I revisited two kudzu patches north of Mobile in the country that were infected with rust and still were retaining green tissue back in late December. Both patches were completely dormant at this time.

We also scouted around various neighborhoods in the area, looked under numerous bridges and culverts, and walked fields that held soybeans last year. No green kudzu or volunteer soybeans were found. The positive clumps/patches of rust were on old kudzu tissue. I did not see any kudzu breaking dormancy in this part of Alabama.

We only found it on the leaves.

The machine has been out there for about four or five years in different places in the country. We've just been waiting for the right time to bring it here. We're falling in the middle of the timeline of counties that have it.

One of our aims was to encourage a country format station in Manhattan. ... Not having a station there makes it difficult in a lot of ways,

It's the largest single market in the country, and tends to have relatively low volatility.