Another popular cowpea variety is red rippers. As you can see, these red rippers are already producing seed, even though they are planted fairly late. They are very early maturity compared to the iron and clays. That means it has advantages and disadvantages. One is that we can produce the seed more locally. We don't have the freight cost on them like we do the iron and clay, which are grown in the deep south. The red rippers also seem to get out of the ground and grow faster initially than the iron and clays. Little more aggressive out of the gate. If you have a short growing window, the red rippers will usually outperform the iron and clays. It's when you have a longer window where the iron and clays really tend to dominate. Another place where red ripper cowpeas have a real advantage is in wildlife food plots that are designed for upland gamebirds. All these pods will open up, shatter seed on the ground. It's about 24% protein seed. Very high protein seed that gamebirds really like. In fact, a lot of animals really like these seeds. High protein, unlike a lot of other legumes. They don't have any digestion inhibiting compounds. No lectins or trips in inhibitors like for example soybeans have or a lot of your other beans. These don't need cooked to become digestible. This is used as a human food. It's also used for wildlife food and it's a great pasture crop as well. Another summer annual legume that's very similar to the cowpeas is mung beans. Mung beans look fairly similar to soybeans but they're closer related to the cowpeas. They are one of the main advantages that mung beans have. I guess a couple that come to mind. One is they're very cheap to plant compared to your other summer annual legumes. A lot of that is because the seeds, if you look at the seeds on these things, have a very high seed count per pound. Just takes 20 pounds is a full seeding rate. If you look at the size of these seeds compared to the cowpeas, there's quite a little difference in the seed size between these red cowpeas seeds and the mung beans. Several times the number of seeds per pound in the mung beans is what we have in the cowpeas. About the same cost per pound and so per acre cost you're quite a bit less on the mung beans. They do mature early so their growth period is not as great. One other advantage mung beans have is that cowpeas, the leaves, have almost a bit of a strange odor that grazing animals, log times, they're unfamiliar with it. It smells funny, they don't want to eat it. The mung beans smell just fine. And so these are more palatable especially initially to grazing animals. I kind of like to put some mung beans in with my cowpeas when I'm looking for pasture. I figure this is like the gateway legume. The one they try first, get some hooked on the harder stuff, the cowpeas. So there's some advantages to all of these different summer annual legumes and that's why we like diversity, put some of each in and spread your risk around.