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293: Cattle Markets Look Strong but There’s Still a Lot Working Against Producers w/ Dan & Samantha · CattleUSA Daily

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In today's episode with Dan and Samantha, we are bringing you
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guys yet another market analysis episode covering everything that
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happened in the cattle market over the past week.
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And I'm reporting to you guys from South America.
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I am in Brazil with a leadership group that I'm a part of for the
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next few days. I've been here for about 5 days
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now and I'm here for about 6 more, traveling Brazil, talking
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about a Brazilian agriculture, just seeing all of the different
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nuances that is Brazil. And so we have a really fun
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conversation conversation at the end of the podcast on some
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things that I've seen learn and all of the things in between as
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Without further ado, let's go ahead and hear from Dan and
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Samantha. Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily
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Podcast, your go to source for the latest livestock markets,
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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. Dan, Samantha, welcome back to
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the podcast. How how are you guys?
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How's life been in the States? Life is great, Yeah, The weather
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is turning. Feels like we've got winter
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behind us. So yeah, life is good.
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Yeah, not too bad. Been high 80s nineties in
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northwest Kansas. Had a lot of people getting
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their boats out on the lake last weekend.
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As you can tell, not me. I will be staying in a
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sweatshirt until temps break 100° because I'm just that cold
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blooded. But yeah, all jokes aside, I
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mean, droughts been really, really bad.
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I mean, if we don't get some rain before summer and people
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start turning out cattle to pasture, it's going to be really
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bad. But yeah, temps about 70 head
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away from being done with calving season, so yeah, going
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good. Oh, exciting.
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I love it. Well, I will try it and send
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some of this Brazilian rain up to you guys because they were
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talking about their yearly rainfall here or just like daily
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rainfall here. I think they were saying the
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other day that they got like 10 inches in one day here.
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I yeah, I will be sending all of that N if at all possible
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because it has been hot, humid and we haven't gotten rained on
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thus far. But I know it's, I know it's
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coming around the corner for us. Oh wow, that's wild.
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Which the the guy that you have on can probably talk a little
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more about this, about the weather, but I heard that we
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were supposed to maybe get some April showers from some pretty
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reliable sources, but everybody was saying it was going to come
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with a lot of hail. So I don't know.
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Don't forget that old 90 day rule.
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We had a bunch of fog right around New Year's.
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So don't forget the old ad, the old wives tales.
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Is it wives tales? Wife Tales.
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I've always been wives, wives tale.
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Wise tales. Did the wife come up with it?
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Did a bunch of wives sitting around come up?
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How does that I don't get. Anyways, back to markets, yeah.
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Well, on the topic of markets, what have we been seeing over
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the past week, guys? Chop City.
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Chop City Grain Chop City. Cattle hogs getting pummeled.
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Chop City equities breaking below that 200 day moving
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average. Last time we talked about just
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Chop City everything. A lot of uncertainty still
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issues going on in Greeley even though they're killing now.
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There's rumors about Fort Morgan.
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All rumors. Just Chop city.
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Feels like the market wants to go higher as far as futures but
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can't until we clear up some of these issues.
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Feels like grains wanted to get wrecked but they can't.
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It's Chop City. Yeah, for sure.
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Volatility is definitely a given.
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I get really tired of using that word, but that's just the
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reality of it. I mean, we pounded on it for
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months, but that's short and sweet.
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Call a spade a spade. Reality is we're trading
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headlines sometimes, you know, two or three different headlines
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in a day. I think that volatility a factor
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alone, you know, like Dan said, I think futures want to go
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higher, but volatility is being kind of the dog at the our
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ankles. And it makes it really, really
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hard to really even develop a strong opinion looking 60 days
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into the future when, like I said, future want to trade two
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or three different headlines in a day.
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So I think it was really encouraging last week to see
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feeders for cattle on the futures board finish higher for
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the week because of all that push and pull motion.
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It was encouraging to see them actually finish higher even with
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all that volatility. Sale barns are pretty much
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either steady or higher. So good to see that cash isn't,
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you know, suffering as a result. But just hoping those small
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moves and feeder cattle keep tallying up.
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I would really like to see futures be more supportive of
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higher cash and fat cattle market again, another dog our
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feet, you know, one of them anyway.
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So last week was mostly steady with the week before.
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I think the weighted average settled 16 cents lower than the
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week prior. But you know, my guess is the
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Packer probably uses some of these heavier cattle as leverage
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to keep the ball in their court and keep them profitable.
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But you know, there was a lot of light trade and some higher
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slaughter this week. So I think it's inevitable we we
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burn through some of these contract cattle.
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Supposedly JBS wasn't even buying cattle last week's.
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I think eventually they're going to have to come up to the plate.
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They're profitable. A lot of people are saying that
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they are statistically more profitable this year than
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they've been in past two years because of the games in box
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beefs. Yeah.
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I think just trying to weed out some of these headlines, some of
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the volatility. I don't know if we do that for a
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while. It seems like once you get past
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one headline, you're on to the next because there for a while
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it was a screw worm and then you didn't hear anything about the
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screw worm for a while. And if you did, it was, you
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know, something about the FDA proven a new drug or for to
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treat screw worm or larvae infestation or different things.
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But the market didn't really play off of it.
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And then it was higher beef prices and they played that out.
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And then it was Sid Miller looking for clout and then plant
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strikes and and now the biggest factor is the Iranian war and
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then equities and oil playing off of that.
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So yeah, I think it's encouraging to see that we're
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probably very close to resolution on this Iran deal.
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And obviously the markets will play off of that.
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I think if Iran doesn't negotiate, they're nuts because,
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I mean, at this point they're only hurting themselves.
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They either negotiate or we destroy their whole country.
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So. But yeah, I mean, just rumors
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surfacing all over the place. That's definitely the devil on
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her shoulder. And agree more, Samantha.
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Yeah, I made a great point there.
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It's been nothing but bad news since last fall.
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I mean, name one good thing that's happened since last fall.
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So yeah, it's it's a market that it almost feels like so many
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people are rooting to go lower, just the way it's trading, the
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way everybody acts. And I don't know, maybe she has
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one, one more run left inner. We'll see.
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Yeah, I think it's one of those situations where right now we're
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seeing it like you said, Samantha, one headline after
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another. And you hit the nail on the head
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there, Dan, too of like since last fall, it's been one thing
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and then the next, as soon as we get done with the new cycle on
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one thing that's hitting the market and absolutely bombarding
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it, we're on to the next thing with the new cycle, whether that
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be someone running their mouth or screw worm or war or fill in
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the blank with anything and everything that could possibly
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hit the cattle market. We've been, we've been kind of
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getting hammered since this fall.
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Nice part is we shrugged a lot of those black Swans off.
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I'm in the old cattle market, used to take those and you drop
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the market 1520% now seems like cash is king and cash shrugs it
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off. So let's hope we can hold on to
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that. You know, this March, April time
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frame, you see a lot of big yearling cattle in the fats.
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You know, those big yearlings get turned into fats.
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So, you know, as as we work through those the next month,
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then you come into the time period of May and June when
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well, new crop calves aren't quite ready and and we're
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running out of those big yearlings.
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The fear is that we don't run out of those big yearlings.
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You know, up until a week or two ago, our slaughter rate had me
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thinking we were backing up them big cattle.
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I if we can keep the Packers profitable for the next two to
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three weeks, that would be really, really encouraging to
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keep that, get that slaughter rate up, get burned through
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those big cattle, and then really make a, a setup possible
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for that May, June pop, but only time will tell for sure.
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Yeah. No, I I agree on all of those
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things. And I think it's one of those
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situations that like the cattle market typically does, we have
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been really resilient over the past few weeks.
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And it's really encouraging that no matter what is happening on
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the board and what traders decide to follow as far as
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headlines go that day, that cash is still winning out.
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And I think that that just continues to point back to our
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supply and demand and that basically economics are still at
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play here. And when you guys say things
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like let the cattle market do what the cattle markets going to
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do, this really is one of those testaments that goes straight to
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that and points to the cattle markets going to do what the
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cattle market is going to do. And we need to continue to let
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it be that way. Got to get out there to what is
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it April 6th or yeah, April 6th, 1st notice day.
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Then we find out what the board and the cash is going to do.
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So I'm looking forward to that date.
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Get past option expiration and see what happens.
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So like you say, you got to keep the package profitable to give
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them a reason to kill more. Just a lot of chop until then,
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I'm afraid. Very, very possible.
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Yeah. Yeah, I think it's also kind of
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unsettling just taking it a step back and looking at it from like
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a 3030 foot perspective and seeing kind of what's happening
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across the cattle industry as a whole, just outside of the
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markets and I'm in the economy altogether.
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I think it's pretty unsettling. You know, so many times we want
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to look 90 days into the future, but a lot of people with all the
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devastation across the plains and the major cattle producing
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states, you know, fires, drought, all these different
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things, a million plus acres burned as a result of all these
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fires. And a lot of people are just
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into tomorrow or next week and and try to make it things pencil
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out at these unseasonably high temperatures definitely aren't
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helping anything. As much as I'd love to root for,
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you know, 80° March, April, it's tough because you know, we're in
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high, high fire warnings as a result of it.
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And like I said, a million plus acres burned.
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So it's really tough. I mean, this season for one is
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great because we've seen a perfect example of how everybody
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comes together in industry to help one another when times are
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tough. But I don't think we're out of
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the woods yet and I think we're far from it.
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And like I said, it's going to be really, really tough when it
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comes time to turn out some of these calves on pasture if we
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don't get some rain and all these we don't got any grass
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from the fires and the drought and different things.
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And so Hayes likely going to be through the roof.
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A lot of tough realities looking into the future and so many
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people, you know, shrug it off that aren't living it
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day-to-day. But to the cattle industry is
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not one where you deal with a hardship for a month and then
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you play it out and that's it takes years to recover,
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sometimes even decades. We we're at a 70 year low in
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cattle supplies. And like I kind of mentioned in
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my commentary yesterday, contrary to what a lot of people
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might think in the Facebook comments, cattle don't fall out
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of the sky. We can't even get moisture to
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fall out of the sky, let alone cows.
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So you know, and grass doesn't grow back in a month.
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And another thing to fed chair, you know, they met last week and
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the Fed chair still refused to lower interest rates.
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Another I'll effective Mr. Biden's presidency.
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So interest rates, I mean, even though other things are building
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up a lot of devastation, tallying up interest rates are
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one of probably the biggest, if not the biggest thorns in our
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side. That 8% interest rate on the
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loan that you have on those cattle on those and not feed on
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that land payment on that, you know, lease payment, whatever.
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That adds up really fast and then it starts eating at your
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profit really, really fast. So a lot of tough realities.
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I saw a deal on Facebook the other day.
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I usually don't drink the Kool-aid that it was a real, but
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it kind of didn't really set well with me.
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I guess. I saw someone say if you're not
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making money on cattle this year, you shouldn't be in the
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cattle business. And it's like, well, first of
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all, I mean, that's pretty gutsy to speak on everyone's operation
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because everyone's operation is a little different.
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And it's like, yeah, cattle may be high, but the cost of
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production is sky high. And those people that buy and
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sell a lot of cattle too, they're hurting.
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We just talked about live cattle prices hurting.
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Your feed yards, especially their breakevens are still South
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of profit. So, you know, it's really,
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really tough. And the producers that are
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making money, great. We needed this run up the last
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few years to that, the years that we lost money or barely
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broke even. But it came with a lot of tough
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realities. Herd liquidation, drought rule.
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America isn't as big as it once was, and that's very unsettling.
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Yeah, you hit the nail on the head with every single one of
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those points, Samantha. Once again, it is one of those
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situations that I think we need to really put the emphasis on.
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Like what you said, everyone's cattle operation is different
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and we need to continue to remember that no matter what
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angle you're looking at it from. And because you do have to
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remember the entire entire supply chain of an animal,
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whether like from the time that it hits the ground to the time
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that animal gets processed at the end of their life or
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whatever their purpose is, whatever that pathway looks like
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for that animal. There are people at different
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sectors of that industry that might be winning right now and
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some that might not be. And I think that it's all a give
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and take throughout the entire industry.
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But it's one of those situations that sometimes we need to let
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ourselves take off a rose colored glasses a little bit and
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That is, is gelbvieh.org. Dan, what are we seeing on the
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grain markets? Same thing, chop, wide range of
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chop, you know you're moving the market and nickel to a dime a
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day back and forth, back and forth.
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You know, I was in the camp hedge, hedge hedge use this
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rally as an opportunity because this I ran the oil prices at
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these levels that could end all end very quickly.
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I'm starting to get a little bullish though.
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I don't know, I don't know this market, I don't know.
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Something's just sitting on my shoulder yelling me, hey, you
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buy a few courage calls. I don't know, looked at some $6
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calls here for a dime this morning.
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I don't think that's a bad play. That way if we get up to that
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five and a quarter 550 corn, you know, we can get edged.
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Same thing in the weed, same in the soybeans.
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It's all chop cities. I think everybody all eyes right
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now we're on equities, you know below that 200 day.
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If they continue to break lower, that's going to be a problem for
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live cattle, it's problem for hogs and and could be another
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boost higher in the grains. If you get a oil rocking, get it
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back up above 100, maybe that's the boost the grains need.
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A lot of ifs and all those statements, but that's the
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nature of the markets we're in right now.
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So don't be afraid to protect your downside.
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But at the same time, maybe look at some of those courage calls
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up there. 6 bucks for the just in case this drought holds on or
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expands. So yeah, a lot of a lot of chop.
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Dan I don't know if before this episode I could have defined
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what Chop City means, but now I feel like I have a solid
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definition of. Probably out of a bar or a
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Chinese restaurant in middle of Kansas somewhere.
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Yeah, Chop City. I love it.
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I love it. Dan, Samantha, anything else on
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the cattle markets that we haven't hit on today that we
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need to make sure that we touch on?
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I'm good. I love it.
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I love it. Well, I have been having a blast
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in Brazil. So I feel like I have to give
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you guys like a little Brazil update on what we've seen so far
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because next week I'll have a whole nother.
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We're here for 11 days total. And so we are officially are
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almost at our halfway point. We'll be at our halfway point
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tomorrow. We just switched regions in
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Brazil, so we were Sao Paulo, which is like South Central
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Brazil in a sense. So it's on the southern side of
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Brazil, but in the central part. And now we're in Fostiga Nosu.
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My pronunciation probably it on all of that, but that is
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southeast of there and this is the area.
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So we're right at the tip of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.
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So like I could leave my hotel and walk 5 minutes and hit both
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of those countries, which they actually said is very dangerous
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and not to do. So I can't say I'll be doing
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that. I will be after this podcast,
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going up to our hotel terrace bar and enjoying some
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cafferinas, which are the like drink of Brazil.
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Can report with full confidence that they are delicious.
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They're like, I don't even know how to describe them.
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They're made with a crap ton of lime.
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Like I think they put three whole limes in each of our
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drinks, a lot of ice, which I'm not complaining about, but it's
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made with their their version of rum.
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Like it's the best way I can describe it.
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Like it's not rum, but it's their version of rum.
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And it's kind of like a Margarita, but not and it's
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quite delicious. But that is that has been a
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wonderful take away. We are going to the Ignossi
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Falls tomorrow. And so that's one of the 11
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world wonders. Like they declared it like one
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of the new world wonders or whatever.
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So. It's 7.
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There's seven, but then they like declared more things and
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there's like a few more that got added or whatever.
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It's not one of the world wonders, but it got added.
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Whatever. It's this area where there's
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like 270 waterfalls that all like fall into this one area.
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And so like you look around and it's like waterfalls all
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surrounded and it's really cool. So we're going to go to that
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tomorrow. But so far we have seen a coffee
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plant operation which a coffee bean operation which was really
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sinking. Cool to see they had 2700
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continuous acres at this one place of coffee production.
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Fun fact, they Co plant young coffee bean trees with corn
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because the corn shades the coffee beans while they're young
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and provides them the protection that they need and like some
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rejuvenation for the soil. So there's a lot of corn here as
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well. Yes, it's very interesting.
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I've got some really good photos of it.
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And then lots of soybean production here, obviously, but
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the region that we're in and they're not harvesting like
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soybeans have already been harvested in this region.
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So haven't really seen much of that, but went to a fresh flower
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farm. So like they do cut flowers.
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Very interesting to see. Again, not something we really
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have in the States. So interesting concept to see.
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Gosh, what else have we done? Oh, we went and saw a sugar cane
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operation, which was unique. I am.
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I will acknowledge my lack of knowledge around just other
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products that we don't grow in the United States.
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Point Blake, Period. I did not realize that sugar
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cane was like 20 feet tall. Like this plant is massive,
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absolutely massive. And I had no idea.
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So that was cool because it was they do a ton of like sugar gain
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things like they do all of the, I will say they were speaking
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about 6° more than what I have while we were there because they
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do all the bioengineering and making different breeding and
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all of that stuff for sugar cane.
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It was really cool to see. They're not educated enough to
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know what they were talking about, but it was cool
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nonetheless. And today we have been traveling
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all day. So that's Brazil, that's
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Brazilian agriculture. What I know they get a crap ton
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more rain than we do. Rainforest, yeah.
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Well, but I'm not in the rainforest.
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Northern Brazil is the rainforest like I'm in southern
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Brazil. I'm, I am like 6000 miles away
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from home right now, Dan. It took us 10 hours to fly here
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from Dallas. 600 miles an hour I.
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Guess that's the math there. I got a real legitimate question
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here for you because I haven't been down there.
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Obviously a big world traveler from Iowa like me.
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Do they wear sombreros or is that just a Mexico thing?
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Do not wear sombreros here, damn it.
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When? We wear no sombreros, no
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sombreros, cowboy hats. Cannot say I've seen that.
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Not really. Not really.
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Not that I've seen so far. I mean, so we've been in the
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southern regions of Brazil thus far.
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And so when we were here in Faustigudasu for three more days
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and then we go up to Montegrosso, which is like on
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the edge of the Amazon rainforest.
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And that's where like there's heavy cattle production and
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we're touring a feed lot and a family farm and like all of
21:26
those things while we're up there.
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So it might be different when you get to a different region
21:30
because they described it a lot like because we were in Sao
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Paulo and you saw just this is a middle income country.
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And so it's not like first third world.
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It's not either of those, but it's not like a Second World
21:41
country because that's like Russia, like it's a middle
21:43
income country. So we're in Sao Paulo and
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they're talking about like the like just poverty and
21:50
generational issues and things like that that they deal with as
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a country. And it was just really
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interesting to see on that side. But they were also like big
21:58
emphasis on the fact that we have different states here just
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like you guys do in the United States.
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So you can't compare Sao Paulo to Montegrosso to all of these
22:06
other regions that are very different because up in
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Montegrosso they are actually very not very wealthy.
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It's one of the wealthier areas of Brazil.
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So where I'm going with that, Dan, I have not seen any
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sombreros and I have not seen any cowboy hats thus far.
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So OK. One more serious question.
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Thank you for answering that. Of course.
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Can you find me a John Deere tractor?
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I'd like an 8000 series John Deere tractor that does not have
22:31
emissions on it, please and figure out a way to get it up to
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Iowa. That's that's what we need.
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We have come up with this plan as a group because I'm here with
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a group of about 30 people total, and we were touring one
22:44
of these flower production places and they have other
22:48
plants and trees and things like that.
22:49
And you could buy a freaking palm tree for $50, like a full
22:52
blown palm tree, guys. And I'm talking like I was like,
22:55
hey, the markup we could do selling that in the States is
22:58
insane. It's one of the guys, I don't
23:01
want to bring it to Kansas. I want to sell it to the rich
23:03
people that want them elsewhere. OK, OK.
23:05
I acknowledge I can't even keep flowers alive in my house, Dan,
23:08
let alone a damn palm tree in my backyard.
23:10
OK, I acknowledge that. But they had a brilliant idea
23:13
while they were there. They're like, hey, what we're
23:16
going to do is we're all going to chip and we're going to buy a
23:18
cruise ship together. We're going to buy this cruise
23:20
ship and we're going to load it full of all of this stuff that
23:23
we want. And so we can party on the way
23:25
down on this cruise ship because we'll use like half of it to
23:28
stay in and then half of it for our stuff that we want to bring
23:30
back. And so we'll load it full of
23:32
these plants. And Dan, what I'm saying is I'll
23:33
find you a tractor and I'll get the tractor on the cruise ship
23:37
and I will bring said cruise ship back.
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All right, let's go with it. That plan sounds great.
23:42
Perfect. I have I have not seen any John
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Deere Green. They have said because we asked
23:47
that question because we haven't seen any like John Deere cases
23:51
or anything like that. And we asked that question and
23:53
they were like something along the lines of like they're not
23:56
produced here. It's really difficult to get
23:58
them here. We buy parts and pieces from
24:00
them like the we went to a one other thing we did, we went to a
24:05
paper and like pulp manufacturing plant.
24:08
So they manufacture paper and the way that they harvest their
24:12
trees is with a specific head that they buy from John Deere
24:17
and they bring that in from overseas, the specific head for
24:20
it. But they've reconfigured a
24:22
tractor like an operator machine that they already have here in
24:26
order to like to attach that head to it pretty much.
24:30
So there are no John Deere full tractors that I have seen so
24:33
far, but that could change. Got an assignment.
24:36
I I have an assignment and I will be getting my binoculars
24:39
out ready to go. Ready to go so.
24:43
Well, I. Will say I'm following along on
24:45
your journey, Lauren, and it all looks incredible.
24:48
But Dan, I don't think that you should sell yourself short on
24:51
the world traveler idea because Dan, I think.
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I got to go. I got to go.
24:56
I got to go. Yeah, yeah, I got to go.
25:00
Sounds like yeah it's fun because I know I messaged you
25:03
around 7 and didn't get a response till 9 so.
25:06
Know what you're talking about? It's been a good podcast.
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Let's wrap this up. So you like to throw all the
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shots, but you don't like to receive them.
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Got it, Got it. Sorry, it's cutting out there.
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It must be the the feed out of South America.
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Yeah, that's, that's what it is. That's what it is.
25:24
It's it's OK, Dan, it's OK. We'll we'll let you and your ego
25:27
stay intact. It's OK.
25:28
But nonetheless, if we don't have a podcast that gets
25:31
released next week, it's because I went on a helicopter ride
25:34
tomorrow and unfortunately didn't make it home.
25:36
Hopefully, hopefully I make it home.
25:38
I'm joking guys. I'm so joking.
25:40
I'm very excited. We're going on a helicopter ride
25:42
over the falls. So I'm just, I'm very excited
25:44
about that. But you know, won't be jumping
25:46
out of it, or at least I don't have any plans to.
25:48
So. But this has been a great
25:50
podcast. I'm happy to bring a podcast
25:52
from South America. I'm glad that we were able to do
25:55
this and that the Wi-Fi actually worked because I can tell you
25:58
one thing, the connectivity down here is very not good.
26:02
So I am so glad that we were able to do this and get this all
26:06
put together for you guys and to kind of bring an update to our
26:08
audience from Brazil, but then also be able to just get a good
26:11
market update out for the week while I'm gone as well.
26:14
So Dan and Samantha, as always, thank you so much for your time
26:17
today, for your insight, and just a wonderful conversation to
26:20
all of our audience members. Thanks for listening to another
26:23
episode of the Cattle USA Daily Podcast.
26:25
You want to get a hold of Dan or Samantha or any other member of
26:28
our team and talk about options for coverage and what that looks
26:32
like for you and your individual ranching operation.
26:34
Check out the show notes down below and you can get in contact
26:37
with them to have that conversation.
26:39
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26:42
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