Latest / CattleUSA Daily / 313: Selling Cattle Through Volatile Markets — The Good and the Bad with Andrew Sylvester
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- 0:00Today on the podcast, Andrew Sylvester is joining us today as
- 0:04another one of our King of the Ring contestants.
- 0:06And Andrew is on to share a little bit more about his story,
- 0:10how he got started in auctioneering and what his life
- 0:13looks like now as both a cattle producer and a professional
- 0:16auctioneer as well. Selfishly, I am so excited for
- 0:19today's podcast episode with Andrew.
- 0:21Andrew actually is the auctioneer at the auction house
- 0:25that my family sells our cattle at.
- 0:27So this is a really exciting conversation for us to have
- 0:31today, selfishly for myself as someone who has known Andrew for
- 0:35a while now, before we hop in today's podcast episode with
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- 0:57Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast, your go to source for
- 1:01the latest livestock markets, industry insights and the
- 1:04updates shaping agriculture today.
- 1:06I'm your host, Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate for
- 1:09agriculture, here to keep you informed and connected.
- 1:12Now let's dive into today's episode.
- 1:19Andrew, welcome to the podcast. I am so excited to have you on
- 1:23today. And selfishly, you are our
- 1:25family's auctioneer as well. So I'm even more excited to be
- 1:29able to welcome you on to the podcast today as another one of
- 1:33our King of the Ring contestants that we are interviewing and
- 1:36just talking more about your story and everything else.
- 1:39So I would love it if you could just kind of take it away,
- 1:41introduce yourself, who you are, and just a little bit about your
- 1:44story and what brought you to the life that you're living now.
- 1:47Lauren, thanks. It's certainly a pleasure to be
- 1:49on here with you and it's a pleasure to have the opportunity
- 1:52to sell your family's cattle at Manhattan Commission Company.
- 1:55When your dad brings those cattle in there, it's always
- 1:57great to work for him and work for your family, just like all
- 2:00of our other consignors. So I I live it in between Omego
- 2:04and Westmoreland, KS. You probably know where that is
- 2:06since you live in Manhattan. So we're real close to Manhattan
- 2:09and I sell at Manhattan Commission Company every Friday.
- 2:13I sell all the feeder cattle and the cabs.
- 2:15And then I, if I need to also help sell cows, but also sell
- 2:19the all of our bread cow stock, cow sales as well.
- 2:23They're on special sales there on those Wednesdays.
- 2:26So little bit about me and my wife and I and three boys live
- 2:30up here. We live on a farming and
- 2:32ranching operation as well. We background cattle.
- 2:35We also have a cow herd. That operation has grown quite a
- 2:38little bit and it's, it's more than just a hobby anymore, it
- 2:41seems like. So I try to balance that with
- 2:43kids events and, and, and obviously making a living as an
- 2:46auctioneer. So I have the opportunity to not
- 2:49only sell at Manhattan Commission Company, but I'm
- 2:52blessed to work for Crossroads Real Estate and Auction, which
- 2:55is a fairly local company here. We're based out of Omego, but
- 2:58we've sold land and and personal property as far West as
- 3:02basically the Colorado border and as Far East as east side of
- 3:06Lawrence. And so I'm heavily involved with
- 3:09that as well. I do sell, I don't know what I
- 3:12have 10 to 15 seed stock sales a year as well and enjoy that side
- 3:16of the business as well. And so sell about 25 to 30
- 3:20charity auctions a year. So it's kind of a, it's not a
- 3:23part time gig by any means anymore either.
- 3:26And so we're hustling, but I'm kind of in that stage of my life
- 3:30where that's what we're doing. So I'm in my mid 40s, I'm 44,
- 3:34I'll be 45 in August. And so we're hustling and trying
- 3:38to make a living. So it's a good life to have.
- 3:40Absolutely. So what got you into
- 3:43auctioneering in the 1st place? What made you kind of decide
- 3:45like, you know, I think I could do this for the rest of my life.
- 3:49Well. I'm kind of a late bloomer I
- 3:51suppose. I always wanted to farm and
- 3:52ranch for a living and went to a seed stock sale one day and I
- 3:58thought, you know what, that I think that kind of suits me.
- 4:01I really like working with good people and I like working with
- 4:04Cody Livestock Stockman myself. And I think I think I want to
- 4:08try to do that. And so went to auction school in
- 4:11my mid 20s. I went to work at the Kansas
- 4:14Livestock Association for six years, sold the advertising for
- 4:18the Kansas Stockman publication and provided ring service at
- 4:22seed stock sales, about 80 seed stock sales a year.
- 4:24One day came along, I had an opportunity to sell one and sold
- 4:28one and and was offered a job at Farmers and Ranchers Livestock
- 4:32in Salina, KS and so I went to work there.
- 4:34I, I hung up the job at KLA and went out on my own and, and was
- 4:41running cattle just like we are now and selling out there.
- 4:44And that's kind of how I got in the business and it's been a
- 4:47been a really good ride. So about 15 years, probably full
- 4:51time auctioneering, yeah. So you go from kind of being in
- 4:55your mid 20s and you sell a few auctions and then you leave your
- 4:58full time position with benefits and all the other things to to
- 5:02go to a job that is allowing you to be a little bit more present,
- 5:06maybe be on the family operation, do some other things.
- 5:09And then you start taking this auctioneering thing pretty
- 5:11seriously after that. And now to where you are right
- 5:15now. What kind of was that decision
- 5:18standpoint like for you as a cattle producer to then make the
- 5:22decision to leave your corporate job, go to a different position
- 5:26and then now be where you are right now?
- 5:28I'm just a firm believer when doors open, you go through them
- 5:32and, and you give things to try. Some of that's been on some of
- 5:35these contests. I, I really didn't seek out to
- 5:38be in a lot of contests, but some different people asked me
- 5:41to, to get involved with them and try them out.
- 5:44And that's, that's kind of why I've been in some of the
- 5:47contests. I've been in a start at the WLAC
- 5:49and been in a few others. But I'm just kind of a firm
- 5:52believer. Someone asks you to do try
- 5:54something or do something. I, I pretty well do it.
- 5:56So I don't turn down a lot of work.
- 5:59I like working for a living and so anyway, I sometimes I maybe
- 6:03got too much on the plate because of it, but kind of a yes
- 6:07man on doing that stuff. So that's kind of why I didn't
- 6:10ever think that getting in the auction business would take me
- 6:15where it's taken me. As a matter of fact, I always
- 6:17thought it'd be a part time deal that would help supplement why
- 6:20we were building our cattle operation.
- 6:22And, and you know, it's hard to, you don't ever know what you're
- 6:26going to get for, to rent for grass or to purchase land.
- 6:29And, and so that operation has grown more than what I thought
- 6:33it would as well. And we've been blessed there and
- 6:36I've been blessed in the auction business to go as far as it's
- 6:38taken me. And I don't think I'm done yet.
- 6:41I, I, I want to keep on growing in that, in this occupation and,
- 6:45and, and you, you talked about, you know, it was a pretty good
- 6:48leap to go from a really good outfit.
- 6:50I work for KLA. Take that jump and go out on
- 6:53your own and take about a, oh, about a 75% pay cut, you know,
- 6:59to go to work for a day a week or something and, and just kind
- 7:02of had the faith that things would work out.
- 7:05And they did probably better than I ever thought they would.
- 7:08So very blessed. I think that's a story that a
- 7:10lot of people have of it takes that first kind of leap of faith
- 7:14and being like, I, I really don't know if this is going to
- 7:16work out, but we're going to try and I'm going to say yes to this
- 7:20opportunity. And we're just going to see what
- 7:23happens and see where the turntables turn.
- 7:26And they have obviously turned in the right ways for you in a
- 7:29lot of different ways over the past 15 years to be able to do
- 7:32what you're doing now. I want to talk a little bit bit
- 7:34more about you getting into competing with auctioneering.
- 7:38What kind of made you decide that?
- 7:40You know, I'm having enough fun with this, I guess.
- 7:43I guess I'll go go compete on it.
- 7:45Well, this is a, it's, it's a good story because I always
- 7:48looked at WLAC and, and wanted to be part of that.
- 7:52Never felt confident enough to do it.
- 7:55I went to work at Manhattan Commission Company and Cindy
- 7:59Nelson, one of the owners there, she signed me up for contest and
- 8:03she said, you're going. And that was a qualifier at
- 8:06Cherokee, Oklahoma five years ago.
- 8:09And so I said, all right, and she said, you're going and
- 8:11you're going to do well. And so I went and it was
- 8:14successful and it was fun. And I wouldn't say I was just
- 8:17hooked, but the, the experience, there's some stress that goes
- 8:21along with these contests that you have to be able to take and
- 8:25work through. But meeting the people, the
- 8:27friendships, the business relationships has been the
- 8:30biggest reward and any buckle or any cash prize I've gotten.
- 8:35And that that wasn't maybe how I, I think when I went, she kind
- 8:38of forced me to do, she didn't force me to go and she told me I
- 8:40was going and I didn't know what to expect.
- 8:43And it's been, it's been more than I ever thought it could be.
- 8:46I think initially it was, can this help escalate my career?
- 8:50And it turned out more like, man, you just meet so many great
- 8:53people there that do the same thing that you do and have the
- 8:56same interests that you do. And, and just a lot of good
- 9:00friends and even great business relationships have come from it.
- 9:04Yeah. One of the things I pulled from
- 9:06your story too is you're pretty diversified in a lot of the
- 9:09different things that you sell in business and a lot of those
- 9:13things. Can you talk about that decision
- 9:15as an auctioneer standpoint of why you kind of made that
- 9:19decision to really diversify yourself in what you're doing
- 9:23with that business? So once again, it it's just if
- 9:26someone asks you to do it and you try it and you just yeah,
- 9:29selling real estates turned out to be a a really good move for
- 9:32me. Some guys don't want to mess
- 9:35with it or don't think they can pass a test to do it or
- 9:37whatever. I don't know.
- 9:38But it's been a great deal. Charity auction, same way.
- 9:41It was a way to serve my community and that is snowballed
- 9:45to where it's almost, it's too many to do in a year.
- 9:48But I have a hard time saying no to those charity auctions too.
- 9:52But no. And as far as the cattle
- 9:53industry goes, I've always loved all portions are all, all facets
- 9:58of it. I mean, you know, working for
- 10:00the, the Cal calf man, the commercial Cal calf man, the
- 10:03backbone, the industry is what a lot of people gravitate towards,
- 10:07you know, selling feeder cattle, selling bread stock, and then
- 10:11the purebred side of things. I like all facets of that
- 10:14industry and I'm involved in all that.
- 10:16And, and, and so it's been and, and each one of those things has
- 10:20complemented, complemented the other one really.
- 10:23And so, yeah, there's certain guys that maybe sell in five
- 10:25barns a week. I sell in one on a weekly basis.
- 10:28I do some other sales as well. I go to farmers and ranchers
- 10:30still and sell some feeder cattle for them on special calf
- 10:34sale days and and fill in when they need help.
- 10:36I sell them Buffalo Sailor have for the last several years and
- 10:39and I like all of it though, and I'm and I guess I don't know,
- 10:43maybe that's different than the other guys, but I like sitting
- 10:45behind a mic and and doing business and it doesn't matter
- 10:48what I'm really selling. I like it all and when there's
- 10:52been an opportunity, I've gone and done it so.
- 10:54Yeah. Do you think that your position
- 10:57as being a cattle producer yourself has positioned you with
- 11:00a little bit more respect on the auction block or do you think
- 11:03that it is just kind of giving you another Ave.
- 11:06That you get to find enjoyment on in life.
- 11:08No, I think it's one of my biggest competitive advantages
- 11:11when I get behind the microphone, to be honest with
- 11:13you is being involved in this business.
- 11:16You know how to talk to both the buyer and the seller because
- 11:20you've been up, you've been a buyer and you've been a seller.
- 11:22You know, I buy cans and, and we straighten them out background
- 11:25and put them in 52,000 LB loads and re merchandise those cattle,
- 11:28you know, and so, you know, I can relate to that buyer when
- 11:32he's out there buying what sells that group of cattle, you know,
- 11:36and, and in each group of cattle that comes in, you need to be
- 11:38able to say something positive about them.
- 11:40You know, whether it's, maybe they're big fat Ballers, but
- 11:44they got a lot of frame and they're, and they'll get big
- 11:46and, and maybe they're little thin cattle that look like
- 11:49they'll gain it all, you know, and, and, and being able to know
- 11:53that because I've been an active participant within the business
- 11:57has been to me, one of my biggest competitive advantages.
- 12:00And then it's the same way when I, I represent a lot of cattle
- 12:03at Manhattan Commission company as well, solicit business there
- 12:06and, and, and work for a lot of great producers, being able to
- 12:09coach those guys to make sure that they have their product
- 12:13ready to sell and, and doing all the right things so that the
- 12:18next guy in line wants to buy them.
- 12:20They want to buy them. And so whether that's helping
- 12:22select bulls for that or whether that's in management or whether
- 12:26that's timing on getting them to the cell, whether that's correct
- 12:29fill on the cattle. I mean, there's so many
- 12:31different little things that make a big difference when
- 12:34you're marketing cattle. And so I think that it's, it's
- 12:37probably one of the best things in my opinion, is being an
- 12:40active participant within the business.
- 12:41And a Stockman myself has helped tremendously with the auction
- 12:45business, especially so on Cal. Yeah, One thing I think that I
- 12:48really pulled from that as well is that you really focus on your
- 12:51relationships with your buyers and your sellers quite a bit.
- 12:54Even as I'm just the man on the block, just as the auctioneer,
- 12:57you're like, hey, give me a call, let's talk about these
- 13:00things. Let's try and prepare your
- 13:01cattle for the best thing. We were off air and before I
- 13:04even said anything, you were like, I sell cattle for your
- 13:06dad, Don't I, Lauren? Like you, you know your buyers,
- 13:10you know your sellers, you know the relationships that you're
- 13:13building. Can you talk a little bit more
- 13:15about that and the importance of that within the auction
- 13:18business? I tell people all the, all the
- 13:20time we're in a cattle business, but it is a relationship
- 13:23business and, and you're doing business with people both sides.
- 13:27So you work for the seller and you try to be fair to the buyer
- 13:30is what you did and you try and because the seller at this point
- 13:33in time at least pays her Commission.
- 13:34So I always say I, I work for the seller, but I'd always try
- 13:37to be fair to that those guys that are buying them and
- 13:39representing properly. And so it, but it is 100% of a
- 13:44relationship business and if you can't handle those
- 13:46relationships, at least in my opinion, it's pretty hard to be
- 13:50successful in this business. Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
- 13:53I think relationships are one of the biggest building blocks that
- 13:57we go off on this business and especially in the auction
- 14:01business. I think that you guys are in a
- 14:03unique position where, like you said, you are working for the
- 14:06sellers and the buyers at the same time type of situation and
- 14:10trying to make sure that everyone goes home with a smile
- 14:13on their face. And luckily enough, right now
- 14:15the market is in a place where a lot of people are typically
- 14:19leaving with smiles and you're at least getting a little bit
- 14:21more of a positive response from the audience.
- 14:24So I'm sure it makes your job a little bit easier as an
- 14:27auctioneer to be able to have kind of a positive market to
- 14:30work in as well. It definitely does and there'll
- 14:33be a day, there will be a day where things will change and you
- 14:37got to be prepared. You cherish these good days
- 14:40because everybody, almost everybody in the business has
- 14:42made some money in the last couple of terms here.
- 14:45And they'll be a day where where it won't be so rosy.
- 14:47And I've been, I've been in it long enough to to know those
- 14:50days. And, you know, you just, you
- 14:53buckle down and you work as hard as you can and you and you do
- 14:56business. And sometimes they don't like
- 14:58the outcome of it, but it is, it's all part of the business.
- 15:01And you got to be there to celebrate the good times and you
- 15:03got to be there to help coach them through the tough times,
- 15:06you know. Yeah, that's just that is just
- 15:08it. I mean you're in a people
- 15:09business with these guys and and you're not a partner in it,
- 15:12you're an advisor and a marketer is what you are.
- 15:15Yeah, absolutely. Can you talk a little bit more
- 15:18about how you as an auctioneer face a little bit more of those
- 15:23difficult times? I think that it can probably be
- 15:25really easy to be in your position during a positive turn
- 15:29on the market when things are going great.
- 15:31But when things aren't going the best and you're having to pull a
- 15:34little bit more out of people in the audience and things like
- 15:36that, it can be pretty challenging for you.
- 15:38And so when you're talking to just producers, but then also
- 15:41other auctioneers, how do you kind of navigate those times in
- 15:45life? Oh man, that's a good question.
- 15:47You just try to be really straightforward and genuine with
- 15:50everybody and boy, everybody looks like a genius.
- 15:53When you sell first calf F repairs for 6200 or whatever,
- 15:56you sell them for a coal bowl last week for 268 a pound.
- 16:00You look like you're brilliant. You know, I've been there too,
- 16:03you know, in October and we're selling coal cows for $0.32, you
- 16:07know, and then guys are sick or, or it's the weather's coming in
- 16:11and, and they bring you a set of ball and cabs that has had no
- 16:14shots and they, they're not very happy with how the cattle set.
- 16:17But usually if they consult with me, at least we kind of know
- 16:21everybody's expectations going in.
- 16:23We can't control if the board's down $8 on a Friday.
- 16:26We can't control that. But what we can do is make sure
- 16:31that we're doing the things that we can to help sell the cattle.
- 16:35And, and I guess that's, I guess that's it.
- 16:37I mean, usually my experience has been when guys are really
- 16:40disappointed that they either didn't heed my advice or, or
- 16:46the, the board, just the board or the conditions have just been
- 16:50against them. And sometimes that happens.
- 16:51I sold 2 loads of home race tears on a day that the board
- 16:54was down $8. You know, this last year I'm
- 16:58still happy with how they sold. We got along fine, but you know,
- 17:01gosh, it can cost you 15 to $30,000 in one day just in a
- 17:05board swing. So, and that's just part of the
- 17:08business too. It's a risky business.
- 17:09Yeah, a lot of people say cattlemen are the professional
- 17:13gamblers of the world and you know, we we really are because
- 17:17of just the risk that we take in this business and things like
- 17:20that. But going back to your story a
- 17:22little bit, Andrew, you got your start in the auction business in
- 17:26your 20s. And so when you're talking to,
- 17:29we have quite a bit of listeners to this show that are maybe in
- 17:32their mid 20s or they're just getting kind of started in life
- 17:36and they're maybe trying to figure out their place in the
- 17:40world and their place in agriculture.
- 17:42And they're like, hey, I know I want to run cattle, but I
- 17:45watched dad run cattle. And maybe that's not the only
- 17:48thing I want to be doing with my life, right.
- 17:50And So what is your kind of advice or just take on that as
- 17:54someone who started that didn't really have the bug bite them at
- 17:57three years old in the auction house or things like that.
- 18:01And you kind of looked at it from more of a strategic mindset
- 18:03of, you know, I think I could enjoy this and it allows me to
- 18:07be a cattle producer. So on the cattle producing side,
- 18:10I mean, I think right now that there's going to be some
- 18:12opportunities moving forward for young people within this
- 18:15business. I mean, you know, the the prices
- 18:18are really good right now, but we have a aging cattlemen or
- 18:22cattle woman within our nation that there's going to need to be
- 18:26some young people come back and run these cat, you know.
- 18:28So I think there's going to be opportunities there.
- 18:30I think whether it's in the auction business or the cattle
- 18:34business, number one, you're going to be pretty thick
- 18:36skinned. You're going to have to be able
- 18:37to work your way up from the bottom.
- 18:39I don't know any other way other than that is you're going to
- 18:42have to be persistent, thick skin and work and not be afraid
- 18:44to work. You know, when you start out in
- 18:47the auction business, a lot of people joke around, you know, I
- 18:50started out probably selling broken handled hammers and
- 18:53personal property, you know, pots and pans and whatnot.
- 18:56And that's not glamorous work. But you don't get to step
- 18:59usually you don't get to just sit down behind the mic and sell
- 19:01pot loads of feeder cattle or, or a, or a bull sale that
- 19:05averages 10,000 or whatever it is that you should got to work
- 19:09your way up from the bottom and, and figure out how to get in,
- 19:12You know, and if it, if it's in a, an auction market, it might
- 19:15be starting out cleaning pens. It might be out sorting cattle
- 19:19or pinning back cattle and, and, and trying to figure out how to
- 19:22work your way up to that block and behind that microphone, you
- 19:26know, and it's same way in the cattle business, man, It takes a
- 19:29lot of money to get in right now.
- 19:31But I think if a young person is willing to do it, there's a,
- 19:35there's a, there's an older generation that needs
- 19:37assistance. And I think if, if you identify
- 19:41a producer or go to work for someone that over the next 10
- 19:46years doesn't have a succession plan, there's probably an
- 19:48opportunity there. But you also have to prove
- 19:50yourself that you're willing to, to do the work.
- 19:54And that's one thing I guess I worry about.
- 19:56I mean, I've got three boys and the, the most important thing we
- 20:01raise on our operation is those three boys.
- 20:04It's not the cattle that we raise, It's not the crops that
- 20:06we raise. It's to raise those boys that
- 20:08they know how to work, that they've got a great work ethic,
- 20:11that they know how to treat people.
- 20:13And, and whether they want to come back here in farm and ranch
- 20:15someday is fine. But I hope that they are
- 20:17positive contributors to society.
- 20:20In some way, you know, and, and that's what that's my biggest
- 20:23fear when you see some of these young auctioneers today.
- 20:26And, and maybe I was that way too, I don't know.
- 20:29But a lot of guys want to start behind the microphone and get to
- 20:33sell stuff. And, and it doesn't always work
- 20:35that way. It's not an easy business to get
- 20:37into my, in my mid 40s and, and I've, I've finally gotten to
- 20:41where it's a full time gig. Some guys I think you know at
- 20:45auction school there's 20-30 guys and gals in my class.
- 20:50I don't know that four or five of them are still in the auction
- 20:53business. And so it's not an easy 1 to get
- 20:55into. And the cattle, the cattle
- 20:56business is the same way, but got to be persistent.
- 20:59You got to be able to work and you got to be thick skin too
- 21:02because it isn't easy. That is not the truth right
- 21:06there. It is not easy no matter what
- 21:08you choose to do. And Andrew, it cracks me up
- 21:10because you chose to do 2 very not easy things with your life.
- 21:16You. Don't just pick one easy thing.
- 21:19I don't, I don't, we don't, I don't golf and I don't go to the
- 21:22lake on the weekends and I don't want to either.
- 21:25So I guess, I guess I'm happy doing what I'm doing, but I work
- 21:28a lot of sales on the weekends and, and, and we catch up on a
- 21:32lot of stuff on Sundays. I, I don't like to work on
- 21:34Sunday. I think we need a day of rest.
- 21:36But there's times that we, we just have to, you know, so we're
- 21:40getting ready for grass season right now and we got several 100
- 21:43yearlings that we're going to turn out in the next couple of
- 21:45weeks here and cows and calves to get the grass and we're going
- 21:48to put in some time here. So it's that time of the year.
- 21:52It is, it is a busy time of year for everyone right now.
- 21:55And I think especially it's so nice to be able to be living in
- 21:58the Flint Hills at this point in time.
- 22:00I feel so lucky to be able to because everything just got
- 22:03burned. And give it one more week and
- 22:05everyone's going to start setting out to grass.
- 22:07And it's my favorite time of year around here.
- 22:11It's the best, it is the best day of the year when you get to
- 22:14turn those yearlings or those pairs out on the grass and it's
- 22:18a relief to get them through the winter and and all cabbed out
- 22:21and all backed up and get them turned out on the grass and
- 22:24watch them explode. At least that's the plan.
- 22:26Yes, for sure. Well, Andrew, this has been so
- 22:29fun to talk with you today and to just hear a little bit more
- 22:32about your story and how you got started in this business and
- 22:35what it looks like for you now as we start to wrap up this
- 22:38podcast. Is there anything else that you
- 22:40would like to say or leave with our audience members today?
- 22:43No, I'm really looking forward to being at the King of the
- 22:46ring. It'll be my first time to be
- 22:47there And, and gosh, when I first entered, I think there
- 22:50were six guys in there and then and then they added some legends
- 22:54within the deal. It's going to be a fun contest.
- 22:57I'm looking forward to it just like any other contest I go to
- 23:01these days. I'm looking forward to building
- 23:02those relationships and having a good time and meeting some of
- 23:05the guys that man, I would watch from a distance and said, this
- 23:09is who I want to be like. So, you know, I mean there's
- 23:11several guys in the competition there that I know and some that
- 23:15I don't know that I'm really looking forward to having the
- 23:18opportunity to to meet and build relationships.
- 23:21With absolutely we cannot wait to have you as a contestant and
- 23:25to all of our listeners out there.
- 23:26If you want to watch Andrew sell and compete and do all of the
- 23:30things, make sure you check out the show notes down below and
- 23:33I'm going to have the links down there for all of the information
- 23:36for the King of the Ring contest.
- 23:37It will be live streamed and so you can TuneIn from wherever you
- 23:40are and watch Andrew or any of the other legends that we we are
- 23:44going to be having in the contest.
- 23:47And Andrew, I know you're on your way to being one of those
- 23:49in the future as well. I, I can't thank you enough for
- 23:52coming on and sharing your story today and coming on to just talk
- 23:56with us today. We really appreciate it here at
- 23:58the team. To all of you listeners out
- 24:00there, thank you so much for listening to another episode of
- 24:02the Cattle USA Daily podcast. We will see you all next time.
- 24:06Have a good one y'all. Thank you.