 Hi, my name is Chris Osmondson, welcome to the NCRAC Research Vineyard. The first vines we put in here were put in in 2013, we put in around 1300 vines. Since then we've added over 6400 vines and we're still taking data on more than 3000 of those. Every one of these vines is a wine grape, so they're a little different than the ones you see in the grocery store, they're a little smaller and they have seeds. But they're really good for making wine, which is what we're trying to do here, it's where the market is. They're all a little different than you would buy in like a nursery. These are grown especially from seeds and the seeds are hand pollinated and the parents are carefully selected. So we have a lot of the parents are from the University of Minnesota or the University of South Dakota, some cold hardy lines from Elmer Swensen in Wisconsin and they're crossed with select riparia or wild river grapes that have unparalleled hardiness and wine lines that are more popular, more people know about like Chardonnay. What we're trying to do is develop a wine grape that will work in North Dakota. We have grapes that will grow here and there's grapes that make good wine but there aren't many that will do both. And our season is short enough that we also need them to ripen quickly otherwise they're not much good. Since each of these vines is unique and they're grown from seed, everyone is tested separately. So once they grow fruit we'll take each plant and separately test cluster weight, berry weight, yield, sugar content, pH, flavor notes and if there's enough present which is about two-thirds of a pound will do micro-venification which is basically small batches of wine where you're making one bottle of wine at a time. And when those are done they're all evaluated by a peer group and the wines are compared to each other and only the best ones are kept. We've been really lucky this year with a grant from the USDA, a specialty crop block grant from the USDA and another grant from the Grape and Wine Association. We've been able to take on some really neat new projects this year. For the first time we've grown and planted in the vineyard here seeds that were specially created by the NCREC staff with material that was generously donated by Jeff Peterson from the point of view winery. And it's the thing that's really special about these is they have their start close to home. One of the parents that was selected is a riparia or a wild river grape that was discovered down in the Missouri River base and right between Minot and Burlington and the numbers on this plant are so spectacular that it's being used in research as far away as China. So it's going to be really exciting to see what they do and since we've started them here in the greenhouse and planted them out here we also have germination data and growth data that we were never able to have before. Another thing that we've done this year that's really exciting is we've taken our plants that we've grown here that have the best wine numbers the most promising vines and we've created mother blocks which is where you take a plant and you clone it and you get several plants that are the same. And since we've done that we're also able now we're going to be able to do wine studies on a much bigger scale than we've ever been able to before. We'll be able to study hardiness and if we're if we like what we see there's a chance that this will be a first step in creating and releasing the first wine grape that's ever been specifically for the North Dakota region.