All right. Thank you. Looks like we got a sparser crowd than then we've had but I'm I'm Andy Murdock I represent Lindsey in the southeast and What we try to offer is ways to manage the risk of weather variability during the problem season so that means irrigation Tell you a little bit about Lindsey what we've we're obviously known for somatic center pivots, but we've started to build on that foundation by purchasing other companies that add Unique value to an irrigation design and installation and part of the project and Let me go back if I can figure out how to operate this these are some of the companies and brands that we've pulled together at Lindsey we we started by Watertronics pump stations variable frequency drives there are experts in design build of Unique efficient pumping systems for for our ag applications Whether that's pumping surface water from streams or ponds or deep well applications there They design build Efficient operating systems that operate at the lowest possible pressures that are required for the application so that's a design that's set up to save you money from an energy perspective and To give good consistent applications of water across the fields we've Also added our z and easy wireless there a couple of companies out in the Oregon area they provide Expertise from a project perspective if there's some In-depth environmental permitting that has to go on to achieve water withdrawal permits they can help with that They're very good at laying out water reservoirs large pipe systems that are efficient Rerouting electrical power into a project they can assist us on all of these pieces and parts Easy wireless. It was actually employed at D River Ranch. You've probably heard about yesterday that we can set up a Farm-wide Wi-Fi network in case you don't have good cell service in your area And yet you're desiring automation from an irrigation standpoint in our irrigation Automation comes in from our field net brand of products and services and that's where we Remotely monitor and control pumps pivots soil moisture stations weather data all from your smartphone tablet and certainly from You know from a from a computer perspective, so You know we can set up water plans in advance. We can turn them on and off. We can monitor their activity We can have histories of water application events from a pivot perspective from a pump perspective We can monitor pressure flow Get real-time data on on what that pump or pump systems doing In some cases if you need to accumulate water records that are accurate to report to the authorities You're you're you're permitted from you know It provides a good handy easy way to collect those records and have them at your fingertips to report We just recently purchased Lake host. They're a filtration company Primarily Well and pump filtration, so if you're having problems with debris sand These type of things that wear on pump impellers that wear on sprinklers We've got some unique solutions to Filter that sand out before it it causes some premature damage to your pumps or sprinklers or inhibits the flow or the Accurate application of the water you're trying to put out and You know we're always looking to add value and that's part of What Lindsey's trying to do we just purchased another company that's involved in Machine-to-machine communication technology out of Kansas City. We just announced that about a week or two ago So we'll be incorporating their design expertise in our family of products We use to continue to monitor and control a whole irrigation project and set up all the pieces and parts Our pivots kind of have a heritage of we always talk about their their strong their well-built their heavy durable rugged Easy to use we have integrated technologies and we believe we got the broadest line of of solutions that's all under one umbrella and You know we start with when we go out on a project at from a design standpoint, you know we use GPS mapping and and software to build a real accurate map as we might say of your project and We can employ all the other pieces and parts from controls and monitoring And Other weight weather data tools that can come along with this so All of this pieces and parts are delivered through our dealers and the local dealers in Alabama For the south and central part are through Sun South Over in the western part of state black prairie tractor out of Columbus, Mississippi and up in the northern part of the state H&R agri-power out of Tanner, Alabama, so You can also get more information go into Zomatic calm and click on our dealer locator and These dealers can extend all these pieces and parts whatever is really needed to develop an irrigation solution on your farm and We hope you'll give us a call Give us a chance to help you out and show you what's possible We'll be happy to do that so There's a question or two that's all I have I'll answer a question. I think we might have time but Good afternoon, how's everybody doing? Good deal. My name is TJ mallet. I'm the ag specialist for the southeast for advanced drainage systems We are the world's largest polyethylene pipe manufacturer. We have 48 locations plants across the country We service all areas of the United States, Canada and to Mexico. We actually got our start in agriculture The first pipes for tiling were made out of clay tile back in the 30s and 40s and from there Systems evolved in the pipe evolved to where it's made out that black corrugated pipe now a single wall with perforations That's how we got our start from there We turned into the world's like I said largest pipe manufacturer. We mainly deal in dual wall pipe For culverts and whatnot now, but still agriculture is one of our driving factors of business How many of you are familiar with tiling? Okay, good good several of you Well, what tiling is for those of you that don't know it's draining the excess water from the plant root zone by lowering the water table Lowering and being able to control it the tile lines are called laterals which connect into mains They're usually four inch single wall perforated tile lines and what that does Is it lowers the water table? This is a water table. That's fully saturated zone That's when it fills up all the air pockets with water instead of those nitrate and phosphorus that you need Here's the water table when it's lowered through the series of pipes and laterals From there the laterals drain the water into a system of mains And that increases your yield What that does is it better develops your roots You get a more uniform stand and it turns background into good ground and good ground into gray ground You can expect to see about a 15 to 25 percent bump on corn and beans This is another slide showing the difference between a poorly drained crop and a properly drained crop One of the biggest benefactors of tiling your fields is not only the boost in yields you get but timely planting and harvest One of the biggest factors of being able to get in your field at Exact right time to plant your crop and being able to get into the field to harvest your crop From there i'm going to hand the presentation over to bob clark with clark farm drainage He's a tile contractor in northern indiana western indiana and uh They've been talon for third three generations I believe and uh and bob will be able to walk you through how to design a system and uh How some of these systems work and really drawing down your water table. Thank you Thanks tj I know that a lot of people raised their hands and said they were familiar with tile But I do know that tiling as a practice is not as common in the south as it is in the midwest in the midwest Most fields at least uh if you drive through indiana most fields have tile in them And a lot of those fields are systematically tiled So every acre uh would be drained with these little pipes kind of running at a certain spacing You know whether they be 40 feet apart or 60 feet apart. So there's a lot of 80s pipe There's a lot of corrugated plastic under the ground throughout the midwest And I think that um before i'm i'm going to explain sort of what some of the Major considerations are when you design a system, but I think it There's one thing that should be highlighted You know people tend to focus on what they can see So uh we think of excess water when we see it on the surface So we see ponding and we see surface water and we think we have a water problem If you have a pest problem in your crop and you can see the leaves damaged You know those are things that you think about Um and they're things that you try to come up with solutions for You also have water as you all know Under the ground you have subsurface water And that water can hurt your crops quite a bit more than you might realize actually Depending on when you have excess water, you can really hurt root development And uh that's going to show up in your yields So you might be able to get a crop you might be able to get out there and plant and harvest But your numbers in terms of your total yields might not be nearly as high as they could be If you could manage that water better um So this picture right here is just a an example of a systematic drainage project When you're going to design a pattern drainage project like this You have to think about a handful of things You have to consider the soil and what type of soil it is and how The characteristics of that soil change as you move downward through the soil profile The most important characteristic is how quickly water can move through the soil profile So how permeable is the soil? Obviously if you have very sandy soils water will move very quickly If you have very high clay soils water tends to get Trapped it it moves very very slowly that will uh affect how closely you need to place the tiles together The other thing is that these tiling systems are gravity fed systems So it would be just like any any ditch that you would dig any surface drainage that you would do The water needs to be able to flow downhill um So coming up with the topographic map of the field and then being able to design The system so that all the tiles are this gravity based network Is is important The other thing here is the drainage coefficient so different crops and different types of Practices with different crops Require the water to maybe be removed more or less quickly So a row crop maybe might not need the water to be removed as quickly as a truck crop For example, so when you design a drainage system you look at the soil You figure out how quickly you need to have the water removed and then you lay the the The drainage system out accordingly to meet those characteristics And lastly you need to have a an appropriate outlet So all this water is going to flow downhill in the pipes to somewhere And that could be a ditch. It could be a reservoir where you collect the water It could be a stream. So that kind of varies from project to project That's a picture of a tile plow. So I know Some of you might have pull type plows that they also make which you could attach to your tractor This is one of our plows That's 12 inch tile being plowed in in Indiana. Would you like me to show the video now? I have a little video here just so you can kind of I'm more of a visual person myself This video is going to demonstrate IT Double-clicked it but uh It just went then Well while she does that this video is going to demonstrate a tile plow installing laterals So the laterals of ADS pipe would come on large spools kind of like a spool of thread and the The plow can hold that spool and and Trenchlessly with the plow place the tile and in the bottom of the Place the tile in the bottom of the trench that the plow cuts Well, if you do want to see a video you can come by my booth and I actually have a number of videos So I think that pretty much covers all the Major aspects of what you would have to consider if you have a tile system And I hope that if any of you I've already talked to many of you if any of you have any curiosity about Either getting into tiling or having a project done hopefully Or just questions about how drainage systems work or how drainage equipment works come by my booth And I'll answer any questions I appreciate it Bob And like we were saying before the success that they've had with some of the tiling jobs They've been doing here in the south have been astronomical For example in making mississippi They did a 500 acre farm and they were experiencing about 100 on average on a normal year 145 to 150 bushelaker corn the year and the next year after they averaged about 190 to 195 Bushelaker corn on that entire 500 acres in fact this past year. There was the only farm in the entire area They were able to get the crop on With the changes and advancements in technology from soil testing GPS systems and surveying the field it could write such an accurate design and being able to test that soils It can't not it will not not work. Sorry for the double negative, but It's going to work. It's just going to determine how well Before in the southeast they didn't think it would work as well as it does up north But now more and more people are starting to do it and install tile and they're starting to see that success that It's really paying for itself in no time But are there any questions before we wrap up? All right, I appreciate it. Thank you for your time. Next speaker will be seath stanolin from pioneer My name is seath stanolin. I'm the granosville pioneer. I serve southwest georgia and basically birmingham south in alabama I just want to talk to you real quick Get through as many as I can I'm trying not to go too fast Just some of our new products that we have for north alabama and south alabama I'll start out here. This is a Just a yield data from north alabama and the tennessee valley area One new product we're really excited about is 11 97 It's been doing really good all the way up in main all the way almost down to the coast And you can see in the trial it is it's really showing out for 111 day product A lot of times in our area, you know, we're kind of a subtropical type environment You longer sees the hybrids your 120 day hybrids. They're they're going to be the The real yielders and when you have a 111 day hybrid that can hang in there. It's uh, it's Not that common. So we we are excited about it The guys in north alabama they're a lot more familiar about this product than I am just because I'm More of the coastal plain, but they recommended a 28 to 32 000 and uh, you know that getting real good yields It's not really a silage corn. It's a little bit shorter statuary corn than a lot of pioneers products But uh seeing some great yield out of it across the board and it's also doing good in some drought type environments as well As far as our south alabama plots, I did want to talk about first Before I launched into new hybrids 13 19. We've had some really good performance side of this product I know a lot of you guys that plant pioneer corn are probably familiar with it. It does real good irrigated and this also does uh, does very good Under limited irrigation and stress type environments. This is our irrigated corn trials. You can see it it topped our trials You know our irrigated trials only averaged about right at 200 bushels this year And you know, it was all off year Across the board for corn and a lot of cases the dryland did almost as good as irrigated And this is our two year dryland You can see it our two year dryland trials averaged 170 So there's only 30 bushels difference between our dryland area get the trials but 13 19 topped them both It's just a really tough hybrid really good all-around hybrid If you plant it on plants from corn I would encourage you to try a little bit of it Uh, there's just a slide a little bit more information about 13 19 It's available and uh with the Hercules straight or is a straight round up You know, it's it'll go about anywhere It'll does really good also does good in the silage trials and uh, George and university of florida silage trials it performed very good So if you're interested in doing some silage, it'll work there as well Um, we did we last year we really was looking for some products that work in more of a stress type environment So we advanced 12 34 and 15 29. This is the first year. We had these two products on the market To kind of fit that niche 15 29. I think is the one we're going to go with long term. It basically topped our plots We have 14 98 on here and uh 20 89 I know a lot of you They're planting corn are probably familiar with those two products and uh, it out perform both those and in the about In our dryland plots this year, so The 12 34 it's a real show we type hybrid if you own some real tough coastal plain soils I mean 100 or 120 bushels this this one will probably win for you It'll does it does a pretty good pretty good job in that type environment Uh 15 29 it's going to do good down the low yield environments, but it's also going to do a little bit better In the higher yield. I really like this hybrid, especially for guys that are not able to manage as intensely It's got good roots and stalks and one of the Agronomically probably one of the most agronomically sound horns we have and also Even in high yield, it's on yield within probably 10 of the of the top of the plot So, uh, it's a real good hybrid if you plant some corn, I'd encourage you to try a little bit of it this year You know, I do have two left for corns and 16 37 17 94 17 94 is new for us this year. It's done really good In the delta all over the southeast united states and uh, University of george obt is at one by over 20 bushels I mean, it's uh, just a Real high yielding corn. I've heard rumors that uh, the david hula up in uh, Virginia The big ncga guy that he's gonna break a new oil record with his corn. So We'll see it's uh, got tremendous yield potential. It'll work in the in the prairie and in the coastal plain Tends to do better at least in our plots. It did better down south. So it likes heat But very good yield potential if you got irrigation, I will try a little bit of of it Um, this is off subject or off subject to new products, but I did want to mention to you Um, you know corn at four dollars is a heck of a lot less attractive than corn at eight dollars So, uh, you know, I really encourage you to manage the inputs this year Um, the emphasis the last couple years has been on how much yield you can make and uh, not necessarily what you're putting into the crop And this is we do population studies all over every year And this is just one of those studies and we planted from 28 to 40 000 And you can see we got a pretty much linear yield response all the way up to 40 000 yield to 275 bushels but the uh I calculated revenue just figuring the msrp to see and and the and The number of kernels we were dropping and you can see we made the most money at to 32 000 plants acre with this particular product So, you know, we could have we could have got five more bushels planting 40 000 But it would cost us money in the long run So I would encourage you um, we we have a plant rate estimator on pioneers website You just put in your the hybrids you're interested in The grain price and you see cost a thousand and it'll shoot you out Kind of tell you where you need to be on plant population with that product because it is very hybrid specific this for instance is 1498 and uh, the lines here on the bottom are basically yield levels So in your low yield level you need to be around 26 000 Your high yield level, you know, you need to be up around 38 with that product Well, the 1739 as hybrid with more earflicks You don't be about 28 000s all you need in the low yield environment and high yield environment So this is a very hybrid specific thing Set the planter and and planting is not something I'd recommend Whether it's my corn or anybody else's corn I would encourage you to get with whoever you got it from And talk about populations and talk about your inputs because that's what it's going to take to survive in the in the current market and Pioneer we publish this this is uh, you know based on agronomy trials in our area Population trials that uh their ground was put together And we have a sheet based on yield level of where you need to be at on populations with our products And I would encourage you to use this Uh as a guide when you when you plant and plant your corn Is really helpful and uh, well save you some money and also, uh, you know keep you from having some problems too Um, I didn't want to talk a little bit about seed treatments Uh, you know pioneer is a seed company. We're we're getting big into seed treatments And we have three different options this year our standard is the ppsd 250, uh, which is what most of our seed comes with Uh, and it's a combination of four different fungicides Uh cruiser, which is um, I'm not even gonna try and find my thoughts And I believe it's how you pronounce that at a 0.25 milligrams of That ingredient for seed and you can see there the cup just a non-treated control versus the seed treatment It helps with root development and that's the standard treatment on all our all our corn Uh, we are the pond has a chemistry called the media that they will become will be available on some of our new products and uh Next this coming year and it's uh, it's chloro Trying to pray well, I can't pronounce that so you'll have to forgive me, but it's uh, it's doing really good Uh, it's showing a about a two point or about the 2.6 acre yield boost In in responsive locations. It's about 8.1 bushels So in the locations that saw a positive yield response. I mean it's uh, it's really helping And this is just a picture of you can't really tell the difference on the on the screen But the corner on the right is a little bit ahead of the the corner left I mean, it's uh, it's a noticeable difference in a lot of cases with that lamivious seed treatment We do have ppst 1250 with votevo But it's uh, you know the primary target for it is don't be nematode control And I I just don't think that votevo does a very good job with nematodes. So uh Soybeans i'm trying to go through this real quick. I'm gonna worry about on time Okay, uh But the big one we'll talk about is 47 t 36. Uh, this is a if you're looking for uh indeterminate This tremendous yield in soybean In georgia, we did a high yield soybean trial this year and uh, this one I think did 108 bushels So it's got some tremendous yield potential at average 73 in the plots in tennessee and north alabama for those guys up there uh It's a yield leader. I mean full season or double crop this this thing will work Uh, there's not really a lot of lot to say bad about it It's got soybean cyst nematode if that's a problem for you and uh, if you're interested in planting indeterminate late for I definitely would give this one a look 48 t 53 is kind of compliments 47 t 36 is moving to later plantons. This is probably one you want to choose Uh, got very good against charcoal rot, frog eye and uh, soybean cyst nematode As far as determinants, uh, we primarily what we plant down south Uh, we have several group fives that are new this year 52 t 50. Uh, this one has very high yield potential Um, it's a brown bean a lot of folks like a brown bean Uh, it's very tall, but it stands very good. It's probably got the best standability anything we got It's doing very good in alabama and georgia The only weakness with this one is this slightly slightly blue um average on ironcrosis if that's a problem for you And um, it also is doesn't have any uh nematode tolerance 52 t 86 uh has is um southern root knot nematode and multi-ray cyst Has got a very good disease package with it. It's also a brown bean very similar to 52 t 50 as far as appearance In my opinion, um the 52 t 86 is going to be a couple bushels behind 52 t 50 in the yield as far as yield, but um, You know, I really thank you for the defensive package It's just being offered. It's very competitive on yield if you got some tough tough situations I would encourage you to try this. Let me give this one a try. Uh shot It's also pretty good on ironcrosis if you if you have a problem with that uh Launching the last thing I want to mention is uh six seven soybeans pioneers been out of this market for several years We have been testing of some late soybeans. We got two that we're going to introduce this year We had it in the plots versus aggro as aggro 69 31 You can see it's right up there with yield. It's tip for tat to six seven Actually, as you as you move these they did even better than this But it's uh, both look very good. Both are dark beans This is the plot down in uh south alabama north florida area around atmore Good against phytophthora and uh, also southern root knot nematode It's the these are going to be the roundup ready two beans the roundup ready to technology from monsanto I really don't see any advantage roundup ready one of roundup ready two But it is the latest roundup gene that monsanto is offering And this bean looks very good If you want a little bit later bean, we have a seven six It's a lot of the same attributes as the six seven this one that does not It seems to be a bushel or so behind the six seven, but still very good yield So if you if you got some if you're interested in uh, plant the six seven soybean I would encourage you to take a look at ours. I think we have some pretty good ones And one final thing here are soybean seed treatments Pioneer soybean seed will be available treated from pioneer this year But you you have to pre-order it because this uh, if soybean seed comes treated It has to be sold to the retailer We're not taking it on our return just simply because it would have to be discarded But we have a our pioneer premium seed treatment is the fungicide and six six side with a biological polymer See in a about a bushel yield response In our plots with the with the polymer About a 0.8 bushel yield response without the polymer and you can see the on the screen there is a little better root growth Um Versus a non-treated control. We also have a ppst 120 which is 120 day rhizobium bacteria If you if you're interested in that as well, but um, you know, there's been a lot of Lock going in the seed treatment business as of late And uh, you know, it really seems to be be helping in the yield department if you have a problem So uh, we do have the option available and with that I want to thank you all for your business any time and Thank you. Dr. Ortiz for allowing us to be here and talk talk to you a little bit. Thank you I know I talk fast so I'll introduce our next speaker scott grant from monsanto will be our last speaker in the industry bunch Sure With a pioneer sign behind me, that's pretty good Oh goodness, um, thank y'all for being here and thank y'all for supporting us in in what we do Um, I didn't bring a power point. I did jot a few notes down and uh If any of y'all have ever kept up with uh with monsanto, y'all know when when we pivot we we pivot hard and so To talk about our pipeline. I'm going to go back a little bit and then I'll kind of come full circle but uh, this is kind of bad because uh, it takes me You know 12 to 15 minutes to even introduce myself and I'm usually walking around the stage and I'm confined to a podium So this can be tough, but I am scott grant um abm from monsanto over, um, alabama, georgia, florida and just ascocia, tennessee so, um This year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of roundup and man. What what an amazing product I mean it revolutionized agriculture as we know it and uh, it it took monsanto global it it spurred us and took us global in and All the all the revenue that we made off of the roundup we poured in to uh, biotech as you know it and um Basically biotech was a it was a platform play. We broadly licensed all of our technology to anybody who wanted it and uh Insane that you know our business grew we we Carved out kind of a niche market in that in that area Um, so one of the first things I want to talk to y'all a little bit about is what do we have new coming in from the biotech side So we got a couple of things coming in the next two or three years You'll see ball guard three and a lot of times I get questions on well ball guard two is doing a really good Job, why would you want to bring a new ball guard on well you you if you're in biotech knowledge? You're always looking for durability You don't want to see a resistance strain of any insect crop up somewhere So you'll see us bringing on ball guard three in the next two or three years Um, we brought on this last year Rootknot rootknot nematode resistant. We released a really nice variety 1454 And and the beauty of this variety is the fact that in the presence of high nematodes It yields very well, but in the absence of nematodes It also yields well and all the cotton farmers that might be in here know that nematodes aren't on a whole field But they're in sections of the field. So you're not losing yield with with this particular product We're bringing another rootknot nematode on that's given us a yield bump of 50 to 75 pounds this year So our germ plasm is increasing Our yield potential in the nematode will be bringing on a renaform if anybody's got renaforms Probably in the next three to four years. We don't have anything that's going to come to the market currently But we're working on that right now also In the technology around we're bringing on drought tolerant corn or drought guard corn is what we're calling it We're not turning corn into cactus We're just not doing that The majority of the work that we're doing with it is up in the Midwest We're using ground breaker plots to work with this stuff. We're also testing it extensively in Texas However, for this area, we've got two varieties. We've got a 65 20 which is kin to a 65 19 and y'all know what the yield potential with that variety is and we've got a 66 42 Which I don't know as much about but we're starting to integrate those varieties into our practices here Also, we've still got bio direct going where we feel like that we can take old products And make them new again. We're looking out You know into the decade for this But we can literally feel like we can take old products who become resistant And make them where they're useful to the grower again And this is all through mRNA technology So we're really really excited about that coming forward Now what a lot of y'all have heard a lot in the press about Is uh is our extend launch so We brought our first technology on the market in 1996 is rounder pretty soybeans It took us about 130 days to get those through regulatory We've been working to get extend on the market for 1300 going on 1400 days It's been an extensive extensive work but We're in the last phase of our environmental impact study on it And we have a high confidence level that will get deregulated sometime the middle of next month So we're really excited about that. We're going to bring both cotton and soybeans on Cotton will have three tolerances in it It will have dicamba Roundup and glufosinate The soybeans will only come with two tolerances The dicamba and the roundup Now you won't see soybeans for release for next year because we don't have full export approval And until we have full export approval We're not going to put them on the market because we don't want to stop trade with China Or do something that's going to hurt the farmers or any of that kind of thing So we're looking forward to the extend launch. We're bringing five cotton varieties forward Three of them will fit in this area And they will be similar To the varieties that you have planted before and you will be able to know how to manage those varieties so Now i'm going to transition back into My talk So what we found out in working With biotechnology was that we had a couple of tools that we could take into seed breeding And our plant breeding so about six to eight years ago We began to start using some of this stuff seed shippers molecular markers things like that And recently over the past two to three years you're starting to see the results Of us being able to do that you're starting to see increased yields in our soybeans I've heard some great soybean yields out there You're starting to see our corns take on the life of their own. We've really got some good germ plasm out there and I would I'd say to you by 2018 2019 In our 115 set You'll probably see a 15 to 20 bushel increase in the next three to four years One of them that we're going to release this year is going to bring an eight to 10 bushel advantage over our best stuff So we're really excited about the pipeline of new germ plasm that we've got coming and cotton I've already talked a little bit about the the extend Going forward the next wave of cotton coming from or having the extend in it It's going to be new germ plasm and with that you're going to see considerable bumps in yield So we're really excited about that. We're releasing a brand new b2rf for the lower part of my area this year And down in south alabama Georgia We're looking at 100 to 200 pound yield increases And it's really exciting to see this stuff. It's one of the best cottons I've ever seen and I've been in cotton for an awful long time. So The things that you're going to start seeing in our breeding program are going to be significant The other thing that's pretty impressive about it is you're getting yield and you're also getting good disease packages You're getting good grain quality good fiber qualities in your cotton. So we're getting really good disease packages with this stuff So As we made the leap from from round up to biotech to becoming a seed company Which is kind of funny somebody read something to me the other day global seed giant mindset And I think it's kind of funny because We feel like we're right here at home and we're not that big and it's just kind of ironic that people say things like that Kind of gives us bad name every once in a while But anyway, you know, it gave us the ability, you know, or allowed us to be a first mover in that space and and We we had some advantages at first of it, but um We're kind of at a tipping point when in our business We're kind of in a transition point So as I said earlier when we pivot we pivot really really hard and looking back at everything we've done before It seemed like it went really really easy, but being in the middle of it. I know it didn't go easy But things seem to have fallen into place. So we're at a crossroads again and I think Where we're at We will move a lot faster into space We're about to generate more data or in volumes that we've never seen before as a company This is going to allow us to have insights To help the grower make smarter decisions This is a big shift for us. We we've never been in this space before and uh One thing I know is we better get it right because there's not a second chance when you start helping growers make those decisions um And being in this space The lead that we have is being cut down from miles ahead to yards ahead and This makes the execution of what we're about to do Disproportionately important So what we're looking at Is becoming a service provider to deliver whole farm solutions to growers and build recommendations for them So Literally we could build recommendations for them and not even sell them their seed However, I feel like if we're delivering total farm solutions it could only enhance our core business So to fully integrate that growers acre We've got to be able to deliver bushels and pounds that that growers never seen before And what we know is that yield Is a factor of germ plasm environment And agronomic practices So how are we going to do all this? So if you've noticed in in the press lately We've acquired a couple of companies. We acquired precision ag. We know that in the grain business You know seed placement is extremely important seed to soil contact getting uniformity of stand having the ability to go out there And get a uniform stand will allow you to have higher yields We also just recently purchased the company called climate court It's a company that's in the bay area of san francisco And believe it or not a company in the bay area of san francisco is steeped in agriculture And has a data set that is beyond belief historical data for years and years and years They're going to be able to scrub that data Package it and present it to the grower in the way that he can make better decisions on his farm So his yields will increase it will be about soil types. It will be about weather patterns It will be about varieties So within climate corp. There's two platforms. There's climate basic, which is free to the growers It's at a very limited access In my area as a matter of fact alabama georgia florida in tennessee. It's very limited And in this area it will give us It'll give us rainfall precipitation It'll give us wind speed wind direction and that's about it right now Now climate basic like I said is free to growers. We're on about 50 million acres right now with it We also have another platform. It's called climate pro. It comes at a cost We've launched it into three I states right now Right now It comes at a three dollar premium per acre with a hundred percent money back guarantee What we've done is we give them advisors So we take this data wrap it up package it And hand it to them in the form of an advisor So they have something that's called plant health advisor We do aerial imaging for them. They can go in and with that aerial imaging They can see and will help them decide when they need to make insect applications When they need to make fungicide applications on their crops Things like that. The other one that's really important to them is nitrogen advisor Last year if y'all remember it rained every other day One day or one weekend down in south alabama it rained 32 inches in one weekend Farmers corns this big he's had his nitrogen out For three weeks he gets 32 inches of rain and core soil. How much is there? How much does he need to put back? When does he need to put it back? These are all the things that i'm talking about to help him make the decisions To increase his yields They're also looking at things like planting advisors So they take five 10 year data on your on your soil type your weather pattern they make assumptions for future weather Harvest advisor they take into account commodity prices They take into account should you cut it at 15% moisture should you cut it at 20% moisture? Where would you make the most money at? So these are things that we're doing going forward but um It's all about what everybody in this room is doing. It's all about sustainable Safe agriculture and food for the demand that we're going to have going forward If i got any questions No Thank you for your time. Thank you for your business


Welcome to this year's Fireline Safety Refresher Training. The purpose of this training is to reacquaint you with the standard safety principles that guide our fire line operations. It's our hope that once again, your safety and the safety of your co-workers will be brought to the forefront of your mind and you'll be persistent in following proper safety procedures throughout the upcoming fire season. We're going to do this by hearing from some of our fellow firefighters in the field. We're going to read a few articles, work through some real-life fire scenarios, and complete a few thought-provoking group exercises. As always, your active participation is the key to making this training successful. So as we go through this first exercise and the rest of the program, try your best to be a positive contributor to your group's effort. To get you started, let's go to Southern Arizona and look at the Nuddle Fire Complex that threatened a very expensive observatory near Mount Graham. In the last week of June 2004, there were two separate lightning-caused fires burning just southwest of Stafford, Arizona. The Gibson Fire was smaller and of less concern than the Nuddle Fire to the West. As the fires progressed, however, attention was given to the Gibson Fire as it threatened the Heliograph Peak Communication Facility to the South as well as the University of Arizona's Observatory just west of Mount Graham. On July 6, the Gibson Fire made a rapid run to the South and bumped up against Heliograph Peak. The crews scrambled to wrap the facility with fire-resistant materials. Although much of the site was successfully protected, some of the communication facility did sustain some damage. As the fire grew, resources and attention were again shifted to the Observatory where they had worked hard to put in place a protection plan. I'm Don Howard. I'm the Structure Protection Specialist for Daniel Trogie's Southwest Incident Management Team. We're in charge of protecting some of the observatories that are up in this area. There are significant tie-ins with the University of Arizona up here and there are astronomical tie-ins with the international community as well. So we're here to protect these sites. This particular item that's behind us right here will be the largest telescope on the planet Earth when it's completed in about five years. We did come up and do a survey here and build a protection plan for this, but at that time we didn't think that there was going to be much of a chance that we were going to put it to use. This Gibson fire, when it blew up in one afternoon, it changed the complexion of everything that we were doing, so we immediately began to identify resources, resource needs that we needed to have here at this site. This is a fuel model 10 throughout this area. It's very interesting. We had some photographs that we looked at inside this facility. In 1999, we didn't see a dead tree anywhere around here. Today we're seeing 75 to 80 percent mortality in a matter of five years. It's concerned to us with us being at the top of slopes on all sides for this observatory site. That was also a significant concern. The Southwest, due to the drought that we're currently in, the last eight years of drought has had tremendous impact, as has the bark beetle that has come in and impacted the forests throughout Arizona tremendously. We took some interesting measures to help us. First and foremost, the University of Arizona, who really manages this site for a lot of different groups, had put in a sprinkler system around this entire facility. It's a two-inch pipe that's run off of three different zones. It has 164 heads. We had them fire that up so we could understand what kind of value that had to us, which was somewhat limited. We decided that we needed to deploy some of our own trunk lines along with one-inch laterals. We developed an independent water supply here as well that included a couple 6,000-gallon pumpkins and several mark threes. We developed another line as well that helped protect a safety zone that we needed to build that was tied in with our dozer line that went around about 80 percent of the perimeter of this facility. We located this dozer line on a road that was already existing. It was a road that was put in during the Clark Peak Fire, the 507 Road. There was very little traffic since 1996 to now on that road so we did improve it and that certainly gave us a point then to develop a good firing operation. The weather forecast for the following day, July 7th, called for the following conditions at the observatory, which is at 10,000 feet elevation. A variable south wind at 5 to 10 miles per hour with gusts to 20 miles per hour, high temperatures ranging from 75 to 80 degrees and low relative humidity between 16 and 21 percent. Safety zones were established both inside the observatory structure and a secondary safety zone was constructed west of the observatory with a dozer. Now let's get into our groups and complete the exercise in your student workbook.


If you're wondering if ChatGPT can make you money, run your business, improve your marriage, and parent your children, it can. And I'm going to show you how. ChatGPT is going to revolutionize the world in ways we can't begin to understand. From South Park to the nightly news, it's everywhere. It's the iPhone moment of our generation. If iPhones could program your next software product, order groceries, place a winning bet on your favorite basketball team, and write your wife a love poem. The information age is over and the age of AI is here, and you won't believe how much things are going to change.


Triathlons are very rewarding because they're hard and anything that's worth doing in life is going to be hard. Triathlon consists of three events. First you have the swim, then after the swim you hop on the bike and you finish with a run. You make a lot of friends in a sport like this because it requires you to have training partners and suffer together but it's something that I enjoy so it's also my hobby at the same time as my sport. You have to work at it you have to start small and just work on running this week. See how good you are running. Maybe next week work on biking and then the next week you work on swimming and you'll start putting them together. The best advice I would have to someone who's brand new at the sport is to meet other people who are involved. Triathlon is more than just a sport it's a way of life it's a community and there's always people who are willing to bring you in and teach you show you the ropes. Five years ago I ventured into triathlon. Basically I started off cycling just commuting back and forth to work found out that I was a pretty decent cyclist and then later followed hey I need to learn how to swim in order to do a triathlon. I learned how to swim with a local triathlon group and a swim coach going to a master swim session which turned out to be pretty good and then I registered for my first race and gave it a go.  That's one of the huge things in triathlon is you can't be mediocre in all three disciplines. You have to strategically train for swimming, strategically train for cycling and then still strategically train for running. I'm Staff Sergeant Eric Lemoine Captain Pedro Rodriguez. I'm Major Kate Murray. Staff Sergeant Philip Cuppernail. I'm Captain Sarah Byrne. I'm Captain Kenneth Swight. I'm Colonel Hunter Hobbson. I'm Lieutenant Colonel Brad Hipp. Gunner Sergeant Kenneth Bell. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Galvin. Major Paul Marcy. I'm a triathlete.


Good afternoon everybody and thank you very much. It's a very big pleasure to be here and I want to thank everybody, Ritu and our old team from Entrepreneur India for this honour. It's going to be a strange topic today but I really want to introduce you first to a couple of quick things that have inspired our team. And just so you're aware, Dandelion is a Layer 1 network blockchain but we're a little bit different. We have done a few things that are different. We've structured things a little differently and my own background comes from the verifiable credentials industry so hopefully you'll understand why some of the topics that I'm going to be addressing today are of personal interest. First I want to introduce you to a couple of the persona that inspired Dandelion and its vision for what social media could look like. This is Molly Russell. She lives in North London. She enjoys horseback riding and she is very much the apple of her father's eye. This little cute as a button girl is Selena Rodriguez. She lives in Connecticut with her mother. She doesn't have a lot of opinions about a lot of things except she has got a very strong opinion about COVID lockdowns. That being, I don't like them. And this is Manav. He lives in Guguram, which is here in India, just outside of New Delhi. What do they all have in common you might be asking yourself? Well, unfortunately, they've all committed suicide. And in all cases, the investigators have identified that social media played a prominent role if not the driving factor. Bots, many of you are probably asking now, what do these people have to do with bots? Obviously, we know about cyber bullying and we know a lot of the problems. So why bots? Well, bots aren't really the core problem, but let's be honest. If it weren't for bots and those few lines of delusional code, teenage boys would never have 100 bikini models following them. But they do on Twitter. So Elon Musk effectively paid somewhere pushing $5 billion for some delusional lines of code. That seems like a problem. But it's a problem that exists for a very simple reason. And the reason is a cost gap function of economics. We know what the elasticity is of bots. Effectively, it's what is the cost to produce the bot versus what is the potential derived revenue that the coder, him or herself, receives. So we know what the problem is. We know why it exists. It exists because of the free account setup. Why our accounts free is probably the core question we should all be asking ourselves. And it's because they target children.   So in effect, as long as you're comfortable with that, you can sell your soul to social media. And that's fine for many of us. We enjoy driving down a highway. We're quite comfortable accepting that we're not paying a toll as long as we don't have billboards along the way. Or rather, we can accept the billboards along the way as long as the driving is free. But there's a different market. There's a market that believes we don't need to have those billboards along the way and that we are having a willingness to pay. Now the reason children, let's be frank, they provide the longest lifetime value. Their brains are effectively mashed until they're 26. They're exceptionally malleable and they all have a very strong desire for being engaged. Social approval, approbation, these things matter. So it's no wonder why when they have no money, without two shekels to rub together, we set free accounts. And that means we end up with this problem. Correlation is not causation. And to be sure, the decline of children throughout the West, don't think India is immune, we can come to you shortly. But the decline of children throughout the West in democratic societies is probably a result of many factors. But this, this is pretty profound. That social media rises and child suicide increases is surely cause for concern. And surely because it is so closely tied and these stories are now rife. Surely we should be thinking about why is this happening and how can we possibly ameliorate it. Here's your problem with all of your centralized systems. Costs are internalized. So Twitter and Telegram, amongst others, have tried to go decentralized. Now an investor will tell you, for economic reasons, that you need to centralize and internalize costs, drive revenue, and thus achieve ROI, return on investment, and get to critical mass. That's sort of true. That's sort of true. That is if you isolate the entity. But if you decentralize, you can invert that model entirely. And now the actual product is yours to own, which of course is the Web 3 model. However, it is a technical problem that we face in Web 3. Blockchains and, for example, Ethereum and every single layer 2 associated with Ethereum, they max out at 4,000 transactions per second. 4,000. To illustrate, former President Barack Obama has 116 million followers on Twitter. If I were to have him send one single tweet out and settle on an EVM that is the entirety of the Ethereum and layer 2 community, at the cheapest cost of any layer 2, it would cost over a million dollars, and it would take over 8 hours for him to reach all of his community. That is one tweet from one person. We call this the n-directionality problem, and it is the reason why centralized still prevails. On the right, I want you to refer to this tiny little strip. This is the breakdown of all of the Ethereum machines. Many of you work with Ethereum. That is your EVM, is your blockchain of choice. We're going to challenge you. So we know the four principles that matter most. We know that we need to change the economics. We need to dis-incentivize the structure of a free account entirely, which can enable bots, some to produce false narratives, some to delude teenage boys. We know that we need some form of self-sovereign identity. The last couple of panels have been exquisite in identifying the importance of how we can have verifiable credentials. That's a background of mine, and it's of personal interest. I can't agree with you more. We need to invert the revenue model. All of the current thinking has been valley-oriented, and that is a centralized, how do I monopolize positioning? We can sort of blame Peter Thiel for this, who, by no coincidence, happens to be of course part of the PayPal mafia with Elon Musk. Peter Thiel always had the position, I want to dominate a market, I want no competition, I want to squash them. That is a very centralized way of viewing how a revenue model could be achieved. We need to change that. And the last and the hardest problem I hope I've identified to you is the problem of the technical in-scalability of EVM. That little strip on the left is Ethereum, and all of its entire Layer 2 community. The reason you cannot centralized social media today is because of that. My background was in epidemiology and network analysis for banks. I used to build hedging products that were specific around how you map a network, a transmission network of any kind. I joined the Dandelion team, its inventors, its cybersecurity professionals because they solved this problem using the most cutting-edge cryptography of today. They've broken the chain model and created a lattice. And this is how we can achieve decentralization of social media because here, we can get that same tweet blasted out for fractions of the same cost and a tiny, tiny fraction of the time because that's how much you can do in one second on Dandelion. This was the email that was sent to Molly Russell, that little girl from North London who likes horseback riding with her to her father's... It was his only daughter. This was what she received. We're not going to be able to change social media. We're not going to be able to eliminate this kind of death spiral promotion from bots until we can change the technical underpinning model. From that derives all of the economics that can change and create a social media platform, which quite frankly, rather than leveraging our children's worth today, we can make a media platform that is worthy of our children. Thank you. And I hope you join us.


Hi, my name is Tracy Takahama-Spinosa. Thank you for agreeing to participate in this flipped conference. Unlike regular conferences where you go to a webinar to connect yourself and then sort of maybe halfway tune out because you don't have to participate, a flipped conference is very different. Like a flipped classroom, there are three basic steps. The first is that you're going to be sent a link to a pre-encounter video. So we'd like you to watch that. We hope it sparks some curiosity and that you send in questions and comments before hand. This will allow us to do the second step, which is to construct a synchronous encounter with you based on your questions, your comments, your concerns, and this will help us focus a lot. It'll also give us the chance to go deeper into many of these issues and to have the time to perhaps go into breakout rooms and have some smaller group discussions around the topic and bring them back to the larger group to try to come up with some consensus on some of these issues. So please do watch the pre-encounter video and send in questions before hand. Third, the final follow-up, as all of you know and a lot of great research out there, Linda Darling-Hammond for one, really flags the deficiencies of general teacher's professional development. One-off encounters of just a couple hours really have very little impact on what teachers actually do in class and how their students really learn. And so what we're hoping to do with this is change this up, extend the experience by first asking at the end of the synchronous encounter to take a little bit of time to do a reflection. Three, two, one. Three things that you might not have thought about before. Two things that you're now curious about and one thing that you might just change. If you send in your three, two, one, to us, we do promise to help you extend that experience. So the two things you say you might be curious about, we'll try to hook you up with some of our bundles. Bundles are curated mini-libraries of topics. So if you say I'm deeply interested in learning more about flipping, for example, and you send us that as part of your message, we will send you a link to a bundle so that you can continue to research that particular idea yourself. Why would we do that? Because we know that transfer is really the one way that we can prove that anybody's really learned anything. And so if this information can't be used in a new context, was it really learned or is it really usable knowledge? That's a big question. So we're trying to make sure that these conferences really walk the talk and it's not just about theory, but actually experiencing what a good flipped environment might look like. So I'm really happy that you've agreed to experiment with this particular format. And I'm looking forward to seeing you. Thanks.