David Whitaker
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And you'll do that, and that planning information has now populated your acreage report.
I mean, this is super cool to go from a paper map and a pencil to this maybe in two years.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, I do.
And it's I mean, I think it takes the entire department, you know, to get to some places where where we have we have farm resiliency.
You know, and I think the secretary secretary says it kind of like this.
You know, we we got to get off this hamster wheel.
Yeah, we got to get off this hamster wheel of payments, you know, have a bad year.
get a payment.
Yeah.
Um, and so, I mean, there's a number of things, certainly building demand, uh, additional demand for, uh, for the commodities that we grow.
And obviously that's different in different parts of the country.
Um, uh, and then, you know, looking at, looking at ways to use commodities, maybe in a different way.
So some, some new use, uh, research that can, we can start doing other things with commodities and,
Obviously, animal agriculture, at least in the part of the country where we all live, animal agriculture is key.
A lot of these commodities are used for animal feed.
We want to continue to do that.
But where can we create markets, build demand, both domestically and internationally?
And I think the president, the secretary, the undersecretary for trade at USDA, they're laser focused on finding new markets in the international market space.
And I'm very confident they're going to accomplish that.