 Hi, my name is Carl Hoppe. I work here at the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center. I'm also the SARE coordinator for North Dakota. There's a United States Department of Agricultural program called Sustainable Ag Research and Education. It's called SARE. It's a program that helps look at alternative ways or sustainable ways to raise food for our country. SARE has a wealth of information that's been collected over the past 30 plus years of the SARE program. And it can be found on a website called SARE. Just Google SARE or Bing or whatever you use as your search engine and you'll come up with a plethora of information. The SARE program has online books, printed books, it has publications, field reports, and a whole number of videos. And it has a lot of reports from research projects that have been done over the past 30 years. Now I wanted to talk to you a little bit today about the research projects or the opportunities, grant opportunities there are for different research projects. We're at a research extension center so we normally think we're looking for money here to run projects here. But farmers and ranchers have the opportunity to look for money with the SARE program. It's called the Farmer Rancher Grant. And a farmer rancher can come up with the idea that they want to test something on their farm and if they test it and share the results with the producers, they can get up to $9,000 a year or if three producers get together they can get $27,000 in the grant. And the grants run from two to three, a year to two to three years long depending upon what the program has, how it works out. And they can research the idea and write up a report and at the end share it with people and that's how we discover new ideas, test different things. And every state has that opportunity in the nation to apply for a farmer and rancher grant. We're in the north center region so we've got our group that the funds are competed with. Other programs we have are partnership grants. That's something like where you'd have a professional, like a county extension agent that want to write the grant and incorporate producers to be a part of it to find out this particular project or idea that they want to share. We also have youth educator grants. That's a $4,000 a year grant that's for people that want to educate youth in sustainable ag activities. We actually have a graduate student grant that's available for grad students as they're going through grad school to study sustainable ag projects. And then we have the professional development grants and the research and education grants that are anywhere from $90,000 to $250,000 grants that universities or non-profit organizations or NGOs that are into this type of research can apply for and get funded. And then with all these grants, producers and the professionals share that information with our colleagues and producers across the nation. And if you're looking for what was done, be sure to go to the SARE website and look at the information that's posted.