Hey, this is Brett and this 2017 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box SLT is stock number 13296Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2017 Ram 2500 has the 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed, 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck can tow up to 17,140 pounds and has a max payload of 2,216 pounds. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. This truck has been fully-safetyed, inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Like I said I'm going to go all the way around inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood. Bright white is the color and I shoot all my videos in 4K so if you have HD capabilities turn them on now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition and of course the cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And as you go down this side you can see no major dents or dings in the box. The doors in the cab all look really good. Front fender is in nice shape. This one has Kenda Cleaver triple threat sidewalls, 33x12.5R20LTs and it comes with some really good looking Mickey Thompson Deegan 38 rims. Rims are in excellent shape and the front tires look like they have probably about 60% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is in really nice shape and the front fender is in nice condition once again. The light lenses are nice and clear and the front bumper and lower valance are all in excellent condition. No major dents or dings on there. The grille is in nice shape and the hood is in fantastic condition as well. Passenger side front fender looks really good too and the passenger side rim no major scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of this 2017 Ram 2500 take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like the paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. So that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. This back rim is in excellent shape as well no scuffs or scrapes on there and the back tires have about 50% of the tread left. Frame and underbody pretty nice shape, has all the remaining factory exhaust that hasn't been altered in any way and the underbody looks really good. Little rockers and cab corners I didn't see any corrosion on them and it does come with a nice set of aftermarket chrome step bars. Going around to the back of the vehicle you'll notice that it does have LED tail lamps, rear bumpers in pretty nice shape, does have backup parking sensors and the only thing I notice is one little ding on the rear bumper but it doesn't affect the performance of the truck. Full towing package which includes a receiver hitch 4 pin and 7 pin wiring and the tailgate is in pretty nice shape as well, didn't see any major dents or dings on there. It does have a locking tailgate, drop in bed liner and it comes with Reese 5th wheel bed rails and that bed liner goes on to the tailgate as well. Shuts nice and solidly and as we come around to the driver's side for full disclosure this back rim is in nice shape as well. Once again down the rest of the side doors and cab all look good, does come with the heated fold up tail mirrors built in directional signals they fold up like so and in like that. Inside the SLT package gives you the gray cloth interior, no rips or tears on the seats, 40, 20, 40 split bench seating in the front, does come with a set of weather tech floor mats, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. Take a quick look at the back seats, back seats are in nice shape, no major rips or tears back here, does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you have and sliding rear window underneath the seats, a little bit of storage, you get in-floor storage on each side with removable bins for easy cleaning, you can put ice and drinks in there it's like you have too many coolers wherever you go or just extra storage child safety locks on the back doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good, insides look pretty good as well, we'll hop inside check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior, see that this one has 41,976 miles you do get a digital speedometer, compass and outside temperature display, instrument cluster is very nice and clean, comes with the multifunction steering wheel, bluetooth and information center controls on the left and cruise controls on the right like I said this one does have the six speed 68 RFE automatic transmission the optional tap shift, this one has the 8.43C radio AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities on here and you can check out your backup camera right there and that is working nicely and you get your climate controls on here including your dual climate controls, now if you don't want to do the climate controls on the radio you can do them down here with the more tactile buttons and knobs, turned off four wheel drive, factory brake controller, stability control, tow haul, factory exhaust brake and your parking sensors you can turn those off and on, that weather tech format goes over the hump and the passenger side format and seat are an excellent conditional rips or tears on there and the headliner is in very nice condition as well, you do get map lights, power sign rear window button and assist in 911 buttons in the mirror, we'll start it up and take a look under the hood, starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that, I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition and options and cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out, under the hood we have a 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine, engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth, once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by a service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go, there is your emissions sticker and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half-tons, three-quarter-tons, one-tons, you name it we got to go to that website right there summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto number two like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there, click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at summitautomotive in fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper left, link to more Ram 25 on our truck videos like this one in the upper right link to this vehicle on our website in the lower left and a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right, quick those check us out we're super excited to help you with this Ultra Clean 2017 Ram 2500 crew cab short box SLT in bright light clear coat thanks again for checking out the video remember like subscribe and share on the YouTube channel I really appreciate it thanks again


Ukrainian border guards have mocked a potential threat of a major attack from the neighbouring Belarus. The fighters have publicised Veed footage taken while they were getting Belarusian army soldiers push an old UAZ-469 vehicle. Drones of the Ukrainian border guards recorded the movement of military equipment near the border, according to information posted on Telegram. It's worth mentioning that Russia uses Belarus' territory for holding military exercises for its soldiers. Russians are then sent to a training camp in Belarus to fight against Ukraine. Belarus and Russia have also signed an agreement on military cooperation.


We're here at the El Dorado drone port slash the Aero drone. It's the world's first commercial drone port and right now it looks like sort of empty space but they have big plants to build it out into an actual drone airport. So the the idea behind the drone radio was you can't really see what drones do unless you're not inside the convention center so everybody's got a flight cage and you know all that kind so we were like let's get outside and actually take these things down in the wild to do what they do. Epsomovario glasses what they do is they're we partnered with DJI the world leader in drone which is their Phantom 4 in the air. The glasses enable you to get a real-time camera view from the drone's camera so that I can keep my head up and keep my eyes on the drone. It also gives me all the information telemetry data the map GPS things like that so that I can keep all that information in mind and have a safe flight. The agris itself is a a crop and spraying drone so it's made to have about 2.6 gallons of herbicide pesticide weed killer whatever you want to put in there from the controller we're able to control how much spray we have going and we can then set up a course on wherever we want it to go.


Alright guys, we are back again with another video. This time a vlog actually. It's been a little while so I'm pretty excited. So as I mentioned in my past videos, I finished my freshman year at Yale. I got to go home for a couple weeks to relax with my family. And now I'm back here at Yale on the grind for four weeks where I'll be taking an intensive French class. And then that class will move to Paris for four weeks where I'll be taking another intensive French class. Obviously I can't wait for Paris but these past three weeks they've been quite the grind. I would have loved to film more vlogs or fun videos but to be honest there's really no one here and there's nothing going on here and pretty much all I'm doing is working all day. So it's hard to find time. I'm currently taking level three French except the problem is this is normally a semester long course and they're cramming it into four weeks. Which means that every day at class is pretty much a week's worth of content if it were taught during the year. And let me tell you it piles up very quickly. Alright enough of me just talking to the camera I just woke up. Alright enough of me just talking to the camera I just woke up. I'm not going to show you any of that boring morning routine stuff because no one wants to see that. Do you really want to see me brushing my teeth? No you don't. But what I will do is one of those cool clothes transitions things in the mirror let's see if we can get this right and three, two, all right I hope that worked. It's getting pretty late it's like 9.50 I class at 10 so I better head out. I'm on my way to class right now it is in WLH, Harkness Hall. And I'll check in with you guys once I get out to talk about what we're doing. Class is actually right in that classroom right there.  It's a pretty cool place on campus. I don't have a tripod so I'm just setting it right here on this little stand but it should work. So I'm back from class now it's about 2pm and it's time to get to work. So the daily work for my French class pretty much comes in three forms. The first of which is some ridiculously long listening exercises that go along with this gigantic course pack that we had to buy. This doesn't only take between an hour and a half and two hours each night. Then I have to do my assigned reading. Most of the time it's 25 or 30 pages but keep in mind it's entirely in French so it takes about three times as long. I'm currently reading L'étranger by Albert Rumeau which is French for The Stranger. A book that I had the great opportunity to read during my AP Lit class in high school which is nice to have kind of already be familiar with the literature before I dive into it in a completely foreign language. The third part of the class is studying and reviewing all the grammar that you learned in class because you pretty much have daily quizzes along with about a test or two each week. So if you're not studying every night and staying on top of your game you're getting behind. I'm going to get to work but I will catch up with you guys later. I was heading back from the gym and it just absolutely started pouring. I went back up to my room, changed real quick, took a shower. Now I'm going to go see some friends who are actually staying in the crew house. Man my lens is all foggy. It's so humid. Right, there's Sterling Library, this place is really pretty at night. My friends Owen and Aeton, you've probably seen them in other videos, are staying at the crew house right now. It was actually Aeton's birthday yesterday so I'm going to surprise them with some donuts from my favorite donut place on earth. Oh yeah. I only have three days left. Alright that was fun to see some friends again but it is 11pm and I still have a ton of homework to knock out before class tomorrow so let's hope it's not too late of the night. I just finished all of my listening exercises, outlined all the vocab words. I think I'm going to call it a night. It's getting pretty late, it's almost 1am, I'm going to head to bed. If you're new and this is the first video you've seen, make sure to subscribe. You won't regret it. More videos like this coming in the future. If you're excited for me to finally get to Paris and see videos in Paris, definitely subscribe, like, all that stuff. Thank you for letting me share a day in the life of a Yale student during the summer. I know it wasn't super interesting but hopefully you guys got a peek into my life. That?


and welcome to day 14 of the Mindful This Challenge. We've made it, not only we made it to day 14, we're still going, we're still working, we're still and this is the first day really I'm out and about so I'm just out towards the coastline not far from where I live. I just thought I'd change up the energy a little bit really because most of them have all been sat down in the office and and those things etc and today we're going to do and we're going to do a mountain meditation which we'll be on in a few moments time but before that I just want to just talk about you know mindfulness and where we are and how things are going etc etc and I was watching an Eckhart Toll video the other day and he was talking about spiritual awakening and when does the spiritual awakening happen and it's really when we start to come off the normal treadmill where we just sort of float along and everything's abundant and everything's going forward and everything's okay don't really ask any questions of ourselves we don't ask any questions about inner cells or where we are and where we're going it's only on times now where we we were reflecting and we're questioning things you know is when we can really have an amplification of that awakening and that awakening really is is is about us just thinking about ourselves thinking about how we treat ourselves thinking about how we are with ourselves and and this time now when we've got some some time on our hands to be able to do that type of thinking is is is hugely important and you know it's a very short one today and the reason for that is is I just want you to spend some time with yourself not with me and spend some time with yourself thinking about you know being kind to yourself not beating yourself up not setting so many expectations you know and just being loving to yourself and remember that you are the constant that your human physical body is here every single day we're not our thoughts our thoughts are real but they're not true our emotions you know they are what they are and we can live this happy balanced spiritual life with clarity and purpose and be healthy and kind to ourselves so my tip to you you're part of mindfulness today is if you can okay and we allow one walk a day is to go out and just be very mindful go from mindful walk so as you walk in slow down push your awareness and your alertness out listen to the birds listen to the listen to the sea listen now you know my dog in the background is going nuts for for stones again so just listen and just be and enjoy these moments appreciate them listen to the birds so it's a short one today so when you were I'm gonna put the pop up the mountain meditation now for you to do it's a consistent and then I'll speak to a little bit later on back in my office what I wanted to get out and about today just to raise the energy and show setting a bit different be loving give love guys thanks very much you later okay so this mountain meditation is normally done in a in a sitting position either on the floor or a chair but if you want to lay down you can and it begins by if we can sit down now and get into that position and it begins by us sensing into the support you have from the chair or the cushion or the mattress we are laying down and paying attention to the actual sensations of contact finding a position of stability and poise at upper body balance over your hips and shoulders in a very comfortable printable but alert position you can put your hands on your lap or your knees and the arms can be hanging there now by their own weight stable and relaxed and actually you're sensing your body feeling your feet your legs your hips you're lowering up a body arm shoulders neck and head you're bringing awareness to your breath the actual physical sensations feeling each breath as it comes in and as it goes out letting the breath just be just as it is without trying to change your regulator in any way allowing it to flow easily and naturally with its own rhythm and pace knowing that you're breathing perfectly well right now nothing for you to do whatsoever allow in the body to be still and sit in with a sense of dignity or laying a sense of resolve a sense of being complete whole in this very moment with your posture reflected in this sense of wholeness as you sit here letting an image form in your mind's eye or as we say in spirituality your third eye in between your eyebrows and I want you to envisage the most magnificent or beautiful mountain you have ever seen or could imagine and letting it gradually come into greater focus and even if it doesn't come as a visual image allowing the sense of this mountain and feeling its overall shape it's lofty peak or peaks high in the sky the large base rooted in the bedrock of the earth crust it's steep or gently sloping sides noticing how massive it is how big it is how solid how unmanoeuvre and moving how beautiful whether from afar or up close perhaps your mountain has a snow blanketing on the top and trees reaching down to the base or rugged granite sides there may be streams and waterfalls cascading down the slopes there may be one peak or a series of peaks or meadows with high lakes observing it noting its qualities when you feel ready seeing if you can bring the mounting into your own body sitting here so that your body and your mountain in your mind's eye become one so that you can sit here together you can share in the sheer size and the stillness of the majestic of the mountain you become the mountain grounded in the sitting posture your head becomes the lofty peak supported by the rest of your body and affording a beautiful panoramic view your shoulders and arms the sides of the mountain your buttocks and legs the solid base rooted to your cushion of your chair or your mattress experiencing your body a sense of upliftment from the deep within your pelvis and spine with each breath as you continue sitting becoming a little more a breathing mounting alive and vital yet unwavering in in a stillness completely what you are beyond words and thoughts a centered grounded and moving presence as you sit here becoming aware of the fact that the sun travels across the sky the light and the shadows and colors are changing virtually moment by moment in the mountain stillness and the surface teams with life and activity streams melt in snow waterfall plants and wildlife as the mountain sits seeing and feeling how night follows day and day follows night the bright warming Sun followed by the cool night sky studied with stars and the gradual dawning of a new day through it all the mountain just sits experiencing change in each moment constantly changing it always just being self it remains still as the seasons flow into one another and the weather changes moment by moment and day by day calmness abiding all change in the summer there is no snow on the mountain except perhaps for the very peaks or in the crack shielding for the direct sunlight in the autumn the mountain may wear a coat of brilliant fire colors in the winter a blanket of snow and ice in any season it may find itself at times a shrouded in clouds or fog or pelted by freezing rain people may come to see the mountain and comment how beautiful it is none of this really matters to the mountain it remains at all times it's essential self clouds may come and clouds may go tourists may like it or not the mountains magnificent magnificence and beauty not changed one bit by whether people see it or not seen or unseen in sun or clouds broiling or frigid day or night it just sits being itself at times visited by violent storms buffeted by snow and rain and winds of unthinkable matter to magnitude through it all the mountain sits spring comes trees leaf out flowers bloom in the high meadows and slopes bird sings in the trees once again streams overflow with the waters of the melting snow but through it all the mountain continues to sit and move by weather by what happens on its surface by the world of appearances remaining it's essential true self through the seasons that change in weather the activity ebb and flowing on its surface in the same way as we sit in meditations we can learn to experience the mountain we can embody the same central and wavering stillness and groundlessness in the face of everything that changes in our lives over seconds over hours over years in our lives and in our meditation practice we can experience constantly changing nature of mind and body in the outer world we have our own periods of light and darkness activity and in activity our moments of color and a moment of drabness it's true that we experience storms of varying intensity and violence in the outer world in our own minds and bodies buffeted by high winds by cold and rain we endure periods of darkness and pain as well as moments of joy and upliftment even our appearance consistently changes experience of weathering of his own but by coming becoming the mountain in our meditation practice we can link up with its strength and stability and adopt this for our very own we can use its energies to support our energy to encounter each moment with mindfulness with compassion with empathy and clarity it may help us to see our thoughts and feelings our preoccupations our emotional storms and crisis even the things that happen to us at very much like the weather or the mountain we tend to take it personally but its strongest characteristic is impersonal the weather of our own lives is not ignored or denied it is also to be encountered honored felt known for what it is but held in awareness and in holding in its way we come to a deeper silence and stillness with wisdom we hold it and our experiences with compassion with empathy and we live in kindness mountains have this to teach us more and we just need to let it in so if you find you resonate in some way with the strength and stability of the mounting in your sitting may be helpful to use it from time to time in your meditation practice to remind you of what it means to sit mindfully with resolve with wakefulness in true stillness so in the moments that now remain continue to sustain the mounted meditation your own silence moment by moment until you hear the sound of the bell so that was the mounted meditation and back inside now a bit windswept but trying to get on and get get everything done and day 14 well done congratulations I hope you are starting to feel the benefits of the cultivation of the mindfulness that we've been doing and starting just to understand things you know I said earlier that you know our spiritual awakening when we're when we're working on these things really is about you know as questioning things when things aren't going right and and when we sat down doing things when they're not going right and all of a sudden we start to question these things and and for me you know we've for so long society has been heading in a very selfish and greedy direction fueled by you know constant need for perfection we set in ourselves some impossible standards and for our loved ones as well and we become deeply disappointed when we don't meet those standards we push ourselves we push our children we push everything we live in an age where instant gratification and everything you need is you know and the bars too high and if we don't jump over that bar then everything underneath is a waste of time so today is an opportunity for us to recalibrate the word I'm using a lot is to re-focus start to make some plans for what's going to happen when all this is finished but good plans positive plans how you're going to transform your life and move things forward and take little bits of steps you know I say that Rome wasn't built in a day but some of it was and and let's start that today so I'm hoping and praying as I said before that the numbers of this coronavirus who pass you know a minimal but the impact of change is monumental I it might hope that when everything gets back to normal we think twice before we go back into making the same mistakes we think twice about getting back on the treadmill we think twice about pressing play on Groundhog Day we have one of the big things here is we want to be able to hold our inner connections our exterior connections when this is all over and I certainly hope it's all over sooner rather than later and our lives get back to normal the one thing that matters is how we treated ourselves and how we treated each other thank you for watching day 14 there will be day 15 I'll do it tomorrow put your hand on your chest and say thank you very much my wife's just put my dinner in thank you very much and good morning Julian and I love you good morning Julian and I love you thank you for watching thank you for my lunch Denise I really do appreciate it this is real I'm authentic I try and do things the right way around God bless you be love and give love and I'll see you tomorrow and start making some real positive changes and plans and how you're gonna you know be the person that we know you can be success is being as good as you can be not as Kim Kardashian or or whoever it is be yourself it's amazing love yourself fantastic day 14 I'm back goodbye end of my lunch


Hey there, it's Liza here, and I'm super happy to welcome you to our weekly live stream. So this live stream is provided by ITTT, International Tefl, and T-Soul certification training. If you haven't watched our recent live streams, please feel free to go to one of our social networks and check out the previous videos because we usually try to give you some value and we share really useful topics on the regular basis. And today's live stream is going to be devoted to creating lessons based on videos, and I'm going to change the size of the slide right now. Let me know guys, if you see and hear me clearly, there is a comment section in the live stream, so feel free to write down, type in any words, any, I don't know, any greetings there so that I know that someone is there and someone is watching. It's always easier to communicate with the audience when you know that you are not alone, okay? So again, if you don't know me, my name is Liza and I'm a Tefl and T-Soul expert at ITTT. I'm also an online ESL teacher, so that's it and we are actually ready to start. Hello guys, thanks for joining, thanks for tuning in. Let me know where are you from. So I am based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It's in the rural region of Russia, pretty far from Moscow. Well, but it is still a really nice place to live. Let me know where are you from and at what stage of your Tefl career are you? Hello guys, so there are people from Saudi Arabia, from Japan and from Turkey. Nice guys, thanks a lot for tuning in. So, as I've already mentioned, today's live stream is devoted to creating lessons based on videos. Thank you, thank you so much for sharing your locations. I can see that we are truly global and it's so awesome. So, here is today's agenda. I've decided that it is always better to provide some information on the plan for the stream, so that's some of my adjustments. Today's live session will take approximately 40 or 45 minutes, depending on how much questions you guys will have, supposedly. So, first of all, we will talk about some general questions related to planning lessons, not just video based lessons, but lessons in general. Then we will look at how to pick up the most appropriate contents for your video lessons. And the last point I'm going to share is showing you the way I design such lessons. So, that's it. Let's get started. So, as I've already mentioned, when we start planning our lessons, not necessarily video based lessons, but any lessons, we have to consider two main points, I believe.  So, when you plan your lessons from scratch, it is always important to consider what audience your lessons are devoted to. For example, if you teach young children, you have to keep it in mind, you have to bear it in mind because some of the contents will not suit this audience. It's probably pretty obvious, though. So, the next point is going to be what are the teaching goals. And it's also extremely important because if you don't know what points you are going to teach, it's kind of hard to decide on the materials and on the lesson designing in general. So, just bear these two things in mind. And when it comes to narrowing down those two previous things, I would say that when you start thinking of your teaching points, it is always necessary to decide what type of lesson you are going to deliver. Either it is topic-based or it is skill-based. So, topic-based lessons are usually circled around some specific themes like, for example, clothes or food or whatever comes to your mind. And in general, it's going to be focused on some specific vocabulary. Sometimes it also includes grammar because some grammatical points are easier to be taught in terms of specific topics. And if you circle your lessons around some skill, some specific skills such as speaking or listening, it's another way to approach planning your video-based lessons as well. And to be more specific, let me just show you what I mean. So, for example, if we take topic-based lessons and move on to the lesson stage planning, we are probably going to look at engage stage, study stage and activate stage. And here it is the time to decide when to demonstrate your video.  Sometimes it is also possible to put it as a practical point, but it really depends on the content. So, and when it comes to picking the right videos, the best resources are just all over you. I usually choose videos searching YouTube and even TikTok, but as for some specific vocabulary and themes, yeah, tattock.org, as far as I remember, is probably the best resource because it contains so many outstanding video materials, which you can adjust to whatever teaching points you need. And I would probably recommend that you use authentic materials instead of some adjusted materials. That's just my point of view. It doesn't necessarily be in your case. If you know that your students are, for example, beginners and it is a little bit challenging for them to understand authentic materials, then it is okay to pick out some adjusted materials as well. So it's not a problem actually. You can be flexible here. So no problem here. And right now I would like to demonstrate how I actually design a lesson based on this topic. If you look at this picture, you probably get the general idea of the topic of my lesson. So it's going to be devoted to recycling and ecology. I really like this topic because it is so flexible as well and it is extremely extensive. There are so many different points to discuss with your students usually when it comes to recycling and ecological problems and environmental issues. So I have decided that my videos are going to be a part of a lead-in. And this is how I organized this part. So it's the engagement stage of my lesson. And yeah, that's it. So if you've already seen my previous live streams, you probably know that I am a fan of Miro. It's an online collaborative whiteboard. And I use this whiteboard to store and share materials with my students. And it is super convenient because we can basically collaborate during the class. So that is why I'm using this one here as well. So I decided to structure my lead-in this way.  Most of the students know this girl and they know that they associate her with ecology and recycling, environmental issues, whatever. So I decided to use her pictures to make it more personal and to help my teenage students feel like they are on the same page. Because the girl is like of the same age as them. So it's kind of interesting to personalize lessons as well. So I picked out several TikTok videos. I'm going to demonstrate them just in a moment. But before I do that, I just want to show you how to assimilate them in your lead-in part. So I decided to use this speech bulb as well and ask them some questions related to the videos that they are going to observe. And right now just let me quickly change the slide. Not actually the slide. I'm going to share my screen once again and to show how I basically pick out the videos. So the resource I'm going to use is TikTok. But you can use whatever resources you like. There are so many videos just around you, so don't limit yourself. So I should say that the browser version of TikTok isn't that convenient. So I have already picked out, I have already found several interesting videos. And I'm going to show you some of them and explain my idea. But basically, if you look for videos on TikTok, you have to consider some specific keywords. For example, in this case, in the case of environmental issues, recycling and stuff like that, I used such keywords particularly. So recycling or recycle and it shows different results. But yeah, when you use TikTok from your browser, it's not convenient that much because you have to open the profiles it shows you. So it's not that convenient. So I would recommend you using your cell phone. So the application, the TikTok application for a cell phone and use the same strategy like search for specific keywords. And then just check out all of the videos it sends you, it shows you. But with the browser version, it's just super inconvenient because you have to open each profile like this. And it takes some time, especially if there are too many videos. Yeah, you just spend a lot of time looking for the most appropriate one. So as I've mentioned, I have already found several videos. Oops, that was my video. So I found several videos related to the topic. I liked them. I also downloaded them on my cell phone and on my PC. And it is possible on TikTok. So it's a really convenient resource because you can save the most interesting videos and yeah, and that's it. And then you can use them. So I'm going to start with this one. Fortunately, I'm not sure if I can share the audio, but the main idea of the video that first of all, it shows up different environmental problems like pollution and stuff like that. And then on the contrary, it shows some echo habits. It doesn't contain any English subtitles or something because it's just the first video I'm going to show. And then I'd probably go to the next one, which is some recycling facts. This video is really nice because the guy speaks great English. His pronunciation is cool and there are also subtitles provided. So it's easier for teenagers or maybe young adults. It's probably the same. So it's easier for teenagers and adults to comprehend the main idea. And then I'd probably move on to some more specific videos like this one. It is related to composting, which is one of the ways to recycle. To recycle some specific types of waste. And the last one is probably going to be this. So there are also subtitles and it is also vocalized. But the voice which is used in the video is electronic probably. So from this perspective, it is probably not the best video. But anyways, it is straight to the point and it contains some specific information related to the topic. So yeah, that's it. These are the videos I'm going to use for the lesson. And yeah, let me just change the slide once again. Let me change the screen once again. I'm going to show you my mirror right now. So this is the way I store the materials and this is my prop right now. So probably the one and only issue with mirror is that it is impossible to place videos right here if they are not from YouTube. So for example, if you want to share a YouTube video, then it's super convenient. But with TikTok, it's not that convenient because you can't place saved videos here. So you just can't upload them. But with YouTube, there is an in-frame code feature. You just click on it and you input the direct link. But probably it's also possible with TikTok. Let me just try it right now. There is, yeah, there is actually a code on TikTok as well. So let's try. No, unfortunately, it's impossible. So this feature works with YouTube, Vimeo, what else? Some other like SlideShare, some other resources. And if you place a YouTube video here, your students can actually access it right here on the board. So they don't need to go anywhere else. They don't need to open any specific, any, any different tabs. And you don't need to share your screen. So you basically save your time on doing this stuff. But it's okay for me. So with this TikTok videos, I'm just going to share my screen and show the videos to the students. And when we're done, when we're done watching, I'm going to ask these three questions. And the last question is actually really specific because it is related to one of the videos content. And I believe that this idea of echo breaking is not that common to the environmental issues topic. And this is something to dwell upon with the students and, yeah, and discuss with them. So this is the way I am going to use TikTok videos as a part of my leading. So it doesn't mean that these videos are the main part of the lesson. They are actually just used for engagement. However, you can put your video materials at whatever stage you like. So if you want your students to learn from the videos, they can be placed at the study stage, for example. So it's basically up to you. Sometimes, for example, if your videos are related to teaching listening skills, they, they can be placed as a study stage or even as an activate stage. If the point of the lesson is to teach listening, right? So probably as a, as a final stage of the lesson, you can assign them with some activating activities like, I don't know, listen for some specific words, listen for some specific ideas. And then you circle your lesson around those things as well. And let me move back to the main slides. Yeah, let me just change the screen. Okay. So here we go. All right. As for the next steps for the lesson, so right now I have prepared just the leading. But as I mentioned, it's not the only part of the lesson. Then I'm going to, because my lesson is related to a specific topic, I'm going to teach the topical vocabulary at the study stage. Probably it's a great idea to use some additional tools like Quizlet, for example, to pre-teach some specific words. Sorry, just some lost connection. Okay, and then as the activate stage, I'm going to share a text related to the same topic, which contains the words from the study stage. And by the way, let me just share this outstanding resource. I really liked it because it is basically related to the point of recycling and this thing echo breaking. So when I found those TikTok videos, I just decided that it is a really interesting topic and I started searching the net to find more information related to echo breaking. And I found that website. Yeah, let me share it. It is called echo, echo breaks dot org. So this is where I'm going to teach my not not teach this is the website I'm going to use to share texts and give this reading comprehension. So the next steps of the lesson are going to be devoted to the texts from this website. And because it is in English, so the main language is English. Yeah, it's super convenient and this resource is just full of specific words and useful vocabulary. So that's probably it. Yeah, in terms of the main part of my presentation. But if you guys have any further questions related to today's point, feel free to ask me. Feel free to share your ideas and your opinions. And if you want to see the result of today's lesson, if you want to see the final result of the lesson I've been planning with you. Feel free to share, feel free to follow my Facebook group yet to join my Facebook group. I'm not that active on that group yet. But I have a lot of plans. I want to use it as a place to communicate with you. I try to share some important stuff from time to time there, some knowledge and experience. So if you think that you would like to communicate with me, just feel free to follow the group. Yeah, you can use the link from the chat box as well. Yeah, and let's move on. I know that probably it's a little bit too difficult, too challenging to plan your lessons from scratch and to look for useful videos and some other materials, design everything on your own. So I'd recommend you several resources which have already contained the video materials. So the first one is really awesome if you teach adults and maybe teenagers, but all the teenagers. So ESL brains is just an outstanding resource with lots of lessons, lesson plans based on videos. I strongly recommend you this resource, but it is not for free. So you have to subscribe, but the subscription is really cheap, I believe. It's just $12 for the pro version, $12 a month. So I really like this resource. Let me see if I have any lessons saved from this one to show you how it looks. And also, yeah, also it's a great idea to use what? It's a great idea to use BBC 6-Minute English because there are also lesson plans with videos or audios, so why not? Especially if you prefer the British variant of English, yeah, BBC 6-Minute English is just awesome. And the last one is Ingrid, but this resource is related to some specific materials like topics related to grammar and vocabulary and in the videos some native speakers explain how to understand this or that. So it is also possible to adjust this resource to your lesson plan. Just check out this website and see if you like it. Okay, and let me just show you how lesson plans from ESL brains look like, because they are really fascinating. And I'd say that my adult students, especially those who are at the B1, B2 level, they really like those materials because they are super engaging and topics are really related to them. Like topics are not for kids or for lower levels of students, yeah, you know. Okay, so they basically have different variants of lesson plans. You can either upload, download their PDF versions. But they also have these Google Slides, which is super convenient because you can save them and store on your computer. Yeah, so this topic, the smartphone problem is also video related. But the video is used as a study stage, probably, no, not as a study stage, as an engaged stage. Because before that, you pre-teach the specific vocabulary, like this. Students do some tasks at the study stage. And then they watch the video and try to listen for specific ideas, specific information. And they basically need this vocabulary from the previous phase. And it finished with the discussion and some grammar points. And that's pretty much, so this is the way ESL brains lesson plans look like. And I really like this resource because it is rather cheap and super convenient for busy teachers. And also, as for some other materials, like where to find lesson plans which are ready to be used. I'd say that there are many nice lesson plans on teachers pay teachers. But you have to look for the most appropriate ones because not all of them are easy to be adjusted. But if you are okay to pay some money for using ready-made lesson plans, that's probably one of the best resources. And one second, please. So that is pretty much with today's presentation. Let me just remind you that these live streams are provided by ITTT. And if you want to keep updated, keep in touch with us on any social media you prefer.  You can also follow the link from the chat box. 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If you didn't understand anything or if you want me to dwell upon something again. All right. So, HOSA, if I pronounce the name correctly, SAEL says that, yeah, there is a Netflix show. Yeah, that's right. Actually, you can find documentaries and TV shows which can be also adjusted to your English lessons. And by the way, let me just show you some materials, yeah, from my computer. I'm not sure that I can do that right now, but I'll try my best because I also bought some ready-made lesson plans, some ready-made lessons from another teacher. And she also focuses her lessons on specific videos and sometimes on even TV shows. And they are super interesting. Let me just share it. Yeah, it's here. So, hope I can do that. How can I share my screen? Oh yeah, here we go. So this is my folder where I store lessons. And that teacher created a lesson based on a TV show from Netflix. This is called Dash and Lily and it was launched before Christmas. So the topic, the general topic of the lessons, so it was not just one lesson, it was like a sequence of lessons. It was related to the topic of Christmas and it was super nice. My students really enjoyed those classes. So before the lesson, they watched one TV series. They watched one episode and then we had like a discussion. So for example, here, let's change the slide, yeah. And because the video was related to, not the video, the lesson was like circled around some specific vocabulary ideas and also it was full with different useful vocabulary. That teacher who created this lesson decided to use the video materials as a listening comprehension. So she created such tasks where students needed to fill out the gaps using some specific words from the video. And before filling out the gaps, we thought we learned some vocabulary, discussed the vocabulary which was used in the video, and yeah, like that. So that's it. So it's another option of how to organize your lessons around video materials. And let me just check the chat box right now. So if you have already had your TSO certificate, you can think about narrowing down your field. For example, if you prefer to teach teenagers or young children, you could look at teaching young learners certificates. Or if you want to switch to the online teaching mode, for example, it's an idea to look at the online teaching classes as well. So we've got different types of certificates. If you're interested in learning how to teach online, there is such a course as well. You can check it out following the link from the chat box. So if you follow the link the previous to this question, you can check out all of the possible courses that ITTT provides. And as for some other ways to learn about teaching, I'd probably recommend you just checking out some Cambridge resources because they provide interesting information on how to teach, like teaching approaches, methodologies and stuff like that. Also, I actually did some previous live streams related to further education. So if you want to develop as a teacher, you can also check out one of those videos, one of those live streams. We store the recordings on our Facebook account and on YouTube. Just feel free to look at them. I think that you can find something useful there as well. For example, massive online courses is an option as well, especially if you don't want to pay any extra money. You can just observe classes, observe lessons and just have it as some learning experience. Alright, thanks a lot for your feedback. I really appreciate your feedbacks. So if you find my live streams useful, I always find it helpful if you say some good words to me. Thanks a lot, guys. And I think that the time is actually up. If you don't have any further questions, I think it's time to say goodbye. Thanks a lot for coming today. And by the way, today's topic was suggested by one of our fans. So I'm not sure if Alexei is here today, but he suggested me doing this live stream to tell you about using video materials. And I'd like to mention that if you have any suggestions for the topics, for some future live streams, if you want to know something particular from me, just feel free to share your ideas. And I'll try my best to address them and create some live streams based on your ideas as well. So thanks for joining me today. I hope to see you soon, guys. And yeah, have a good week. See you next time. Bye-bye.


Good afternoon everyone. My name is Dave Ripplinger, economics specialist with NDSU Extension and host moderator of our monthly agricultural market situation outlook webinar. Welcome you all back this month, February 2023. We do have a few changes in our in our usual programming. Again, it's meeting season for us. So quite a few of us are traveling. We're actually going to start with a recording by Frank Olson. Frank isn't able to make it today, but of course he's always available if you want to reach out otherwise. But we'll go and start with Frank and then move on with the program. If you have any questions, we ask that you use the Q&A tool or the chat and we'll get to those at the end of the program. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Frank if you can give me just one second. Hello, I'm Frank Olson, crop economist and marketing specialist with NDSU Extension. Once again, unfortunately, I'm not able to visit with you live today, but I am recording on February 9th. I just have a conflict over the noon hour. I won't be able to get back to my office and participate in the webinar live in time. So here's my contact information. If there is something that you have questions later on that you want to visit about or something that I can do to try and follow up on, please feel free to contact me. So let's go through what we learned in the February WASDE report, the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. Actually, there's a very quiet report. So when we look at ending stocks looking internally at the United States, what was going on, the blue line on the row on the very top is the average trade estimate. These are the numbers that the private analysts or traders were expecting to see in the report towards the bottom. If you look in highlighted black, those are the numbers that we got in January 12th for the last month. And then of course, the highlighted ones on the very bottom of the numbers that we got this month. So when we look first at wheat, actually, it'll just a little bit of tweaking around the edges, basically rounding air, no substantial shifts or adjustments in the consumption part. So right now we know the production numbers. It's just all about how fast we're burning through or using up our inventories. Middle column in corn, if you look at what we had last month versus the ending stocks this month, we did have an increase. But as you noted, that increase was expected. So if you compare the blue number with the red number, you'll notice that they're almost identical. So there was a slight reduction in ethanol consumption or the forecast for total ethanol use about a $25 million, $25 million bushel reduction. And that's really where the difference came. So everything else stayed about the same in the corn. The export level stayed the same. The feed and residual stayed the same. We did take the ethanol number down just a little bit. And again, we get weekly updates from Department of Energy on how much ethanol is being produced. So it's relatively simple or straightforward to be able to track that and follow it and say, well, what does that mean for totally yearly consumption? On the far right hand side on the soybean column, again, if you look at what the trade was expecting, about the same number come on average as what we had last month. But we did get actually a slight increase in ending stocks. And that was due to about a 15 million bushel cut in crushing. So about the last two months, the crushing numbers have still been very strong. They've been very good. It's just the domestic crush numbers have not been quite as aggressive as we thought they would be earlier on in the year. And so again, not major adjustments, but we continue to tweak and adjust that ending stocks number for soybeans. But please remember the ending stocks number as a percentage is still very, very tight for soybeans. So we're going to continue to see quite a bit of volatility and concerns about the soybean numbers. Shifting globally now, I guess the other thing that we're really focusing on in the marketplace, the thing you're probably going to hear the most about over the next several weeks is going to be the size of the crop in Argentina. And I'm going to go into that a little bit more detail during this session. So I'd first like to start on the far right hand side with Brazil. Please just note that there was really no changes or updates. We're still looking for a very strong production number for corn, looking at an exceptionally strong number for soybean production. These are numbers that have already been built into the marketplace. This is something we have talked about before. So let's shift back into the Argentina numbers. So what I'd really like to do is first compare the blue numbers to the red numbers. So what was the trade expecting to see versus what we actually got within the February report? Again, a slightly smaller number for total production for both corn and soybeans than what the trade is expecting. Now, I want to be very careful when we look at the black numbers versus the red numbers, there was a pretty substantial decrease. But again, most of the private analysts were expecting this reduction. In fact, there's some now private analysts, given the weather conditions that we're seeing in Argentina and the forecast for continued hot, dry weather in the growing region. There are some private analysts now saying that for soybeans in particular, that we may get something in the mid to upper 30 million metric ton range. So this reduction in estimated production, particularly for soybeans, but also for corn, may continue for the next couple months. And it is something, again, that the market is watching. For the corn crop, that is pretty significant because Argentina is a major corn exporter. It does compete with the United States and the international markets. On the soybean side, again, I want to remind everybody, most of the soybeans that Argentina produces get crushed first. So they don't export a lot of whole soybeans, but they do export a lot of oil and a lot of meal. And so some of this, when it comes to impact on US markets, will really be through the soybean oil and soybean meal futures, not directly into the soybean market. So just be a little cautious and understand the challenge, again, on the whole soy side, the whole soybean is really the very large soybean crop out of Brazil. So let's look at a few more statistics and more numbers to give you an idea and perspective of kind of what is happening in Argentina and the size of the problem. And recognizing now Argentina is really on their third consecutive year of drought and really severe drought. When we look at the production zones, and this is actually from the USDA Secretary of Agriculture, their briefing report. So when the WASI report comes out, the Secretary of Agriculture does get a briefing on what the information on the number is going to be. So this provides some really nice summary information that I'm going to lean on for right now. So on the left hand side is where Argentina, the corn producing region. On the far right hand side is their core soybean producing region. So the darker the green, the more bushels or metric ton are produced. If you notice on the very bottom, this is kind of the average crop calendar. Again, on the left hand side, the crop calendar for corn. On the right hand side, the crop calendar for soybeans. And notice where we are now in February. For corn, it's kind of towards the tail end of silking and kind of beginning stages of filling. And then on the soybean side, kind of the tail end of flowering and the beginning of the filling stages. Now, this is kind of average time periods. And just please recognize that the planting progress in Argentina, because it was so incredibly dry, the planting progress is actually relatively slow. There was a lot of farmers that were waiting to get some rain showers to be able to seed their crop to try and get enough moisture to be able to even get it emerged and growing and out of the ground. And so based on what we normally see this time of year versus what we're seeing this year, this crop calendar, the crop calendar we have right now is a little bit delayed, because the planting progress is a little bit delayed. So really, when you look at these, think about, again, tail end of silking, first part of filling, but it's probably more in that January timeframe than it would be in the typical February timeframe. So there's still quite a bit of growing season left. We're reaching those really key reproductive stages agronomically for both corn and soybeans. So we need to keep that in mind as we move forward. So again, that's why the markets are becoming more sensitive to the information coming out of Argentina. The other thing that was in the briefing report just to give you accumulated precipitation. So think about these these graphics in particular the red one as every time that Argentina, the major growing region gets more precipitation, we add it to the pile of precipitation. So in a normal year, which is the black line, you'd see that precipitation kind of be almost at a 45 degree line. It's really nice and even and spread out. The green line is last year's numbers. And notice that we the Brazil's crop early on started out relatively good, but then it wasn't until this late January into February that things started getting dry and the market did respond. So 2021-22 was not a great year. It wasn't a total burn up, but it wasn't a great year. Now look at what's going on in 2022-23. This crop started out very dry and it's continued to be dry throughout the rest of the growing season. So the concern is that that red line as far as precipitation is going to continue to be well below average, which again puts a lot of stress on the crop as it's moving into that reproductive stage. This is another visualization just to give you an idea. So just for for for spatial orientation, of course, here's Argentina, here's Uruguay. Notice that this is from crop explorer. This is the average for the week of January 17th through the 24th. They should be updating that shortly, but it does give you this NDVI, the vegetative index. So how does the the crop condition of the what the kind of greenness of the crop right now compare to average? And again, I want to to remind everybody that the core growing region is kind of in this area right here. So there are parts of the growing region in Argentina, especially in that southwest corner that are having average to slightly above average growing conditions, but please recognize that that's relatively small. Okay, that's kind of on that fringe area. Those core areas, notice how deep red this is right by the Panana River, which is a lot where a lot of the processing and the ocean vessels are loaded. So a big portion of this Argentine crop for both corn and soybeans is really very poor crop condition right now. If we look at Brazil in contrast, I just want so here's Argentina, here's Uruguay. Southern part of Brazil is having some issues. Real ground to soil is also one of those areas that's got extended into this dry zone. But if you look at the crop condition ratings and what the NDVI that's vegetative index is for most of the crop land in Argentina, it's averaged to slightly above average for production. And I just want to show that contrast very quickly. Now one of the other things that can happen is with soil moisture. I know I've showed this map before. This is for February 6th. Again, here is Uruguay down here. So the major corn and soybean producing region in Argentina is right in this region. Now this is the soil zone map. This would be for the root zone. So we're looking it's not the soil like the drought monitor map we have in the United States. This is really the top three feet or about the top meter of soil. Yes, it's computer generated, but it does give us an idea. This is put together by a joint venture between NASA as well as USDA. And they've been doing this for quite a while. So I think they've got it dialed in reasonably well. My point in bringing this up is that Argentina in particular is really living from rain shower to rain shower. They have very little soil moisture conditions. The crop is in poor condition right now in general. So if they need to have if they get a good crop or it's the crop is able to recover a little bit, it's going to be because of rain showers. Now the current forecast for this that core growing region in Argentina, at least for the next week or so, is for a few rain showers to come through nothing from a precipitation stuff standpoint enough to really change the drought conditions or might be up to an inch to an inch and a half in some places over the next week or so, but it's also going to be very hot during that time frame. So one of those things that we need to be watching very closely. So with that, I'm going to stop my recording here. And again, if there are any questions that you have later on, I'd be happy to try and answer those. Please feel free to reach out. Thank you very much. Great. So a virtual thank you to frame. And again, if you have any questions for frame, feel free to to reach out by phone or email on with that will will transition over to livestock markets in Tim Petrie. Good afternoon, everybody. Tim Petrie, livestock marketing economist. My contact information as always is there. Well, last time we looked ahead and said that the USDA inventory reports for cattle and sheep were going to come out. So we had a preview of that if you were on the call last time. And we knew that the numbers in the US was going to go down. We just didn't know how much. And so on January 31st, the USDA did release the annual cattle January 1st cattle inventory report and also the sheep report that I'll get to the sheep in a minute. So again, like I said, we were expecting the fourth straight year of liquidation on cattle. And I said back a month ago that we were likely going to be down to where we were in 2014. And that's what happened. So we we went down again. Last year, 2022. So on January 1st, 2023, we had 28.92 million beef cows.  And again, that was expected by just about everybody. So obviously that's supportive to prices. It's unfortunate. You know, the reason the main reason it happened is because of drought and we'll get to that in a minute. But kind of interesting when you look at the cattle cycle, last time starting there in 2010 down to 14 when we had our own numbers, you know, where we just now in this cycle paralleled that again, each time going down about two and a half million heads. So we're just parallel, paralleling that. I'll go down in the bottom and in North Dakota, we actually peaked out there in 2020, unlike 2019 up from the US numbers. And so we ended up now this is the third year of going down. I think last time I told you, I wasn't really sure how we do in North Dakota, we could be down a little better, or the same or whatever. So I was somewhat surprised that we went down as much as we did in North Dakota. The last two years we went down about 30,000 head and then this past year, 2022 by January 1st year, we went actually down 59,000 heads. So we had quite a severe reduction back down close to 2012 numbers there. We were 862 in 2012. So, you know, after a number of years of going up and had quite a bit there again due to drought. So the big question then, you know, certainly supportive to cattle prices, the big question is then what's going to happen this year in 2023? If you look back on top, let's just go to USDA, then 2014 was the low, that was, you know, four years down. And so then we went up in 2015. So are we going to go up this year or go down more is the big question. So get to that now. Obviously, it all depends on weather. And, you know, it started pouring rain there.  So here's the drought monitor that just came out this morning. And if you look down from the top of the chart there to, you know, just go down on the east side of North Dakota, South Dakota, on down through Texas and go west, still the western US where a lot of the cattle are dry is very dry, particularly very, very dry from Nebraska on down. And so, you know, we're going to rebuild the herd go down to the bottom left hand corner again USDA after the drought monitor comes out tells us how many cows are in drought. And the dark green is the, or the most cattle are the most density of cattle are the light green less density. And then the red dashed lines are drought. And so way down on the bottom left, you see as of Tuesday of this week, still over half the beef cows are in an area drought. So that doesn't bode very well for rebuilding. And again, going on up Texas is the largest beef cow state Oklahoma second and Missouri Kansas on up or the ninth largest. And so we're a lot of the cattle are it's still very dry. So it's going to have to rain significantly for us to, you know, think about rebuilding our hay stocks are particularly down in that area or record low. And in fact, why we went down so much is over on the right hand side, we've improved moisture has improved in the US on the right hand side back on November 1st, three forces of the beef cow herd was in drought. But now going back left there, you see much of the eastern state, there's a lot of cattle in Texas, or in, in Tennessee and, and Kentucky, and they were very dry and that aided it into the US numbers going down. But they're fine there now no drought much of the Eastern US. And so, you know, there could be some starter rebuilding there, but in the big cattle country here in the northern and southern plains, still very, very dry. And so here's the change last year where it occurred. And no surprise is where you see the drought right from Texas right on up through North Dakota. These are the amount of cattle that we lost again, we lost over a million had a million 65,000 in total in the US and right up through the country where it's still dry over there. You see that Tennessee and Kentucky there did lose, lose some last year as well. And, but, but anyway, still very, very dry going to have neat significant rains in the northern and southern plains. Another thing adding into that is here's the number of beef cow replacement heifers we have on the top side is the US and we're relatively low there on replacement heifers about 5.16 million on January 1st. And that's just virtually the same as it was at the low numbers back in 2011. So we don't have a lot of heifers. These would be both heifers that are bred to have a calf this year and then those that were saved from last year's calf crop that we bred this summer. But anyway, we're at low numbers there. So, you know, that would not help in any rebuilding North Dakota numbers on the bottom. Then we went down again for, you know, this is the second year. And, and we've talked more about this on replacement heifers here in previous webinars that we've had. We had changed into and didn't follow US numbers quite closely and develop and keep a lot of replacement heifers up here more than we need. And, you know, looking at the 10 years, the last 10 years, not this year, six out of the last 10 years were top 10 ever number replacement heifers. But now we, because it was dry here, last couple of years, we backed off there again. So, you know, it's, it's, even if when it does rain in the southern plains and northern plains, there'll be interest. Certainly, cow slaughter would be the first thing to go down. Our cow slaughter was very, very high this past year, up almost 13% over the previous year, which was also up because of drought. So, cow slaughter would drop off. But we don't have a lot of replacement heifers, although, you know, the unbred heifer selling at sales here in North Dakota now that our replacement quality are showing nice premiums, almost bringing steer prices. So, you know, there's, there is some interest in them. So, you know, again, it's supported to prices. Here's the 550 to 6 pound calf prices in North Dakota, you know, and after bad years back there in 2020 and 2021 in the bottom of the chart there, you know, last year we were up $30 just throughout the year at calves again due to the lower supply. And then starting off this year, now we're up another $20 over last year. And, and it looks like they're going to be higher again this week as the red line on the top. So, we're expecting calf prices to really respond to those lower numbers. Again, this is the fourth year and have, you know, close maybe to a million headless calves to sell this year. So, that's supported to prices and, and, and, you know, have to have to see one thing that would really, really spark these lighter weight calf prices is if we did get significant rains in the southern plains, it's already trying to green up down in Texas and that moves right on up through Oklahoma and, you know, western Kansas and up through the sandhills in Nebraska and on up here as we get to spring. And so a lot of rain there would even spark these calf prices more and kind of being held back by the drought. Now, but we expect higher prices for all market cyclically higher prices for all market classes of calves this year. And for, you know, it all depends on when herd rebuilding starts and when will we get more. But that looks like it's several years off of higher prices. Go to the sheep and lambs then and the top is the January 1st U numbers in the U.S. And again, they've been going down here at least since about 2010 about 1% a year. And that was the same this year. Again, it's dry and sheep country will see that in a minute. And we're right about at 2.87 million head there. And in North Dakota, we had kind of turned it around and, you know, we had that down to that low of 36,000 head there in 2019. And then the last several years, we bucked the U.S. trend and went up to 43 last year. But again, then we came off a little bit back down again on January 1st of this year. And this sheep story is the same as on the cattle side. It's dry. There on the left hand side, you know, 46% of the sheep inventory is still in drought. And, and although we have seen some improvement in the kind of the western states here in western Colorado and Wyoming and up there where it was dry earlier on the right hand side is the August 30th numbers where 57% of the sheep. And that's another reason why we went down there. So we've seen improvement. But anyway, the bottom line for cattle and for sheep is it's got to rain. We've still got a lot of drought where we raise these animals. And in order for any herd or flock rebuilding to take place, it's going to have to rain and, and for us to see any increase. So anyway, with that, I'll turn it over to Ron. Ron Hogan extension farm management with NDSU. And I want to talk about a couple farm programs here that we're, that we're in the middle of right now through FSA. The first one is the emergency relief program, the ERP.  That was the phase one part of it. And as a refresher, on the phase one, there was quite a bit of money paid out. There was almost seven, seven billion dollars paid out 279,000 applications throughout the throughout the country. And corn, of course, got the biggest percentage of it. And you can see there this ERP was mainly just for the crops. And the ERP for livestock had already been paid out previously. And what's the big states that got the money as usual, the states where the disasters usually happen, North Dakota and Texas. And if you zoom in on North Dakota, about 22,000 applications and about a billion dollars went to North Dakota, most of that was for corn and soybeans and wheat, almost a third each there for that program. Now, phase, there's a phase two that was everyone was wondering about. And we've gotten to that point right now. And as you recall, some of the disaster programs like WIP and WIP and WIP plus, they were, they were kind of an administrative nightmare. But there was a lot of money that was put out through there. And so this is kind of a continuation on that. There's a few changes in the ERP phase two, that is different from the WIP. And the ERP phase two is a little different than phase one. And there was some contention that it spoke, it was supposed to look somewhat like it, but it doesn't really look like it much at all. And let's get into what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to fill in the gaps that for people that were missed on the phase one. But I still would encourage everybody, even if they got a good phase one payment to apply for that, because, because there could maybe could be some potential for some payment there. In general, phase two is the difference between the gross revenue between the benchmark year and the disaster year. And phase two is ongoing. It started on the 23rd of January that goes to June 2nd of this year. Phase two, it utilizes the benchmark years of 2018 and 2019. And it compares it to the disaster years of 2020 and 2021. And there's a percentage that is paid. There is a higher percentage for the underserved, the limited resource, beginning farmers and veterans. Now, you're going to be using your tax returns on this program. And you need to pluck numbers off the schedule F for the ERP phase two. You need off schedule F. If you have both crops and livestock, you need to only take the sales from crops. And then any other taxable amount of co-op distributions, any other program payments, 1099G, any other CCC loans, if you report them as income, that comes on the 1099A, any other crop insurance proceeds or federal crop disaster payments, and any other farm income, basically the total of your gross income. What are the disaster things that can happen or that would be eligible, I should say, almost anything that can happen, excessive winds, silt and debris, wind, storm surges, tornadoes, tropical storms, blizzards, almost anything. Also, if you're in a drought, if you're in the drought monitor D2 or D3, D2 for eight weeks or D3 or higher, you would qualify as well. And here is the basics of how it's done. The ERP factor of 70% is multiplied by the producer's benchmark year, the gross revenue. And you take off the disaster year gross minus any phase one payments for the years. Also, you take off any CFAP payments, any WIP plus payments, quality loss payments, you take off any other thing that you would have collected, and you multiply it by the percentage to get the value. Okay, and that's the basics of it. There is no information for ERP phase two for livestock yet. We're still waiting on that from USDA in Washington. Another program that's going on parallel to the ERP2 is the PARP, the Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program. And basically, that's, it's calculated somewhat the same way. You need your tax return. Okay, and how are they done? That's done on a whole farm basis. Okay, but you're just comparing either 18 or 19 to two, the pandemic year of 2020. Okay, once again, is on the bottom there, it says the application period was open from the 23rd, and it goes to June 2. FSA will use the revenue from 18 or 19 and 20 in some specific circumstances minus all of the gross revenue for 20 to calculate the PARP payments. The factors will be 90% for the special producers, beginning farmers, limited resource, socially disadvantaged and veterans, 80% to all other producers. The calculations, FSA will subtract any pandemic assistance, CFAP1, CFAP2, the hog program, and any other ERP payments. So here's the formula. Expected PARP payment is the allowable gross from either 18 or 19 times 80% or 90% depending on your factor. Less CFAP1, CFAP2, the hog program, or any other ERP payments. They are issued after June 2 after everyone has applied. There's a limitation of 125,000. This is funded through the Consolidation Appropriations Act that was passed by Congress at the end of the year. It's not part of the Farm Bill. Now, everyone's wondering, well, do I have to bring my tax returns to the IRS? I don't want to do that. That's my private information. Well, you don't actually have to bring your tax returns to the IRS. For both of these, you can have your accountant or your tax repairer or yourself can certify numbers from your tax return and certify that, sign it, but you are subject to spot check. You will have to produce your tax return if you get spot checked. You do not have to bring your returns to the IRS. They have a form to fill out. Now, for producers that have added land, subtracted land, and so their gross income is different, you wouldn't be comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges. There is, FSA will have some adjustments that you can do, so it's a proper comparison. These two programs are ongoing at this time. We're just getting into it right now, and I will entertain any questions at the end about those two programs. And with that, I will turn it over to Dave. Great. Thanks, Ron. Yeah, so Dave Rippling, your Bioproducts Bioenergy Economic Specialist with NDSU Extension. I just want to share some recent observations of things that are going on in the biofuels industry that are really quite important to all of U.S. agriculture, and especially North Dakota. It actually revolves around what's going on in diesel markets in California, and I'll translate that back a bit to agriculture and our state. So quick review, I know I've talked about this quite a bit before, just understanding what biomass-based diesel is. So really in that pot is two different products, biodiesel and renewable or green diesel. So biodiesel is a product that we've been making across the Midwest for quite some time by using a process called transesterification. But vegetable oil, fats or grease, really it's been primarily soybean oil or canola oil to make biodiesel. And then renewable diesel is really where the action's been in the last few years and where there's a tremendous amount of growth currently underway. And again, that's made by hydrotreating those same materials that you might make biodiesel with, but it's different. And those differences are important. Again, biodiesel has its own spec. Renewable or green diesel has its own specification, but that specification is actually that of diesel. So green diesel, renewable diesel is a drop in fuel. You don't, because it's chemically equivalent to diesel, you can put in the same pipe, the same tank, the same engine, it operates the same, it gives it a lot of advantages. And really those advantages and some activities by petroleum marketers in California are what's driving my talk or my main point here today. I've also visited about California's low carbon fuel standard. So California Air Resources Board, which you can think of as California EPA, they're in charge of overseeing this program, their LCFS. And what it does is it requires that the carbon footprint of transportation fuel gets smaller every year, on average, it doesn't tell anyone exactly how they have to do that. It just says, if you're a refiner, you have to figure out a way to shrink that carbon footprint and really puts the ball there for. So this chart is from California Air Resources Board. And what I want to get across is how those red bubbles kind of look like the dark blue bubbles below them. So that that first line is renewable diesel, the next line is biodiesel. And as you go from left to right on your screen, it's the size of the carbon footprint. So from small to large, so that 10 to 100. It's measured in grams of CO2 equivalent per megajoule, not particularly important. But one of the things you can see those black dots at about 90, that's the level that needs to be attained. And you can do this by blending biofuels, primarily by blending low carbon biofuels with with gasoline or diesel. And so what I want to get across is how both renewable diesel and biodiesel have dots that are really kind of far to the left. That is, they have a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol and ethanol's carbon footprint is substantially less than gasoline. And then the other thing to notice between those two lines is that the renewable diesel bubbles, the size of that bubble is their volume. So there's a lot more renewable diesel being used in California than biodiesel. And that's really an interesting phenomenon. Again, the takeaways in this low carbon fuels, renewable diesel similar to biodiesel. But again, remember that they're different. They're not perfect substitutes. I have management issues with biodiesel that I don't have with renewable diesel. And then what I want to share and what kind of got me to this was a picture that one of my colleagues in Southern California took for me after he mentioned that this is what a gas pump looks like in Southern California. So if you can see it happens, if you look at the little blue end down in the lower left hand corner, this is a Chevron pump in Orange County. And it's got actually got, you know, two pumps, it's got a diesel pump and gas. And so on the right hand side, we have gas in different formulations. And then on the left, it's what's labeled as renewable biodiesel B20. And so this is, and I'm not advertising for Chevron, but this is a Chevron specific product sold throughout California. And this diesel blend is 80% renewable diesel, 20% biodiesel, 100% biomass based diesel. And why this is really interesting is because this type of marketing is really taking over in that state. That is, you're going to find it more and more difficult to go to retail stations and buy petroleum based diesel at all. And again, if you think about the implications for that, you know, obviously growing market opportunities, growing market for, for those products. Also somewhat interesting too, is the relative spread between that renewable biodiesel B20 and the gasoline products. It's not, it's not necessarily extremely large. And even in some respects, if I looked at that price of renewable biodiesel B20, it's actually, you know, it's all relative, it's somewhat reasonable in the space considering what it does in terms of carbon reduction. It's not, it's not $7 or $8 diesel compared to $5 gasoline. So kind of talking about this more, so this is, this is, I built this chart using data from CARB. And what this is, is diesel biodiesel and renewable diesel volumes by quarter, not by year, but by quarter, since 2011 through the third quarter of last year. That's as far as they report. What I want you to see, and again, I made a stack chart. And so the nice thing about a stack chart is that top line is the total of all three. So if we kind of look across that just that top line, we see, gosh, you know, the amount of diesel in California for transportation really hasn't changed much. There's this natural annual seasonal behavior, right? But it hasn't declined. But what we see is, you know, two things. One is we see that biodiesel, which is not very large. And we see that dramatic increase in renewable diesel. And if you look at it today, and especially if we extend it, if we get extended into the last quarter, we're at a point where renewable diesel and biodiesel are half of the diesel blend sold in California today, more than half probably now as we enter February. You know, this is really interesting, presents unique opportunity and challenge for agriculture, because there's a tremendous amount of vegetable oil, fat or grease that we need to make these products. And the expectation is driven by this policy in California, we're seeing a number of new facilities, renewable diesel facilities come online to serve this need. And it's entirely possible that most if not all of that petroleum based diesel will be displaced in California. And if you look at the math of how much vegetable oil we need to do that, it's really quite astonishing. If we look at that renewable diesel number of, you know, in this case, it was under 400 million gallons a quarter. So let's just say it's 1.6 billion gallons per year. You know, you need about a billion bushels of soybean oil of soybeans, excuse me, to produce that much. So if you can think they want all of the oil from a billion bushels of soybean in North Dakota, we had a 198 million bushel crop last year. So you need all the bushels from five North Dakotas to meet that current production. And the expectation is it's going to end up pushing out that diesel. So we need that much more soon. Again, to say nothing of other policies in Oregon, in Washington state and Canada and other countries. But and something I just want to share with you. And again, to me, this is really reminiscent of what happened with gasoline. Now, we may think of it and maybe we don't. You know, most gasoline sold in the United States is E10, 10% ethanol by blend, not for fuel but for octane. In California, at the retail level, diesel, as people know it, the diesel blend that folks may know is that renewable B20, something that would be really transformational. And we'll see how this kind of builds out in the coming months and years and then also expands geographically. And so those were my comments. And I think that officially ends the formal presentation that we had from our speakers today. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have, you know, again, using the Q&A or chat tool. We don't have any yet, but we'll give you a minute to think of any that you might have. Again, Frank wasn't able to make it today in person. Brian is also on the road, so he wasn't able to make it. But if you want to reach out to frame or any of us, feel free to do so. The other thing I mentioned too is our next webinar is four weeks from today. Works out pretty, the math is easy for February, so March 9th will be our next webinar, where it will present crop, livestock and other updates. So I'm not seeing any questions that any of the presenters have anything they want to add or comments for other presenters. Well, just say it, Ron, when you were saying you don't have to bring your tax return to IRS, you meant FSA. You don't have to bring your tax return to the FSA. You can fill out a form that they require. Well, if there's no question, oh, we do have one. I think we should get bonus points for people who sneak in that question. Ron, it looks like it's for you. I'll read it to you. What was the percentage factor on the ERP calculation, not the 70%? I guess I'm a little confused. Let me see here. Let me see if I can look that up real quick here. I am not sure are you talking about, I guess I don't know, I guess I'm not sure if that meat, are they talking about the one for veterans? We'll see if they can clarify here. Yeah. Can you bring up your... Yeah, I'm looking at my slides here and I couldn't seem to find that real quick. It's 70% multiplied by the benchmark, but I think it's a higher rate and I don't know what... I guess I didn't have that in my slides, what the higher rate was for the ERP2. For the other program, it's 80% and 90%, but for ERP, it's 70% and probably 80% or 90% there for the veterans and underserved. I'm just guessing on that one. I hope I answered you. Thanks, Ron. Well, it doesn't look like there's any other questions. So with that, I'd like to thank the other presenters and all of you who are able to join us here today. Recording of this talk will be uploaded shortly to the webpage. So feel free to go back to or to share a link to that with your colleagues if you'd like. And with that, we'll see you next month. Thanks.