 Well, I'm Chris Grubel. We're east of Sturgis, South Dakota, straight north of Rapid City On the family farm been here 126 years. My family has I'm the fifth generation There's two more generations behind me now. I Can remember growing up boy. You didn't do anything out and grandpa summerfallow and my dad's summerfallow You didn't walk out there. He didn't drive out there sure didn't ride your horse across it but Now we're got cattle out in there and we're using that as part of our livestock and and still doing a cash crop with the wheat farming and Trying to make it all work together. I Spent every spring watching that dirt blow in the spring and off the summerfallow and Wind erosion and we always had to keep a good mulch on top of the ground to hold moisture Now we're doing it with crops and it's sure nice not to see the ground blow You can go into all these fields and find every old strip Where the edge of the field was because it's it's taller because all the blow dirt a lot of these fence lines Over the years get blowed in That we only have about eight inches maybe of topsoil in this area six to eight And that's probably being generous in Every year you lose a little bit of that and pretty quick you're left with hardly anything As you get out in the middle of them fields and you can just see the yield go down and then back up when you get to the next and It's because of that blow dirt Now after we've been doing this for quite a few years. We're not seeing that big difference anymore The fields are getting more uniform again We don't have near the runoff that we used to the moisture stand in the field where it belongs We're able to graze that Cover crop and graze our farm grounds in the fall and we'd traditionally be putting out bought and protein supplement because the native grasses have dried up and When the protein gets down around 10% or less we need to be supplementing our cattle and if we can move them in to Oh, for instance a ground This alfalfa regrowth is a really good source of fall protein The varieties that we plant our cover crop are doing two things for us They're prepping the soil for the wheat crop Which will eventually be a spring wheat crop and it's also providing real good source of nutrition for the livestock Later on and by switching from winter wheat to spring wheat. We're able to graze them fields later in the fall Just give it time your soil is going to eventually Soften up on its own you have to build the worm Population and everything up in the organic matter It's our challenge to try to grow more and do it efficiently. It has to be done economically or we wouldn't be here This is all I ever wanted to do was come home and do this To be able to to build it and to have something for the next generations and to keep everybody busy