 My name is Andrea Baich. I'm an assistant professor in cropping systems at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and that's where we are right now. We're on East Campus, which is the agriculture campus here at the University. The idea that we had for this grant really grew out of this senior capstone course that I teach because I have about 30 students who are meant to work on a case study of an operation to help them solve some kind of agronomic or environmental challenge that they have. And so I thought, well, okay, that's what their task is over the course of the semester. We have a lot of environmental challenges and there's landowners involved in these situations that are maybe not being brought into those conversations. So really the idea for this grant was that, you know, I want to get more women landers involved. I have these students who are eager to learn about, you know, farm management and, you know, trying to bring all of those pieces together and incorporating the women landowners. I have always been interested in these human questions and policy questions of, you know, how do we increase the use of sustainable ag on the landscape and so have colleagues who've done work with women landowners in the past and know that women own or co-own about half of the land in the Midwest. And they're often understudied or under kind of valued, I would say, in the conversation around conservation. And so I think that women can be a real gateway to having more conservation and more sustainable ag. My colleague, Dr. Angie Carter is a rural sociologist and she's done a lot of research with women landowners. And so her role, given the experience that she has, is really to do the lead on the social science research. So we're interviewing our three landowner producer payers in this project before we work with them on these farm improvement plans with my class. So we've interviewed them before we start that process and then we're interviewing them after the process. Not just the producer who is spraying or planting or harvesting who's making a decision about what's happening on those fields. There's a lot of other people who are at play and I think that immersing my students in this case study or these case studies will be valuable for them to see that there are a lot of people who are involved in decision making and how can they approach some of those relationships more with more experience and maybe more sensitively.