 Back in my mother's side of the family, land has been passed on through the generations. And my mom actually sold a quarter of land in Illinois, which they used to purchase this place. And we lived over at one socket, that's where I grew up. My parents bought this place in the early 1960s. The history of this place is that there was a renter on here, one renter, same renter for 35 years. And he was here because he was a good grass manager. I remember when my parents purchased this place that it was predominantly native grasses. And so much warm season grass I think that my dad planted, and the renter too planted, a pasture to crested wheat grass so they would have some cool season grasses for grazing. And now we are predominantly brome and bluegrass, which are cool season grasses. So that's our biggest conservation challenge. Now is limiting the invasive cool season grasses, introduce species, and try and bring back the native grasses. Oh I met Jean about two years ago, she was looking for a tenant to bring cattle up here. It's been a pretty good work in relationship ever since. She's been really good to us, I mean she's taught us a lot of things, taught us a lot about soil health, this rotational grazing. You know my dad practiced rotational grazing and vanded to the guy that lived here. And they had, I don't know, this place had four or five pastures and they were rotated rather than doing one pasture season long, whatever. But now this place has 20 pastures. We qualified for the equip program a few years ago and have five new watering points because of that, which has just been massive improvement for our utilization. Because there were pastures that we couldn't graze when they needed to be grazed because the water was a limiting factor. This was Mark's second year with me and he's been open to the things that I do. I really have an appreciated Mark, if I need help, Mark comes with a good attitude and comes quickly. I got about half my herd up here and half my herd south of here, at least from three people now. But Jean has the most intensive program and my calves come off heavier up here by about 70-80 pounds every year. Fly control is a lot easier with this rotational grazing. It seems like you get them constantly moving, the flies don't catch up quite as fast. It's a little bit more work but Jean takes care of the vast majority of it. She calls me when she wants to move them, I show up here, we move them and I get back on with my work. She's really instrumental in all this. She takes the majority of the work and kind of puts on her shoulders and she needs help. I come up here and help and I mean it's a really good work and relationship for me. I first met Jeannie maybe five years ago and I came out and did a rangeland inventory on her operation and she was very interested. She always has questions and she always wants to know more and not that I always have those answers but she just has such a strong desire to find the answers. Working with her renters to use the livestock as a tool to better manage the grass. For landowners who were like me coming in from 35 years in the city and just feeling so disconnected, it was so critical for me. I mean it really put me on the map to have someone tell me to go to the South Dakota Grassland Coalition to connect with those guys because they've just got their ear to the wall, they've got their producers, boots on the ground producers and they don't just talk theory, they've lived it. My two pieces of advice would be go to YouTube and find Alan Savery, Ted Talk and the other thing is to make a connection with the South Dakota Grassland Coalition and their website is phenomenal. The NRCS people are phenomenally helpful as well. Our cattle good for the earth, our cattle bad for the earth, it's management. Is your management good for the earth? Cattle have much to contribute. What would we do with all of this grass if there wasn't something to consume it? The cows are my gardeners and my landscapers, you know. The fact that they come along and the cows use it, the ripping and tearing of the grass stimulates it to grow more. I think that there's something about the nurturing aspect of grazing cattle and moving cattle and I mean I get so much help, oh these aren't even my cows and I love seeing them go on to fresh grass and I love connecting with them. They were all crowding around my four-wheeler the other night and one of them was actually nibbling on my hat. I love the connection with them and seeing them get fat and do well, you know, I love that and I love seeing them be healthy. And I think that that's maybe a big draw for women in agriculture is the nurturing part of it.