 Hello, my name is Aynava Majundar and I'm the extension entomologist and state chair coordinator here at Auburn University, Alabama. Remember in Alabama our pest pressures are incredible and we have insect pests that never sleep here. They're always active and we our producers go from crop to crop and these insects continue to feed. So we have tremendous buildup of insects and in organic systems there's really nothing to stop them. In fact we don't even have organic insect sites for some of our tough insects. It's incredible because the SAIR funding has allowed me to develop a new organic movement in the research and coordinate the research and education activities and it's been incredible because we have learned so much in very little time. SAIR's state coordinator program brings sustainable innovations to America's farmers and ranchers. In Alabama Dr. Majundar is sharing integrated pest management strategies that protect vegetable crops with fewer pesticides leading to increased productivity and earnings. Aynava Dr. A came out to our farm and consulted with us to help us identify a lot of the bugs and insects that we have that we've been dealing with and he has been a great resource for us in helping to identify bugs and understand their life cycles as well as a resource as far as less I guess less toxic pesticide treatment and ways to handle these bugs that are not in many of the publications that you find readily for small farms. Dr. Majundar's SAIR funded research on Will Mastin's farm has demonstrated that growing vegetables inside netted structures can keep certain pests out. We almost don't even have to worry about caterpillars inside of these structures anymore. They used to be a constant scouting routine of trying to find you know the baby the caterpillars starting to hatch in their first couple of instars now we really don't even have to think about that and so it saves us labor it saves us pesticide usage and we can focus on planting harvesting and doing the things that we need to be doing instead of just trying to babysit and take care of our crops from the bugs. We've seen about 900 to a thousand producers new producers come to our classes which we're missing in the beginning without a program a dedicated program and from the surveys we have done it appears that by using the IPM recommendation which is a three tiered approach to IPM our producers can save anywhere from 40 to 50 percent of their crop. From the producer perspective there was no knowledge infrastructure before the SAIR program was initiated so now we have a SAIR infrastructure a knowledge infrastructure for these organic producers who never had help before so the value from my side is really based on grants but on the producer's side it's thousands and perhaps millions of dollars on the statewide basis.