 Hi, I'm Brian Hansen. I'm the Research Agronomist at the Langdon Research Extension Center, and I'm coming to you here today virtually. We didn't have a field tour this year, but we thought we'd want to share a little information about what we're doing here in Towner County with the different trials we have. First of all, I'd like to thank Darren Wise for letting us be on his land again this year. And it's always very helpful to us in getting things in order in this spring. So we're very appreciative of that. So we have three different trials here this year. We have our regular hard-breaded spring wheat variety trial. And then we do some work with syngena. So we have an advanced trial with them on hard-breaded spring wheat. And something else we have this year is a faba bean trial, and we're working with a company called Agrolytica, who was contracted by RMA to get some information on the crop insurance for faba beans. Faba beans have had a little more interest the last couple of years, and maybe not so much this year, but the past two years. And there's been some fields growing around, so they want to get a little more information for crop insurance. And just briefly a little bit about the faba bean, if you don't know too much about it, it's a legume crop. Generally it's more adapted to the cooler regions. So here in northern North Dakota, a little cooler environment generally, a little more moisture, and that's more like what the faba bean would like. It's a little more popular up in Canada in some areas. So it's a legume crop. You know, it pods very high. It's not like a pea, so it's very easy to harvest anywhere from 10 to 13 inches off the ground. And it fixes about 30% more nitrogen than the pea would. Basically the plant, there's kind of different categories. You may be heard of it as a tick bean or a horse bean. And the seeds are quite large anywhere from 400 to 600 grams per kernel weight. So it's a very large green compared to a pea as well. If you're planting in an area, you'd pick a field like you would for a field pea, you know, a little nitrogen. You don't want to watch your carry over herbicide some. And it's not real strong competitor with weeds. It comes up very slow, so you want to make sure you don't have a big perennial weed problem in your field. And you inoculate it just like you would a pea or a soybean to get your nitrogen for the crop. So we mentioned it's a little poorer for weed control, but there's some options out there that are labeled. At Langdon we usually use like a prowl or treflan along with spartan, and then you can come back with varisto so you can keep the field quite clean during the year. Variety selection, there's a couple varieties here called zero tannin or regular, and really most of the market for beans is with the human food market here in the States. They fractionate it and separate the protein and starch so it's used in pet food or human food. So that's the main sources here. And just a couple of agronomic things, a seeding date. You want to plant fiber beans quite early. About the first thing you'd want to plant, they do well planted early. We've done research at Langdon about three, four years ago looking at planting date study. Anything after about May 20th, the yields really went down fast, they take a long time to mature. If you get a cool wet fall, they kind of linger on. So if you could plant them even May 1st in that area, it'd probably be an ideal situation. And we also did a seeding rate trial back then, and it kind of confirmed what others have done where you plant about four to five seeds per square foot. So fiber beans are quite large seeded, so it actually may be planting up to three to four bushels. So you really have to watch your seed size to get the correct population. Seeding depth, we want to plant it deep, two to three inches. It's a big bean, so we get it under the moisture. So make sure it gets some moisture to get that bean growing. Not so much for insect problems, maybe some ligus bugs, which can cause some crop quality issues towards the end of the season. What about the only insect would be blister beetles, blister beetles kind of clumb in and just fly in and feed for a while and not so much a big deal on a big field. Be more of an issue on a plot like this where you have a small amount where they come in and do a little more harm. Diseases, pretty much some of the things you would have with peas, but it's a little more resistant to root rot than you would have with your peas, so a little better in that spot area. The only foliar is a chocolate brown spot and our pathologist at Langdon has done some work with that and you can spray that. It's labeled like something like Headline or something like that, we'll usually spray that just around mid-July. Harvest generally desiccate when about 80% of the pods are turning and then try to harvest at 18% to 20% moisture. So that's about what I want to share with you about the five of beans today. We're standing in front of the Hard Red Springweed Variety Trial. Typically when we're out here and we have more people, I go through each of the varieties, get a little more detailed information, but virtually we don't want you to unclick us so we're going to keep it a little shorter and keep it a little general and you can look up some of the yield results this fall. Part of your results go on our website and then there's the NDSU Variety page where you can get the varieties from all the different crops across all the different research centers across the state, so it's quite handy that way. Probably one of the best bulletins you should get is called Hard Red Springweed Variety Selection Guide and this has a lot of the information taken from all the different research sites and Fargo accumulated. It has all the varieties, source origin, average height that we've seen across the state, straw strength, dazed ahead and gives some of the disease ratings such as stem rust, tan spot and scab and a big one that we've seen this year all across the state is bacterial leaf streak. Bacterial leaf streak, it's a bacterial obviously and it's not controlled by any fun fungicide so if you fungicide your field and you had a lot of brown leaves yet you're wondering what's going on it's bacterial leaf streak. So the only thing you can do with that really is resistant varieties and there's not a lot that are really resistant to that and there's a column in here that lists some of the better ones are one from Minnesota called Boost, Lang M.M., one called Trigger from Lima Green Serial Science and ND VidPro would be some of the more resistant varieties. So and this also gives the quality so it's important for our marketing on the whole for NDSU in the state to have good quality crop. Now the varieties that we have in here this year or at Langdon we we have 30 varieties here and a couple of them are experimental at Langdon we have 56 total varieties and 47 are names so there's so many choices for you guys to pick from in choosing a variety. Basically if you look at a variety and would look at a chart there's kind of four different quadrants you can have a variety with high yield and lower protein or varieties with lower yield and higher protein and that's just generally the way that it responds if you have a higher yielding you generally don't get as high protein and then you have a whole group in the middle. So obviously the plant breeders their objective is try to break into that upper right quadrant or you have a little higher yield and a higher protein so that's some of the data you should look at. So the varieties we have here again we have 47 name we have varieties from NDSU, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana State, and Sengenta, AgriPro, Cropland, Limagrain Serial Science, Meridian Seed, Dynagro, CHS or Allegiant we have those at in Langdon and then 21st century genetics. So we have about four universities and seven different companies and at this point right now Westbred does not test any lines with NDSU. They've chosen just do that privately. Just for the NDSU lines I guess one of the newer ones that was just released this year it's being raised at the NDSU research centers and will be available for to local counties next year is ND Froberg. That was named after the plant breeder Dr. Froberg. We retired about 12 years ago or so and it's a variety kind of fall in the class is like a barlow or glen. Typically it's a little taller about the same range as a glen and but for being a taller variety it does have a very good straw strength and have a little bit better yield than bowls would but won't have quite as high as protein and carries that new rust gene. I know some of the older ones we had like Fowler had some of the rust that is in the area right now it wasn't resistant to that particular race but ND Froberg is and does have some resistant to bacterial leaf streak streak and the Fuzerum headlight would be similar to Elgin or Barlow and it has a very good milling and baking qualities. So it's a variety we'll see we're going to have it right at Langdon the last few years and we're going to it's at all our research centers this year as well. So that's kind of a quick update. We didn't get into a lot of detail like I mentioned before but look for the data. So thank you for much and have a good harvest season.