 Everyone, my name is Rishi Prashad and I'm a Nutrient Management Specialist with Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Today we are standing in a plot here in Wiregrass Station where we are evaluating the amount of nitrogen that is required at side-dress, especially in the cotton systems which have received or which receive poultry litter as a pre-planned application. So typically growers supply 2 to 3 tons of poultry litter but you need to remember that if you are putting too much nitrogen at the side-dress the crop is going to remain in vegetative phase for a longer period of time. So we need to find out or fine-tune that nitrogen that is required at the first score or at the side-dress stage. So here in this plot we applied poultry litter at 2 tons an acre and you can see some of these cotton plants they are much taller and greener than some of these neighboring cotton which did not receive any fertilizer. So we do see some edge here with in regards to application of poultry litter as a starter fertilizer. Definitely some nitrogen phosphorus and potassium was released and the cotton picked it up and now we are planning to apply different rates of nitrogen so we can figure out that at what rate you know you get a good yield, a good growth and the plant doesn't go into a vegetative phase for a longer time period. So that's what we are trying to do here and stay tuned we'll have results at the end of this growing season and we will provide all this information in our production meeting starting next spring season in January. Thank you.