Thank you, Heath.
The work that living labs is doing all comes from input from the producers themselves, as we work with different cover crops to help prevent wind erosion in the wintertime and also controlling our fertilizer inputs to have them be more accurate. There are all kinds of little jingles here, but it's the right product at the right place at the right the time and at the proper amount. They've talked about that with the four Rs. It goes from there on through to different trials on different varieties of our crops.
Mostly I'm talking about the main cash crop here, which is potatoes. Prince Edward Island doesn't grow all the potatoes in the world, but we think we grow some of the best. In doing that, to control the nitrate levels, we use fertilizers with a coating on them. It makes the nitrogen release slower, and then the plants are able to take up more of it and less fertilizer is left to seep into the groundwater and what have you. That's a major issue.
Also, there's the rotation of different varieties. As we do this, we're doing it with tight calculations for precision.
I want to elaborate a little bit on this. We're able to do this now with satellites on our tractors. It's important for us that this technology be dependable, because if they lose their contact in the fields, the machines sit still sometimes for 20 minutes, half an hour or even sometimes for half a day before the signals come back. You can see that this type of thing really affects the gathering of all this information.