 Welcome to the virtual Carrington Research and Extension Center RO-CROP tour. I'm going to give you a little update on what the things that we're doing in the dry bean breeding program, too bad we couldn't do it in the field. However, I have been spending considerable amount of time in the field this summer just looking at our nurseries and things that we had out there. Many of you know our last season was quite challenging, right? Actually, it's probably our worst harvest season in what happened. Everybody had a wet harvest. It was really hard to get in the fields. We had issues with shattering. As you can see, issues with the flooding. It was too wet to get into the fields and so actually my crew had to go and pretty much do this harvest almost manually in many cases. Even with that, we lost 50% of our trials. We're not harvested for all these issues. I think with the exception of the Minnesota locations that we were able to harvest and some of the research and extension centers, we pretty much lost a lot of yield data that we didn't have even for some of our cooperative trials that we have at the national and regional levels, right? So pretty much with the exception of kidney breeding lines, we didn't do any selections. It was pretty much a lost year for when it comes to selections in our program. All we decided to do was recover the seed from all our genetic material and everything was pretty much planted again, replanted again this year with the hope that we're going to have good data. I always say you have to make lemonade out of the lemons, right? With all that bad weather and everything, John, one of my assistants, he went out in November, mid-November and sampled. All the samples are prospered. This is a prosper. He went ahead and samples some slow darkening plots and some regular darkening. And for us, it was after all that bad weather, snow, frost, and all the things that were thrown at these beans, we were really surprised to see the quality still of the slow darkening, as you can see here. Pretty starkling. So among the bad news, this is probably good news that proves again that slow darkening are a good alternative, even for those years that we have this bad season, bad harvest seasons. Luckily, these year things are looking much better. As you can see in those pictures there, actually, this is the variety trial in the dryland variety trial in Carrington. So for the most part, everything is looking good. This is my preter nursery at Carrington right now. And here is a commercial field of MD Falcon, one of our latest releases. Still, in some locations, because of flooding, we lost some trials and things like that. So overall, I would say it's much more much in much better shape than last year. But again, harvest, actually my crew started harvesting some early material today. So this is officially the first day of harvest. We'll see how it goes. Okay. Everybody knows that hopefully that we have a new black bean, just released early this year. Everybody's excited because it's been a while since we had a black bean. Higer seed yield and Zorro, similar to the yields that we are observing in Eclipse and Loretto, has the nice shoot down, dry down, uniform dry down that we see in Eclipse that everybody likes. A little bit earlier than Eclipse, which is good. Same upright front architecture that would allow us for direct harvest, direct combining. This is something new. This will be probably one of the few blacks that are resistant to rust in the region. Actually, T39, the old T39 that we used to grow many years ago is also resistant. But as everybody knows, T39, I mean, you hardly can find seed now. And it's more of the older, post-traded, the Cundin type that nobody wants anymore. Everybody wants these upright beans from now on. In addition to that, it has some tolerance or the intermediate resistance to soybean-seasoned nematode and also to common bacterial blights, which is two issues we have in the region. But here is a picture showing the seed. As you can see, nice color. In terms of canning, we got positive results so far. Feedback from canning companies say also the same thing. So we'll see how it goes with that. Here are some foundation seed fields we had in Washington State of Twilight. I also had the chance to see few commercial fields this year here in the region and it's doing really well. Here are some pictures pretty much showing that rust resistance. Here is, this is the prisoner code for Twilight. But as you can see, it's completely clean versus, you know, some of the susceptible checks that we have around. Okay, here is the same picture. Here are some of the susceptible showing symptoms and Twilight is completely clean of symptoms. Yeal, of course, that's one of the most important things. As you can see, 22 bags versus 24 clips. This is across 21 testing environments or 21 trials, right, across the region. Even using more data, 50 environments. This is what we call unbalanced data, which means that not all locations were grown in the same locations, but still powerful statistics is able to giving us some interesting numbers here. 22 bags versus 20, which is pretty similar to what we saw in the previous graph. Here is what I was trying to highlight. It's the only available variety right now with resistance to rust. It does really well for common bacterial blight as well. And you know, in a one to nine scale, as you can see, it's giving us a four, which is considered intermediate. All the other things like, you know, seed size and base to maturity and plant heights, it's pretty similar to all the other usual suspects, right? SCN female index, that's the way we measure resistance is 26.9. That's compared to a susceptible soybean check that is 100%. So that in their scale and the Illinois scale, that would be moderately resistant. Okay. Pintos, our most recent releases are here. This is the 2019 data that we could get from eight or nine locations. And you know, again, it's kind of on par. They're a little bit behind some of the usual suspect, but still, I would say nothing is statistically different there. I mean, the numbers are different, but in terms of statistics, this will be considered all similar yields. This one, of course, Pegasus is surpassing any other, any other great Northern variety out there. This is data from last year based on seven locations. And you can see five bags difference. That's huge, right? Same thing here. Look at Andy Whitetail, which is our white kidney release, mostly for Minnesota. But, you know, there's even some people growing white kidneys here in North Dakota. I was visiting a field last Wednesday on this compared to Beluga, which is the number one, two bags differences there. As many of you know, and many of you are actually already growing commercial fields of these varieties. And there's going to be, we got some shortages of seed. There was some issues with seed production last year that some of you are aware, especially for Falcon. I think after this year, that seed supply is going to be much better for all these varieties. I don't foresee major issues in terms of seed available, right? This picture is actually from last week. And it's a commercial field of white kidneys. On one side, you have Whitetail. And in other side, you have another white kidney variety. I don't want to mention. But you can see the difference in the amount of disease. What you have here is pretty much a combination of common bacterial blight and hella blight. And as you can see, no applications, nothing. This is an organic field, by the way. So no chemical applications. And you can see how Whitetail is very, very healthy in terms of those bacterial diseases. I was really pleased to see that. And of course, the grower is saying, well, for next year, I only going to grow Whitetail, nothing else when it comes to white kidneys. So those are the good days, right? When you see something like that, it makes your day happy. Just for the sake of time, I'm going to stop there. But pretty much I want to thank all the people that are involved in our research, in our work. This is not a job that I just do myself. This is a team effort. And you can see all the partners and all those agencies and institutions that are supporting our work. Very important support from our growers, of course, and the check off system that we get. And of course, if you have any questions or any feedback, you know, always how to find me by email, you can call to my office, whatever you need. We're here to help. And I want to hear your experiences with all these varieties and all these things. I hope it was helpful. I hope we can do this in the field next year. And I wish everybody a really good harvest season that is coming soon, right? Thank you.