These steps you were talking about, do these apply to both bow hunters and gun hunters?

Absolutely.

You know, gun hunters, they shoot a deer, and it's happened a lot with the straight wall cartridges, you know, because that's predominantly area...

You know, I track and I don't have very little experience with it, with the, the rifles up north, but these guys shoot these deer and they may hit it slightly back and the bullet goes through the deer does no reaction or the deer may run stop and then walk off.

And then I think I missed, they go out there and look, they don't find no blood.

So now they're wondering, do I need a tracking dog? Do I not need a tracking dog? And unfortunately you hear the situation where they find the deer.

It was only one, a short distance.

So how do you know when to call off a track?

And people are realising that maybe you shouldn't be just eating bread or...

You know, we talk about how it's important for us to reflect on, yeah, why that's the case.

And as consumers even, what are we doing to contribute to a food economy that's producing so much bread? Like for bakeries and other food businesses, it's obviously there's a reason why economically it makes sense to overproduce and you don't want to have bare shelves and customers expect that they'll have access to everything they want so they can make their choices.

But the result of that, the consequence is something that we're seeing and we're facing every day.

It's a sad situation to see how much bread is thrown out from many, many food businesses.

The other thing that's interesting kind of relates to the evolution of Foodfield from being that really small grassroots initiative.

Foodfield was initially created with a specific purpose.

Is there a story or do you hear stories about what it's like once the food gets to these agencies or gets to the community members that are in need that you could share with us a positive impact story?

Corn School on realagriculture.com is brought to you by BASF and Pride Seeds.

So we often talk about the importance of weed control, but more importantly, the importance of residual weed control on corn.

So standing here at the Mary Hill Research Farm, we have what we would call extreme weed pressure.

So this has been a research farm for the last 20 years.

We have, uh, herbicide-resistant, uh, lamb's quarters, pigweed, a lot of foxtail species, barnyard grass, uh, pigweed.

Uh, we have some, uh, perennial weeds in here, so you name it.

This is actually a really good opportunity to put some of the experimental herbicides to the test.

Can you talk us through what you've changed there? How did you make a difference?

Back in about 2004, uh, Rolls-Royce were considering an engine called the Trent 1000, which would power the new, um, Boeing Dreamliner, and they were looking to get the efficiencies up on, on that aircraft.

And i- in a jet engine, you have a compressor that compresses the air up to about 50 times atmospheric pressure, and that's made up of rows and rows of rotating and stationary blades.

These little blades, about 20, 30 millimeters long, about 6,000 of them, raising the pressure up.

And the...

When they were manufacturing these blades, they were, they were...

You imagine each blade is like a wing of a plane, a small wing of a plane, and the leading edge is about .5 millimeters, and they were hand-grinding these leading edges.

[laughs] Can you walk us through it? What exactly is it?

Always from a weird think tank based on Miami called the Center for Cuban whatever.

I think you have to look at it from the psyche of the Cuban-Americans who left in 1959.

They used to own Cuba.

They did everything they want there.

They lost Cuba.

They tried to invade it to get it back.

They thought, well, we'll decamp to Florida for a month or two and it'll all be over.

So what is the history of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign?

Obviously, we need some water volumes to get down and get that coverage and reach the flower.

Yep.

So the flowers are actually the food source of the sclerotia.

So that's where when you look at a soybean plant, it's actually caught...

Uh, the flowers are actually in the branches of the soybean.

So you actually get, have to get it through that soybean canopy, past those trifoliates, and get good coverage of the flower.

So higher water volumes are best, and that's where you also want to look at if you are tank mixing it with a, uh, insecticide such as Safena for aphids.

Um, I'm hearing about phomopsis.

It's great to have you on, and I know you're very keen to talk about the current situation in Cuba, as am I, but for people who are perhaps younger than you and I are, or perhaps listeners who are newer to the confrontation between the US and Cuba, just give us a little bit of a flavor of the history, 'cause I think that is important here.

Okay.

Well, thanks, Adrian, for having me on.

Um, obviously, for people who, who, who want to know, uh, Cuba pre-1959 was a, a very, very different country.

It was a, a poor, uh, Caribbean island dominated, uh, by a dictatorship, the Batista dictatorship, which was propped up by the United States and was in a tripartite relationship with the mafia.

The mafia really who had moved from the United States in the '30s and the '40s because of prohibition.

They'd gone to, uh, uh, Cuba.

But now in this second Trump presidency, it really is the, the boot on the neck time.

... on your way over.

Yeah, so, uh, this is definitely the, the hot topic that at all of our winter meetings.

So this one here is annual ryegrass, and this is actually glyphosate-resistant.

It's confirmed glyphosate-resistant from a site, so that is why it is in this pot, 'cause we don't want it to spread.

Uh, one of the big things to determine with annual ryegrass is even though we call it annual ryegrass, you wanna treat it as a perennial.

So this is a, a spring germinated one.

It's actually, uh, has some nice size to it.

Yep.

Mm.

The renaissance hadn't begun yet.

The bottom hadn't even been achieved.

I thought cities were Detroit.

And then I came to Chicago a couple of times to go to a couple of shows and visit friends, and I, and I thought, "Wow, look at all these neighborhoods and, and mass transit and, and f- fun and clubs, and, and I could walk around," and, and it just seemed, if you were from the Midwest in the early '90s, late '80s, and you wanted to stay in the Midwest, you came to Chicago, be it from Detroit or Milwaukee or Kansas City or all these other places.

All the roads were coming to Chicago because it was such a, a vibrant, wide-open place that it had a sense of opportunity in it that Detroit just did not have for me at the time.

Mm.

Uh, well, we had to come up with a tag.