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hello everyone and welcome to today's cultivating success webinar today's webinar is on Idaho irrigation water rights and access is a small acreage farming and ranching program that's and WSU's food systems program our presenter today is carrie boone dr. kerry boone is located in pea county which is in southwest Idaho and she is an Extension educator with an appointment in small farms and food systems I'm Colette DB Phelps I'm your moderator today I am an area educator located in northern Idaho on the University of Idaho Moscow campus as we get started with today's webinars I wanted just to go over a couple webinar tips if you close all of the other programs that are running on your computer you can dedicate your internet bandwidth to this webinar if you are having any problems with your sound you can call in at any time on the phone number provided in your welcome email if you do that you'll want to mute your computer so that you don't get feedback if you're having any difficulties at all please feel free to type something into the Q&A box and I will do my best to help you solve any technical issues at any time you can type questions into the question and answer box for Kerry I will either ask for those questions during the webinar on your behalf or I will save them till the end when we have a Q&A session just depending on the content and the timing I did email out to everyone a handout of today's webinar slides so you don't need to actually write down all of those details you have that in your email inbox we will also have that handout and a webinar recording available through the cultivating success web site and I will show you how to find that at the end of the webinar with that we wanted to do a quick poll and to see where folks are located today so if you haven't done a poll it's just like a little survey question and you can go ahead and type in where you are located so right now the folks on the webinar are located in both southwest Idaho and North Idaho with that I'm gonna go ahead and turn today's webinar over to our speaker Carrie and so to do that I need to stop sharing my screen and allow her to share her thanks Collette let me make the switch here one second here okay can you all see my screen okay we can we can hear you as well great all right so thanks for joining us today I'm glad to see there's people from Southwest Idaho on the webinar today because that's where I am located where I have a lot of experience working with irrigation this is also relevant for the rest of Idaho as well just I you know have a special place in my heart for Southwest I'd hope so so for today's webinar we're going to be learning really the basics of water access for small acreage irrigation in hopes of really trying to avoid water related legal and social conflicts which happen way more often than than I'd like and then so it's looking at your the different types of irrigation organizations is really the foundation of access to water for your small acreage and then of course we just through cultivating success we generally want to encourage participating in responsible and sustainable resource based development in our regions and so this is all a part of that and to get us there I'm going to give us a little background on how irrigation districts were formed and the first some of the first pioneer irrigator irrigate errs and how they they got going with production in the area we'll talk I'll go in low more depth on what our irrigation districts and how they function also for those interested in groundwater we'll talk a little bit about well how to get wells going and give you a background on what is a water right and why is it important and just various types of different water access organizations and then we'll tie it up with just bringing it back to you and your property and what does this all mean for for you and irrigating excuse me on a small acreage so just to start it wasn't really that long ago that irrigation water was really the primary water use in Idaho and so miners and their families and the towns that were built around mining needed to eat and so water for agriculture became highly important and there was absolutely no irrigation set up you know it's not just something they showed up and it was here they they had to build it all themselves and so this these are a lot of economically poor people that labored to really make this region make our region's farmable and so I have a really great appreciation for them and and irrigation water particular is unique because it really relied the people in the community really relied on each other so really a neighbors helping neighbors is really necessary no one could do it alone this was a huge feat for anyone back in that time so so water has really shaped the land and the way people organize themselves in a community because they weren't able to really settle anywhere and grow food unless there's irrigation set up and so wherever they were able to do this people came together to organize institutions to build and operate and maintain irrigation and this again was you know this was starting from scratch so you can see in that picture I just popped up there dragged me loads of soil up onto this ramp dumping it into wagons and the soils being transported away onto other areas that that might need it they used horses and a buck scraper to plow a new irrigation ditch in the hillside most of the heavy work was done by horses and scrapers and then the men with hand shovels did all the finishing work and so this was really just a massive infrastructure feat engineering feat for the late 1800s and early 1900s and really could not have been done without the entire community working together and then so over time they didn't start with irrigation districts and you know all the sort of management and administrative support of irrigation districts only with a shift shift to higher value crops like sugar beets or potatoes where irrigation districts form to then finance and and manage the canal system that these pioneers had built and so we can appreciate the panniers and the irrigation organizations for our ability to grow food in Idaho and sort of their historic significance because we're still using a lot of those same those same irrigation and lateral ditches today and this is a little bit more of what we're looking at and this is mostly down in South southern Idaho both in the east and the west you can see up in the right-hand corner my ditch riders clean enough cleaning out some debris and such which is an ongoing project so I guess they don't really have many people well you do have a few people from Lauren this is up near Coeur d'Alene and this is just want to give you a minute to look at this you know getting too much detail but you can see the yellow the yellow arrow there that's a management area for an irrigation district and just just sort of interesting to take a look at the landscape overall and look at you can see the stream just north of Coeur d'Alene over to post Falls and not blue Management Area it's just kind of interesting to look at how it's how these irrigation districts are kind of set on the landscape and and all the all the laterals and whatnot that go to all those different plots out there to allow farming to happen and then here's here's another one and again don't get bogged down in the details here this is Southern Southern I'd at Southwest so Canaan County you can see on the left picture there's Lake Lowell if you want to sort of situate yourself and just north of that is Caldwell and this just gives us an idea of how prolific these irrigation districts are and once you know you'll have the copy of this presentation and you feel if you're in happen to be in this area you can look and see who's service air you're in and for those of you that aren't necessarily in Cannon County most counties do have maps like this on their county websites they're not always easy to find I sided dig around for this but they are there I believe I have the link to this on the resources page at the end but this is important because these the different districts and company irrigation companies can only deliver within their boundaries so you need to make sure you're talking to the right correct irrigation district for where you live and you can usually look at these maps and locate your house and figure out who you're supposed to be talking to and so a little bit more about in general about irrigation companies irrigation districts which those are - they're manage their water differently and then canal companies as well so they are the ones that own water rights and distribute the water they own the diversion facilities and infrastructure and they're responsible for maintaining them and they're governed by a set of bylaws and they have a board of directors and they're all elected and again these are really historic institutions I highly recommend if you haven't gone to any of their meetings if you're a member of the districts or the company to go to the meetings and just meet people and you can ask questions just get to know know the people on the board there tend to be well known people in the community people you probably want to know anyway especially if you're new in the area so that picture on the right that's black canyon irrigation districts that's their picture but that's up at Black Canyon Reservoir just outside of Emmet and so it's a huge reservoir that supplies water all down and the like to so many different areas in the valley so it's a huge project there so that's how we get our that's how we make sure we get our water when we need it in irrigation season is it's blocked up in the dam and then they release it as needed there so a little bit more so the companies are the districts will divert water from the river or stream and deliver it to your lateral system and so I should say just as a preface for this it's really difficult to generalize across regions and I hoe is really region and district and company specific how they go about distributing the water I think what I these main points here are pretty generalizable but in terms of how much water allowed it how many shares you're allowed to buy if there are shares how they maintain all that stuff is really specific to the irrigation company or the irrigation district or canal company and so that's really important and why it's really important that you work with your particular irrigation districts and your neighbors to understand them irrigation norms and practices of your area so just wanted to preface with that so just moving on the so they are responsible for the development and maintenance of canals and ditches they however do not generally go beyond the delivery point so if you're getting water at a head gate beyond that head gate they don't step on that they are not responsible for maintaining your lateral system the lateral is the sort of smaller ditch that comes off the bigger one it's the one that's passed your delivery point or past your head gate and that is really your responsibility we'll talk a little bit more about lateral associations here in a minute and so if you do belong to an irrigation district or a company there's a few things just background that you should know there water is generally delivered by or measured by acre feet and total acre feet of water granted to every paid a specific amount depending again depending on the irrigation company or district of water is granted to every paid or arrogant to pull acre and it's a it's usually set out at the beginning of the year they make projections that a company will make a projection based on how much storage watch water there is in those dams and so that this the next one the green one is what I thought the first one was the acre feet and so if you're not familiar with acre-feet that's oftentimes how how water is measured by your irrigation company or districts and so if you think about one acre foot would cover one acre of ground 12 inches deep and so you can think of that in terms of the field you're trying to water and your irrigation scheduling and so typically and I say typically because again it depends the water year is April to mid October of each year so it does depend but water gets turned on based on the weather and turned off based on storage levels so sure this is really important for irrigate errs to know because if it is a short water year you may get your water shut off earlier than you want and you may be stuck with a field of corn and have any water to finish it off and so that light blue tab at the bottom this is a link that you can check your reservoir levels so you can get a good idea if you're gonna have a short year or not and then you can just you can you know depending on the projections at the beginning of the year you can decide what you're going to plant based on that so you might want to play at something that's gonna harvest earlier it's it's if it's a dry year and if it's not then you have a little bit more flexibility and so this is straight off that link on the last slides these are some of the reservoirs that feed southwest Idaho so they monitor the the reservoir levels and I know some farmers that are just on this like three times a day when it's getting close to planting season and you can see at the very top again the details and not don't get too bogged down the details here at the very top cascade you can see cascade reservoir is pretty full right now and we're we haven't even gotten spring runoff so we're looking pretty good and if you're over down at the bottom right Anderson depend on that you're looking good so this area is looking on the right track for having a pretty good water year and so you can always find you can search different regions of Idaho on your reclamation website that link I gave you and so I noticed there's not a lot of reservoirs up in northern the Northern Panhandle so this may not be quite as relevant to you guys so going back to the head gate this is important point as I mentioned that this is where your waters allocated at the gate is open and close by a ditch Rider and I'll talk a little bit about ditch riders in a moment you can call in an order for water to your irrigation organizations and based on your shares or your water rights and the ditch Rider is the person who adjusts the gate for you opens it measures it and again in times of Plenty you may be able to adjust your own head gate not a big deal also depends on your organ the organization you're working with how much they really have to count the water but in times of scarcity there may be a padlock on the gate so that you're not taking someone else's water and so the ditch riders really the person that keeps track of how much you're taking and for how many days this want to take a minute with ditch riders so these guys if you're ever gonna bake cookies for anybody this is the one the ditch riders really they really make sure water is delivered to everyone on the ditch in a way that is you know they take their drugs very seriously they are delivering water to high production agriculture small acreage agriculture and if you can think of people's whose livelihoods depend on water to grow onions for example as we have a lot down here and you know they realize that water is life for these people and they have to get them in our water and that's their job and it's it's difficult one because there's if you can imagine there's 50 small farms and 25 large farms on a canal and you have to imagine measure out each each one out and know who asks for what keep the dishes clean flowing manage any conflicts between neighbors or what not answered people running out to you with questions and they're also basically a water accountant you know they have their book and they're keeping track of everything and so they really make sure people are getting their water and they play a extremely important role and you really just want to be on their be on their good side I there's a picture there that top one that's down in Minidoka County so that's I'm just cleaning out some dredge there and then on the bottom right and I just really like these historic pictures Detroiters did used to ride around on horses making sure people weren't taking more water than they were all
cated so it seems I have a date yet 1947 so so yeah kind of interesting and just they're not you know Detroiters are just people you want to have a relationship with and make sure they are you know on your side one way or another so that was all about surface water for the most part and I know there's a lot of groundwater users as well and so I just want to talk about that for a minute um just the surface water all ground water you do need water rights to access the ground water they all water in the state is property of the state and you can only acquire use of that water through an appropriation a legal process and so that would be the I know Department of Water Resources you'd go to them to get a drilling permit the applications typically take three to four months if you're just doing a domestic well which should be a lower volume lower eight if you're looking just a water lower acreage a lower quantity of acreage you can do this you do have to get a permit but you don't need an actual right and you can irrigate up to a half acre of land not exceeding 13,000 gallons per day and so that's an option for people who you know don't have a lot of land to to irrigate let's see so and just so you can get an idea of the different aquifers in Idaho and I just want to throw this up here because well I love the maps and just so you can a good idea what aquifer you're on and you can then go and learn a little bit about that aquifer you can learn if it's in particular well let me tell you a little bit about how the groundwater and surface water interaction works because this is important and this is why water rates can be so complicated and so interaction happens between rivers and groundwater on basically three different basic ways so the streams like the let's see you can see my arrow here the stream over here on the right it can gain water from inflow of groundwater through the stream bed and it can also lose water to groundwater by outflow and so you know that's the outflow through the speech stream bed and so that's why water rights can be so complicated sometimes as you know there's this ground water surface water interaction and the water rights have to account for that and so it's so for example in summer your well level may decrease because everyone's irrigating off the stream and so you need to make sure your intent intake is at the appropriate depth for that so you don't get cut off there and the other piece about this is the groundwater management areas I know there's a few up in Central and North Idaho the groundwater management areas they have very specific rules and regulations for using that water and you just want to make sure you know how that works and again you can check with your Idaho Department of Water Resources should have that all mapped out and so speaking of Idaho Department of Water Resources they're there you know just stepping back you know there's the state administered accounting system for water use for both streams and groundwater and I just want to talk a little bit about that on the paper you know I'm going to go through what it looks like on paper and just keeping in mind that in practice it's actually a lot more messy but these are legal documents if you have a water right and yeah so to understand better understand how it gets so messy let's look at the underlying legal aspects of of water rights in Idaho so that is a water right and that's the first page it doesn't give you the quantities or anything but basically a water right is the right to divert public waters and put them to a beneficial use in accordance with one's priority date and I'll talk about what those means all Idaho all waters and Idaho are public waters but they are administered by the state and it read the water right system and I know em in the West in general runs on runs on a first in time first and right so the first person in the area to have a water right they're gonna have the oldest water right and they will have seniority over people that come later on now depending on the practices and norms of your properties irrigation organization you're gonna interact differently with water right so in a lot of cases the water right is held in trust by your irrigation districts and for is for use on the lands for which the water is designated and is for only for irrigation and so you can only use water as in a very prescribed manner so if you have irrigation water you can't actually use that for you know municipal or industrial uses it has to be used for irrigation it says so on on the right and so I mentioned like priority date and first and time person right and so just these every water right that either you hold or that your Irrigation District holds has a priority date so that gives its seniority over the people that came later a quantity of how much can be used during irrigation season a purpose of use so that's going to be the beneficial use that's going to be the irrigation municipal industrial environmental uses and then it has a very particular point of diversion so if you have a diversion point on your that comes into your lateral you can't just move that where you want without going through a legal process and then the place of use you know your your acreage and then a season of use and so all that is defined in the water rights that either you or your company holds so the Idaho Department water resources has a database of all both groundwater and surface water rights they actually have a really cool map I didn't have enough slides to put on here where you can actually click on the different water rights and see where you know yours isn't it comes up with all the information about each water right from a map and that's really useful and so when you think about establishing your right you want to make sure that a question is is there water a already associated with a land so was there a lot of use on your property before you acquired it and did the previous owner reserved the water right in the deed conveying the property to you and that's really important because you want to know what if there isn't why do you want to know why there isn't water and so that's when you can check with on this database and if you decide you want to establish a new water right there performs and procedures on the IDW are I talked with somebody at your local office before doing that so you each region the west east south north each each region has their own IDW our administration office and so if you're thinking about planning for new water right a change abuse etc you want to go ahead and contact your regions administrator they're really nice and helpful and I do have a link at the end of this presentation to that contact information and so for those of you who are on an irrigation district or company and you have a water share that was deeded with your property this is a little bit different than an actual water right so as you're basically again the district company holds a water right and then you as a member of that district owners share in that company and so here I just preface again it really depends how much that share is depending on your organization the standard is one share is willing take your foot of water varies greatly so you have to talk to it each each company about that so you are the private entity that's that is paying for water shares we diverted from the canal and you every member in the irrigation organization the shareholders pay assessments once or twice a year depending for the maintenance of the conveyance infrastructure and other related expenses we have a question about this so is acre feed allocation on a weekly basis the question says is acre-feet allocation on a weekly basis or maybe I'm thinking of miners inches as I think that's what's specified on my irrigation bill yes so I wish I had I have asked that question before and what I'm told by the irrigation companies is it depends on the particular company and so you need to go talk with them and they will explain that to you it really depends on the on the districts in the company it seems to me that when I listen to you talk about water every site has its own situational circumstances that you really have to delve into your site very specifically and make sure you understand everything about it yes and I really try you know talk to different irrigation companies and districts across the state to try and come up with like a generalizable content and it's just absolutely impossible it it's they're too different there you know again they were developed in their localized regions and they the Board of Directors kind of you know makes the decisions on those types of questions and it really varies yeah and so it just it's - it's like almost too complicated a little bit because behind all of those you know how many days can I irrigate and such there are different rules regulations statutes laws and such behind that and so that's why we can't just give a generalized response for those I really wish I could maybe someday I'll be familiar enough with all the different irrigation organizations in the region that I could be like Oh which one let me tell ya but that's gonna take so sorry I can't be more specific on that absolutely so from your perspective as an educator working with small farms what do you think some of the considerations people who might want to kind of play out scenarios in their mind when they learn about what water access they have and how they would use that information in planning out their production system yeah so why don't you find you know figure out the quantity of water you have shares to your I mean obviously you're going to put that into your that into your irrigation scheduling and which you know which crops you're able to grow I mean if you have just if you have you know based on the amount of space you want to cultivate and the type of crop that's all going to be dependent on the amount of water you have access to and so I think it's really important to take that plan that all out before you decide what you want to plant and where I say I guess I say where because that comes up quite often your maybe your property could be right on the Snake River but you don't have rights to that River your your delivery point off the ditch is like on the other side of your neighbor's property you know and so that's another important piece I don't hit on this presentation is figuring out how do you get your water to your property because it can end up being more complicated than you would think that's those are great things to consider so in in our neighboring states such as Washington there are different rules about water and there's different rules for water use depending on whether it's used for crops or livestock in Idaho do we have the same water availability regardless of the production system or is it are there some differences if you are providing water to livestock versus using it for crops the question I don't know exactly I would have to check because I know with some districts they don't discriminate because again they hold though they hold the water right in trust and they don't often they don't often have to get that detailed they just know it's for agriculture but in other cases I wouldn't know it depends on how much you know what their water right says and if their district or a company companies have a lot more flexibility and they often don't have to be as sort of stringent on the rules just the way their water rights are set up and then the districts have a whole different set up so I don't have a straight answer for that either okay another point of Investigation yeah I just have one final question Carrie and that's what would your recommendations be regarding testing your sources of water and then identifying appropriate use testing in terms of like pesticide levels and such yes like you know for instance if you have water coming out of an irrigation canal you know the different points of testing for water quality and how that how you might consider what some of those factors are because dependent even on your your groundwater or your surface water there's going to be differences in water quality whether that's from runoff or from leaching and then potential to have like water that maybe that's not potable water for your animals and then you have to look at another source yeah and and where you are on the ditch as well if you're getting the backwash from your neighbor you want to look at what they're what they're doing with it as well so that yeah so you can go to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality website and they have the whole process for doing that testing and we have several labs around the state they can send in your water we just did one I think it was for a few different tests it was around $40 and so and they just you know they charge you they send you an invoice and you can get the levels and and then talk with one of the managers there about how to interpret that as well well great thank you for that really informative presentation and asking all those questions and if you stopped sharing on your screen I will show our participants where they can find for their resources oh sorry okay no that's okay and I think I have a little more time you you do have more time I thought this was our last question slide so no well yeah I think that was in there from last last time that question slide sorry about that I have just yeah I have about one to three about ten more slides excellent we have plenty of time okay all right so great questions and so I just want to try and clarify a little bit I've mentioned irrigation districts lateral districts I know the Department of Water just kind of give us the picture the big picture of all these entities the top yellow arrow the lateral ditches I'll give you a little more detail on we haven't talked about them in depth yet there's the drainage districts which are prevalent in some areas and not others and sometimes they're managed by an irrigation just district I'll talk about those we talked about irrigation districts and companies and the importance of ditch riders and then we also the State Department of Water Resources and their role in administrating the water it's this is just these are the entities that you would interact with as you manage your water and irrigate on your property kado a cadre of organizations and institutions and that's for both ground and surface water as well the the water the Department of Water Resources would be the groundwater and the rest would be surface water so so the lateral Association so the water comes down the ditch the Detroiter opens your head gate and the water flows into your lateral these are the smaller ditch systems and this is where the irrigation districts are companies their role basically stops they won't touch any for the most part won't touch anything past the head gate that's your responsibility and in most cases there is some sort of lateral Association you might have if you got deeded water shares or water rights with your property you might have also on that a legal document that describes your role in the lateral Association so it can be a very formal entity because you are responsible for maintaining those laterals and it happens with your neighbors for the most part whoever's on that same lateral sometimes they you know they'll meet once a month they you basically come up with your own the Association comes up with their rules and regulations on that they didn't they can have bylaws and rules of cooperation and oftentimes they can also be if they're run well they can be as since the basis person it's a community among neighbors and rural areas because you're having to cooperate of course there can be issues and that can cause you know erosion and weeds not being taken care of okay and it can cause some some strife but hopefully if you're doing your part and participating as the bylaws state then then you'll be on good terms with your neighbors this is what you want and in other cases there are not formal entities and it can be kind of a mess I just talked with someone a few days ago where their neighbor doesn't really live there and there's always a bunch of debris creating a pond during irrigation system that runs into their property and so that's
where you would want to talk with your other neighbors and figure out how you're going to manage that person why do the bylaw say do you have bylaws or if it's an informal situation you can kind of try and come up you can talk to your district see if they have any ideas but I think at that at that level of the lateral level it's mostly you and your neighbors there the drainage district their back when they start irrigating in this region they started having all this excess swampy area that at the base of fields and so they came up with districts to remove this excess irrigation water and get it out of the way and so that again these things can also be legally established public entities that have been organized and again have their their BIOS and they do the maintenance of these drainage ditches so you can see if you're also a part of that so tying it into your property so if you haven't bought property you're thinking about buying property that is the time to really look at where's your water coming from again IDW are maintains a database both drillers logs that have water levels recorded when a for the different well maintenance and when a well is drilled and they have the different water rights identified there and so make sure to look that up and figure out where your water comes from who is your irrigation district and check to see what you were deeded in terms of shares or water rights with your property earth excuse me would you be needed I guess if this is still before your before you buy the property I have worked with people who bought property 30 acres plus and there's no water on it and that is not the situation you want to be in you in those cases you can try and drill drill wells which can be third upwards of thirty or forty thousand dollars to drill and so you really important to make sure you have some water source if you're looking to produce something on your land and again knowing your irrigation district or company how they manage water payments and water delivery people in the offices are extremely knowledgeable and so they can fill you in on that so making sure that that you're in great communication with them and remembering that they do do not touch the laterals excuse me lateral system and in fact they legally cannot touch anything past the delivery point of your lateral into your lateral so and one thing to consider especially I know down in southern Idaho a lot of larger farms have been chopped up into smaller you know five acres eight acres an acre plots and so the water is considered interrupted and so you need to figure out you know how you're gonna sneeze excuse me so if there's now five plots where they used to be one the way the irrigation infrastructure set up is gonna have to be basically redone and so you're gonna want to look you know look at that that's another cost you consider before buying your property you might have to install it head gate dig a new well figure out some sort of the ad hoc system that a neighborhood and link up with that same lateral and so all all things to consider so and another reminder that even when you've done your homework you understand the system you set up your infrastructure it there are years where the it is a dry year and on those bad years your head gate may be locked and and you may not have access as early as mid-july and again this really impacts can't impact your you know what you grow and what you raise on your property and so if you have you have a land without water first thing you wanna do is find out why there is no water at their land there may be a very important either legal or other reason that there's no water and remember that you can't apply to dig an irrigation well with what iid WR that's a domestic well and it does allow you to irrigate at least a half acre near that well and I I think I've emphasized this throughout and I just want to end on this that these different districts and companies are set up as neighbors helping neighbors that's how it started in the beginning with the pioneers and there have been difficult times and water conflicts happening especially in down in in the south here in the Treasure Valley where there's a lot of competing demands now and more people moving into the area and so that does inherently increase the opportunities for conflict unfortunately and so I think these different entities and organizations are really important to maintain and continue to make them a collaborative venture so I have my little diagram there on the right is if you are new to an area for example and you don't know your neighbors just go over and knock on the door and introduce yourself and be neighborly don't start off being asking them where your water is or you know the heavy topics and and then go back later a few times after you know you know hanging out or whatnot and and then ask for more information about the water and and again - with your irrigation districts so here are some resources that will be in PDF that collect sent out to you all and that is all I've got Collette okay great now we have another question great so um this I this question is from North Idaho so what do you do if you were told you had surface water on a creek and you get the transfer of Rights done and you discover it was groundwater like you someone told your IDW are told you that you've had there's a lot of there's gonna there'd be a lot of back and forth on this and again the best on these legal matters it sounds like this would be legal matter so that would be IDW are contacting your local administrator in the northern districts okay it's okay thank you let's see if we have any other last-minute questions that come up so we don't have any open questions so we can go ahead and do our wrap-up slides share my sharing here okay yeah that worked so here we are okay so just a reminder that you can register for upcoming webinars through the cultivating success website you can all so access webinar recordings through the website so if you wanted to catch some of these things again you could go up to programs at the top here there's a drop down menu and you can click on recorded webinars and go to that page we have some upcoming webinars in two weeks so on Monday February 24th is going to be a webinar about capturing consumer demand for local food looking at some of the trends and messaging around those trends then Tuesday February 25th we're going at the options using the program quicken versus QuickBooks I also wanted to let you know that in March we are having a four-part financial fitness for farmers class where you can take the webinars individually or as a series with exercises and support to really understand some of the key financial documents related to farm management we do have a post webinar survey it's our evaluation it takes about three minutes to complete we would really appreciate your taking the time to do that you can find the link in the handout I sent out also this should actually generate right in your browser when I close the webinar so with that I really want to thank you Kerry for that presentation and providing all of those resources for our webinar participants and those that watch the webinar recording we look forward to interacting with you on another webinar in the future
