Latest / CattleUSA Daily / 257: Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Explained for Cattle Producers with Samantha Cozza-Wright
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- 0:00In today's episode of the Cattle USA Daily Podcast, Samantha
- 0:03Koza, right, is coming on and she is sharing about LRP.
- 0:07What is LRP? This is literally just a podcast
- 0:11where we are coming and we are laying that foundation to help
- 0:15you understand what LRP is, why we have it and the different
- 0:19options that you have for you and your ranch and your
- 0:22operation. Before we hop into today's
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- 0:37Now let's go ahead and hear from Samantha Kozurite.
- 0:43Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast, your go to source for
- 0:47the latest livestock markets, industry insights and the
- 0:50updates shaping agriculture today.
- 0:52I'm your host Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate for
- 0:55agriculture, here to keep you informed and connected.
- 0:58Now let's dive into today's episode.
- 1:04Samantha, welcome back to the podcast.
- 1:06I am excited to come on and just the two of us come on and talk
- 1:11today and chit chat about all of the things that you're doing and
- 1:16more of what your everyday is and that's insurance and LRP and
- 1:21what all of those things are. And just truly come here and
- 1:23educate and give everyone the rundown of what it is, what it
- 1:29isn't, kind of lay that foundation in that basis.
- 1:32And you are so educated on it that I'm excited to kind of sit
- 1:36back and hopefully learn something myself too.
- 1:39So thanks for coming on today. Absolutely.
- 1:42I'm really excited to get into this today because I think
- 1:45there's a lot of wrong information out there about
- 1:48LRPDI. Mean you search it online and
- 1:50some of the first things that pop up, I'm like, well, that's
- 1:52not right and that's not right. And a lot of people maybe
- 1:57started advertising it and selling it prematurely is so
- 2:00some of the information they were putting out wasn't
- 2:02completely accurate and then it looked less attractive to the
- 2:06customer people that were interested in it and rightfully
- 2:09so. So I'm just, I just want to
- 2:10clear some of that up, give a general rundown of what LRP is,
- 2:14how it works, and how you can utilize it and hopefully not
- 2:18over complicate it because LRP really is not a complicated
- 2:23thing. So let's just dive right into
- 2:26it. So really what is LRP?
- 2:28Just kind of starting off with the basics.
- 2:31LRP stands for Livestock Risk Protection, Essentially what it
- 2:35is, it's just a government subsidized put option.
- 2:38If you were to trade commodities, If you're not
- 2:41familiar with trading futures and options on the futures board
- 2:44and you don't really know what a put option is, just think of it
- 2:47as insurance. It's coverage in exchange for a
- 2:50premium. So really you just want to
- 2:53establish your bottom line, leave that topside open.
- 2:56And that's kind of how that works.
- 2:58So in the past, you know, I've had a lot of guys tell me, well,
- 3:01I missed my window to book on the highs.
- 3:03I missed that opportunity. We always encourage people, yes,
- 3:06you do want to protect on the rallies.
- 3:08We want you to get the best bang for your buck.
- 3:10But realistically speaking, I mean, it goes to show,
- 3:13especially the last couple months even we don't know where
- 3:16the high of the market is and we don't know where the bottom of
- 3:19the markets going to be either. So don't be afraid to pull the
- 3:22trigger when profit exists or at least to cover your bottom line
- 3:26and your break even point. That's the main goal of LRP and
- 3:30that's what it's designed to do. So protect your downside market
- 3:34risk, capture that upside, capture that higher market if
- 3:37things go higher. So if the market drops below
- 3:40your coverage price at your coverage end date, you're going
- 3:43to receive an indemnity, which a lot of people aren't very
- 3:47familiar with all of these, you know, insurance terms.
- 3:50And I think that's also very off putting.
- 3:52Indemnity would just be a payment, a payout from our
- 3:55approved insurance providers. So in a claim situation, your
- 3:59payout would be the difference between the coverage price that
- 4:02you booked at and the actual value multiplied by the way you
- 4:07covered them at, minus your premium cost.
- 4:10So pretty simple formula. It's just literally the
- 4:13difference between your coverage price and the market at your
- 4:16coverage end date. So if you get out to your
- 4:19coverage end date, the markets higher, just like any other
- 4:22insurance product, you pay that premium, you take advantage of
- 4:25the higher market, take advantage of that higher cash
- 4:28sale on your cattle. LRP doesn't force you into
- 4:31anything and I think that's a major attraction to LRP as well.
- 4:35So marketing windows are very, very flexible.
- 4:38The weight is also very flexible.
- 4:41A lot of people stress, well, you know what if I booked them
- 4:44at £700 and they had come in weighing 650 lbs, is that going
- 4:49to be an issue? It's not.
- 4:51You still receive the indemnity if you're in a claim situation.
- 4:55If they weighed 650, you booked at £700.
- 4:58Your coverage is not null and void.
- 5:00In that scenario. It would actually not be
- 5:03prorated. Wonder direction of the other
- 5:05unless you fell out of your weight class.
- 5:08So when I pull, when we pull up quotes and look at those a
- 5:10little bit later today, you'll understand that more LRP is
- 5:14based on a weight category basis.
- 5:18So we've got lightweight steers, heavyweight steers, lightweight
- 5:21heifers, heavyweight heifers and then unborn protection.
- 5:24So like take for example, heavyweight steers weighing 600
- 5:28to 1000 lbs. As long as you stay within that
- 5:31600 to 1000 LB range, you're golden.
- 5:34You fall out of £600 and you're back into, you know, 550 lbs,
- 5:39you're going to be prorated. You've you and they end up
- 5:42weighing, you know, 1200 lbs, you're going to be prorated the
- 5:46other direction. So it's about as long as you
- 5:48stay within that category, you're good.
- 5:51A common misconception about LRP is that it settles on your
- 5:56physical cash sale. It does not This protections
- 6:00completely separate from your cash sale.
- 6:02It just protects you from that down side market risk.
- 6:06So your cash sale and the cash price that you get for your
- 6:09cattle is irrelevant. So that being said, if you book
- 6:13feeder cattle, in this case feeder cattle can really mean a
- 6:17lot of different things to a lot of different people on the
- 6:19futures board. It means a yearling weighing 700
- 6:22to 900 lbs, right? So in this case, feeder cattle
- 6:25quotes just a general overview being steers heifers weighing
- 6:30100 to 1000 lbs LRP does not require you to market those
- 6:34cattle by your coverage end date.
- 6:36You can retain ownership if you choose and you can still receive
- 6:40that indemnity payment if you're if the market when you get out
- 6:44to your coverage end date is lower than your booking price.
- 6:47So just something to keep in mind.
- 6:50The only firm rule that has to keep you in compliance for
- 6:53eligibility requirements for that indemnity if you're due 1
- 6:57is that you cannot market your cattle more than 60 days prior
- 7:01to that coverage end date. So otherwise then you're if you
- 7:05did that your coverage would then it would be null and void.
- 7:08But there is a lot of flexibility with that.
- 7:11Now on fed cattle that works a little bit different.
- 7:15Fed cattle being fat sears and heifers 1000 to 600 lbs.
- 7:19There's still flexibility, but you do have to sell fats by the
- 7:22coverage end date in order to receive that, that payout in a
- 7:26claim situation. I don't know if that's just
- 7:28necessarily, you know, USDA stepping in to prevent these,
- 7:31these bigger carcass weights or, or what necessarily that is, but
- 7:34you do have to sell them to stay within eligibility requirements.
- 7:37You still have that 60 day window though, just like with
- 7:40feeder cattle, you have 60 days on either side of your coverage
- 7:43end date to sell them. Still be eligible for that
- 7:45indemnity. The only thing I like to tell
- 7:48people and to keep in mind with that is that when you're
- 7:51marketing them, you'd like you. Like I said, you don't have to
- 7:54do it on your exact coverage end date, but your policy will
- 7:57settle based off the actual ending value on the day of your
- 8:00coverage end date. So you booked feeder Sears on
- 8:03LRP quotes out to November 3rd, but you sell them a month early
- 8:07on October 3rd. That's fine, but your policy
- 8:10will settle based on the actual ending value of those cattle.
- 8:14Just one thing to keep in mind, a lot of people also ask how is
- 8:19actual inning value determined? For fat cattle, it's going to be
- 8:23the weighted average from the five area negotiated fed cattle
- 8:26trade. So that's available on the USDA,
- 8:30USDA website. For feeder cattle, it's going to
- 8:33settle off the CME Feeder Cattle Index, that being a seven day
- 8:37weighted average across the 12 major cattle producing States
- 8:41and that's available on cmegroup.com.
- 8:45We'll also post a little a little submit so you guys can
- 8:47kind of see what that looks like.
- 8:49And we also report that on our afternoon livestock commentary
- 8:52as well. So you can always get on that
- 8:54and view that and just have everything in one place.
- 8:56So some other highlights with LRP, there is no upfront, no
- 9:01upfront cost. This sort of helps with cash
- 9:03flow. Your premium doesn't come due
- 9:06until after your coverage and date and then you actually have
- 9:09a 30 day grace period to pay it after that.
- 9:11So thinking in comparison to futures, you have no brokers
- 9:15fees, no margin calls, the premium subsidized.
- 9:18So it typically runs about 25 to 30% cheaper than a put option.
- 9:22So it's very in comparison to other price protection options,
- 9:27it definitely is the cheaper route.
- 9:29Prior to COVID, I will say there was no subsidy.
- 9:32So it was less attractive. That's also where LRP kind of
- 9:35got that bad rap. But now it is subsidized, it's
- 9:39discounted by about 35 to 55% with those added subsidy levels.
- 9:44So if you are a beginning farmer and rancher, if you are a
- 9:48veteran farmer and rancher, there is programs that we have
- 9:51where you can qualify for an additional subsidy.
- 9:54On top of that, coverage levels range from 85 to 100% and the
- 9:59premiums cheaper for lower level coverage and then the premiums a
- 10:03little more expensive for your higher end coverage.
- 10:05Typically I don't recommend anything below 98% because that
- 10:10just puts you in a position where you're less likely for
- 10:14that claim situation. So yes, the premiums are a
- 10:17little scary at first on the higher end coverage at these
- 10:21levels. I mean at the levels that we're
- 10:22at, we're what, $20 off the highs?
- 10:25So keep that in mind, but also you want to keep in mind like
- 10:31any other insurance product, the higher the value, the more it's
- 10:34going to cost to protect it. So think of vehicle insurance.
- 10:37I mean, you'll pay substantially more in car insurance on $1000
- 10:42pickup then you're going to pay on a $4000 running around pickup
- 10:45that you use for the farm. So that's kind of something to
- 10:49keep in mind there. LRP is also booked on a per head
- 10:53basis. So that also adds to the
- 10:56flexibility that we kind of touched on earlier.
- 10:58Whereas trading futures and options, you're required to book
- 11:0240,000 LB contracts on fats and 50,000 LB contracts on feeders.
- 11:06So gives you a little more flexibility.
- 11:08A lot of producers just kind of want to try it out.
- 11:12So maybe they'll try it out. They have a 300 head cow calf
- 11:16operation, but they only want to book it on 20 head.
- 11:18So that is an option. Awesome, Awesome.
- 11:22You're doing such a good job at explaining all of this,
- 11:25Samantha, and making it as someone who didn't fully
- 11:29understand what LRP was until I started having conversations
- 11:33with you and Dan a year ago. Like I was one of those people
- 11:36that I heard LRP and I was like, yeah, no, we don't do that.
- 11:39We're not. We're not doing that because it
- 11:41did get a bad rap for so many years.
- 11:44And I think that this education piece of just explaining what it
- 11:48is, what it isn't really taking some of those preconceived
- 11:52notions like you had previously talked about when we first
- 11:55started to of hey, this is what you might see, but like this is
- 12:00this is how it actually is, is so helpful when we're having
- 12:03this conversation. Yes, absolutely.
- 12:05So just to give you guys a little bit more of a rundown,
- 12:09give you guys some of a just a step by step process of if
- 12:13you're interested in LRP, how to go about booking, go about
- 12:17getting an application in or just viewing those quotes,
- 12:20having something physically in front of you to be able to see
- 12:23kind of what you're looking at what you're getting into.
- 12:25So first thing you you want to do is get an application in
- 12:29prior to booking that what we call specific coverage
- 12:33endorsement and insurance Lehman's terms a policy.
- 12:35So even if you're just still thinking about it and maybe you
- 12:39don't want to book yet, maybe you're not ever going to use it,
- 12:43but at least it's there. If you do want to pull the
- 12:46trigger, just get that application and it's definitely
- 12:49worth it. You don't have the added time
- 12:51constraint. If you do want to pull the
- 12:53trigger on quotes, say we're it's a limit update and you're
- 12:56like, well yeah, I want to establish this and lock this in
- 12:59as my bottom line. So the application, I always
- 13:03compare it to crop insurance. Typically in crop insurance the
- 13:06application is the policy that's you booking a policy.
- 13:10This is not, this is just giving you the ability to book a policy
- 13:15when that time comes. So it doesn't tie you to
- 13:17anything. The app is just one time
- 13:19paperwork. It's essentially good for a
- 13:21lifetime so long as nothing on that application changes.
- 13:25So just requires some basic producer information.
- 13:27It's pretty simple process. I mean, you can just give us
- 13:30your information, whether it's over the phone, whether it's
- 13:32over a text. Our work numbers that we put out
- 13:36to the public are actually through a app that is encrypted.
- 13:40So everything super, super secure, we will refill a lot of
- 13:44that information out on the application for you already and
- 13:48then we'll just send it out to you via esign for signature and
- 13:53that's it. So pretty, pretty simple
- 13:55process. As far as the application, the E
- 13:58science super nice technology these days is super nice when it
- 14:01works because I mean I could be in Kansas, you could be in
- 14:04Wyoming and there is no issue. So once we get that, that's when
- 14:09you can submit that coverage endorsement.
- 14:12Typically the application takes about a day, day and a half
- 14:14processing time. But if you do want to book a
- 14:17coverage, you know, immediately following the application, you
- 14:21can do that. I just like to always make
- 14:23people aware that if for any reason, the you know, there's
- 14:26some some information that we have to fix on the application,
- 14:29whether it be a wrongly, you know, wrong Social Security
- 14:33number, whatever, then that policy will be void and you
- 14:37wouldn't be able to book on those days.
- 14:38Quotes, the likelihood of that slim, but we always just tell
- 14:41people get the application in right away so we can get it
- 14:44approved 1st and then we can get your policy booked.
- 14:46So something to keep in mind when we look into the booking
- 14:51process. These are where the quotes kind
- 14:53of come hand in hand that we talked about earlier.
- 14:56These are set every day by RMA. RMA stands for risk management
- 15:01agency, so they release a set of LRP quotes based off of the
- 15:06futures board from that day. These quotes are typically sent
- 15:10out every trading day and I mean if there's a holiday or anything
- 15:13like that and the boards close, they will not go out.
- 15:15But every trading day these are released.
- 15:17They are released on our afternoon livestock market
- 15:20commentary that we kind of talked about via e-mail.
- 15:22They're just going to be at the bottom of that commentary if you
- 15:25want to sign up for that. Lauren and I kind of talked
- 15:27about this. I think there is a place in the
- 15:30Cattle USA drive where you can sign up for that.
- 15:33If you are already signed up for the Cattle USA Drive e-mail
- 15:36blast. If not, you know you can shoot
- 15:38us an e-mail. I'm sure our information is
- 15:41available in the show notes below.
- 15:42However, you want to do that super easy process, just your
- 15:45name and your e-mail, it's all we need need and it's free.
- 15:48So can't beat that. But and the commentaries are
- 15:52also a great way to get some insight as well as far as what's
- 15:55happening in the market. So anyways, going back to
- 15:59quotes, RMA releases those quotes every day based on the
- 16:02future sport. Before I dive into this and you
- 16:05go look at futures today and see that quotes for, you know, a
- 16:09£400 steer don't line up with the feeder cattle futures.
- 16:13You also have to keep in mind the feeder cattle futures are
- 16:17based off 700 to 900 LB yearlings.
- 16:20So in order for RMA to value the price difference between
- 16:24yearlings, calves, heifers, whatever it is, it's done in
- 16:28percentages. And again, you'll kind of see
- 16:30this reflect on quotes. But for heavyweight steers,
- 16:34you're insuring 100% of the index, lightweight steers, 110%
- 16:38of the index heavyweight heifers, you're insuring 90% of
- 16:41the index lightweight heifers, 100% of the index.
- 16:44And unborn are going to be 100 and 5% of the index.
- 16:48So don't think that you have to memorize all these.
- 16:51I know it's a lot of information, that's why we're
- 16:53here as agents, but it's just something that you should be
- 16:57aware of. So there's not that discrepancy,
- 17:00but some. So for example, say you book a
- 17:03lightweight steer calf at £500, you're ensuring 110% of the
- 17:07index. So come time your coverage ends,
- 17:10you'd want to take the CME Feeder Cattle Index multiplied
- 17:13by 110% to know the actual ending value of those cattle and
- 17:19that's what your policy will settle against.
- 17:21So the common question that I get a lot is how does RMA set
- 17:28quotes on non contract months? Well it's usually a weighted
- 17:32average of the two surrounding months.
- 17:34So if you want to book in July and the coverage end dates
- 17:38closer to June, then prices weigh heavier on June and vice
- 17:43versa. So we get back on track with
- 17:46those RMA quotes. They're released at 4:30 every
- 17:49trading day based on futures. Those are available through once
- 17:54RMA releases those quotes until 8:25 AM the next morning.
- 17:58So that is the window that you of opportunity you have to book
- 18:02on those days quotes kind of seems like an odd time frame,
- 18:06but just think of it this way. I mean futures opens at 8:30,
- 18:10goes to 1:05 PM from then on until the next trading day and
- 18:15it reopens at 8:30. You have that window of
- 18:19opportunity to book on those days quotes.
- 18:21So coverage is also available from 85 to 100% coverage levels.
- 18:27So it is completely customizable.
- 18:30And then it also has a 35 to 55% subsidy level, higher subsidy
- 18:35for lower level coverage and then lower subsidy on higher
- 18:39level coverage. So less coverage, less premium,
- 18:42vice versa for the coverage endorsement, you'll decide the
- 18:47number of head, the target weight, the end date starting at
- 18:5113 weeks out and it goes clear up to 52 weeks out.
- 18:55So it's done in four week, four week increments and then you'll
- 18:59also decide coverage price and again coverage level.
- 19:02So on the quotes, you just want to keep in mind everything's
- 19:06done per hundredweight. Some people think it's done per
- 19:09head is done per hundredweight. So, and that is including the
- 19:12premium cost. So if you look at some of these
- 19:14premium costs and say you look at feeder steers, 600 to 1000
- 19:19lbs thirty weeks out, the producer premium from
- 19:22yesterday's quotes on 100% coverage level would be $14.13.
- 19:27Again, that's done per 100 weight, so you will have to
- 19:30convert that in a claim situation.
- 19:33And again, this is kind of getting, but just so you guys
- 19:37are aware of the process, again, we'll walk you through this.
- 19:39Amy and Kim in our office, they'll call you, they'll say,
- 19:42hey, this is what we need from you.
- 19:43It's super, super simple. Process may seem a little bit
- 19:46difficult at first, but it's just a matter of technicalities
- 19:49and it really isn't that difficult at all.
- 19:51So in a claim situation, you would sign a notice of loss form
- 19:56sent out for signature via e-mail by our office if you sold
- 20:00those cattle. Keep in mind, you know with
- 20:02feeder cattle, you don't have to sell them.
- 20:03So if you were to sell them, we'd need either a sales ticket
- 20:07or just some sort of documentation showing you as a
- 20:11seller. The purchaser, the date sold and
- 20:14the weight and the headcount of said livestock.
- 20:18So if you retain ownership of those cattle, you would again
- 20:22sign a notice of lost form and then you'd submit a document
- 20:25verifying ownership. So again, there's a lot of
- 20:28flexibility with this. There is a magnitude of things
- 20:32that qualify for this documentation.
- 20:34It could be so much as a sign and certified statement just
- 20:38stating that you covered the livestock and they weren't sold
- 20:41prior to 60 days prior to the coverage end date and that those
- 20:45livestock remarkable at the coverage end date followed by
- 20:48your signature and that's it. Another option is a livestock
- 20:52purchase agreement, so long as it shows the delivery or pick up
- 20:55date. You can also submit a bill of
- 20:58sale, financing and credit documents or some sort of third
- 21:01party verification. That could be so much as a vet
- 21:04or your feed supplier that maybe visited the ranch or saw those
- 21:09physical cattle, just confirming that those cattle exist.
- 21:12So then and then for unborns, you would have to submit some
- 21:15sort of proof of ownership as well for the cow.
- 21:17So that's the requirements there.
- 21:21You also have 60 days after the coverage end date to sign the
- 21:25notice of loss more form and submit the supporting documents.
- 21:29So a lot of grace period there as well.
- 21:32Again, just some technicalities. It's not anything super
- 21:36difficult. And like I said, that's what
- 21:39we're here for as agents. Take the burden off the Purdue.
- 21:42Lean on us for questions, lean on us for guidance.
- 21:45Like I said, it's not like you have to retain all this
- 21:47information at once. If anything, it's just super
- 21:50good to refer back to. Or if you have questions, feel
- 21:53free to reach out anytime. We are here all the time to help
- 21:57you with your questions. And we don't work on an 8 to 5,
- 22:00you know, regular work day. We are here all hours of the
- 22:03day. I mean, please don't call me at
- 22:044:00 in the morning, but other than that, we're good.
- 22:07So something to keep in mind. Yes.
- 22:10You were saying the hours earlier Samantha and I was like,
- 22:13so you don't work during the middle of the day then, right.
- 22:15That's how that works is you're submitting everything in the
- 22:19evenings. And you know what?
- 22:21As long as you're not waking up Samantha and her new baby at
- 22:244:00 in the morning, I think that you'll be pretty all right.
- 22:27Yeah, I probably already up anyways with him, honestly.
- 22:30So I guess shoot me a text, let's do it.
- 22:32We've booked coverage before at like 11:00 PM at night, so hey.
- 22:37You got to do what you got to do.
- 22:38And when you're booking coverage and like this is such a unique
- 22:42insurance coverage situation because it isn't just based off
- 22:46of like, hey, you bought a $50,000 pickup.
- 22:50This is your quote. You have six days to book it,
- 22:53yadda, yadda, yadda. No, this is changing every day
- 22:55based off of what the board is doing, what everything else, all
- 22:59the other factors because it is a commodity market.
- 23:01So everything that goes into that coverage and things like
- 23:04that. So it's a very unique situation,
- 23:06but it's also one of those things that I think a lot of us
- 23:09producers can look back and remember what it used to be like
- 23:14before we had this option and before we had something to back
- 23:18us up. And it was very debilitating to
- 23:21go to markets and not have any power there, not have any
- 23:26ability to be like, OK, well, I can go home and I can feed my
- 23:29family still. Like, hey, that wasn't great.
- 23:32I did have to submit a loss claim and do all of these
- 23:37things, but we're still good. And I think that that is the
- 23:41biggest thing that this is here for is Peace of Mind and the
- 23:45ability to sleep at night, even if Samantha isn't right now to
- 23:48help get you guys your coverage. All of those things that LRP is
- 23:52really here for. And it has its time and place, I
- 23:54think, in everyone's operation. But that's going to look
- 23:58uniquely different for each individual.
- 24:00And I think that's something that we're going to kind of talk
- 24:02about in the future a little bit more to Samantha, but yeah, it's
- 24:06really amazing. Perfectly said, adding some
- 24:09certainty into the uncertainty. Yes, awesome.
- 24:13O if you guys, like I said, if you guys have any questions,
- 24:16feel free to reach out to one of our agents like Lawrence.
- 24:19Probably about to say probably everything's in the show notes.
- 24:22So everything's right at your hands and we'd be happy to
- 24:25answer any questions, talk you through anything.
- 24:27And like, because like Lauren said, at the end of the day,
- 24:29every operations different, every operations going to
- 24:32utilize LRP in different ways. So yes, drop some questions down
- 24:37in the comments and let us know your thoughts and I can always
- 24:40get to them in the next podcast that we do regarding LRP or
- 24:44check out our social media pages as well.
- 24:45That's a great educational platform, sort of a landing
- 24:48page. It's kind of line everything out
- 24:50for you, line out LRP, see how it's utilized, see the programs
- 24:54that we offer, the added subsidies through BFR or veteran
- 24:58farmer and rancher, beginning farmer and rancher and all the
- 25:00things. So keep that in mind.
- 25:03Absolutely, Like Samantha said, everything is going to be down
- 25:06in those show notes for you guys to check out.
- 25:08And seriously, if you guys have questions or comments, whether
- 25:11they're positive or negative surrounding LRP, let us know
- 25:14because I think that we can have some real honest discourse and
- 25:17discussion around LRP. And it gives Samantha a great
- 25:21opportunity to see what producers are really thinking
- 25:23and saying out there as well. And her and her team can really
- 25:27sit back and be able to evaluate those questions and answer them,
- 25:30whether it be on this podcast or whether it be over the phone,
- 25:34through e-mail, any of those other contact ways that we have
- 25:36down below for you guys. So Samantha, thank you as always
- 25:40for coming on and just sharing your wealth of knowledge and
- 25:43insight and coming on and really saying like, hey, point blank
- 25:46period. This is this is LRP, this is
- 25:48what it is, this is what it isn't.
- 25:50And we really took a 30,000 foot view today, just using this as
- 25:53an opportunity to explain the foundation of this.
- 25:57And so I'm really excited in the future episodes that we're going
- 26:00to be able to do over this to get a little bit more into the
- 26:03depth of each different pillar and kind of what that can look
- 26:07like on specific operations, whether it be on a cow calf
- 26:11operation or whether it be in feeders or different things like
- 26:14that and what that really looks like in the details.
- 26:17So as always, Samantha, thank you for your time and to all of
- 26:20our listeners, thank you for listening to another episode of
- 26:23the Cattle USA Daily Podcast. We will see you all next time on
- 26:27another episode. Have a good one y'all.