 My name is Sam Whitaker, I farm in Southeast Arkansas from Brother Jim. We grow cotton rice, corn and soybeans. As far as early planting, we have done probably a two-thirds of our corn planted already, started in mid-March. Typically, we try to be a little on the early side just because we watch the weather and everyone wants to plant everything when the weather's right and all that. But if you wait until everything's perfect, you probably won't get anything planted here in Arkansas. Part of the reasons for that are our farm is diverse. So we've got competing crops that have to be harvested at different times. We need the corn to be in early, so we need the corn in and out before the rice harvest starts and before the bean harvest starts. So if we try to plant everything on the compressed window, we have to harvest on the compressed windows. Early planting has risk and pitfalls. You could replant, you could get sun and crops, you could have some issues. But late planting has got risk. So the risk for late planting may be greater than the early planting, you know, what we've found out over the years. So we like to be on the front side of that window anytime in March when we get a break in the weather. We like to start planting corn there. Probably from the last week, we can march on with soybeans and rice also. Specifically, we look at the soil temperature. You're looking at that, you're looking at corn, you want it to be 50 degrees or moving into 50 degrees. A lot of times we'll start on the cool side if the forecast is looking toward warming up and drying out. Hit or the biggest risk is a plant, you know, if you're planting a day or two, you know, the day before you get a cold wet rain, if you, you know, sometimes we'll stop a day or two before that rain, their corn for a rain event. If you get a couple of warm days, crops, even, you know, corn, soybeans, cotton rice, all of them, really, if they get a little bit of a head start before that cold, wet weather, you'll usually be okay. Typically, especially with soybeans and corn to an extent, also, you know, we're fighting, you know, we're not in the corn belt, we're not in the soybean belt, we're in the mid-south and the mid-south is the first place that, you know, you get corn or soybeans. So a lot of times you get an early premium on the market for those crops. We're always refining the process. So we're taking, doing a lot of experimentation with cover crops. Seems to keep the ground in place a little better, seems to give a little better water infiltration. Things seem to hold up a little better. Your harvest plan starts with your planting plan. So as we're planning, we're thinking about, hey, we're going to plant here first, we're going to harvest here first. We're going to harvest this crop, you know, at this time in this slot. And try to utilize our equipment and then better in order to get things in a timely fashion. Probably the 10-day forecast would be a big, you know, you're looking to see when it's, you know, when the ground's dry enough, you don't want to plant, you know, one mistake I think a lot of people do, you know, you don't want to work the ground wet, you don't want to plant wet. A lot of things you can get on, but you don't need to be there. You want to get, you know, for me, it's all with the ground conditions to be right, proper dryness, proper soil temperature, and then when it's ready to move fast. You know, a key is being a little flexible, you know, you can't be real rigid with, you know, with your thinking. You've got to constantly be looking for new ways. You can't say this is the way I did it last year and it's going to work, or this is the way Dad or Granddad did it. The changes with science, technology, the equipment, everything is changing. Don't know where it's going, but I do know it's going to change, and it's going to change the net when you've got to kind of stay in front of it.