 We're in our fourth year of the Rebamp University of Minnesota breeding program, which is really exciting because this is the first time we're able to actually look at yield in some of our new potential varieties. So we've got 65 approximately Reds, Yellows, Chips and Russets that we are growing out in a couple of replicates and we're going to be able to get, thus far we've really been looking at kind of quality traits and specific gravity and deciding, making calls based on that and we're really going to get a sense of yield for the first time this year, so that's really exciting for us and moving us toward newer varieties. We also have things all the way down the pipeline. We're growing about 26,000 year ones, so the first time we look at things, we're growing those at the North Central Research and Outreach Station. We're looking at about 400 year twos and then we have about 150 year threes and so all of these are in all four market classes and this is our pipeline for new varieties. Breeding takes time and one of the things we're interested in doing is speeding that up. So part of how we've grown out the field year four and the field year three, so our most advanced clones is we're working with the other breeders in the U.S. to develop mathematical models that let us speed up the breeding process and speed up our selection process. And this is part of a USDA NIFA SCRI grant and so we've sent our year four material to Susie here in North Dakota and to Jeff Endelman at the University of Wisconsin and to Dave Dauchus at Michigan State and we're growing their material as well so we're able to get these multi-environment measures faster so we have an idea if something looks good it's just because it looks good at Becker where we're growing or if it looks good in multiple places and that data is really important to build these models that let us speed things up. So this is our first year we're sort of trying this as a big group. Breeders across the country are genotyping all of their late-stage clones and we are going to work together to combine this genotype and phenotype data so the genetics and then what we can measure about the plants for traits that are important to us to make it so we can all move faster. So that's one of the exciting developments in our program. We are also growing all of our late-stage clones at a couple of different nitrogen levels and we're hoping to screen for nitrogen efficiency and find some varieties that require less nitrogen and we're looking early in our program so we don't weed out varieties that could be good for nitrogen but don't look as good at really high nitrogen and my post doc Dr. Xiaoxhi Meng is leading that program. She got an MDA grant and next year she's flying drones over the field to see if we can predict what will do well at lower nitrogen. We're also working with Dr. Minerva-Dogromassi on looking at how harvest times and strategies affect dormancy and my breeding specialist Dr. Thomas Stefaniak is taking the lead on that. We're looking at timing of nitrogen for red potatoes and if that interacts with variety and how that interacts with variety with some of our late-stage clones and Thomas is also taking the lead on that. We're creating diploid potatoes. We grew our first ones out in the field this year and they look terrible but that's honestly expected. It's a process but they grew and they're producing tubers so that's a step in the right direction and my grad student is taking the lead on that. We're working on phenotyping better so we're developing image analysis software to get better at really quantifying skin color and skin loss and tuber shape for red potatoes because to select for something you have to be able to measure it really well or at least we have to be able to measure it really well. I think Susie looks at them and they wink at her but we're getting there and so my graduate student Michael is developing that software and expanding it to also measure pressure brews and russeting. We're looking at potato diversity in collaboration with the gene bank in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and trying to identify a really small set of wild potatoes that are most representative so we can use them for when we're looking for new disease or stress resistance traits we're interested in breeding in so that we can screen a really small set of clones instead of a huge set of clones and my graduate student Heather is working on that. So we have, oh and then the other thing we've been doing is we inherited a bunch of clones from the former breeder Dr. Christian Thell and it took us a while to clean them up because they all had a pretty high disease load so we put them through antiviral tissue culture and we're growing them out this year to see what they look like and be able to figure out if we have promising varieties there. We have a couple that we just keep hearing from people are delicious so we've got a purple, 07.1.1.2 and we've got a yellow, 048.44 that just talking to people we keep hearing that they ate when Christian was growing and they would be interested in eating again and so we're growing those out in collaboration with an organic grower in the Twin Cities and we're having sort of a tasting event and our hope is to release those on sort of a gardener kind of scale so those will hopefully be out in the world soon and we're hoping to follow up on that with some of Christian's other varieties that seem promising. So thank you very much for letting me update you all on what's going on in Minnesota.