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106: World Champion Wade Leist: Competitive Auctioneering Built His Skills But Relationships Built His Career · CattleUSA Daily

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Welcome back to another episode of the Kettle USA Daily podcast.
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Happy Monday everyone. Today we are welcoming our third
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King of the Ring guest on to the podcast.
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Wade Lest is joining us from Northern Michigan and we are so
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excited to have him on and share a little bit more about his
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story. And we get kind of philosophical
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during the podcast as well. And towards the end, after Wade
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shares a little bit about his story, we just talk about the
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auction industry and relationship building and
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everything else that kind of goes along with that.
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So without further ado, I'm going to stop yapping and let's
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go ahead and get into this episode with Wade.
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Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast, your go to source for
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the latest livestock markets, industry insights and the update
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shaping agriculture today. I'm your host, Lauren Moylan, a
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passionate advocate for agriculture here to keep you
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informed and connected. Now let's dive into today's
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episode. Wade, welcome to the podcast.
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We are so excited to have you on as our third King of the Ring
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guest on to the podcast. I would love it if you could
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just take it away, share a little bit more about yourself,
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your story, all the things. Yeah, very good.
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Well, it's a pleasure to be on Lauren and get to, I get to
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watch some of your earlier episodes and looking forward to
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hearing from the rest of the guys.
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I live in Northern Michigan. That's where I'm at right now.
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And we most beautiful time of year up here summertime.
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And I'm actually going to head over to my dad's sail here in a
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little bit and help them where I can.
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I grew up in the auction industry.
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I grew up in a sail barn for the most part.
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My parents, my grandfather would take cattle to a sail a couple
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hours South of us. And those are some of my first
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memories, playing next to the train track and moving baby
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calves and that kind of stuff. I didn't really understand what
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the industry was, but I just knew that every Wednesday went
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to a sale and my dad worked the ring there for a long time and
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then started selling. He was their main auctioneer for
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a long time. And then he moved on and bought
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his own market. He sold at 3 markets at one time
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and then he bought his own market.
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And I was, I think maybe I was like in college or halfway
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through college or something when he bought that and, and
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would help him in the summer and then and then after college
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worked at the farm and worked at the market and end up going to
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auction school and just kind of fell into it.
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It's not if my parents, my grandparents hadn't been in this
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industry, I probably wouldn't sure.
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I never would have got into it. Yeah, I I love seeing how
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people's childhoods kind of shape them because it's one of
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those things, you think about it every once in a while, you're
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like, I would not be where I am today if that didn't happen or
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if my parents weren't in this or all of the things like that.
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Share a little bit more about what it was like to grow up in
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the industry and then now it continued to just be part of
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your life. It was for a long time.
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So I would work on the farm with my grandpa and that was from
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like I remember being in college and you know, that was the
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Monday through Saturday thing. He's just worked on the farm and
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I'd play some sports in the evening or you know, wasn't,
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didn't have a lot of time to go to the beach or anything.
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But the sale was a big thing for me because it was on Wednesday.
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So it split my week up and I always look forward to it.
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I would take like a truck and a trailer and we had, I had a
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route that I would go pick up cold cows or fat cattle or baby
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calves, feeder cattle and take to the sale.
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And it broke my week up. So Wednesday morning we'd meet
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at the farm, we'd go over kind of the route for the day who had
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to pick up what you'd go on that route, take it to the sale,
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might have to go back for another load, but otherwise stay
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at the sale and then start sorting cattle pen and cattle
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tag and cattle waiting for the sale to start.
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And then my job was to load the scales for a long time.
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Then I started work in the ring and, and after I went to auction
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school, my parents would let me sell a few baby calves and let
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me sell a few Wake House kind of at the end, like after, you
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know, the last 10 cows that come through and they're kind of
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shaky and everybody's pretty well gone, they'd let me sell
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those. So that, that was how I got a
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kind of acclimated to the livestock marketing industry was
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it was kind of my, you know, it cut my week in half.
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And so I always look forward to it because Monday, Tuesday and
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then Wednesday came a Wednesday was really fast and move along
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quickly. And then it made the rest of the
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week shorter. Yeah, no, that I love that
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that's how a lot of people kind of grew up in the industry,
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right. Like whether you were a kid that
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was going because your parents were on the auction block or
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whether you were getting pulled out of school early because hey,
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it's a Thursday and we got to go to the markets and I'm not going
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to be home when you get off the school bus.
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So you're getting picked up early type of situation.
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And it's crazy how sale barns kind of shape a lot of our
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childhoods in the ag industry, especially just like the
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production side of the cattle industry, and how that has kind
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of shaped you into the person that you are today.
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Share a little bit more about your auction auctioneering
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journey. It was something that was
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obviously instilled in you from a very young age.
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And then you went to auction school.
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What of the beginning years of your career kind of looks like?
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Man, I I did it because I thought it would be a nice way
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to earn a little extra money. Like my brother was going to
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start working for my dad doing some estate auctions.
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I had, I had tried to, you know, develop a chant, but only to the
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extent of what I thought it sounded like.
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So I would, I would try for 5 minutes be like, I guess I can't
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do it. And that would be it.
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And then my brother told me that you can develop a chant and just
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start slow and you can develop 1.
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And I thought, OK, well, maybe I can do that because I'm broke
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and it would really help to have an extra few 100 bucks every
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month, you know, you know, helping at an auction or
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something and, and selling is way easier than holding up stuff
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and help people load, fold out couches and stuff like that.
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So I thought, yeah, this this would be a nice way to learn a
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little extra money. And then there was some, there
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was some local charities for like a banquet, I guess you call
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it like, you know, Wild Turkey Federation or the Ducks
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Association, whatever they are, you can do some of those and
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earn a little extra cash on the side.
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So that's how that's how I kind of got started and selling
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livestock. We had my dad clearly was an
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established auctioneer, sold his own sale.
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He had a guy that came up out of the Thumb area in Michigan and
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some customers kind of followed him and he had been there for
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100 years. So he wasn't going anywhere.
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And it just, it didn't really, it looked like maybe a path for
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me, at least not any, anything that was going to be coming up
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anytime soon. But they gave me a chance to let
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me sell a few and, and eventually that guy retired and,
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and then, you know, you'd sell a few more.
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And then I started getting into these contests.
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I started going to my first contest was a greater Midwest
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contest. I I heard about it from a friend
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of mine and, and he said it was, you know, you're around some
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guys that are really good and we only sell a handful every other
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week or something like that. You know, when, when I was
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there. So I thought, yeah, this would
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be, this would be a good experience.
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So I went and tried that. And then I end up getting in the
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WLAC later that fall and was able to make the cut and went to
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the 15 World Championships. And I kind of got hooked in the
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competitive side, not because I'm like super competitive, but
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because I just enjoyed the people I was around and I
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enjoyed being kind of measured against them, you know, seeing
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where you stack up amongst the industry.
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And as luck would have it, after one of the contest that was an
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18, I got a call from a gentleman who owned the
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stockyards in South Dakota. And he asked if he said his
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auctioneer was having some voice trouble.
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And he said I could sell, but I don't sell it much anymore.
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I'd rather kind of run the block and looking for somebody to come
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and, and work here. And so I went out and try it out
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and we got along pretty good. And I end up working there and I
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don't go there every week, but for a decent portion of the
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year, I go out there and that opened up a ton of doors.
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You know, next thing I was selling and Ellie Mitchell, but
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Harriet and Aberdeen. And I mean, once you kind of get
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in some of those markets, you can, you can open the door to a
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bunch of other ones. So that was, that's kind of how
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my my path went. It's maybe not typical, but you
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know, we're talking about how people grow up in the stock
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here. It's like going to all these
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different markets. I see the same story, like kind
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of playing out across the board when I go to Harriet, the, the
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Feldheim family, their boy Grady, you know, in Harriet,
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South Dakota, Like, you know, there's there's a bar restaurant
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and then there's a school and then there's a stockyard.
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Like there's not a whole lot else.
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And I'll be up there working on a Friday and there's Grady, like
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coming in from the back and Kent's like, hey, where'd you
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come from? He's like, why?
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Told him, you know, we had a big sale and I probably should leave
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early and come help here. He's like, you need to go back
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to school. He's like, yeah, but we got all
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these cattle to sort. He's like, well, OK, I'm glad
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you're here. Go sort the cattle.
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But you know, you really can't be leaving school early.
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Your mom's going to kill us. So we see that play out across
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the country. It's really fun to to watch, you
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know, when you when you love this industry and when you enjoy
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doing, doing that kind of stuff, you get hooked.
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You get hooked in that sail bar and it's hard to it's hard to
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leave. It's hard to want to do anything
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else. Yeah, I love that story.
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That's so fun. And it goes back to kind of like
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another part of what you discussed was when you got into
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the competitive side, you were around a bunch of other people
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that thought the same way that you did, were pushing and
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striving for more and they were competitive, but in a good way.
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And you were just, you're meeting more people in the
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industry. And I think that that is 1
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aspect that the competitive side can be so great for because like
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you said, in some places, it's a school, a Bar and Grill and sale
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barn. And that's about all you got for
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a lot of miles, especially in these rural communities.
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And so it's cool to see some people look at that and say,
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hey, I've got an opportunity to get out of my rural community
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and push myself to be a better auctioneer, a better industry
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person for just the livestock industry as a whole and get out
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of my comfort zone. And I definitely see that as an
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aspect of the you kind of took as well.
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They really helped me coming back to our area after I go to a
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contest. You know, the first contest I
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went to was in Fargo, ND for the Great Midwest.
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And I came back and I just, I just sat up a little straighter.
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And the second contest I went to where they said I was good
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enough to go to the world contest as.
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And I think they're wrong, but I'm, I'm going to go and I'm
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going to give it all I got. And then I went to a couple
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other qualifiers And, and when you get your score sheet back,
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you start looking at areas that you did well and you start
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looking at areas where you didn't do well.
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And you have to take some of it with a grain of salt, but you
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also have to look at it and say, like, you know what, maybe
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they're right on that. Maybe, maybe I thought I did a
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pretty good introduction, but let me go back and look at that
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again and go back and look and say, yeah, they're probably
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right on that. I could have done a little
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better. And then I would go to the sale
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yard or my dad's stockyard and I would work on that.
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You know, I would, I would sit up and, and when we're getting
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ready to start to sail, I'd make a little introduction.
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And if somebody's cattle were coming, coming in that I knew
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pretty well, like I'd sit up and, and, and square my
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shoulders up and, and talk directly into the microphone and
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make eye contact with those folks and tell them how much we
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appreciated their cattle. And it's not that I did that to
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gain points. It's just that I, I, I realize
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it's important and so I did a better job doing it.
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And those, the producers that mean so much to our our
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industry, they felt better about it.
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And so there's just this connection.
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I was like, yeah, you know what, the score sheet, like working on
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these things really helps me in a contest, but it also really
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allows me to say the things that I care about anyway.
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So why would I not be doing that?
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I'm like, I've been missing this for, you know, so long.
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Like, why don't, why don't I do that?
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And then you look around and I'm thinking, man, I go to other
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sales and they don't do that there either.
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Like we're, our industry is kind of missing out on some of the
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stuff like that personal connection.
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And, and I think, I think contests help us do that.
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I, I think they really make us focus on that stuff, which in
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turn makes us better at our job, which in turn makes it easier
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for people to sell cattle in a stockyard setting, in a fixed
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market setting. Like all those things really
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come together and contests are what really accentuate that.
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So I'm grateful for the opportunity that I've had going
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through contests and, and I, I certainly wouldn't, you know, I
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wouldn't be doing some of the stuff I'm doing now if I hadn't
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started going to them can. You share a little bit more
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about, you touched on just the relationship between the person
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on the auction block and the producers in the audience and
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how important that is and how it probably shouldn't be
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overlooked. And you made a really great
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point about it just makes you better as an industry
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representative, which then I think if you're building
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relationships in the industry, you're representing the industry
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better and you really have the your finger on the pulse of
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what's going on on and all of those things.
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Can you share a little bit more about your thoughts on just
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relationships within the industry?
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I don't have to. You just said it all, like you
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like you, just you just put it all out there like that's what
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it is like. You have a better pulse.
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There is no better feeling than having a producer walk up to you
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after the sale. Stay late, wait till you're
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done, walk up to you, shake your hand, look in the eye and say
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thank you. You said some nice things about
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what we do and we appreciate it. I just had it last week.
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I was doing a video sale and one of the producers was in the in
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the building. And I've known this guy for a
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long, long time, known his family forever.
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And he come up and he said, man, thanks, thanks for saying that.
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That meant a lot. And nothing feels better than
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that, right? And if a producer comes up to
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you and says, hey, I'm going to I'm going to sell next week, we
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make sure that you're up on the block with my cattle are up
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there. That's not disparaging any other
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auctioneer, that's just saying like, I like the trust that they
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have in me to do that. Like I like that.
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And it doesn't mean that they don't trust anybody else.
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Heck, there's a lot of times, especially in Mitchell, like the
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other guy, just to give that better.
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He's so good at his job. And so to have somebody come up
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and say 1 minor sound, I'd appreciate it if you're up
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there, if you can. You know, they, they understand
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that sometimes the schedule doesn't allow, but that just
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means so much. And when you, when you can
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create that connection, not create it, but when you, when
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you understand that it's there and when you take, take full
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advantage of it, think it, I think it's an incredible part of
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our industry. And there's lots of ways to
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market cattle. You know, you can, you can sell
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in a video, you can sell them direct, you can take them to a
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stock yards. You know, you can put them on
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social media if you want to and, and, and have people come kick
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your tires. But at the end of the day, we
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need to make it easier. We need to do everything we can
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to make it easier for them to want to come to the sale yard.
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Actually, in our area, it used to be that they were just taking
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part of their day off from the farm and they were coming to the
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sale. And now in our area, it's really
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not that. Maybe it is, maybe it's like
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this everywhere, but I just noticed it a lot more here that
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that guy that had 100 cows, he's now got 40 and he went to town
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and, and he got a job and just about everybody in his family's
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working and there's a lot of other obligations.
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And so they have to take time off of work and they have to
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take time out of their schedule to not just come to the sale,
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but sort the cattle, haul the cattle, come to the sale and go
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back home. And you know, it takes us to an
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extreme amount of time. And then if if they're doing
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like the protocols that that we want them to like vaccinating
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and weaning the cattle, now you're adding like extra days
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onto this thing, you're adding this extra work.
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And we're promoting that, trying to help them, trying to help
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their bottom line. But sometimes what they have to
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do and sacrifice to get all that done.
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Sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze to them.
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They're like, I'd rather take 30 bucks less if I don't have to
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take all that time to do that. And here we are pounding on the,
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you know, the trying to get them more money.
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And sometimes that's not what they want.
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So when we have that connection with them and we, we appreciate
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more and we, we talked about it from the MIC like, hey, I
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appreciate the fact that these cattle are weaned for 60 days.
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That takes a lot. I appreciate the fact he's got
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200 head and they're all within a pretty short window.
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I appreciate the fact that he goes and spends a lot of money
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on bulls. And I appreciate the fact that
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the whole family's working at this operation when they hear
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something like that and there's that connection, it makes it
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easier for them to trust this fixed market, this live auction
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setting. It makes it easier for them to
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trust that and it makes them want to come there.
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And I think that's so important for our industry.
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So you probably said it better than I didn't know in a lot less
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words. But the the connection that we
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build when we do those things, I think is it's irreplaceable.
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Get that. They don't get that anywhere
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else. Yeah, it's something that can't
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be overlooked within our industry.
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It's something that is feels so mundane, right?
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It's, it feels like one of those things that we shouldn't have to
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focus on or that it doesn't really matter, but it's one of
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those things that is a building block of it really matters.
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It's the foundation of a lot of these businesses.
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And I was just thinking when you were sharing that story, I was
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just thinking about how my family, we drive an hour and a
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half. My entire life, we have driven
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an hour and a half to our sail barn that we sell out here in
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Manhattan because of the relationships that we have with
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the people here. And we have an opportunity in
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Northeast Kansas. We've got sail barns left and
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right. Let me tell you, they're all
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over the place. So we have an opportunity to go
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to a lot of places, but we choose to drive an hour and a
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half, two hours every Friday. When we're selling to go sell at
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this sale barn, it's because of the relationships that my family
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has built there. And then also, I went and joined
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my dad whenever he comes to Manhattan, I live here now.
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So whenever he comes to the sale barn, we always try to go get
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lunch. I'll go pick him up and we'll go
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to some of my favorite spots here in town and go grab lunch
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while cattle are selling. And I walked in the other day,
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he doesn't have any service in the sale barn.
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And so I just showed up at like 1 PMI was like, OK, I'm done
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with my meetings. I know he's not going to answer.
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I'm just going to show up. I show up and I walk in there
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and it's crazy to see. I don't spend much time in the
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sale barn anymore as an adult as I used to as a kid.
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And the amount of people a in there, the amount of people in
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there has gone down drastically. And then I sat next to my dad
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and I was like, hey, I'm hungry. Can we go eat?
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And he's like, my cattle haven't sold yet.
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Like I'm going to, I'm going to sit here and I'm going to watch
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my cattle sell. And I was like, dad, it's not
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going to change. Like they're, they're kill cows.
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You're not going to bring them home.
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Why do you need to watch them sell?
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It's like, it's not like you're going to buy them back.
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They're they're, you're getting rid of them.
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They're they're kill cows like they're going on the truck one
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way or another. And he's like, no, it's the
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principle of it. Like it's the principle of
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watching your cattle sell and listening to you talk that just
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made me really think about that conversation of, you know what,
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that's something that's maybe been lost a little bit in the
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recent years and. Something I think it gets
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overlooked, yeah. Yeah.
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And it, and it's, it's something that sets us apart from the
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other ways to market cattle. You know, that's what sets us
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apart. So like, let's, let's take full
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advantage of it. And you know, your dad sitting
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there watching his cow sell in theory doesn't have any, any
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value on what they're going to bring.
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It doesn't make him bring more or less.
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If he's sitting there right, like he does, he's not going to
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have an impact on the bringing more because he's not going to
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be bidding on them or like you said, buying them back or taking
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them home. Like just come back.
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We'll get to check later. Big deal, right?
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Well, it, it actually, I can't quantify it, but it happens all
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the time when somebody sits there and they have the
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principal of it and they're proud of their cattle and they
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sit there and watch him sell it from the block.
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You say Mr. Moylan is, is here watching his cattle sell.
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He's sitting right over there. Guys.
18:37
He does a nice job. He's brought 10 cows to town.
18:39
I, I think he was just getting ready to kick these things out
18:42
to grass, maybe split some, maybe split the calves off and
18:45
sold them this morning here the cows are.
18:46
He sits up a little taller and about every time the buyer will
18:49
kind of look over and nod their head at them and sure enough,
18:52
they'll give just a little bit more.
18:53
You know, when, when somebody's, when somebody's taken the time
18:56
to be there and watch your kettle selling and taking pride
18:58
in what they do, they're, they're a little more apt to
19:00
make sure they're the last person.
19:02
Believe it or not, the buyer actually kind of likes it when
19:04
that guy comes down after the sales to say thank you.
19:06
Pat's him on his shoulder and walks out.
19:08
You know, they, they remember that too.
19:10
So that that relationship that that we have not only from the
19:14
block, but from from the producer on our side.
19:16
One of the this is maybe off topic a little bit, probably not
19:20
too much off topic, but it's been something I think about a
19:23
lot. So this past year or this past
19:25
month, I did the interviews for the current World Livestock
19:28
Championship or Auctioneer Championship.
19:31
And over the years and then I, I really seen it this year, not as
19:35
maybe not as much, but it stuck out a little bit more.
19:37
But over the years I've heard in, in the answers that
19:41
auctioneer contestants give, I hear them say, we've got to get
19:44
these producers to do this. We got to make our producers
19:47
understand this. And I'm always thinking about it
19:50
like our producers are pretty smart.
19:53
Like I don't think, I don't think we we need or we got to
19:56
make them do anything. And, and I don't like referring
19:59
to them as like these producers, like they're our friends,
20:02
they're our neighbors and they're the lifeblood of what we
20:04
do. So it's just a matter of
20:05
verbiage. But I you know what?
20:07
I've been making a conscious effort to not use those words
20:11
when I talk about the people who send their trust us to market
20:14
their cattle. Like just just like we talked
20:15
about a little bit ago, like hey, that.
20:18
They might be willing to accept $30 a hundred less if their
20:20
cattle aren't weaned because they don't have, they don't have
20:23
to have another pen. They don't have to sort the
20:25
cattle, you know, 60 days before they come to town.
20:28
They don't have to feed them separate.
20:29
They don't have to. They don't have to do some of
20:32
those things that they can't do when they have a job outside of
20:34
the farm. And it's not up to us to make
20:37
them understand anything. It's up to us to market them the
20:40
best way that we can based on what their operation allows them
20:43
to do. Yeah.
20:44
That's so well put, So well put. Wade, as we close out the
20:48
podcast, are there any other final thoughts that you would
20:51
like to leave with our audience as we kind of start to wrap up?
20:54
Well, I'm excited to be in Dodge City.
20:56
I've wanted to come to this contest for quite a while and it
21:00
just never seemed to quite work out in my schedule.
21:02
But I enjoy the competitive part of I enjoy being around my
21:05
friends. I enjoy and I like and this
21:07
contest that it's just about how you market cattle.
21:10
Just sit down, pin your ears back, sell these cattle, sell
21:12
the cattle to the to the best of your ability and see where the
21:14
chips fall. There's going to be, I think
21:16
there's eight guys in this contest.
21:18
Every one of them is the best in their field.
21:22
It's going to be an incredible showing.
21:24
But I love the fact that it takes part with this cattle
21:27
marketing Hall of Fame presentation.
21:30
And that's the thing that I'm like, it's going to be hard for
21:33
me to get here at this time, this time or when am I going to
21:35
be showing up and kind of work on my flights And I'm like, I'll
21:39
miss golf. I'll miss like, you know, being
21:41
out with the friends. I'm not going to miss this Hall
21:42
of Fame thing, the Shaben Shaben families being honored.
21:46
I don't remember who all is going.
21:47
I think who's the guy from Lahana Cantville, John Cantville
21:51
is going in. I don't know the gentleman, but
21:53
I I love watching his. I love watching the stuff he
21:56
puts on Facebook is Facebook lives or his his commentary that
21:59
he does this stuff cracks me up. So I'm really looking forward to
22:02
that part. I think it's, it's so cool that
22:05
the, the winter family, I, I don't know if it's just the
22:07
winter family that does all this, but the fact that they
22:11
recognize so the country, the lifelong contributions of some
22:14
people and what it has meant to our industry moving forward.
22:18
I think it's incredibly special. And I'm so excited to, to be
22:21
there for that at that night and then next day, you know, we're
22:24
going to all try to do what we do best to the best of our
22:26
ability and try to win some money.
22:28
It's going to be fun. It's going to make our, it's
22:30
going to make our industry look really cool.
22:31
So I'm excited for that. Yeah, absolutely.
22:34
We are excited to have you down there with us way just here in a
22:37
few weeks. It's going to be here before we
22:39
know it. Can't believe that it's already
22:40
July. We're already half over halfway
22:42
through the year and it's going to be here before we know it.
22:45
So thank you so much again for taking some time out of your day
22:49
to come on and share your thoughts and a little bit more
22:51
about your story and just leave some really great insight to all
22:55
of our listeners out there. So Wade, thank you for your
22:57
time. And to all of you listeners,
22:59
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