What, what are the grants, and what are you looking for people to do?

Yeah, so this is a, uh, project that, uh, grant program that Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection has had out for about five, uh, five years now.

They're going into their fifth cycle.

Uh, these are grants that, uh, farmers can, uh, uh, apply for to manage commercial nitrogen.

And so the, the goal of the whole, um, effort is to try to get, can we fine-tune a farmer's, uh, nitrogen application rates, uh, through n- a number of projects and reimbursement through, uh, trials, uh, on-farm research.

It...

There's all different kinds of project, uh, levels that a farmer can engage in, and the purpose of it is to get these, uh, projects on actual farms, not on university research stations or other, other projects that are driven by, uh, agencies.

Whoa.

Anything to that around our area? I

haven't seen that.

I know there's been an awareness brought up that it's in Illinois and it spreads through the Midwest.

I think soil movement is the big part of that, trying to keep the soil particles in place.

So again, conservation practices, cover cropping can help keep, even the wind can help push that around a little bit.

So I'm assuming that if it is in Illinois or surrounding states that we probably have it here in Wisconsin.

It's just a matter of finding it.

What do you got going on with winter barley?