about traits that are important to us to build models so that we can just use genetic data to predict how individuals will do, especially as parents, and we can shorten the time between the first time we look at a clone and when it becomes a parent or when it gets released. And one of the ways we're doing that is we're working closely with the other breeding programs in the U.S. So we've exchanged our year four with Susie and with Dave Duchess at Michigan State and with Jeff Endelman at University of Wisconsin and the four of us are all growing out these mixed field year three field year four trials and we've all genotyped them and we're all collecting the same phenotype data so not only will we get a sense of how the clones do in multiple environments earlier than we would in say the national trials usually but also we're able to use each other's data then to build these models and speed up the process and so this is the first year we've really got that working at scale and so we're excited about that as well. Another thing we're doing with our field year four which is the first time we can do things because we have enough seed so we have them growing at a couple of different nitrogen rates and we are hoping to screen early for nitrogen use-efficient varieties so varieties that might require less nitrogen and my postdoc Dr. Xiaoshi Meng is taking the lead on this project and next year we'll be flying them with drones in an attempt to figure out if we can determine nitrogen status and nitrogen efficiency from those drones. We also have things all the way up the pipeline we have about 26,000 single hills at Grand Rapids again in all four market classes that we will look at this year and we have about 400 field year twos also at Grand Rapids. Other things we are working on and interested in we're looking at how different harvest times and mine kill dates and how long we leave them in the ground afterwards affects dormancy and how that interacts with variety and my breeding specialist Dr. Thomas Stefaniak is taking the lead on that and that is a collaboration with Dr. Muneve Doga Marci our new pathologist and we're looking at how timing of nitrogen application interacts with variety for some of our later stage red clones and that is also a thing Dr. Stefaniak is working on. We are still interested in developing diploid potatoes we grew some out for the first time this year and we grew them as transplants from tissue culture so they're not beautiful but they're flowering and producing tubers so they look like potatoes we're excited about that and another thing we are working on is we have a bunch of legacy varieties left from Dr. Christian Thill who is the previous breeder and we when I started in the program we had these varieties but they've been grown in the same field in Becker for five years in a row so they had a pretty high disease load and so we finally brought them all through antiviral tissue culture and we're able to observe them in the field this year and get a sense of which ones are potential releases of which ones are promising varieties we're particularly interested in a couple that we've heard from people at events like this that they really enjoyed eating specifically we've got a yellow 04844 and a purple 07112 that we have heard are particularly delicious and interesting potential specialty varieties and we are working with an organic grower to do organic trials for those and also have a tasting event to try to get some people interested in it around the Twin Cities so because we have those we've heard about and also MN13142 which is a really high dormancy nice tight b russet that looked great for Susie last year I think we think that this material we have left over from Christian is probably really promising we just haven't gotten a chance to look at it yet so we're excited about doing that as well