One of the first things I'd like to do is thank all our sponsors that helped us put together and provide input and money for today's event. I'm going to just read through the list. South Dakota Wheat Commission, Farm Credit Services of America, Wheat Growers, Mustang Seed, Monsanto, Prairie State Seeds, Next Level Ag, LLC, Millboard Seeds, La Crosse Seeds, Dakota Best Seed, Agronomy Plus, Farmers Alliance, Mitchell, First Dakota National Bank, C&D Operations and Davis and County Amplement, Scott Supply, Crop Tech, Ducks Unlimited, Aurora County Conservation District, Davis and County Conservation District, Hanson County Conservation District, South Dakota Noctil Association, SDSU Extension, USDA and NRCS and Pioneer Hybrids of Dupont. So let's give them all a welcome round of applause. Thanks Dan.  You should write that down. And Ken Olson sat here this morning and said, you know, the two pounds of corn or the no corn with protein supplement versus the ten pounds of corn, maybe you're getting maybe over in the dairy territory and that might be appropriate because I grew up on a dairy farm so maybe that's where it comes from. That's where I'm from, Corsica, South Dakota. We refer to this general region of South Dakota as the tropics. You get about 100 miles north of there. You start getting it in the tundra. So, you know, two days ago it was 75 degrees there. Today we're supposed to get about a foot of snow so it can vary quite a bit. Background to my operation, you know, I run my, I'm originally from the area. My dad has an operation there. I held my dad with his operation and I have my own operation. We kind of trade back and forth with labor and machinery. I give him a little more labor. He gives me a little more machinery. I manage grazing on lease, I guess, like have in May and June. I switched to doing that a couple years ago. I really like that. As someone who has an additional job off-farm, it's really nice not to be needing to check the cattle repeatedly. And in May and June, that's when the deer are having their fawns, the buffalo or cabin out in custer and it works out really nice for us. We manage the grazing on lease land in the summer. One seven day moves. This is one of our summer lease pastures. There you can see our polywire and we have just above ground pipe that we run to get them water for that. And yes, those are cows. That's about five foot tall grass. We utilize a lot of crop residue in the fall and winter. I've run a lot of corn stocks. I'll talk a little bit more about that. We don't have a set weaning date. It's kind of a shifting target depending on what the conditions are that year. And we really strive to be efficient with our purchased inputs and machinery use as a beginning farmer. We're really looking at economics over and over again. So the first point I want to make is what are your goals? That's going to determine a lot of what you want to do. You've heard today about swath grazing, bale grazing, cover crops, and all of those are really good options. But they all have a really specific outcome. You're looking for a specific thing. Cover crops can add a lot of diversity, ground cover into your operation. Bale grazing is a great way to bring in nutrients and spread them out on the land. So swath grazing can spread those nutrients while also keeping down some of your costs on the harvesting. Those are all really good options. And I'm not trying to take away from any of those when I start talking about grazing corn. I'm just saying this is another option for people with a specific goal, I guess. Doug talked a little bit about catalyzing canada thistle. This is a canada thistle plant. You can see a couple of them in there. Yes, you can see that they pretty much came in there and chose canada thistle. Thistle was taken last year by Cal's lead canada thistle. I have very little issue with it anymore. So you can see some back there that still have flowers on them. If they really get to a point where it looks like, okay, I've got too many, I'll go out there and I'll cut them. Usually I don't, usually I have to spray. The grazing management has kind of done away with that for me. Goal setting, this is kind of the goal setting. If you look at goal setting, the holistic management, those of you familiar with Alan Savory talks about the triple bottom line, social, financial and environmental. So we base some of our goals and our plans based off these. And I use this quote out of proverbs. I could have picked any of them. But without vision, without goals, you aren't going to succeed. So some of our goals, just to give you a background again, how we got to grazing corn, grazes many of the days of the year as possible to keep the costs down. Our goal is to feed hay less than 45 days a year. I could probably get that under 30 and half. It's just kind of the slush times when you're transitioning from one to the other or it gets muddy. We deal more with mud it seems like than anything, especially when you're dealing with cropland. Appropriate rest in our grazing rotation for plant vigor, livestock health, wildlife and soil health. I actually have a wildlife degree. That's what I went to school for. So I'm really interested in wildlife and that's also why I'm interested in livestock. And so we try to allow appropriate rest and then we try to have an enterprise that we're telling to be involved in. One thing we did about three years ago, we quit fly control in the summer because it was hurting our dung beetles. And you could see we had four or five year old dung pads left out in our pastures yet.  And so it's really helped. So what we did instead is I started building tree swallow boxes and an adult pair of tree swallows, they tell me only about 3,000 flies a day. So it's helped. I'm not going to tell you I don't have any flies, but I really don't think I have any more flies than my neighbors. And one thing about when you're this far north, your tree swallows like to leave about the middle of July. And that's, you know, so they do pretty well at first, but by the middle of August it's a little bit more touch and go. This is my oldest Lily. She's very unhappy because she doesn't get to look in the bird box and see the baby birds. That's my middle one Brianna. I have three children, three girls. So before I get in the corn grazing, here's my warning for you. I'm not a nutritionist. So take that with a grain of salt. I do not know your cows or your version of risk. If your cows have never touched corn, you might think twice before putting them on a corn grazing situation. And I may not have the same goals as you. We already talked about goal setting. And I have done some crazy things that I've turned out well. We're not going to get into that today, but I have. So a little bit of history just for my winter feeding. I bought cows in 2011. That makes me a beginning farmer, I guess. Drought in 2012, of course, we, I think we had a little bit worse than you did in northern South Dakota and southern South Dakota. Feed was very expensive and a lot of our corn was harvested for silage. I used a lot of corn stocks, but that year they just weren't available. So it was very expensive to feed cattle that year. In 2014, of course, we had a good cattle market. We had some more summer drought that year. Had some good fall rains with muddy fields and the rainy fall. Two years ago, our corn stocks were almost worthless. The cattle did very, very poorly on them. And then we had on top of that a cattle market drop. And so you start to see the economics change. And this year we've had snow, ice, mud. You guys have probably had a worse year than we have, but I've dealt with a lot of mud. And when you're dealing with cropland situation, that's not great. So what this was down to is that year to year, we really have inconsistent winter grazing opportunities, especially when it relates to grazing crop stubble down there. And so I was looking for something that was a little more consistent, a little more forgiving, I guess. And why I thought I could graze corn. The biggest thing here is other producer experience. I know of other producers that have done it. I'm looking them up all the time trying to figure out how I can do this thing. Originally, they told me, man, you've got to be moving those cows every day. And I bought that. I said, okay, I've got to move cows every day. And I did. And it's kind of hard to get excited about moving cows every day unless you can push a button and make it happen, which Dwayne's going to talk about. But you start to learn a few things. This first year I had cows, man, you could go out in the field that I turned them into and you could fill one of those molasses tubs just in an area like this. There was so much corn on the ground. And the thing I learned there is when cows eat a lot of corn, they will eat a lot of salt. They went through a 50-pound block of salt every day. And that was for 40 cows. They just pounded through the salt. In 2014, I grazed a chopped corn field. There was basically no stover left, but it had bad ear drop again. That was a really dry year.  They could go to bean stubble. That's where I was watering them so they could fill up a little bit. My cows came off that field the fattest I've ever seen them. That was about 40 days on about 50 acres. There was that much corn left out there. And it was just corn, you know, just corn cobs. So I've not, at any time I turn cows into corn stocks, they're going for the years. You know, that's just, they like it. But I've not lost a cow to acidosis. I know they have varying levels of tolerance. They've, you know, they've gotten used to corn. And I don't, I try to make sure that they don't have just corn or that they have another option. So why did I decide to graze corn? Availability, we talked about inconsistency. Availability is a big thing. It's going to be there, I live more in southeast South Dakota and we're trying to look like Iowa, I guess. So we have a lot of corn down there available. So on the landscape it's there. And in all kinds of weather, you grow corn. That year is usually what, three to four feet off the ground. You can get a lot of snow before that corn. The main nutritional part of that plant is unavailable. And that's a pretty big deal when you start talking about winter grazing opportunities. You know, I have nothing against it. I like cover crops. I like the swath grazing. But you get two, three feet of snow and it gets pretty tough to make use of that. But the corn, it's still there. Nutrition, like I said, we switched to May, June calving. I want to try and keep my cows on the calves through the, calves on the cows through the winter. And that's what I did this year. And I thought it went pretty well. We'll see a picture of that later. Flexibility. If you plan to cover crop, you're going to graze it or roll it. I mean, there's, you don't have a plan B for making an economic, getting a check from it.  You turn nutrients to the same acres. That's going to be how you manage it. I didn't do a great job of managing, returning nutrients to the same acres. You can see back here, this is a pasture they could get into for water. We'll see a better picture of that later. But they, you know, they loafed in the pasture. Most of their nutrients ended up there. This is a back wire. You can see it was getting muddy here. There's my tracks. Those aren't as deep as they look, but I did back fence this and this was a big thing. I dealt with more ice than anything. This was a warm spell we had. Wildlife, another thing, you know, just to get food plots and you're leaving them through the end of pheasant season. I know there's some pheasant hunters in here, some guys that get pheasant hunters in. You leave your food plots. Maybe you just go out and graze them after that and it's a win for the wildlife. We were, we were shooting pheasants out of here and we had deer in here up until I basically, well, up until it was gone with the pheasants. If an ear of corn hit the ground, it was clean the next day. It didn't stick around. So there's a lot of pheasants using it. There it goes. Well, okay, this is a big reason why I graze corn. The cost or the value. Doug mentioned this morning 10 pounds of corn. I'll carry a cow. That's kind of what I've heard too. If she doesn't have a calf on her. That's the general recommendation there. So my goal with a calf on her is to give 12 to 14 pounds. And so I'm looking at about a quarter of a bushel. I just looked up what it was at the local elevator. They're giving 320 a bushel. That's 80 cents of cow per day. Comparison hay feeding costs. Most of the winter at the Dakota Hay Auction in Corsica, 80 bucks a ton will buy you decent quality hay. You can see in the calculations there, it's almost double to feed hay. And that, you know, that doesn't involve this. You're going to have some labor to get out there and move fence. You are. This you're going to have labor to get out there, start a tractor, feed the hay. All the manure in the spring. Corn stalk rent. I like corn stalks. I use them when I can. I've heard all kinds of range for what people are paying for them. Doug said 70 cents. I've heard as low as 30. But your quality and your availability start to get questionable depending on your weather conditions. So in Potter County, I asked Kate to send me some data for Potter County. So these are your three year averages for 2013 to 2015. About six to seven acres to run a cow calf for the summer grazing period. Of course, it's going to be more in the west and less in the east. About two tons per acre hay yield. That's your average of alfalfa and grass. And about 123 bushel per acre corn yields. So, a quick scenario. 300 cows would require about 2,000 acres of grass for summer grazing. But could winter for 150 days on just over 80 acres of corn. Giving them 12 pounds of corn per head per day.  You know, you don't need a lot of corn. You don't want to be covering a lot of ground when you're corn grazing. And that's kind of a valuable thing, especially when you're young, to not need as many acres to produce the feed for the winter. Enough hay to feed for the same period would be cut from about 400 acres. So potentially, you know, if you were doing this anyway, say you had a mixed crop livestock operation, now you can graze those 400 acres. Maybe out a few cattle. Maybe help bring another family member back into the operation. Time and machinery investment. Of course, you're going to put in time and machinery to hay. You're also going to put in time and machinery to plant. I didn't do an analysis of that. You can do your own numbers depending on what interests you have. So you have options. You can do daily moves where you set up your perimeter before the ground freezes and then do your daily allocations. I use a cordless drill to put it into ice, frozen ground, whatever. And then your post comes right out the next day. It works really well for me. You can do multiple-day or weekly moves. I got a little bit into that this year. The Canadians do it. Be aware of your risks.  Depending on how much you're giving them in terms of corn grain, you're probably going to have to give them a little bit more. When you're giving them 10 pounds of corn, and like Doug said, you've got 10 pounds of corn, 10 pounds of stover, 20 pounds is not going to fill a cow. They're going to be hungry, but their nutritional needs are met. You're going to have to up that if you're going to start moving less than daily or more off less than daily, because they're going to eat as much as they can to get full. And by day four or five of a week, they aren't going to have a whole lot left. That's where you may have to give them a few more pounds of corn. Multiple-week moves. Again, this is something the Canadians do. I actually just talked to a gentleman out by Rapid City here a couple days ago. He does this and does really well. He said he's got 5,000 acres of grass and 200 acres of corn that he winters on. That carries his cows. And that's pretty amazing when you think about it that you could take your best piece of ground basically and grow your winter feed on it. It would be such a small part of it. You can give cattle an addition area for roughage. Again, this is just for gut fill. It doesn't have to be high quality. You're getting your nutritional quality out of the corn grain. Feed hay if you want to.  I needed that protein level to be high enough. And then you could use snow. Doug said he does it. I don't trust it yet, so I haven't gotten that far, but maybe in the future. General considerations, planning. If there's one significant point, I think we could all take away from this is what Casey said this morning. You got a plan. Dan, if you decided you want a winter graze, a full season cover crop next winter, why do you have to decide that? Right now. Yeah, absolutely. So planning, even if you want a grazed corn, you've got to plan ahead. You probably need to be planning at least mid-summer so that you can be prepared for where you're going to have fence, water, shelter. Snow drift. Think about if you're right next to a bean field and you get a foot of snow and the wind blows, now you're going to have drifts five foot deep in there. Planning. You can gradually increase your grain for rumin. Again, just protecting from acidosis. A lot of people recommend that. I'm probably not as good as I should be at that. And then just looking at what your other options are for winter grazing. What's your goal here? This is Dwight D. Eisenhower. You added a quote from him a little bit ago. I really like this one. Plans are usefulness, but planning is indispensable. Things change, so be ready to adapt. I thought this was kind of a neat idea. Our plan is to get from point A to point B. Find out there's a few pitfalls along the way. Sometimes we think we're going to start here and we're going to end on this date and they're going to get this much corn every day and then you get a snow storm and maybe you're gone for a day. The point is you got closer to your goal than where you were at the beginning. And that's kind of where I stand, I guess, on that. Example plan. I don't know if we need to go into this, but if you're looking at 10 acres, 100 bushels an acre, and you're going to give 12 pounds per cow per day, your grazing area is about 100 foot by 100 foot. So plan to have your fences set up so you can move that. Set up your fences so daily moves have short stretches of fence. I don't want to move a quarter mile of fence and I think Larry does, but that's something I try to stay away from if I can. So what I did this year, December 30th I moved cattle into the corn. This is a standing corn. It was about 100 bushels an acre corn. 55 days of feed projected at that time on what I had. I started them at about 6 to 7 pounds. I didn't want to drop them right into the corn. They were coming off corn stalks. There wasn't a lot of grain left in the corn stalks for fill. I had trouble with fence, so some were getting all they wanted. I had about 2 to 3 inches of ice and I watched cows. I had moved cows and I'd have cows go up there and they'd start reaching across that fence because I had corn right there. And they'd blink a little bit and they'd just keep going. And so I ended up with 3 wires, a hot on the top and bottom and a ground in the middle. Of course I had calves. I think without calves I could have got away with 2. And my cows respect electric fence. I don't have the really high dollar electric fence or fencer yet, but my cows respect it and I use it year round. But I learned that when I put up a fence I knocked down basically a four-wheeler width on the other side of it so that they weren't reaching for it and that helped out a lot. So I quickly moved them up to 12 pounds per pair per day because that was my goal. So once they started getting the corn, once that rumen gets switching, I wanted to get them on to that and I was given alfalfa twice a week for protein and gut fill. I would think about distillers but the thing about distillers is not going to give them anything to be satisfied with. I talked to my nutritionist. He said, yep, alfalfa is your best way to go dollar for dollar. I said, yep, alfalfa is your best way to go dollar for dollar. I said, yep, alfalfa is your best way to go dollar for dollar. I said, yep, alfalfa is your best way to go dollar for dollar. And then I went to every other day moves. My initial plan was to get to every fourth day moves. I never got there because the weather didn't cooperate with me. The weather was changing. Next thing you know it's going to snow. I don't want them to be knocking years on the ground because when my fence looked like and this was the part I was grazing I just ran my fences across this way. I had to speed up because of the mud of course like I said it was 75 degrees we don't have frost in the ground right now not a lot and I didn't want them tracking that up so I I spent them up and they were getting over probably closer to 25 pounds per pair per day and they did just fine none of them keeled over dead but they were used to corn and they were you know their rumen was functioning on corn so I ended up with 47 days feed that's where you know I originally projected I have another week of feed but I I came up a little short and I didn't feel bad about that I guess one thing I didn't plan for and should in the future I didn't have a plan to take them off of corn back to forage and that switching that rumen back was pretty hard on them going up this high and that's something that I'll have to plan for in the future because that was definitely not in my plan at the time couple pictures of what it looked like there's the cows shortly after I moved them in there's my fence that I put in you can see that corn that's some of the better corn that they grazed this to turn from you know standing corn to this took about five hours you know that was I went back to them out because you can see it starting I figured it was going to get muddy that day you can see all the ice again and so they knock it down pretty fast there's actually more residue there than maybe it looks like just because a lot of it is under the ice lessons learned for me I guess just like I said it was the first year I tried it ground wire isn't a good energizer when you have ice and snow cows they'll test it even cows that are used to electric fence keeping the salt buffer and mineral available that way a cow can balance yourself this is a salt I feed a sea salt and this is a baking soda it's a rumen buffer and that's when my nutritionist has me on and I could tell you from one day to the next they basically emptied this and that was where I went okay they got enough and I think this was about days after I went to every other day moves where that first day they could eat all the corn they wanted and so I made sure I kept it in there I put another 50 pounds of salt in there and it lasted the rest of the great you know the rest of the 40 days they hardly touched it again but they were able when they needed it to get that salt I suppose it helped to make their rumen function and keep them keep them from getting too acid in their rumen keep your options open adapt you know we had some issues you're going to have issues yield is not consistent across the field just like it's not consistent across the county plan for it I didn't do a great job of that either I thought hey we're going to have it's 100 bushel an acre well it might be 80 bushel over here and 120 there and that was just something I didn't plan for it very well cows will be hungry so I was ready to move on two occasions I had to be gone so I asked my dad to just give them a bale of hay while I was gone to help you know carry them through the next day they'd be full they go in there they grab those ears of corn and they'd roll them in their mouth those of you who have seen cows do this and the corn starts falling out the side of the mouth and that's what they do if they're full they're just going for that extra energy and they're in there and their room and it had room in it they just eat the whole ear and it worked out a lot better that way the soil structure residue mat that's going to help you a lot with mud this is a cow I don't know how well you can see her this is her calf that she carried she's probably 12 to 1250 she's not a huge cow she has no teeth so just keep that in mind for how well she did so and I carried there's a yearling back there she's a bread heifer I carried those and they came through really well on this too just in the same program and this was the last day so this was the last day of grazing you can see we've got water and no snow that was a week and a half ago or something so they came through pretty well so again back to how we started to have a goal know what your goal is make a plan it took me from the time I heard about corn grazing to actually do it it was about four years I had to have a plan and I never got a plan put in place early enough and then adapt because things are going to change you're going to get three feet of snow or something like that that's me if you have any questions you can call me email me this is another thing I'm looking for earthworms these are chickens we raise chickens it's an odd deal we can talk about that another time if you were just going to get started like Doug said we've got a 12 row head so what would happen if you did 12 and left 12 and then figure out how many acres the cows need I mean would something like that work to get started and then like do an 80 and leave grace 40 and not what's your thoughts on that how do you do that now you've got additional roughage for them to pick up because you've got part of it the piece I was my dad was grazing the corn stocks I was grazing the standing corn otherwise I would have been probably utilizing that forage just to help fill them up and maybe that wouldn't have worked as well simply because like Ken was saying this morning maybe they would have gotten their room and they wouldn't have been actually balancing the ration well but absolutely you can do that my stretch it was 50 rows wide is what it was I would go less 12 would be great because I wouldn't have to have a post in the middle I could run from one fence to the other fence without any post in the middle and that would be nice Dwayne's laughing I think he disagrees with me but yeah you could do that and like I said you're going to be adjusting to the day you can checker it out like what Doug did and that's great but then you're locked in whether you've got 100 cows or 150 cows or if something changes you're kind of locked into that size if you're going to do the adjusting sizes like I did just make sure you're knocking it down in front of them so that they're not reaching so much that made a big difference for them staying in how'd you get them to the corn I know you feed them corn but how did you do that I started them right in the standing corn and then I was just giving them hay to fill them because they came off corn stocks they were grazing corn stocks before that and I just started them on the standing corn I know guys that go out and feed them with a feed wagon again I don't have a lot of the fancy stuff so not that I couldn't have done it that way but I just I was giving them hay and starting them on corn and I just moved them up quickly because like I said in the past I've grazed them on some really high corn stuff and I'm not even convinced that I needed to start them lower I may have just been able to start them right away and made sure that they had those the forage to keep their rumen full and then the salt the buffer to help balance the rumen I talked to my nutritionist about this you know how can you get away with multiple day moves how can you get away with them I'm assuming this much his take was the whole corn doesn't have the same effect in the rumen as what ground corn does and especially dry whole corn it just it doesn't release its starch as quickly that was his take on it but I did work with him how did you want to move your wire in the field and raise an old field because you got to walk down the standing corn mm-hmm so I was asking how did I get the wire down here I just walked through and you'd be surprised how easy corn stock breaks off when it's frozen and it fall over you know and I clean it out that way like I said that's 50 rows that's two posts it takes me to spread it out it didn't take me long to move the fence I mean I could pick up the old fence the worst was the cows were always ready to move I could pick up the old fence put in a new fence in half an hour at most I always had a backup fence I always had a safety fence from right away that's a good point that way if they got through they weren't all the way through it knocking it down they were just grazing the next piece and other than the first week when I had issue once I got the the ground wire and got them used to it and learned to knock it over they didn't go through it anymore I didn't have any more issue because whatever he had it was just going to work out in this field I didn't this corn wasn't planted for grazing I guess is the point it was planted to harvest but we said hey it looks like an option for us so we chose to graze it because you're really better off getting the most production you can off off your corny because I mean you shouldn't pull back a lot on your production cost because whatever you grow it's just going to extend one note on that and I don't disagree with you you know this was 100 bushel corn and if you look pretty much everything above the ear they eat they'll eat the stock you start getting that really high bushel corn those stocks get really tough for the cows and the cobs will get really big and so that's a consideration I'm not going to say that it's a hindrance but if I had my way I'd definitely keep it in that 100 to 120 bushel for grazing purposes from my dad yes absolutely well like I said it was about with the alfalfa it was less than a dollar a day and I had calves on that so I split that cost between the cow and the calf that's where I get away from how much does it cost me to raise a cow how much buffer do they need almost none my cows are backwards on salt and buffer they get poor quality feed and they eat buffer and then they get high quality feed they eat salt which is apparently backwards from what it's supposed to be what you see there was basically what you see there that ended up being gone by the time it was done but they started that and maybe that was covered during the entire period and it wasn't much except for the one day they really went after it so it was good I had it in this situation the above ground watering system is for summer grazing so I didn't run in from a pasture tap so I can divide my pasture in the wintertime I had a frost free water just a general water livestock fountain and they were able to get back to it so let's see picture here this was the loafing pasture you can see the dairy barn for the place is actually about right here and there's a frost free water right here behind these trees so they were able to get behind the trees and get their water there I can talk to you about the above ground water line later if you want to but for this situation they didn't really apply the water though like on bad storms like they were cold I mean they still go they still go to the corn then oh they if I drive out there with the pickup right now I've got cows following me everywhere I go I was out there yesterday I let them clean up a little bit I weaned the calves after I was done with corn and so I went out there yesterday to pick up fence and they just followed me they just cleaned up some of the leaves and stuff since they had been on so much corn at the end and they kind of looked around like where's the corn where's the standing stuff but they have no issue through the snow I had some other pictures that I was going to show you of nutritional Ken talked about watching the cow pies and I watched those I absolutely kept an eye on them to make sure they were getting the protein they needed pictures of that and some pictures of we had about a foot of snow there in the middle of that it was between these two pictures we got another foot of snow but those got lost on my old cell phone so I didn't have them anymore Is there any particular direction you started on? I mean did you start on the south side of the corn and north I started on the west side and worked east because it's what worked the best for me at that time if I were going to start it if I had 80 acres and it was oriented north south I'd start on the south side because then with the north wind they're getting wind protection and then the snow blowing in it's not always blowing from where they've already grazed into the new stuff same thing east west I started from the west but I had all those corn stalks back here to stop snow for me and it worked out for me that way alright thank you


Hey guys, what is going on? It's Brycat 2-3 here with Xtrades. Today, I'm going to talk to you about two tickers that I'm going to be watching both this week and into next week based on their technical setups. The first one we're going to go over is Mastercard. It's my personal favorite of the two based on the setup and the fact that I think it's likely to break out sooner and really has a strong risk versus reward trade off when the trade does break out. As for the other ticker, it's MRO. It still has a nice setup, but the trend is a little less matured. It's a little harder to tell whether we're going to see that test of trend line resistance and potential breakout this week or if it'll come in the weeks to come. That's really where I stand with both of these tickers, but let's dive into the MA analysis for the time being. Ultimately here, what we have is a really nice cup and what looks to be a handle forming. The first thing that I want to talk about is the uptrend leading into this consolidation pattern. With cup and handles, you are typically looking for continuation plays, and this is a perfect example of that. We had a really nice move from 310, 315 price range all the way up to the mid-380s back in mid-March. Then we took a rejection off of what is now acting as the resistance of this cup and prices have trended downward since and then had a nice recovery. Obviously, it's good to see that we had a strong price trend leading into the pattern, a nice healthy uptrend with good volume showing that prices deserve to be around this level and that's further confirmed by the recovery and prices that we saw after this first sell-off. Ultimately, this pullback, this retracement, wasn't a huge percentage of the price move that we had leading into the pattern. That's another good thing to see. It's a relatively small percentage retracement of the broader trend, and that's why a lot of buyers were still interested and why the stock remained strong even when there was a little more turmoil in the markets during those several weeks of trading. As far as the rejection on the second attempt of this resistance area at 389, it's a pretty low volume rejection and that's very common. The left side is typically the side of the cup that has the most volume and usually has the highest rejection. Obviously, the moving average is a lot higher because there's a lot more strength and a lot more trading bringing the price up to this level, but the raw value of the actual selling pressure is a lot higher than the rejection this go around once we tested that 389 price level. It's really nice to see that even though we're retesting that same price level, that less sellers are showing up and there's less strong of a rejection essentially. Hopefully, that exhausts a little bit of buyers in the near term and then we'll get a little more buyers that step in in the coming days or the coming sessions and really push this price higher after those sellers have been exhausted. Diving into the actual technical surrounding the cup and the price targets based on the pattern, the cup itself is around $30 to $35 in height and the percentage of meeting price target usually ranges from 65 to 70% in terms of meeting price targets after you get that confirmed breakout. We're going to just take the 65% number to be a little more conservative and that puts our expected move right around $22 and with our key resistance being 389 in order to get our price target, once we break out of this 389 resistance looking for that $22 move, we'd expect to see a move to that 411 price range, which ultimately coincides with the Fibonacci level based on the yearly trends. It's nice to see our price target coincide with a large Fibonacci level and on top of that, we do have a couple key levels of support that we could use if prices kind of continue to fall in the near term as long as no real selling pressure enters. That's really what we're looking for is we want to see, I'd really like to see this 380 level held personally to maintain my bullish bias especially in the near term. There is an earnings event coming up towards the end of the month that could definitely have an impact and obviously an earnings event will definitely change the stock's performance and make it a little more volatile and unpredictable just because you've got a new batch of fundamental news about the stock. So there's definitely going to be a bunch of manipulation around price at that time but leading into that, if we hold this 380 price level and even if we hold this 376 price level, this should be a nice zone where we have some good support, but if we break below that, that is when I would definitely lose my bullish bias in the near term. So ultimately, I prefer to stay above 380. If we don't stay above 380, then 376 is an area that we must hold but ultimately you're really looking to see prices make a nice bounce, a little bit of a reversal and then once you get into this 387, 389 price range and look for that breakout, that's really where you'd want to enter the trade. Once you get that volume confirmation and a strong breakout, that's where you'd look to see that nice move to the upside and a lot of buyers stepping in and there should be really free flowing price movement once we get above this area as I believe this is all-time highs. So it would be a really nice setup and ultimately just a really good high probability and high risk to reward ratio trade if you are able to time it properly and if you're able to catch this ticker before it does break out right at that cusp of that 389, 390 price level, that way you don't have to really worry about trying to expect a bounce off 380 or 376, take the guess workout, let prices recover off this handle that's forming and enter the trade once we do get that breakout of 389, 390 and let the price run freely upwards towards its price target. So ultimately it's a really nice setup here and I hope we do get a bullish breakout this week, potentially next week but it's a really nice setup and I highly recommend you keep it on your watch list because $22 is a strong price move both in terms of equity and options if you're able to get a decent contract. So that's definitely one that I would keep an eye on. As far as MRO, Marathon Oil is in kind of an interesting pattern here. It's in a falling wedge which obviously has bullish connotations to it and furthermore it's in a falling wedge that's happened out of an uptrend which is my preference. I don't really like playing falling wedges out of downtrends as much because I think they're a little less reliable but ultimately this is a nice healthy uptrend that led into this price pattern and obviously the prices are converging, volumes dropping a little bit over time and we really have kind of a nice squeeze that's happening here in between this 1050 support zone and the resistance area of this falling wedge. So really what I'd like to see here is just a nice move in the next week to 10 days probably and to see us hold this 1050 price level. If we drop below 1050 then likely this trend is just going to continue and you really don't want to just get into this trade if it's going to meander on so you want to watch for this 1050 price level to hold and you want to make sure that you enter this trade similarly to the next one once you do have that confirmation of breakout and then you could see a nice move to the upside. You could see based on the pattern which we'll get into a little more you could see a dollar and seventy cent move or so to the upside over a couple weeks. Bear in mind we do have an earnings event coming up again so just like MA that is likely to impact the performance of the stock so it's very difficult to determine how that will impact future price movements but based on the pattern a dollar and seventy cent move is definitely likely based on what we're seeing here. The reason being again looking at the first touch of resistance and the first touch of support we really have a height of about two dollars and sixty cents going from that 1310 top to that 1050 first touch of support and again that percentage of meeting price target for wedges it's usually a little lower 60 to 65 percent but the expected move would still be in that dollar 70 dollar 60 price range but again we don't know what price we're breaking out at so with this we'll have to wait for that breakout to occur and then you can get a better approximation of your price target and by adding that dollar and seventy expected move to the price at breakout. I do expect it to align with this kind of one of the previous tops that we had back in mid to early March that 1260 price area really is a sticky zone that I think our price target will align with that would mean again that we break out around 1090 so in this price range is where we'd have that breakout of trend and likely see that dollar 70 cent ensuing move there is definitely overhead resistance from a horizontal standpoint before we reach that so you're definitely going to have to be cognizant of that but again I do think that there's good potential for a strong move leading into the earnings potentially there could be a little more hype additionally as long as you're able to get the breakout of the current consolidation phase that you're in and and I would really like to see this play come to fruition as well because it is just a nice setup you have this horizontal support of 1050 that you can leverage and it's squeezing against this trend line resistance area in a broader trend that we know has a bullish bias at breakout and has pretty reliable price targets based on the height and furthermore you also have just a strong uptrend that led into the pattern in the first place which is just a great situation to be in because you can have confidence again that the price belongs in this in this range this is where a lot of the trading should be happening based on the actions of buyers and sellers previously so definitely feel comfortable with this analysis in terms of MRO and potential future price movements based on the falling wedge so ultimately MRO I am near term bullish as long as we stay above that 10-5 horizontal price level and again would really love to see us break this this trend line resistance area of the falling wedge hopefully around 1080 or 1090 to see us test this 1260 price level and one of the higher zones within that falling wedge that acted as a bit of resistance previously so that's really where I stand as far as MRO goes and again a similar bullish setup on MA was covered with with high risk to reward ratio and an overall good setup based on healthy price movements leading into the consolidation pattern and just a strong pattern overall that could yield some high returns so again MRO and MA both really nice bullish setups that I would highly recommend you keep an eye on this week and into early next week so ultimately that's all I had for you guys today if you have any questions at all please leave a comment below or feel free to reach out to me in the group chat but thank you guys so much for joining and I hope you had a great day thanks so much bye


In today's vlog, the best vlogging lens. Woo! Hey guys and welcome back to the Jon and Q channel. Thank you so much for watching and in today's video, a little bit of a mix-up. In today's video, I'm going to talk about the best vlogging lens for you, for YouTube creation, photography, filmmaking, etc. But, it's not going to go as planned because something happened and it's this. Yes, what you're seeing right there folks is my car in a little... It shouldn't even be called a ditch. It's not even a ditch, it's a little divot. I was actually going to perch up right over there and talk about the best vlogging lens with you guys. But, change of plans, I'm just going to do it on the fly here because who needs to sit down when you can just vlog, tell you guys what's happening while I figure this thing out. Try to get it out of... Wow, I was driving on this road, driving on the road, coming down, I just needed less than 50 feet and I would be parked. But no, and I was not texting and driving, I was not distracted, and all of a sudden, boom. So, there's that, love it. According to my calculations, I would say the car is a little stuck.  Okay, so there's tons of lenses out there, right? And I've tried pretty much all of them and I've used them for vlogging. Hold on, let me preface this by saying I'm a Canon user, I only use Canon. I'm not paid to do it, nobody sponsors me to use Canon. I love Canon, so I just want to make sure that's clear. Canon lens is like the 10 to 18 millimeter, 10 to 22 and 16 to 35. Like I've realized those lenses, the wider you can get and it's a vlogging scenario like this, the better so that your audience can see more of what is in the background, more of what you're doing versus having it just a 35 millimeter, just like this. This is just at 35. If I was vlogging at 35, I'd have to extend my arm super wide and super out so that you can make sure you see the background. But because at 16, I'm always filming at 16 just so you guys can get a feel for what I'm saying. Same thing with the 10 to 18 and 10 to 22. And I've tried those lenses and those are great lenses, but I feel like I was always missing a certain aspect, a certain key component to my vlogs and my videos. And I think it's depth of field. I hear snowmobiles and I'm hoping that they can come over here and help me out. I think it's, for me personally, is depth of field. And I think the 10 to 18 and 10 to 22 lenses only go like 4.5 to like 5.6. Right now I'm using 16 to 35 Canon 2.8 version 3 lens. And that's at 2.8. I'm shooting at 2.8. And it's lovely because you get me in focus and you get hopefully the background is a blur. I can't really see because there's snow falling in my eyes.  But hopefully the background is blurry and that's what I like to see personally in videos. It kind of shows you a little bit of the cinematic feel to the video or your vlog. And that's why I think the Canon 16 to 35 millimeter lens is perfect for that. And it's not a prime lens. It's a zoom lens, but it only goes to 35 millimeters. But that's a great range. And I've also used lenses like the 18 to 135. This is a great lens too, great focal length. But it's, I think, still at 3.5 or 4.5. It doesn't go down to 2.8. And that's what I was feeling that I was missing. I was feeling that kind of, you know, that piece. People out there looking for the best, you know, vlogging lens. Typically what you want to see in a vlog or a video like this is, again, the background. You want to see as much as the background and you're probably thinking, why don't I just stick to the 1018 or 1022? Good point. That's six millimeters more of backgroundness that I could get into the camera and to the frame. But, you know, it's just, at some point, I think it gets too wide. Now, I'm not saying too wide is bad. All I'm saying is I'm touching on the point that sometimes the ends would warp. It kind of would give you kind of this like, I don't know, if you can see in my hand now, it kind of is like all jacked up, because I'm super wide. But it just, like it's normal here.  It just, that kind of effect, that warpy effect, happening quite a bit in all of my videos. That is why I'm using the Canon 16 to 35 millimeter for my vlogs right now. The 2.8 version 3 by Canon. Now, if you can dish out, like $2,000, and if you can buy it used, I think for maybe 15, 16, something like that. If you can dish it out, I promise you that it is a great lens for vlogging. It is a great lens for filming video. It is a great lens for photography. And all my videos, the last like two, three months, I've been using nothing but the 16 to 35 millimeter lens. It's quite literally amazing. This lens renders beautiful photos, beautiful film, and it's amazing, I love it. I love it specifically for vlogging as well. Like it's just a great overall lens. And after a bunch of pushing, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. And got out of that ditch. This is the 16 to 35, 2.8 version 3 by Canon. And the version 3, like I used to shoot like so much on the version 2, the 16 to 35 version 2. And the 16 to 35 version 2, when you zoomed in, this is the zoom, it would actually come out like a normal zoom lens. But the version 3, you actually zoom in and like it's all internal. It doesn't come out. Like it's just, this is what you get. This is the size. It's very portable. It's very small. It can fit in your pocket just with ease. Boom, there it is. Got nothing on my person besides a lens. So it's just as easy as that to take it out as well. If you want the best, if you want to invest in the best, you kind of have to get the best. And I really do think that the 16 to 35, 2.8 version 3, how many times have I said that today? Like probably so many times. It's the best lens for vlogging. Like look at this. This is all I need. 16, I'm at 16 millimeters wide. You see the card behind me. You see all these beautiful trees. If I were like at 10, it would be more like this. I personally, I don't want that. So this is, okay, starting to get cold. I'm gonna head out. I got to do stuff today. So this vlog, this video really turned out to be differently than what I expected it to be. So I really hope you enjoyed it.  And if you liked this video, please like it. Please comment. I would love to get to know what you're going to be doing, what lens you're using for your vlogging, for your photography, for video, et cetera. Thank you so much for watching. I'll catch you next time on the Jonahki Channel. Peace.


Everybody welcome to the show. This is a show about That's about making mistakes big mistakes. Well, it could be little mistakes, too But but at the time they seem like big mistakes and then like maybe like a year later.  We're going to be talking to We're going to be talking to Jack's We're getting started early, don't you? Oh, we're getting started for real tonight We're going to get up the thunder and Sanders. That's with a pee in front All right, everybody welcome to the show. Wow, this smells good. Yeah, so long so long Hey everybody, welcome welcome to the show already drunk Tonight tonight is Jack Sanders You do so many different things that I don't know what business or what thing I think we just talked about you as an entity, but like you have you have many side hustles You have a core business that you focus on other than this show, of course Like what would be your core business? What's the name of your core business? Erudite and stone Check me out drink science on Instagram underscore between drink and science but Eris Deighton stone is my is my company as I carved and Troll blazed new paths in this case erudite and stone is a very much can of centric company I do cannabis design. I do branding for cannabis companies. I make cocktails Special event facilitation like that has to do with cannabis if it has to do with cannabis That's erudite and stone. Okay the learn it erudite and stone Yeah, oh like educated and elevated Actually once won a scrabble game over 700 points my final word and I've been saving this many a turn was erudite erudite Seven letters only piecing together word score with a couple other little bonuses in there erudite Before we get back to why you know everything How how did you get into? into doing like cannabis as a profession Well, you see here. I've been a drink slanger since about 1984 actually been a slang and drink since 2001 Okay, start it consulting in cannabis in 2016. Yeah Ethnobodyny I developed food programs for cancer patients and aid patients This all still happening while I'm a bartender for my day job, right and then after a few upsets and changes in business and management and Partnership I decided, you know, what what better way to edge into this very new frontier that's Globally becoming explosive Ridiculous right now. Yeah, I have all of this process all this data this raw data From how your plants grow to what the feed your plants to what better to feed your plants to how to reduce pest How to go non-pesticide? Combine that with my ethnobotanical background where I know a lot of the actions of these plants in the first place Yeah, and then I've been bartending for so long So I was like well, what if I just edge into consulting since I can build the bar from the ground up Yeah, had the plans for that. I can do the menu. I can do everything for it and even supply the training for the staff Yeah, what if we did that in a can of centric way?  Did you learn that that young or was there something else that came along where you're like wait? This is gonna change everything right like did you have an experience where you decided? I wouldn't call it a lesson. Yeah, there's conditioning in life, right?  Your exposure and more importantly how you apply the things that you've learned. Yeah, so a lot of my condition I didn't have brand new things. I had Yard sale garage sale I mean like my TV didn't work unless it was turned on its side didn't have color But maybe five minutes out of a 24-hour period Yeah, you never knew which if you watch black and white long enough it seems like it's in color It's okay, right and then the color kicks and I'm like that's right. It's black and white and then it's gone again No, I agree like you're right You're not you're not a product of your environment But you it's like it's like we we learn how to survive a certain way and however we learn how to survive our bodies Our brains everything else like keep doing that right whatever it is keep doing that and they could be good It could be bad. It could like good bad healthy unhealthy whatever it is, but this is how you survive, right? I saw a lot of like there's a lot of great Traits that come with that like constantly studying being a student always right or learning how to disarm people in a situation with humor or Caring about like you those are all taxies.   So I am a fan of doing True research. I'm definitely big into theoretical sciences. So my unwind. Yeah is reading metaphysics books Yeah, my work is reading applied metaphysics books if that makes sense Yeah, so there's definitely a part where I'm relaxing and it seems like I'm still working because I'm still doing research On what I do when I'm doing applied work.  That being said, I was a super geek and a bully as a kid weird combination Like I was the kid who stayed in studying quantum physics reading Machiavelli the prince Learning about how to manipulate entire societies with the truth But not the truth and at the same time I'd go to school and people would try to make fun of my clothes So I was a fifth grader fighting eighth graders on and winning with your mitts winning Yeah, and third graders would be like, oh, you look really cool.   You're not like this now.  That's what the drinks are for Here's another one. What are we paid my dad? This is on me. Okay, so it's in you. What are what are we I even hesitate to go here at this point Oh, we do need to drink What do we what do we what are we drinking? What are we drinking tonight?  It's a combination of a black manhattan Green point and a mezzo-mezzo Okay All right, we're gonna talk about you got plenty of But while we're doing that yeah, you're gonna build us a drink. I'm gonna I'm gonna build us a drink No, wait, is there proper etiquette? Is there like a way I'm supposed to put my hands. Yeah, like a doctor. That's right Yep, doctor. Love her. Love up doctor doctor doctor. Okay, doctor doctor Mezzo-mezzo-mezzo-mezzo-mezzo so right next to you have a bottle of yoga chef a Ethiopian coffee and fused apricot liquor this yeah, okay Now we're gonna want a quarter ounce each and since you're mixing up them both at the same time Just pour a half ounce pour a half ounce of this one right here Okay. Yeah, that's good. That's good. And we're gonna follow that that Prescription okay on over a green chartreuse in the front of the lazy Susan. I got okay green chartreuse Quarter ounce of that for each of us. So we're gonna do the half ounce thing again Now this is about a hundred ten crew that's here Abby LeCourt. So Abby Abby meaning from like a like Monks All right, right next to that you have a Crippano antica vermouth red top this one here. No, this one here. Yeah, and it's the same thing Quarter ounce each so we'll do a half. I like that poppy sound man. You're doing it. You're doing it. Okay Now next to that chartreuse you have moletti this one here. Yeah This one has saffron in it. Yeah, you remember remember a little bit of violet. It's got some floral notes Now we're gonna jump into the calvados. Okay. All right just here Same thing quarter ounce each half ounce all together. This is a mixy-mixy. It's like yeah There okay, okay, what do we do next? We're gonna do a written house now Hey, you know what when when we do the show you make drinks specific to the guest you're the guest Yeah, or is this specific to me in this case? No, this is definitely what I would drink for me. Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, yeah Okay. Yeah, all right And then uh, let's do one dash of orange bitters. Oh, it's right here. Yeah The bitters for neck beards All right, what do I do with this? So you want to You want to give it One two hard dashes. Oh, it's just a dash it hard. This is what makes it a cocktail. Yes. All right. The bitters That's a boom. Yeah, good job and do another one.  All right. Now we have some aromatic bitters with a vanilla bean It's got a bean in it. Yeah Scrappy aromatic bitters some of my favorite. Okay Um, and it's got a vanilla bean in it. So give it that that that dash you just did. Uh and another one Uh and another one Are you gonna do it again? Yeah, you know what I'm gonna do it.  Go ahead and dump that in there. Why not? I put this in here. Yeah, okay And now here's the cool part we're gonna stir together because this is a lesson in and of itself We have several spoons here. I'm gonna take this one take the one that's right there Now take it like you're riding but in between your middle fingers Okay And so the stirring technique you want to keep the back of that spoon against the thing It looks like you're just back and forth and now use your wrist You should feel it spin a little bit. It does There you go. I'm probably you know, I got it. Why careful about the way you do it Well, you don't want to aerate the drink too much. I don't want like the bubble bubbles. Yeah, yeah too much oxygen changes the flavor profile can Bring out aromatics and that that you normally wouldn't taste there. Okay. Now. Here's the fun part. Okay Got a lid here. Go ahead put that on. Yeah, set the spoon down. We've got two glasses there We've got gone ish. Okay. So over here to the side you have some Candied tangerines. Okay. Yeah Go ahead grab it. Yeah, put your fingers on it. Okay Right in the top. Just throw it in there. Yeah, just let make sure that the round parts facing to the bottom Yeah, round part to the bottom. Yeah, it's more likely to float that way. All right And we're gonna add a cherry to the top of each of those That is sitting down because we poured it up to the room. Nice. Nice. This type of stuff Tell me tell me a little bit about like when you got when you got started putting this stuff together or even just got into Even before you tended bar like what would you say were some of your or you did? Oh, I'm snapping your your first drink I like that. It's all right. We're like it's like a holy moment. Like we're just like Please be quiet while we take the picture. Okay. Perfect bartender flip. Yeah Can we get that in there? This is actually your bio flick as a bartender. That's it Sean funder the happy bartender now the happy bartender. He's laughing at this. He's like you're getting drunk I'm the inflatable flying waving arm I still use cars on the weekend So like most bartenders do What what would you say are some of the The like things where you'd say like it was a messed up at something that you learned Like when you're kind of on your own or like things that you'd say like I put that up or That was like hard to like go through or overcome Well, I've got a lot of those first I'd like the preference that would saying that I guess with every up It's only really really up if you don't recover Yeah, you know if you don't recover from it A fucked up turns into your and I don't have too many of those moments to speak on I'm I'm extraordinary resilient I was built for hard work and I've taken quite a few ass weapons in my life and gave back Twice as hard as I got so I have mistakes that I've made up that have happened that Everybody just looked at each other like this like Yeah That's a that's a wrap. Yeah, uh one I was a special labor And I was doing demo But on this one particular uh remediation gig And king's gate So working there I was doing this job and they're like We need somebody to build steps on the side of the house so that we can get all of our men up to that particular side And there's a door on the side of the house that we need to get in and out of But the owner lost the key some huge time ago and he was like just cut it off And so they tell me to just cut it off I have never cut a doorknob off of a door or a door off the hinges before right and I was like Well, why not just remove the door they're like because it's a security door and it's metal Just cut the doorknob off and they hand me a reciprocating saw also known as the saw saw because it saws all So I'm like, okay, and I'd never used a saw saw at this point Right never had a use for I'm circular saw table saws most of my stuff is like framing and finished work I've got no need to use a saw saw for most things right so they hand me this thing which is like A jackhammer you hold sideways and the blade does this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah real fast and I'm like This is And then I look at one of the other guys who's who's like with me not a supervisor He's like they told you to do it just do it And so I'm like, all right, so I angle the saws on I turn it on it's scraping against the door And I'm like, okay They want the knob off so I dive into it and I saw off the top of the knob. Yeah. Yeah So now there's no knob, but there's still a plate and now I can see the under workings and I'm like I still got a saw off the plate too. So now now I'm feeling a little bit more comfortable and I've got the blade pressed against it It's even bending. That's the cool thing about a saw saw is you can saw weird angles and stuff, right?  I go straight to my supervisor. Here's the door knob.  Like, well, what the f*** did you think I was? I don't I don't really get the instruction now. Yeah, yeah And so he comes and looks at the door and he sees all this dude. You scraped up the door You gave me a saw saw and wanted me to cut off a metal door knob from a metal door And he was like Well, we weren't supposed to mess the door up How are you gonna get the door off with the saw saw and get the door? How would you get the door knob? So I don't know whatever happened after that because he looks at me and he's like, do you know how much that door costs? Oh, no, no, no. So the guy's looking at me. He's like, we don't have that in our budget So I can take it out of your check But I can't keep you working on a job where you become a financial liability. Oh, no So I got fired from a demo job. You got fired from a demo job All right, we need we need to drink wait. What do we drink like a bartender? What's another one? We did Korean. We done Japanese Have we have we have we done uh Croatian? I don't think so Nastrove Okay, okay Such a weird glass, isn't it? This is good. The what's the one part again? It was bourbon. No, what was the one part? Rye Whisky rye bottled in Bonn rye aged four years in a government Watched warehouse. All right. I'm learning all sorts of things jack. What? I do have a big question because I think you have a good answer for it. There are a lot of people Out there that are they're kind of like making money on the side so that they can do something that they really want to do Or do something want to love that they want to be an artist. They want to be an actor They want to start their own nonprofit like those types of things like If you could sit down with somebody and kind of have let them have like a therapy session You we're going to give them advice or whatever And you could uh, you could hang out with them for, you know, five minutes Like what would you tell If you want to live the life you want to live it starts with what you want Figuring out what's useful for other people helps Especially if you want to be plugged into your community and have a healthy community That's really all you actually need. Don't be afraid to do what you're good at And don't be afraid to get good at something that you're unfamiliar with A lot of people find out they're good at things accidentally There's a lot of people who are working in positions because they think they have to maintain that job Maintain that credit score average, right? But they don't know why They think oh, well, this is stability, but they don't know what that means for them I think I think that's spot-on. I mean the hardest thing in the world is figuring out It's a lot of times just figuring out what you want like that takes an extraordinary amount of honesty that I don't think a lot of people by myself included at different points in my life like Like safety in a lot of cases or the sense of safety And a lot of cases is easier than than honesty, you know We should do we should do an entire show about getting drunk That would be great All right here here to that one to that one cheers jack I'm just gonna keep seeing you so I don't need to be like maybe I'll see you around sometime All right before we go the let's take a shot one more shot one more shot All right a shot just if you're gonna if you're gonna be a bartender straight drink You've got to drink like a bartender, right? Okay one more shot. What are we doing? You want to do that uh benedictine and oh no no no Chartreuse chartreuse is right where You make the shot. Oh, this is gonna be easy. Sure. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right You put him in here.  Oh great. Is it just chartreuse? It's just chartreuse. Oh, jeez. Okay. You're just gonna make the shot Just so you know, there's bartenders watching us right now who are applauding this entire situation Really, they're they're like yo, they're doing shots of chartreuse. That's what we do. That's what we do Here I'll give you a little one because I'm gonna do it. Okay, cool Oh and the way I toast okay To michael blackman. I love you. He's the guy who who gave me this toast It's a song he wrote to himself a long time ago. Okay to water when you're thirsty To whiskey when you're dry To a shotgun when you need one And nothing when you die salute salute Oh, that's right. 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So, what we have in Agenda, we're going to talk about the old SAP, the new SAP, what is Python have to do with SAP. We're going to see examples using Python at ERP and also Python in SAP HANA. So we're going to talk about not your grandfather's SAP, because SAP had changed before. So most people used to see SAP as an all-close and really expensive German company that produces software for big companies. Also it was really hard for individuals or development developers to actually use it.  But right now we have the new SAP, which is still German, but it's all around the world. So right now it's really easy for individuals or external developers to use it. It still needs a lot of RAM, but we provide really nice alternatives for that. It's really easy to install now. It's very friendly, even for people who haven't used before any SAP software. This is still kind of ugly, but we're working on that. And it's actually very committed to open source. Most people doesn't know that. But SAP contributes a lot on Eclipse, because most of our new tools are based on Eclipse. So we're doing a lot of contributions there. So this is a bit of marketing, so sorry about that. But these are some of the new technologies that SAP provides. We provide SAP HANA, which is an in-memory database. We also have PowerBuilder, which I don't know how many people use that anymore, but it has a new interface, it's based on .NET, so it's supposed to be kind of cool. We also have the SAP Model Platform, which allows you to create mobile applications that will run on BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, wherever. So we have SAP NetWeaver Cloud, which is a platform as a service software, sorry. SAP UI5, which is a set of libraries based on HTML5. We have SAP NetWeaver Gateway, which allows us to create a rest on all data services. And we also have the SAP NetWeaver Sneak Preview, which is for ABAP developers, being ABAP the main source of development in SAP. So what should we care about this, because SAP now provides most of the latest technologies for free. In some cases, it's completely free, 45 days, one or three months. So we have free developer licenses. You can try, you can develop, you can share, you can sell, you just need to go to developers.sap.com. I have a couple of stickers, so if you want some stickers, just come to me. So what we get for SAP, we have two options. We have 30 days, totally free of charge on cloudshare.com, or we have free developer licenses. You just pay Amazon Web Services for the host team. And in the case of NetWeaver Cloud and SAP UI5, it's completely free. You can use it on the laptop. So we cut the marketing from there, and we go straight to the Python and SAP. So most of the people might not be aware of this, but SAP has always used Python internally, like forever. But in the last months, SAP has started to actually provide more ways for external people to use Python, both ERP and SAP HANA. Because we believe that Python is a really solid, powerful, awesome, stable technology, and it allows us to leverage more power to our applications. So we're going to see an example using Python and ERP. Actually at first, we didn't have a real connector, so PS Harding, which is an SAP Hacker Hero, created a library to connect Python and ERP. But now we have a new way to do it, because the value prototype in Germany created the PyRPC, which is a better way to connect Python and ERP. So we have even managed, sorry. This new connector is being used by SAP not to create real products for customers, but it's more like prototypes. So we're using it for even management, time management, web cloud applications, and even RFID scanner, mobile printers, et cetera. So here we have an example of using a PyRPC. So we have a file, a CFG file. So we're going to have all the connection parameters to the ERP. So we just need to import the library. We need to import the config parser to read the file. So basically the most important part here should be, this is where we're going to read and we're going to set to the selection, the parameters that we have read for the file. And this application is only going to say that we have a successful connection or we couldn't connect to the server. So it's very basic just to know how it works, right? So now what we're going to do is we're going to create an SE16 emulation. SE16 is an ERP transaction which allows to see all the data from a table, for any table. So it's very useful in size SAP. So for this I use ECG. I'm not going to show for sure the whole code because it's kind of long and I'm pretty sure you all know ECG. So we're just going to show a couple of lines, right? So we define the login, which is going to be basically the same thing. We're just going to read the file, we're going to ask for the user and the password because we don't want that to be in the file. So basically we're going to connect and if we have a successful connection, the most important thing from here, we're going to call RPC read table, which is a remote function call, which is on the ERP. We're going to say, okay, I want to read this table and I want to get all the contents. Here we're going to read what the ERP or the ERP is returning us. We're going to make some total selections. We're going to try to put that into a structure. So in the end, this is how the program is going to look. We're going to have on the face screen, we're going to put our username, our password. It's on the Aspera table and we're going to show all the content of the table, which is basically what you can do on ERP using SC16. So this is sort of emulation. So we can pass any table and we're going to see all the data from the table. But PRPC is not only a client, meaning that we're not only going to read information for the ERP, but we can also use PRPC as a server. So actually the ERP is going to go to PRPC, PRPC is going to do some stuff and it's going to send it back to the ERP. So basically what we need to do is we need to go to our ERP server. We just create a very simple function module, which is going to have this little code, which is going to be like, concatenate, hello, name from SAP, blah, blah, blah. So if we execute it, we're going to pass the name of the parameter and it's going to return as hello, from SAP. So this is only from the ERP. Now we have here the code. This is going to create a PRPC server. So here we're going to say hello from PyRPC and we're going to grab the name of SAP parameter. So when we run this, you see it's going to create a server. Here in the ERP, we're going to execute the same. We want to say that we want to use our PyRPC as a server. So actually the real response for the ERP is going to be hello, albaro from PyRPC. So as you can see, we run it first from the ERP and now we are running from the ERP but calling PyRPC. So actually you can put whatever functionality you want on Python and it's going to return to the ERP, which is really great. And that comes apart where we're going to use Python and SAP HANA. When we still SAP HANA client, it provides a lot of drivers for connectivity and there's one called dbappi, which is an already compiled library to make a native connection between Python and SAP HANA. Initially it was kind of hidden. I mean you install it but you really don't know that it's there. So actually I was the one that made it public on the SAP community. I wrote a blog called Python and SAP HANA just there. So I actually showed the SAP community that they can use Python together with SAP. Of course I got some problems because they told me, oh, this is not really for customers, you shouldn't have to write this blog, blah, blah, blah, but I really don't care because I wanted to show people that there's more languages outside SAP and Python is really cool and you can use it with SAP HANA. So it was cool. So this is SAP HANA. So here we're going to create a calculation view. You're going to see we have two tables that we're going to join. We're going to create a projection. Then we're going to join this projection with an attribute view. We're going to have the output and actually what we're going to do here is we're going to create a calculated measure. Actually what happens in SAP HANA is that when we create this calculation view, it's not going to be stored on the database. Actually every time we execute it or recall it, all this is going to get executed and also all the calculated measures that we create. Everything happens on the fly. SAP HANA is a really, really, really fast in-memory database. Everything happens on main memory. So there's no need to save this on the database. So what we're going to do here is we're going to create a calculated measure called discounted. So basically we're going to see if the carrier ID is equal to American Airlines, we're going to have a discount price of 80 percent, otherwise we're going to leave the price as it is. So we're going to use the DBAP and SAP HANA to read that calculation view. We're going to just bottle to provide a simple table with information. I'm pretty sure you all have to just bottle. So we're just going to see how it works, right? So basically what we have here is the DBAP connect. We just pass information. We pass the URL for the SAP HANA, the port, the username, and the password, right? Here what we are doing is we are sending commands straight to SAP HANA. So we're going to, first, we're going to drop this type test out if it exists. If it doesn't exist, we're going to pass it. We're going to drop a procedure called PyTest. If it doesn't exist, we're just going to go in a way because we're going to execute this query. We're going to create a type, which is some sort of temporal table, right? And we're going to create a procedure, which is going to receive a table. It's going to read our calculation view, and it's going to take this data, right? The carrier ID, connection ID, the price, and the discounted price. What we're doing here, what we're saying with result view, proc view, is like we're going to have some sort of a temporary table that we're going to be able to read after the calculation view is done. So basically here, what we are doing is we're creating some SQL code inside Python, and this code is going to be executed in SAP HANA, so we're going to create a procedure, we're going to read the calculation view, and we're going to get the information back. So basically, when we run the PyTest on the model page, you're going to see the first three ones. You can see this is the reapplies, this is the discounted price, and you're going to see that actually there's a discount of 80%, and the other ones will remain the same. So the cool thing about this is that it's not an ODBC connection, it's a native collection between Python and SAP HANA, and SAP HANA, as I told you, is going to execute the calculation view on the flight. So there's no need to save it on the database. It's going to calculate it just when you want it, and it's really, really, really fast. So actually, if you have an opportunity to try it, please do it, as I told you, on developers.sap.com, it's really, really fast to use.