00:00 Hey everybody, it's Lee Lubers from Greggy South Dakota. And if anybody asks me is our a DS tile Pay 00:00:07 pays every year in several different ways. Behind me is a mud hole. I just had to dodge around. I'm on one of the last three quarters of soybeans. 00:00:16 We're trying to finish up for 2024. One mile directly in front of me is the home place. 400 acres we tiled. 00:00:24 Two years ago, that was the first field of soybeans that we seeded, and they're two inch tall. They look great. 00:00:31 That field you can plant with a tired tractor. Today I am in a track tractor, already had one close call one and, uh, I got out of it. 00:00:41 So I'm trying to be very cautious on the wet holes here, and I'm hoping to get this field to 90% planted 00:00:48 and I would consider that a victory. The last three fields we all have left this year. They're all fields that need tile. 00:00:55 All of our fields that, uh, we've been tiling for the last three years, uh, those were all the fields 00:01:01 that we got in first this year. Even being wet here, got 'em in, got all the spots planted. A hundred percent crop looks great. It's often rocking. 00:01:09 Another thing we like about our a DS tile is they have a great network of installers. 00:01:15 So they help line up, uh, Hodgman drainage out of Minnesota that comes to our place every year 00:01:19 and they show up in August after winter wheat. And that's another thing that makes our winter wheat pay, is we get our tile in, in their off season. 00:01:28 They can send a crew out here and, uh, get it done. And it helps give us a chance to get all the lines handled early before the big fall push. 00:01:37 And we're seeding wheat and cutting corn and soybeans. So works out really well for us. It's just another way we make things pay. 00:01:44 And another thing is our bank, uh, every year they look at what we spend on tile, they add it to our balance sheet 00:01:51 as an asset on our land. Every piece of property that we tile, they increase The value on tile doesn't cost you. 00:01:58 It pays. We have the same philosophy. So as a producer, we see the benefit that it's not a cost, that it's an asset that it pays and so does our lender. 00:02:08 And we see the benefits in the soil. We see the benefit in the crops, and it's a win-win for us. So very excited. 00:02:15 And, uh, what it's been doing for us, looking forward to doing about 400 more acres again this year. Every year we're gonna keep doing it. 00:02:21 We run outta ground and, uh, we have landlords, uh, being more receptive to it. Uh, we've got three landlords that are gonna work 00:02:29 with us on cost share this year and next year that expand more acres. So it's not just the land we own, 00:02:36 it's also the people that we work with. So it's, uh, a great thing for, uh, you know, the more the regenerative, uh, aspect 00:02:43 of agriculture sustainability, it's better for the environment too. So it's a win-win financially, uh, crop wise, 00:02:52 soil health wise, you name it. We're big on soil health here in our operation. 00:02:57.025 --> 00:03:00.685