Well, Tara, pretty excited. Do you know why?

No. Tara, this is our first time we get to record the podcast together. This is huge.

It's monumental moment. That's right. I've recorded now with Zach one-on-one and then the three of us have recorded. But yeah, this is our first episode of just you and I co-hosting.

It's going to be ultra-professional because that's how I always run it.

Yeah, you, I mean, Zach and I were like top-notch.

So, you know, there's a lot to live up to after the first few episodes that we recorded.

Plus, of course, we could have our first guest be from the amazing state of Iowa.

I'm Tara Vanerducen.

I'm a dairy farmer in New Mexico and an environmental scientist.

And I'm Mitchell Hora.

I'm seventh generation farmer in southeast Iowa.

And this is the fieldwork Podcast, the podcast by farmers for

farmers. Season four of the podcast is made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation,

so thank you so much to them. And today we get to talk with a fellow Iowan and somebody from

my alma mater, Iowa State, the Harvard of the Midwest. Our guest today is

Dr. Lisa Schulte Moore. She's a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State

and home of the cyclones, the greatest football team to ever walk the earth. Wow, you guys are

like really proud of that.

Yeah, super proud. It's a big deal. So Lisa is an expert on prairie strips and I guess I should be

the first to say I feel like this is going to be all new to me. So I'm excited to dive in.

I don't know how prairie strips are going to work out down in New Mexico. I hope that,

I hope Lisa's got the answer for us here. But Lisa, thanks for hopping on the show. And tell us about what are

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