 Good morning, glad to see so many faces here. This is awesome. I have not been to this event before, my first time here, and this is a great turnout. I'd like to start just by kind of giving some thanks, Carl Hoverson, Hoverson Farms. This is an awesome event. Thank you so much for putting that on for us. The field crew, Dean Peterson, Russell Benz, and all of his guys, you'll see their work. Hopefully you can come out to Inkster this afternoon and see their work. We certainly, Gary and I could not accomplish really much without them. Maybe we could sit in our offices and hang out, Gary, if we didn't have those guys. But that's about what we would get accomplished. So they are awesome, they do such great work, and are the key to our success. I want to talk about, Gary and Andy and everybody kind of covered our disease situation currently. I want to talk about a couple of things, soil borne. As Andy said, I want to talk about soil borne organisms this morning. And you may be seeing in your fields, we've heard from growers, verticillium starting to take hold because of stress, and also some common scab issues, just from the dry, dry conditions this year. And so, we started a common scab project last year, myself with the cooperator at USDA ARS, Chris Clark. And so, I don't believe, Gary, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Andy of Supathology has had a real common scab project ever. Okay, so this is kind of our first research project in common scab. And Gary says he doesn't want to work on it because it's too hard to solve. So somebody conned the new girl into working on common scab. For some reason, I fell for it. Yeah, so, yeah, with some encouragement. So anyways, we're looking at the pathogen population that we have in North Dakota. As I said, nobody's really looked at that. And what we know about common scab is that variety resistance is very much related to the pathogen population. And so, for all of you to know what you can plant, for us to help Susie to identify the resistance, and for us to look at management tactics going forward, we need to first know about our pathogen population. And so, that's our first endeavor. We looked at a pathogen population actually kind of got a hint about some funding from Nebraska. So we kind of used the Nebraska growers as our guinea pigs. Don't tell anybody that. Any of you that might speak to them. But we started a project there last year where we compared some PCR results, so quantification of the pathogen in soil to disease. And we actually, we got some very good results from that. And so now this year, we have some funding to start working on that in North Dakota. And then also in combination with that, we'll look at soil properties, physical and chemical soil properties. And the goal is to hope to relate all of those factors, the pathogen population, the soil physical and chemical properties, and the variety with disease incidents. So that you would have some ability to know, you know, what can I plant here? What should I stay away from? Those sorts of things. And so, that's really our overall goal with Common Scab. Like I said, I'm just learning Common Scab. It's new to me. And so I have a great partner in the USDA that's really leading me and kind of teaching us through this effort. The second thing I want to talk about is verticillium wilt. And that's very familiar to me. I worked on verticillium wilt for my PhD, but we're coming back to it. And it hasn't been cured in the last 10 years since I finished my PhD. So there's still opportunities. We are, I'm very, very happy to, glad to join with Susie Thompson and Laura Shannon. And we're going to start really intently looking at resistance. And looking at resistance in Susie's breeding program, in Laura's material, integrating that into Laura's new diploid breeding efforts and some of Susie's diploid breeding efforts. And really kind of the three of us joining our efforts together, our expertise's together. And really intently looking at how we can accelerate breeding for resistance to verticillium wilt. In addition to that, we continue to look at chemical management of verticillium wilt, as well as some cultural practices, some manures, and some of those sorts of things, planting dates, harvest dates, and such, to really dig into more what we can kind of do in an integrated practice as far as verticillium wilt is concerned and the management of that. My crew, I believe, has passed out a couple of handouts that go into those projects in a little more detail, as well as some other projects. That's kind of just for your information, some of the things that we're doing in addition to common scab and to verticillium wilt. This afternoon I'm going to talk about foliar diseases, and so kind of as a little bit of a preview to this afternoon, a little bit of early blight and a little bit of the work that we're going to do on Brownspot, as well. So I'm happy to take any questions. We're always looking for samples, see and hear what's happening on your farms, and what you have going on. With that, again, just thanks. Thanks, Andy, and everybody else. Thanks for being here, and let me know. Please contact me. Any questions, problems, concerns that you have. So thank you. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.