 You know, I can tell you about this stuff and I can show you the data, but there's not very many visual displays Where I can show you the difference between a four and a two-year rotation. We use this demonstration I think it was developed by some Canadian researchers actually and Picked up by the USDA NRCS and has become quite widespread and we take a simple pair of men's underwear and And these happen to be of course fruit of loom. I think is the brand of choice and These are fruit of looms men briefs. This is what they look like new. I buried these underwear they started out like that and I this spring in about early May I Buried three pairs of underwear in this block here which had been coming out of soybean and was planted to corn and I took three pairs and I put them in here and That was also coming out of soybean going into corn, but it's a four-year rotation And the reason why underwear is being used is what underwear happens to be cotton and it's all cotton Which is kind of like cellulose That's in the plants plant structure which is in plants also bound into with lignin So there's lignocellulose, but this is just the cellulose microbes love to eat cellulose And so it'll give you an idea of how fast decomposition Occurs in the soil by burying underwear. Why do we care about decomposition? And this is really the crux of this Demonstration decomposition of residues or in this case underwear is really important because what it is is recycling the material from the previous crop and making it available for the next crop and that takes Not only a a mass of microbes But also a diversity of microbes and and the way I think about it is likening it to Demolishing a building say you have an old building, right? And you want to demolish it and reclaim the materials and use as much as possible when you're making the next set of buildings And so you don't just go out there and hire a hundred bulldozers, right? And just have them let at it you hire some bulldozers you hire some guys running the wrecking balls You hire some people that can reclaim the copper hire people that can Reclaim other materials in the building maybe reclaim the glass glass and it takes a whole diversity of Labor force to demolish that building, but at the same time reclaim that material so it can be used in the next building These are the three three underwear that I planted in this Field in May two-year corn soy rotation. So here are the three that I buried in the four-year Corn pea winter wheat soy rotation take your pick which ones would you like to wear?