 Okay, wanted to provide an update for the strawberry varieties for the state strawberries probably the second most popular crop in the state second to peaches, but And there has been increased interest in production of strawberries, but for a variety of reasons we've there's been some bit of hesitancy amongst the growers for one it's cited as being too difficult or expensive and you know, in having made all of the investment, there still may not be a production of a Of a crop in order to make a profit. So as we know the most the best way to ensure a viable crop is to plant Just to plant the varieties that are well adapted. First of all, to use crops that are well adapted and varieties or cultivars within that crop. That are well adapted to the area. So there's there's great need and technological advancements and variety selection. Variety development, be that strawberry or regards the crop that you're growing and there are few with document with the documented adaptability to our area camera roses big variety that we have it is it has global adaptability. But but there are it does have its issues. There is just a need for other varieties and varieties are the most one of the most important decisions that you're going to make in variety in crop production. So the objective of this study and all of our variety trials is to improve strawberry production by introducing new better adapted strawberry varieties to improve the specialty crop market and the state. And I want to start off by providing a list of the varieties. We looked at 12 varieties. This this trial has been going on. For about five years, not not with all of the same varieties here, but we have Albion, which is a day neutrals, the only day neutral in the trial this year, again, Camarosa developed by UC Davis and our and Camino Real, which is a variety that growers are becoming familiar with this year because Camarosa wasn't available. Camarosa is our market standard. It wasn't as available this year. So many growers had to depend on Camino Real and we'll talk about how it's done in Chandler, our other variety or other our former market standard. And you can see some of the others one I wanted to mention Rocco and Liz. Those are two that were developed by NC State. I'm glad to have those in again this year. Just to give you an idea of what we did. The experimental plots that we had, they were all replicated four times and each experimental plot was about 20 feet long. And that contained about 34 plants per plot, which resulted in a per acre plant number of about over 12,000. And we planted these on the 23rd of October and of last year and planted on double staggered rows. And again, 23 12,000 plants per acre, randomized complete block design. You can see our double staggered row hole puncher hole punching wheel there. They also as the holes are being punched into the plastic. There's also some water with a little bit of fertilizer entering the planting hole as well. We harvested this year we harvested between April 7 and May 18. We harvested 12 times. We did use row covers back prior to the event there are freeze event in February 15. And those covers remained on the Strawberries for about two weeks. And this is here are results. This is looking at the total barkable yield per acre for our strawberries and usually you can see camera Rosa as we would expect this still up towards the top but we have a new variety, at least new to us, frontiers. It's a variety that was produced by UC Davis and it was did pretty well this year and I would like to be able to include in our trials next year. And again, a camp Camino Real, the variety that a number of our growers had to depend on this year did did quite well it was very comparable to camera Rosa as in previous years. But we look at the Rocco the rock the yield of Rocco is it's a little bit diminished when compared to the others, but Rocco is bred to be an early variety and it is meant to be a replacement for sweet Charlie and it does does quite well it has a the production of something that's on par with camera Rosa for that time of the season. And another important variable we looked at is the individual Barry way, as you can see frontiers again it was the number one yielder and frontiers was the largest Barry. The main size of the very was that 20 little over 27, almost 27 and a half grams per Barry and that's a that's a pretty large Barry and that's not the largest Barry, of course we had some larger it ranged from a little bit over 30 grams, maybe 33 grams I think some of the larger berries that we saw there. And then we can notice our market standard camera Rosa at 21 and a half grams, now followed by Camino Real at 19.8 on roughly almost 20 grams per fruit and I was a little bit, a little bit surprised that Camino Real came in at that size because early on it looked it appeared that Camino Real was producing some pretty large berries consistently so. But the data doesn't lie so there you have it. But out of all of those varieties what I wanted to do is focus on on our overall top performers and that's again our market standard Camino camera Rosa and Camino Real, which is gaining in popularity and frontiers. And I didn't mention Ruby June that's another variety that a lot of growers are interested in. It's been my opinion that you know number of the growers either love Ruby June or hate it and but I think it is growing in popularity. I don't have a picture here but we'll discuss that after. And just wanted to have this graph here really just to show you what happened during the season and you know where were these yields, you know, in according to the weeks of harvest and so you can see we had a, or at least we were it appeared that we were coming off of a peak. At the our first harvest April 7. And we, and it's really odd this year, because we had a we had a really big start and we never really recovered in our trials. We did have a peak another peak as you can see. We. So after that harvest we had a. Pretty significant decline, and all of the varieties perform that trended that way and you can see the dotted line here is our average, average yield across all berries. Camino Real and the gray. And I hope you can see these, these, these colors here these lines but and front terrace and Camino Real camera Rosa, you can see camera Rosa appears to be a little bit earlier than front terrace, and and it's comparable to front terrace in Markville yield. Camino Real, it is more similar, I suppose to camera Rosa in terms of earlyness. And also wanted to take a look at what was going on during the week as we as is pretty common or pretty typical is that we start off with some big berries and as the season progresses we the berries start to tend towards the smaller berries and that's because we when we start our primary flowers and again, those are larger flowers and so larger flowers typically mean a larger berry. And we can see that the berries started off here and we did actually see somewhat of a peak in the berry size, but it did again it did start to turn down a tube smaller berries as we as we approached the end of our our plants. So I wanted to focus on specific varieties and this is front terrace, it produces really large berries conical shaped berries. The largest berry that we had, as I mentioned was about 32 grams, the, the, the maturity is a little bit later than camera Rosa. The plant size in terms of the plant the plant is similar in size to camera Rosa. Camera Rosa does have a it's a large plant. And the berries the berries sort of had a almost for lack of a better word that the, the, the color of the redness was almost tended to be a little bit fluorescent red it was just a kind of an extra brilliant red can't really wasn't really captured in this picture right here. But we really see it in the, you really see it in the field. It is a sweet berries is a pretty pleasant berry, pretty taste, pretty pleasant tasting berry had a little bit of tartness. Now moving on to communal real the variety that the growers had to depend on this year. The, out of all of the growers, I think one was not completely satisfied with communal real. I've heard, after the other than that I've heard nothing but good things about the variety it is a large, it produces a large berry, typically, and that kind of probably seems to suggest to me that what we were seeing in the field and the numbers that were actually getting for the berry size. That may suggest that we had quite a bit of variability in the, in the, in the very individual berry size. So, as I mentioned, it really seems to in the field that really seemed to produce some fairly large berries consistently. It is a berry that is similar camera rosa. And, you know, it was favorable to most growers, and it has a pretty fairly pleasant taste one of the downsides of this berry is that and the growers really didn't point this out that they were quite pleased with it but it has a reputation for not being quite as flavorful not being quite as sweet as some of the others. But we found that you can improve that if the berries are are harvested when they're really red, but you know this is it's not very pretty not a simple thing to do really when you're in the field, especially in a you pick when customers are you know they're finding red berries and they pick them, but if this berry is left on the plant a little bit longer you can improve on the sweetness and the flavor of the berry. And that brings us to camera rosa. It had a maximum berry size of 22 and a half. It was the top yield or again this year. And it has a pretty excellent flavor. And that's, if you can match it there are some in the trials that have surpassed I think camera rosa in flavor, but it does have an excellent flavor, and it is a excellent yield or fairly consistent yield or it's usually in the tops every year and that's twice the market standard, and the, the added variety I wanted to talk about was Ruby June. It was a variety of much discussion early on as I said, at least early on a lot of the growers they may either love it or they hated it. We think that there's probably something to do with fertility varieties vary in terms of of their nutrient requirements, particularly nitrogen. And so these might be a higher feeder or it may not require as much nitrogen. There is developing information out there on varieties and their, their nutrient requirements. This is a variety bred by less than Canyon. And this is, I mean, it is, I think it's a fairly good variety. It is slightly earlier than camera rosa in our trials. And one thing about this varies at the plant at least it's a medium sized plant but the, it has a tendency to produce these really large band type leaves and that's one of the things that sort of stuck out to me. The berry is a very good tasting variety. It was, I found it to be very sweet, a very flavorful berry, and some of the growers expressed the same set the same things in terms of the quality of Ruby June. Oops. Well, that brings us to the end of the presentation and if you have any questions I'd be happy to entertain them.