OK, there you go.

This is Infinity ranch.

The name kind of comes from the fact that this ranch has been here for fairness.

8th generation alright and our kids are 9th generation and I think just the never ending.

You know making it a place to come back to a place that's sustaining so it's infinite.

We won the farm family Environmental Excellence Award and it kind of shows how you know we work hard on the farm we try to do the best we can.

And we try to advocate for you know Farm, and to do things correct and for the sustainability aspect of it.

So it means a lot because there's a lot of work that goes into it.

It's very important to me to be an advocate of agriculture.

I think in just the industry today there's a lot of misconceptions.

And so it's important to tell your story.

And if you're not telling your story, somebody else's, that's probably not accurate.

Definitely through my work with our own children, and then with the 4H program and 4H youth, I tried to raise up little.

Advocates of agriculture.

You can get it back to the family farm aspect of it and see how farms are produced and how that's just most of them are a family farm just like us husband and wife and some kids raising cattle or turkeys or broilers or any other types of animals out there do.

Your food is grown by people just like us all over the country and there's not that many of them anymore, so it's a very important job.

Ever since I was little I've been involved in the day to day operations being around broiler houses.

And been around the cows.

Parents raised me on the farm and that's just all I've known my entire life.

I'll wake up in the morning and I'll go through the turkeys and make sure everything's going alright and there's no problem.

Take a look at the cattle as well and then I'll go to work and then I'll come back and kind of repeat the process, then finally get home.

See the kids.

Relax with them.

To be sustainable farm you have to make investments for the future.

You can't be so much worried about the short term you got to say hey, 10 years from now.

This is where I want to be.

So you got to make those key investments and we thought maybe solar was a part of it.

After we had the houses for about a year and we looked at the cost of the electricity cost and thought, well, you know what's looking to sell it and so we started looking at different vendors and got some quotes and they gave us a production number of how many solar panels we would need to in order to offset the cost for the farm.

In in farming, a lot of times you know there's a lot of things that you have to invest in, and so it's kind of looking at it to the long term.

You know, maybe that upfront cost, but it's eventually going to pay for itself.

I think we just kind of felt that it was the best decision.

I wasn't that nervous, and I think I always kind of look at it a different perspective.

You know?

We hope these kids come back here and run this farm someday, and just that it's sustainable and that it's it could help them down the road.

I think that's more important than probably makes you a little less.

Nervous, so the solar panels, you know only make power when the sun shining.

If it's cloudy, they'll produce some power.

It won't be as much as if it's a bright sunny day, and generally they produce the Max power from around 10:00 AM to 2:00 to 3:00 PM.

You can see it and that'll be the Max power that there is.

It first goes to the poultry houses, the Turkey houses, and then, if we're making more power, then we're using that.

Just goes back to the grid and we get a credit into the month into your billing period.

Those credits get deducted from the amount of kilowatt hours that you've used to lower your electric bill.

The solar panels.

They'll last a long time, they're warrantied for basically 25 years to produce a certain amount of power.

Nothing says they're going to stop working at 25 years.

They'll keep making power as long as they stay in working condition and at 25 years they're still supposed to be ready to put out 80% of the ready capacity that there was when they were new, and if they failed during that time frame, they'll install new ones for you.

I think any people who.

Are kind of uncertain or unsure about solar panel.

I think it's that upfront.

Cost is usually what scares them off and so I think you have to look at it more as an investment in a long term thing and and that kind of helps the the mindset of saying well can we really you know go take out a loan and get this or whatever you're doing.

I think that's usually where people are kind of nervous and unsure about solar, particularly in farming as years go on cost of electricity is going to go up.

I think everybody.

Agrees with that they've seen their if you lived in a house for 10 years, price a year, electric bill has gone up.

If you're electric cost now is $2000 a month and in 10 years that electric cost could be $4000 a month, but your price is locked in at that $2000 a month, and then once you get it paid for that, solar solar cost has gone away and the electric cost is basically pretty well free at that point.

So then that allows your farm to be more economically viable.

I definitely think it was a good decision for us and I would definitely encourage others to look into it and see if it's a good decision for you.

We always want to make this a sustainable farm, a family farm that's here for multiple generations.

We don't want it to stop at eight or nine.

You know we'd like for it to be 1516.

Keep it going.

Was talking about a tree that we had planted in the.

In the bottoms there that I didn't know it was planted but Dad told me about it.

There was playing at the same time.

One of his brothers was born and you know now that trees you know 80 years old and it's a big tree and I've always wanted to do that for my kids.

And you know times passing by, but I'd like to get find a good spot.

Put a tree out.

That way you know 40 years, 80 years down the road you get to see that it's still here.

Like I said, we're 8th 9th generation.

You know you get down to 10th 11th generation that trees 200 years old.

Well, you still got that tree there in that same spot that you've had for that that link from that time.