Hello. Good afternoon. I'm Donny Smith. I'm director of the Center of Innovation for Agribusiness. And what do we do? We're here in Georgia, we're supporting our number‑one industry which is agribusiness, a 68‑billion dollar industry in our state. We are the catalyst that create jobs.

People come to us with ideas. They have something on their mind that they'd like to turn an idea in the commercialization pool. They need additional resource to get that idea to commercialization. Or they just need contacts across the state to get that idea there. So we're creating jobs in agribusiness.

Our products are varied, all the way from food safety to food processing to the poultry industry. We're just a myriad of projects that we work with. Another thing that we do at the Center of Innovation ‑‑ it's a great opportunity ‑‑ if people need additional research to get their idea to commercialization, we can get with the research scientists. We can provide about a 50/50 match grant. Because a lot of the times people need additional research to get that idea to commercialization.

We can work with University of Georgia research scientists, Georgia Tech. We even work with Fort Valley State. We work with Purdue. We've even worked with some international research scientists. So if you need additional research, contact us also.

And we can also set you down and get you in contact with the people that can provide some financial assistance also. We work with the USDA with value‑added grants. We work with some guaranteed loans with One Georgia. We work with Georgia Research a lot. We work with Georgia Department of Economic Development.

So if you need somebody to help you get your idea to commercialization, you contact the Center of Innovation of Agribusiness. Again, you can contact us, get our website. You can contact me at 229‑848‑3840. And we'd like to hear from you and put wheels under your idea.