 We're here out near Chamberlain South Dakota with Steve Reimer, farmer over here and rancher and This is the second time I'm talking to you Steve and and it's really good to be out here Well, it's good to have you back We've had a kind of a rough summer some drought a lot of moisture here lately and things have greened up It's it's looking a lot better going into fall. Well, that's that sounds good It's this is also a land of extremes and you've just mentioned we've had a rough summer What kind of extremes in this part of the world are you encountering? on a fairly regular basis Well, I we go from I mean, this is a semi-arid climate and It is not unusual for us. I mean every roughly 10 years We have a severe drought and we'll have some high temperatures and during the winter months We can have some really cold stretches and and glow below zero for quite a while so there's a lot of variation in in temperature a lot of variation in in moisture We've had some years when we've had Substantially over our our average rainfall and then this past summer We basically went for three months with no moisture at all. Okay. Yeah. Well, tell us about Your system, how do you run your operation to deal with some of these extremes knowing that they're going to happen? Not only do we raise corn, wheat and beans we have a purebred cattle operation and we have a Production sale every year selling bulls and females and this is cement taller and talls. Okay. Yep, semi tall and semi tall Angus Okay, we will graze early season grasses earlier in the spring and then the warm season grasses during the summertime and then we go in and start utilizing some aftermath grazing and some cover crop Grazing on into the fall and and maybe even into the winter months. Okay I think we put the whole picture together by utilizing No-till farming by by utilizing cover crops Running cattle back on those cover crops after they're rotated through our our pasture systems and I think it all works hand in hand We have run as many as 80 pair out on the field of cover crops That cover crop was actually growing while those pairs were were out on it. We we turned them out Okay, they did a they did a great job of grazing