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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Toro Company's first quarter earnings conference call. My name is Kevin, and I'll be your coordinator today. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. We'll be facilitating a question-and-answer session towards the end of today's conference. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's conference, Julie Karikas, Treasurer and Senior Managing Director of Global Tax and Investor Relations. Please proceed, Ms.

Karikas. Thank you and good morning, everyone.

Our earnings release was issued this morning, and a copy can be found in the investor information section of our corporate website, thetorocompany.com. We have also posted a first quarter earnings presentation to supplement our earnings release. On our call today are Rick Olson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Angie Drake, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Jeremy Steffen, Director, Investor Relations. During this call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding our plans and projections for the future. Forward-looking statements are based upon our historical performance and current expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. Additional information regarding these factors can be found in today's earnings release and in our investor presentations as well as in our SEC reports. During today's call, we will also refer to non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe are important in evaluating the company's performance. For more details on these measures, the most comparable GAAP measures, and a reconciliation of the two, please refer to this morning's earnings release and our investor presentations. With that, I will now turn the call over to Rick.