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IDELE is working with a network of a dozen farms. Those farms are dedicated to apply research and dissemination, and it's part of our mission to do demonstration activities. So in average, they have demonstration activity every week on all the projects they are testing and improving. And for example, for drones, it's a very fancy technology. So a lot of people are asking, from very little workshop to a big events. So I will say on this farm, there will be an open farm or workshop on farm condition every two months, maybe. I will tell you a bit about open farm event. IDELE is working with farms that are dedicated to implementing different trials and new solutions for testing them, but also for dissemination activities. And one of the main part of dissemination is to welcome farmers on farm to demonstrate activities like drones. We are demonstrating how we monitor animals to different stakeholders. There is a good attendance and good frequency of those events because I think there will be demonstration activities on different project every week. So local stakeholders are really used to go on those farms to see demonstration activities. Regarding the topic of the event, different stakeholders can come. Much of the people are farmers. They want to see how the solutions are implemented, how we can use drones. But there are also different other stakeholders like farming advisor. There are also Farmers Union. Sometimes, there are also politicians, local politicians, and public bodies. So we try to reach all the local and remote stakeholders of the territory of the farm. On this attendance, we have different companies. Some are little startups of digital solutions, but also bigger cooperatives. They are used to provide different services in the rural area. They are also already providing services to crop sectors, so they are willing to evaluate if they can provide new services on the livestock sectors. And demonstration is the best way to discuss with the different stakeholders and discover the technology. And in fact, drone is like a buzzword. So it's attracting a lot of companies, and they are willing to really evaluate if the drone can be a new tool for them and a new service to provide to their clients. So the stakeholders' interest in this demonstration are really simple question-- what is the cost of the drone? Which models are usable and fitted to the livestock sectors? Can I expect a return on investment? And to provide all of this very practical-- to provide all the answers to this practical question, we built a guidebook answering everything about regulation, about how to pick a drone, how to implement drone regarding the regulation, regarding animal reactions to the drones. And it also received very good feedback, so we are happy about it.