 So my name is Clint Severance. We're in the field here on Vigy Farms, which is in rural Hunter, North Dakota, northwest of Fargo. Our project was grazing cattle on cover crops for the whole summer here. This project came about because I kind of can try to find a way to get back into cattle as I grew up on a cattle ranch. I was trying to figure out a way that would work and I was at a field day of nicks for his no-till farming and he mentioned he wouldn't mind having cattle on his land so I started talking to him and kind of hatched this plan to have a rotation where we started out with the cattle on a winter annual cover crop for May and June grazing and then move them over to a spring seeded cover crop of oats and peas and then at the end the winter annuals would get seeded to a warm season cover crop that will graze in August and September until water starts freezing. My name is Nick Vingy. I am the owner operator of Vingy Farms and we are a grain farming operation in the Red River Valley. We farm about 1700 acres and in the last five years I've switched over to no-till and using cover crops and we wanted to add cattle into the mix to have that final piece of the puzzle kind of fit with our soil health objectives. When I talked to Clint one of the things we worked with was trying to figure out how to get cattle here during the summer and not a full year round cattle so I'd like to graze cattle on my farm ground for part of the year and to work with the cover crop system we decided that would be a natural fit to try to graze them on cover crops. I think cover crops for me is a fairly natural fit when going with no-till a lot of the cover crops have made no-till much easier to work with, a much better system to work with and then I am getting the benefits of having better quality soil. There's no doubt that no-till is a long-term goal. It's not a quick fix for anything but I think if you work at no-till and work at cover crops you can you know over time you're sort of putting equity into a soil bank. You're putting money away for a future generation hopefully and that's something that if I can make the land better for my kids than it is for me and pass it on to them better than I found it or better than I got it then then we're going the right direction so I think it's something that maybe people have to realize that it's a long-term commitment but there's also big payoffs they're just a long ways down the road so I think in our area five years is kind of a minimum to start seeing the benefits it's maybe six or seven is more realistic I'm hoping with the cover crops we can we can back that down a little bit back down to five or six but I think the payoffs are starting to show up already in year five and and they're I'm hoping only gonna get better