 My name is Eddie Jolly, Conservation Agronomist and Grazing Specialist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Auburn, Alabama. Today we have the opportunity to share and demonstrate to everyone the benefits of good soil health on their agricultural lands. We'll be using a rainfall simulator to do that. The nice thing about a rainfall simulator is it actually gives us visual depiction of what is actually happening to our soils as a result of the various managements that we use on our soils. Sometimes the managements that we use are not very good, some are good, and so the benefits are shown through the rainfall simulator. Today we have a forestry site, we also have a good conservation tillage site, we have a tilled site that represents continuous tillage situations, we have some grazing management that's poor, and we also have grazing management that's good. In the rainfall simulator we're hoping to show and do show quite often that with poor management we have a lot of runoff from our rainfall. With good management we're able to reduce that runoff and actually have more water infiltrate into the soils, providing reasonable benefits and help us to reduce the effects of short-term drought. You'll notice the water that's on the front of the rainfall simulator. The jugs that have more water represent more runoff. Those are our poor management systems. The jugs that are dirtier represent more soil erosion that is taking place because of the lack of cover and because of the runoff. With erosion and with a runoff we can actually lose nutrients, we lose productivity of our soils, we can actually carry pesticides and nutrients off site and get into our waters and streams. So it's important to actually capture that water as much as we can. The grazing sites or samples that represent poor management or good management in this case are the very same kind of systems that we talk about in our crop man sites. Good management promotes actively growing roots, promotes high organic matter in our soils and those are things that are important, like maintaining good soil health. So with the samples today and the demonstration today we can see the benefits of having good soil health in our agricultural fields and it makes a difference when we implement the right kinds of practices on maintaining soil health and good conservation.