Uh, question one is, what principles guide the creation of your seed types or seed blends for this time of year, getting into the fall? What are some of the foundational principles or, or thoughts behind your philosophy that, that you like to leverage when planting a, say, a fall food plot, for example?

Well, you know, for us, when we started Vitalize Seed, I would say we didn't wanna just start with the focus on the seed blend or just a random mix of species.

You know, um, we really wanted to start with an objective, and that objective was to, uh, increase, you know, nutrient cycling, um, but also increase attractiveness, increase or decrease the reliance on synthetic fertilizers, um, and really bring a, a level of knowledge and interest to those who are interested in soil conservation.

Now, whether you wanna call that regenerative food plotting or cover cropping or, or whatnot, at the end of the day, it's some level of soil conservation.

You know, so I always say like, what is this field supposed to accomplish? You know, are we trying to produce forage? Are we gonna try to improve soil? Are we trying to suppress weeds? Weeds? Are we gonna withstand browse pressure? Um, is it to create hunting opportunities, or is it a lot of these things at once? You know, so one of the things is we also wanna focus on not just what you're planting this fall, but what is the goal after that? I think that's a big thing that we focus on is that if you wanna truly make an impact on, on soil or on deer or on soil aggregation or whatever it might be, um, whether you're a farmer, a row crop farmer, a food plotter, um, one of the things we need to identify is, well, what, what's going in after this, you know? So we've been fortunate, uh, since we started the company, we've done more and more in row crop agriculture, and one of the first things we have to say is, "Well, what was in the field before? What, what are you looking to accomplish with this, this cover crop? And what are you gonna do with that, you know, with this after?" Now, if you're not a row crop and you're, you're a food plotter, which I would assume most of your, uh, followers are, uh, that's where it really comes into, you know, s- the species selection and ratios.

So, you know, we really are proud of our, our CarbonLoad is our fall... uh, one of our most popular fall mixes.

Um, and a major part of that is focusing on, you know, carbon and nitrogen ratios.

You know, is there a certain fa- forage brassica or annual clover that is supportive in some way to either deer attraction or nutrient cycling? Can you just break it down a little bit further for me?