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170: Cattle Market Update and Colorado Politics Shake Ranching with John Campbell · CattleUSA Daily

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  In today's episode with John Campbell, we are talking all
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  things cattle market. What is happening in the world
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  right now as far as the cattle market goes?
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  Recapping the market in Lahana this last week and just markets
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  across the winter, livestock family as well.
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  Kind of giving you guys a good insight on to what the auction
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  market is doing right now. We after that go into some
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  current events, things that are happening just in the nation and
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  then we're getting political. We are talking Colorado
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  politics, agriculture politics and what in the world is
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  happening in Colorado right now. John breaks it all down.
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  And without further ado, let's go ahead and hop into this
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  episode with John. But before we do that, if you
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  would really appreciate it here at the team.
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  And on the last part of this episode, John is answering some
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  questions that we have gotten in what we call a Ask John segment.
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  This is available to you guys through our Cattle USA daily
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  It's called the Drive and that link is going to be down below
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  for you guys. So if you have, if you have
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  specific questions for John, want him to talk about certain
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  things, submit that there and we will be more than happy to touch
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  on it if we are enable. So the last topic that we talked
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  about today has been some questions that we have been
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  getting in that. So if that's something that
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  interests you guys, make sure you check out that newsletter
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  link and you'll be able to submit those questions down
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  below in that. And without further ado, let's
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  go ahead and hop into this episode with John.
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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
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  updates shaping agriculture today.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate for
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  agriculture here to keep you informed and connected.
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  Now let's dive into today's episode.
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  John, welcome back to the podcast.
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  How did the market go in Lahana this week?
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  Give us the update. What are you seeing?
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  How did how did Tuesday go? Well, you know, a little bit of
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  run this week, I thought one 2300 cattle, sure enough, more,
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  more calves. I thought the little lightweight
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  steer calves kind of 5 to 560. We had some little fly weights
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  up to 670 a pound, so nothing really cheaper about it.
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  But the heavy steers now I thought 5 to 10 better kind of
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  430 up to 488. We had some little 3 weight
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  black steers, just kind of some stick out sales up at 6:20, some
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  440 weight steers at 541 little heifer calves again pretty
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  steady 4:50 to five O 5 and heavy heifer calves.
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  I thought really three to seven better this week.
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  Some stick out sales on the heifers were some 340 weight
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  heifers at five O 5, some 4 weight Big Sisters at 476 and we
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  sold them 530 LB black heifers for four O 5.
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  You get into the big heifer calves kind of two stories
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  there, the weaned long weaned true stalker effer.
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  Then some of these just big heifer calves off the cow, but
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  mostly kind of 350 to 395. The feed and heifer market.
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  I thought three to five better 3:35 to 349.
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  You know a lot of places calling their deal lower, but man oh
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  man, course we had some awfully, awfully nice cattle and and that
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  makes a difference. But some big weaned long.
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  We now heifer cabs 585 at 390-5665 at 3:54.
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  We had some 730 LB year lunch just a package at 3:49 and some
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  big 8 weight effers at 3:40 into the stalker steers again same
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  story. Wean cabs and and sure enough
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  cabs off the cow. But weighing, you know, north of
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  five and a half 6 1/2 kind of 387 to 426.
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  I I thought the the big unwinged steer cabs from 370 to we had
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  some cabs right off the Galway in six bring four O 9 and the
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  feeding steer market 3 better. But we probably had 1000 feeding
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  steers this week with with and had some really nice ones.
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  So kind of 350 to 367 on the yearland steers and the
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  heavyweights 315 to 327. I had some wean black 555 LB
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  steers at 4:26. They're Big Brothers now.
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  These are wing cabs 420th 4/16 6:20 at 416 rather and some
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  £750. Just little Oddzy enzy yearlings
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  at 365. But we did have one nice string
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  of 960 weight big steers at 327 and there was one set of 100
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  black and red steers that weighed 1050 AT31875 S All in
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  all, pretty good. You know it real active.
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  But we finally caught the up in the futures market this week.
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  So and had had had better Catalan and we'll start seeing,
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  you know, more calves about every week from now on.
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  Very exciting time around there in Lahana.
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  How about other markets across across the Midwest, across the
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  states? Anything else kind of stand out
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  to you just in a broader market standpoint?
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  Well, you know, I, I, I kind of use winter livestock as a
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  flagship because that, that, that's why we're all here.
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  But some stick out sales that you know, some of our other
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  markets up in Riverton, WY at some 5 weight steers north of $5
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  five O 8, some 550 weight steers at 4:54 and some little 416 LB
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  heifers at 488. They don't get the numbers of
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  yearlings. They'll get some yearlings, but
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  they're kind of like Lana really traditionally A calf market.
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  Dodge City had some 8 weight stairs at 378 yesterday and some
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  big 950 weight stairs at 3:31. That would be good. 6 weight
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  heifers at 378. Pratt, KS.
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  Of course going on today. But I was in Pratt last Thursday
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  and man oh man oh boy. Some 417 LB steers and Pratt at
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  six O 7 and a little four way to Heffers at 497 and some five way
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  to Heffers at 4:15. But I thought the stick out and
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  they were tremendous. A lot of the cattle came out of
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  La Honda's cabs. Tremendous condition and
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  weights, but some 8 weight cattle at 385 and their Big
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  Brothers I think weighed 940 at 347 that you know I I just
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  thought was unbelievable. Yeah, that is, that's a busy
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  market day, I tell you what. Holy cow, What's going on in the
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  world, John, these weeks? What?
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  What do you got to say about the rest of the world?
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  You know, the egg, Secretary Rowland said, You know, no plans
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  for the direct payment to producers to rebuild, which
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  really perfect timing. Not only do the ranchers really
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  not want the money, but as of midnight Tuesday, why, we were
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  completely broke anyway. So that's something to think
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  about. You know, we're actually more
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  than broke. We're broke and we owe money.
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  A $37 trillion is all underwater.
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  And. Yeah, Yeah, my maybe time to
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  maybe rethink that fiscal policy and perfect opportunity in my
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  opinion to fire the thousands of federal employees Trump as
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  promised. But Roland did suggest some, you
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  know, increased access to, I'm not sure what working lands are,
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  but kind of hinted to open up some federal ground to grazing
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  and, and even give incentives for grazing on, on federal land.
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  So, you know, I mean, headed in the right direction.
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  Those are those are some positives, I think.
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  No, I agree with that and that sentiment.
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  We shared about it last week when you and I were talking that
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  we would rather figure this out ourselves as an industry then
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  have the government try to step in on it.
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  That's at least the sentiment that you and I hold.
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  I know not everyone shares that, but it's one of those situations
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  that sometimes when you get Big Brother reaching in, it doesn't
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  always work out in our favor in the long run.
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  So we would rather be able to sit here and look 10 years down
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  the road, 5 years down the road and not just getting us through
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  the rest of this year. Yeah, no, exactly.
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  If we're playing on a even even field, you know what I mean.
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  We'll, we'll, we'll take fundamentals and and do what we
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  do if both sides of the equation are are equal and we're not
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  getting leveraged into a position, you know, so.
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  No, I agree there, 100 percent, 100%.
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  What's kind of been surprising you in the world this week?
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  Any other thoughts on the markets or other things that are
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  kind of going on, John? Well, I think really in response
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  to a, you know, we have an Ask John segment and I, I, I have
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  gotten just several emails and several comments that really
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  want my current views on what is going on with Colorado politics.
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  So in reference to that, I would say that here in Colorado, if
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  you think you have problems, why come to come to Colorado and see
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  how you get along? You know that the head of our
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  state land board is wanting to rewild our state land and her
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  name is Doctor Nicole Rose Marino and she's appointed by by
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  our governor, has a pretty impressive resume, member of the
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  Wild Earth Guardians. She's connected to the Earth
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  Liberation Front, who, you know, several years ago they burned
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  the Vale ski resort down because it overlapped the lynx breeding
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  grounds on the leadership council of the Rewild Institute
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  and also founder of the Southern Plains Land Trust that want to
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  rebuild the Colorado prairies to restore the American Serengeti.
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  And now, you know, rewilding the most of us seems a little odd
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  because agriculture is the central issue of the state land
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  Bor and 98% of Colorado State land is used for grazing and
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  more importantly, 100% of the revenue goes to, you know,
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  public schools. But Colorado started rewilding
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  with the. Of course, you've heard about
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  the $800,000 wolf reintroduction, and it's a
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  program that's a balloon now to three and a half million over
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  the last three years with 0 revenue.
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  And they have visions of, you know, massive Buffalo herds
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  coming into the state, introduction of more Beavers
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  into the state land and lakes and streams, and developing more
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  Prairie dog colonies. This is all part of their
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  mission statement. They're seeking more refuge
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  acres and land. Accusations, accusations,
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  accusations. So in their words, the public
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  can view the Prairie chicken ancient and provocative mating
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  dance. So I thought you would you'd
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  like to hear that. Well, you know, my thoughts were
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  just in case the Beaver and the Prairie dog viewing donation
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  boxes don't replace the $270 million of revenue that's
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  generated by the oil and gas and grazing fees.
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  Why several ranchers have reached out to me and shared
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  ideas and just really suggestions for generating state
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  land income. And I have a few keynote things
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  their proposal is calling. They're going to call it
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  Colorado dewilding program so that that that's the title.
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  I don't one thought it would be to buy a buy one, get one free
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  wolf hunt for $5000 and you get not only one, but two wolf
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  permits and I happen to have a free wolf rug that and give me
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  just a minute here. Now this is sponsored by the
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  gutshot taxidermy and they'll they'll throw that in on on, on
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  on on the wolf hunt and you also get to keep the tracking collar.
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  So I I thought that that was a plus.
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  They were thinking of turning some of these Prairie dog
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  viewing areas. They can be used for a whack
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  them and stack them vermin shooting gallery.
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  Now it's a dollar a head and cash prizes of course, awarded
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  for the biggest dog, the most dogs per hour and a People's
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  Choice award for best video. One program getting a lot of
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  intention and and one that I really like is the big Beaver
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  bonanza and you'll like this. Participants pay a one time camp
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  fee that includes a three day two night Beaver Dam experience
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  and included it in this is one free Beaver license either sex
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  and you'll also get the use of the humane state designed and I
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  I have one for your viewing Beaver trap.
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  So this state, state design, you'll get the use of this
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  Beaver trap when you rent, when you rent your your campsite.
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  And that also comes with enough dynamite to return the water
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  flow to the cattle and pastures downstream.
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  And finally, in lieu of grazing revenue, the state could also
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  turn to the multimillion dollar bird breeding business.
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  Now a lot of people know this, but our governor has a history
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  of of appointing a bird breeder to the state pet born and
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  tragically because of some verb verbal abuse to the 4H program
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  and find a little too many dead parakeets in the basement.
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  Why she resigned from from her position.
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  But what they're wanting to do is stay constructed private,
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  fully enclosed Prairie chicken viewing cages.
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  Now this these are just ideas, Lauren, that you know, if we
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  come in short on our revenue. But each rental comes with a
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  free chicken mating manual. And it's a step by step
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  illustrated with instructions, easy to use it on site or at
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  home. So anyway, it's been said that
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  the good doctor has been quoted our state land board lady, I
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  haven't a change in attitude on agriculture over the year, but
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  you know, I I really, I personally believe that
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  implementing any of these dewilding ideas, they'd not only
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  make the state a lot of money, but more importantly, you could
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  win back the hearts of those people that are actually paying
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  the fees for the land board. Now, Lauren, I'd love to stay
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  and visit with you, but I am entered in the eco bike three
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  wheel division on the tarantula smash going on South of Lahana.
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  So I got to go. Thank you.
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  I didn't. I did not show you my Beaver
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  Bonanza hat. Are you wearing this in your
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  tarantula smash? You know, I think I'll hold it
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  for the Beaver Bonanza. I'm looking, I'm looking forward
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  to that. See you next week.