 My name is Strahinja Stepanovich and I work for Nebraska Extension in Southwest Nebraska and been working on field peas for the past five years. Field peas were really a minor crop five, six, seven years ago and they started primarily farmers in the Pinhandle Nebraska, Western Nebraska started growing them instead of fallow, so they replaced fallow and then they plant weed behind it. Farmers have grown them now for five years. Based on our data and our evaluation, they have seen improvements in using less fertilizer, less herbicides, less soil erosion, better soil health, better utilization of water. All of the above, they've improved their sustainability of their farms. They've seen benefits of them. Some of them have seen those ponding areas of the field disappear and now they're farming more acres. They're infiltrating the precipitation and they're being more resilient in terms of changing climate. So all of those things, I think a lot of farmers are going to see the benefits of it and keep the future of field peas in Nebraska. We've gone far from five years ago where we had about 20,000 acres to about 70,000 acres from about three seed dealers to about eight or nine and from virtually no processors to about four or five that are currently buying peas from Nebraska. Now we kind of have this synergism going on between farmers wanting to grow the field peas, processors wanting the volume and farmers giving them the volume and then Extension and University doing the research and educational component and promoting the crop among the farmers and helping them grow. They have a huge market outside the United States borders but the consumption and the education of plant-based protein food has been on the increase in the United States and we hope to have that increase to a point where we're going to have enough maybe to support a large portion of the domestic production. My name is Amanda Easterly and I am the dryland cropping systems research laboratory manager at the High Plains Agricultural Lab and I work with students, other researchers at the university and across universities to look at different management strategies for producers in the semi-arid high plains. So in the semi-arid high plains a traditional crop rotation has been wheat fallow and the primary reason for doing so is to conserve moisture in that fallow period to help maintain the productivity of the wheat the following year. However we're seeing that it is possible to replace that fallow period with field peas and this is beneficial for a number of reasons primarily that you reduce the amount of herbicides that are necessary to maintain weed control. There may or may not actually be a loss of moisture that really hits the wheat yields the following year and then also rather than having a fallow year in which you're putting money in with field peas you do have the potential and often the likelihood of pulling out a profit from that ground rather than having it sit idle. One of the best aspects of this project has been to see the future generation of scientists develop both as applied agricultural researchers as well as individuals who can interact well with producers and stakeholders and really see how that mutually beneficial interaction between researchers and stakeholders can drive innovation in agriculture. There's additional research in a number of areas both from the foundational science and agronomic side of catering which inoculums and other practices really benefit peas what the ideal cropping system can be in various parts of the climates in which peas are grown and then also more and more research is needed to develop markets and to look at alternative ways in which we can use these peas so that they really do become an economically feasible option for producers.