Latest / CattleUSA Daily / 319: Government Overreach and Ranch Land Rights— Why Producers Need to Act Now with John Campbell
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- 0:00In today's episode of the Cattle USA Daily podcast, we are
- 0:02bringing on John Campbell once again to come and give us a
- 0:06rundown on what we have been seeing in the live cattle market
- 0:09over the past week. John also comes on to share an
- 0:13experience and some things that are happening in the state of
- 0:16Colorado right now as far as clean energy initiatives are
- 0:21going. And he brings some really great
- 0:23information, some exciting news, but also a really big call to
- 0:27action for people to get involved in to really look at
- 0:30this as an opportunity to make your voices heard, especially
- 0:34when it comes to protecting our ranching lands.
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- 0:57Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast.
- 0:59Your go to source. For the latest livestock
- 1:01markets, industry insights and the update shaping agriculture
- 1:05today, I'm your host Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate
- 1:08for agriculture. Here to keep you.
- 1:10Informed and connected. Now let's dive into today's
- 1:13episode. John, welcome back to the
- 1:20podcast once again. How has life in love Lila Hana
- 1:24been? You know you're going to work on
- 1:27a different intro. I really am compliment for
- 1:30lovely Lahana, but I'm going to guess you've never been here.
- 1:33I've driven through Lahana. Everybody does at.
- 1:36Night we need to quickly and I didn't stop.
- 1:39Kind of wheeled under the old convenience store for a little
- 1:43cup of. Well, what would you rather me
- 1:44say loser Lahana? Like you got to come up with a
- 1:47different L word for me. I know, I know.
- 1:50OK, All right, I'm I'm going to think of something and I'm I
- 1:54have our economic development committee call you with the
- 1:59Lana's. OK.
- 2:00I like Lana just because we're kind of nobody wants to be here
- 2:07and that's perfect with me. God.
- 2:09Loves it that way. All business and we from all
- 2:14these other places because we're kind of the spot, but then you
- 2:18don't have to put up with all of BS.
- 2:20We do put up with some but but not a lot.
- 2:22Oh, there you go. There's some positive outlook in
- 2:25the world. So we got to stop calling it
- 2:27lovely because we don't want people to move there.
- 2:29Right, right. OK, perfect.
- 2:32We'll just leave out the lovely and maybe we need like a middle
- 2:34of the road like it's just, it's OK.
- 2:37How's life in OK Laurana? Yeah, you don't have to be quite
- 2:40that, Frank. Let's don't say how's thing in
- 2:43middle of the road, even though that might be a compliment,
- 2:48though we aspire to. That's fair.
- 2:51Be a little higher up the list. I don't know what's between
- 2:54lovely and middle of the road, but work on that.
- 2:56I'll we'll we'll text back and forth and we'll come up with the
- 3:00right, right word that we want to use there.
- 3:02Perfect. I love it.
- 3:04Perfect. I'm glad we got that settled
- 3:05too. Well, now that that is all
- 3:08ironed out, how have the markets been this week, Josh?
- 3:11You know, really pretty good these and not a lot of cattle
- 3:15work. You know, everybody's just kind
- 3:17of setting on needles and and and in a whole position here and
- 3:21and have been for a month. I mean, I sound like a cracked
- 3:24record, but you know, 1000 cattle.
- 3:27We missed the rain. That was just a dead ass cinch
- 3:31to come today. So they're talking next Tuesday,
- 3:34but I don't know. They just fizzle out by the time
- 3:36it gets here and and it hadn't been that hot.
- 3:39I, I mean, it's been nice in the 70s and just looked like we were
- 3:44perfectly set up for rain today, tomorrow, we're doing this on
- 3:47Thursday and boy, we got nothing.
- 3:50But anyway, 1000 cattle here in a lot of I thought the light
- 3:54cabs higher again, we're getting some cabs guys are starting to,
- 3:59to, to send some cabs off some cows just to try to lighten the
- 4:02load on the cows. Hopefully that'll allow them
- 4:07enough grass to kind of get their cows through.
- 4:10So I thought 1015 better. And really the Cavs weren't any
- 4:14better quality or any any more numbers than what we saw last
- 4:18week's. You'd have to call it that much
- 4:21better just because we're back to comparing apples to apples,
- 4:24the stalker and the feeder cattle steady.
- 4:27But boy, we've just seen a big run up in the commodities and
- 4:31later here in the week, the thing just really has caught
- 4:35fire. And of course, everybody knows
- 4:37about the Fed cattle complex. We went from 2:46 to 2:57 in
- 4:43about 3 days. And so that's really sparked the
- 4:46deal, sparked the commodity deal.
- 4:48Pecker just got out and really wanted to own cattle.
- 4:52I think that'll roll over into the feeder deal and and I don't
- 4:56know, things just just just look great.
- 4:59We had some 380 LB little light black steers here.
- 5:03These were off the cow brought 347 1/2.
- 5:06Their Big Brothers weighed 470 and brought 570. 50 weight
- 5:11stairs at 477 1/2 and some 660 LB.
- 5:15They were off grass. Red Angus cross had a little had
- 5:19a little ear on them, a little cross.
- 5:20They bought $4.00 a pound, 8 weight steers up to 375.
- 5:26Over on the heifer side in Lauda. 330 weight effers at
- 5:306:15, 4/20 at 5:35. We had some 550 weight effers
- 5:36fully steady with what we got last week at 437 1/2.
- 5:40Its swayed effers right up against $4.00 and some 765 LB
- 5:45effers. Pretty good ticket on them at
- 5:483:54. I thought the cows were higher.
- 5:51I don't know where the cows are going to come from unless it
- 5:53stays dry. Getting a few pairs and mostly
- 5:57just kind of a clean up pair deal.
- 5:59The pair market is good when you've got the stock of the
- 6:02front end. But what we're getting is, you
- 6:05know, guy runs slaughtered cows and he brings 15 pair to town.
- 6:09So maybe not not his best cut, but that's OK.
- 6:12Everything has a value. But still sold some little 3
- 6:15year old bears. They were thinner, kind of 900
- 6:18LB cows had 100 LB week. The month old calves on them
- 6:23bring 44 1/2. The solid mouth bears at 4200.
- 6:28And still surprisingly, even with the up in the butcher cow
- 6:31market, the old bears, it's still justifying leaving them
- 6:35together. You know, we're not, we're not
- 6:36splitting many of these old bears, 345 on the old bears.
- 6:41And like I said, they would have small caps on them.
- 6:43So the pear market, you really need to figure out how big the
- 6:49cap is because that cap is a big percentage of what that pears
- 6:53bringing. So if you're shopping around
- 6:55wanting to know what the pear market is, make sure whoever's
- 6:58providing the information kind of qualifies the size of the
- 7:01calf because you're a $6000 pear in South Texas was an 1100 LB
- 7:11three-year old and she had a 550 LB tiger stripe bull cap by
- 7:16sides. Make sure you know what you're
- 7:18comparing when you start asking questions.
- 7:20Absolutely. Well, it is encouraging that we
- 7:23haven't quite seen a huge influx of cows in Pears yet because
- 7:28that means that at least most of the ranchers in your guys's area
- 7:30are still kind of holding off waiting for a little bit of that
- 7:33rain, which I know that you guys desperately need out there in
- 7:37Lahana. And it we're, we're trying to
- 7:40send it all your way. John, Dan and I are over here
- 7:43really trying to figure out a way to bottle up the rain that
- 7:45he's got in Iowa and just carted out to you.
- 7:48And I don't know if I need to stand out there with fire hose
- 7:51and fire truck or something and just like spray the town of
- 7:54Lahana, maybe spray you a little bit.
- 7:56I don't know. I don't know what we need to do,
- 7:58but we're we're trying to figure it out.
- 8:00Well, I don't know any other way to say this, but we kind of pick
- 8:04our influencers by results and so far you 2 are doing this poor
- 8:09job. I'm just, you know, hell, I
- 8:11mean, firehose this I I mean, I get all these deals about all
- 8:14worse. We're sending it to you.
- 8:17And I talked to Dan just yesterday and he was in
- 8:20agreement with me that we're going to bottle and not make.
- 8:23Well, you know, let's quit with the talk and let's see some
- 8:27action from you 2 and OK, I'm I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- 8:31I just, Sir, yes. We're up against, we're up
- 8:33against the wall back here. I don't, you know, I need, we
- 8:37need sympathy. You know, there could be some
- 8:39tears and just it will pound in and I just, I just really want
- 8:46to know that you care. John, I care a lot, I really do.
- 8:51But have you practiced that on your husband?
- 8:56Kind of that I dropped that on an head tail.
- 8:58You've practiced that. There it is.
- 9:00There it is. See.
- 9:01I can't keep it serious for long though, you're to see.
- 9:04That break, yeah, it took me 40 years to get her over that shit.
- 9:07My gosh. Good Lord almighty.
- 9:10OK, that was good. That was good.
- 9:13Well, Speaking of Lahana, you guys are have some shit you're
- 9:17dealing with there. You want to talk about it?
- 9:20Ones that are dry, we need a little.
- 9:22We don't laugh about it. We will cry about it, John.
- 9:25OK, so we're laughing about it. I know well and all of this it
- 9:30sincerely. I think we feel the same way,
- 9:32but they're not a hell a lot we can do about it.
- 9:35So I feel a laugh about it. It is what it is.
- 9:39Exactly, exactly. I've only got a limited number
- 9:42of tears I can shed and I give it no I.
- 9:44Know, I know, I know, and. You're right.
- 9:46Now we just can't give it to Lahanna.
- 9:48Fine. No, you've got some big ticket
- 9:49items, I'm sure in your little war closet there that you're
- 9:53wanting to drop on your hubby. I want to look at it.
- 9:59My goodness, now John, he listens to this podcast.
- 10:01You can't be giving away all my damn secrets.
- 10:04Yeah, something tells me he may kind of have some of that
- 10:07figured out. Just maybe there's a chance.
- 10:10There's a chance. All righty.
- 10:13Well, let's shine the spotlight on Colorado.
- 10:16Give us the rundown. What's going on?
- 10:18Well, and just recently our representative and senators put
- 10:23a, a pause out, not they haven't killed it, but they put a pause.
- 10:27And I'm talking about the Department of Energy's, they're
- 10:30still pressing for a national transmission corridor.
- 10:35And, and it, it had made a lot of news, but you know, other
- 10:39states, they started out with 10 of them and seven of the 10 have
- 10:43already shut it down. These proposed transmission
- 10:47lines because of, you know, naturally government overreach
- 10:51into private property rights. But here in good old liberal
- 10:55Colorado and our neighbor to the South, that may be worse, maybe
- 11:00probably as New Mexico. They're still on the short list
- 11:04to run a 5 to 15 mile wide, 750 mile long transmission corridor
- 11:12from Hobbs, NM, right over here at Lamar, Co.
- 11:16And naturally, those who object, they're worried about the
- 11:20Federal Powers Act that would come into effect if this
- 11:25proposal went through and eminent domain could be used
- 11:29against property owners. You know, once they pick the
- 11:32exact route, it only takes 225 feet to run the power line, but
- 11:38they're tying up an area 5 to 10/15/50 miles wide.
- 11:44Once it goes through, then they, they've got the government's
- 11:49blessing to put it wherever the hell they want it.
- 11:51And, and probably that goes across quite a bit of private,
- 11:57private property. So, and for those of you that
- 11:59don't know, the corridor is for the construction of this, these
- 12:03huge transmission lines and they carry wind and solar energy up
- 12:09to a central location where then it can be redirected east or
- 12:14West. But you know, you would think
- 12:16that the Biden's executive order that put all this into play back
- 12:20in his administration to be carbon pollution free by 2035.
- 12:26You'd think that would be defunct because Trump's order to
- 12:30cancel $30 billion in these clean energy loans that Biden
- 12:35put out. But you wonder, why do they, you
- 12:39know, does it occur Department of Energy, why are they still
- 12:42pushing this agenda when they don't have any funding?
- 12:46But, you know, my thoughts are is that there's a lot of money
- 12:50already been exchanged and a lot of these private government
- 12:55partnerships have been formed and will be subsidized by the
- 13:00taxpayer if the project does go through.
- 13:04And a lot of these people got committed to that just because
- 13:08they thought, well, you know, hell, this is a cinch.
- 13:11You know, the government's going to back us up.
- 13:13Hell, we'll have plenty of money.
- 13:15And they're just in it up to their armpits.
- 13:18And they've already invest a lot of money, and they're in too
- 13:20deep to get out. So they got to try to salvage
- 13:23the program best they can. And the Department of Energy is
- 13:27using what they're calling a TFP, which is a transmission
- 13:31facilitation program. Got an abbreviation for
- 13:35everything, but they're using that to fund some of these
- 13:37private companies or give them loans or grants.
- 13:41Next era energy transmission. It is amazing to see how many
- 13:47affiliate businesses or enterprises are associated with
- 13:52something like this. I mean, the infrastructure is
- 13:54huge and everybody's got their hand out and everybody wants to
- 13:58get involved because it's, you know, it won't stand on its own,
- 14:02but it's a government backed program and you can get free.
- 14:05And you know, if anything the government knows how to do is
- 14:08spend a hell of a lot of excess money that they don't need to.
- 14:12And if you're in that business, you want the piece of that pie
- 14:16for sure. Grid United is another private
- 14:18company, got 9 app, $1,000,000 grant.
- 14:21I love when they say it's not directed towards the project
- 14:26indirectly. It's for economic development,
- 14:29and I just love when they say economic development because,
- 14:33you know, they park a motorhome next to the side of the road.
- 14:37And if you own the turd pumping station, the convenience store
- 14:41or the Mobile Chalupa Taco truck in downtown Campo hell, you're
- 14:47all in. You know, that's the greatest
- 14:49thing that's ever happened to Southeast Colorado.
- 14:51But the sad truth of it is it you think you're getting a nice
- 14:56young family, tax paying family that's going to come and buy
- 15:00your kids poultry project at the backing County Fair, Probably
- 15:04not. They will have pulled their shit
- 15:06up and moved on to the next project.
- 15:08And you get to deal with the the remnants.
- 15:11It's kind of like around Lahata here several times to stimulate
- 15:16business, they've proposed building a prison.
- 15:19I mean that that's your economic development.
- 15:22It is a prison. And boy, oh boy, you know, you
- 15:26think of Leavenworth, you think of Canyon City, what do you
- 15:29think of? You think of the prison.
- 15:31Well, that's a really nice business model to hang your hat
- 15:34on. I mean, you got all of those
- 15:38slugs laying around and, and taxing your court system and,
- 15:42and they're up for parole. They're up for this.
- 15:45In the meantime, they got their lady or wife or live in or
- 15:49whatever, and she got about four pups on the welfare roll waiting
- 15:54for him to get out. And then when he does get out,
- 15:56they don't have any money to go anywhere.
- 15:58So then they stay on your welfare roll and it's just a, a
- 16:02great economic development. Do if you have a prison, you
- 16:06need to talk to those people that have one of the people that
- 16:09work there, live in a city 60 miles away.
- 16:13And like I said they swing through the convenience store
- 16:15and buy a Slim Jim and Gatorade and that's your economic
- 16:20development cuz they sure as they only go live next to the
- 16:23prison but they can't wait to get their happy ass home.
- 16:26So the people that live there build all this infrastructure.
- 16:29We put new curb and gutter in ore dweny Colorado pass the
- 16:33building shit they have yet to build the 1st house there but
- 16:36they do have nice curb and gutter.
- 16:38Who the hell wants to live in Ordway?
- 16:40I mean there's nothing there. So all the people that work
- 16:43there, they pack their shit up and they travel back and forth
- 16:46and on paper looks like great plan.
- 16:50There's no different than the corridor, you know, But I've
- 16:54seen those through and everybody else has too.
- 16:56If you got the RV park, why man, oh man, it it's a hell of a deal
- 17:00for about two years and then you got to wouldn't wonder how to
- 17:04revegetate your RV park and tear out all those risers and the,
- 17:08the pump place to pump your shitter out anyway.
- 17:12But you know, when you start forming government private
- 17:15partnerships, I think is my point, and you give out these
- 17:19green subsidies to a select few, you really flip the principles
- 17:24of a free market. I, I, I mean, that's a fallacy
- 17:27there. And you have all these existing
- 17:29businesses that have paid their way and done their dues and due
- 17:33diligence and they're part of your community and they get
- 17:37whipped like a stepchild because you think you're really
- 17:40incentivizing all these new businesses to come to town.
- 17:43And like I said, you, you just add to the destruction of
- 17:46traditional industries that have largely paid their own way.
- 17:51I thought it was interesting. I read a deal that said gas and
- 17:54oil is 1000 times more productive per unit of land than
- 18:00wind and solar. But those solar and windmills
- 18:03are really nice to look at. What a draw.
- 18:06You know, I, I just love going by them.
- 18:09But I really think, you know, Warren, until we completely
- 18:13clean the swamp of these totally green remnants of the Biden
- 18:17administration, boy, private property, liberty, government
- 18:20law, fair and government overreach is we're just going to
- 18:24have to deal with it. Because they have infiltrated
- 18:26all of these committees and these remnants are still hanging
- 18:29around and they have enough seniority in a lot of these
- 18:33places that they trying to handle the step regardless of
- 18:37what the government entity above them thinks.
- 18:40You know, they control the agenda of that specific
- 18:43Regulatory agency or committee. I saw interesting quote.
- 18:49It says economic confusion and excessive governmental
- 18:53intervention is a breeding get ground for totalitarian ideas.
- 18:59And I, I just thought that was great.
- 19:01I added a little to that anyway, the general theme, what was sure
- 19:05where I read and, and and you know it, it is so true.
- 19:08You know, just let the markets be the markets, let the
- 19:12competitiveness exist. At any time you start injecting
- 19:16all of this government, whatever it is, you know, you, you tip
- 19:20the market upside down and you, you tip the the business
- 19:24environment because the playing fields no no longer fair.
- 19:27So, yeah, and I think we just have to be really careful the
- 19:30direction we go anyway. We're on the right path.
- 19:33I, as we you and I were talking ahead of time.
- 19:36It took Kansas about two weeks to shit.
- 19:39Can that idea? No, we really don't need a 15
- 19:42mile corridor and condemnation and eminent domain to go through
- 19:47western Kansas. And that's what it amounts to.
- 19:50Like I said that the power line is small, but we don't know
- 19:54where we're going to put it yet and that may affect individual
- 19:57businesses, cities, private property and Kansas was smart
- 20:01enough to pick up on that, which you'd think 1/3 grader could
- 20:05figure that deal out and say no way.
- 20:08Well, and I mean in the state of Kansas, we're very pro gas and
- 20:14oil right now too. We are very anti green energy
- 20:18right now for the most part. And there's been a really big
- 20:21push to go back towards oil and gas because like you said
- 20:25earlier, the ratio at which it's more efficient is substantially
- 20:31higher. And there's like when we look at
- 20:33these wind fields and windmills and solar and everything else,
- 20:38it's like the cost that it takes to maintain and keep those
- 20:42running and then the ROI that you actually get out of them is
- 20:47Nolan Void pretty much by the time that you take in a like
- 20:51take into account the entirety of a like sub area and then the
- 20:56transportation of that energy and everything else that goes
- 20:59into it. I'm like, we've got oil and gas
- 21:02figured the hell out. Like we have to do it in a
- 21:05sustainable way that is going to continue to protect our
- 21:08environment and protect our like grazing lands and everything
- 21:11else that goes into that. But at the same time, like we've
- 21:13got that figured out. Let's let's lean into that.
- 21:17And I my biggest qualm when they were talking about putting this
- 21:21through Kansas was the fact like the point that pretty much
- 21:23everyone in Kansas made of what? So we can transport and pay to
- 21:28transport energy, that we're then using energy to transport
- 21:32it. And it's how much energy is
- 21:34going to get to the end of the line by the time it gets there,
- 21:37and how many. By the time it finally gets
- 21:40there and factor that in and more, like you said, we've
- 21:44already got a system in place that's tried and true and works.
- 21:49And maybe it's not perfect, but you know, the infrastructure is
- 21:52already there. It's working, it's going, we, we
- 21:55have abundant resources of it. And the man, oh man, I mean, why
- 21:59shit can a deal that's already working and then shut all of
- 22:03that entity down and then put government money, government
- 22:07money into recreation, creating a new one that cost all the
- 22:10taxpayers and the land owners. When the oil and gas deal is
- 22:15largely self-sufficient, it adds to the equation.
- 22:18And I'm not saying, you know, there's some tax breaks and
- 22:22there's some deal in the oil and gas deal, all good and fine.
- 22:25But it comes a hell of a lot closer to standing on its own
- 22:28than these other deals, in my opinion.
- 22:31You know what? I would hate to be a land
- 22:33attorney in southeast Colorado right now.
- 22:36Yeah, because they're probably busy, even though there's a
- 22:40pause on this, Like, good Lord. Like, just the amount of
- 22:44property that they're going to have to go through an eminent
- 22:47domain and everything in order to get this running is going to
- 22:51be insane. And I pray that it doesn't.
- 22:54Like, this is a situation that I hope that the Colorado State
- 22:59Senate and representatives can pull their heads out of their
- 23:01butts for just one day and figure out that, you know, maybe
- 23:04this isn't the best thing in the world for our for our economic
- 23:07development. Yeah.
- 23:08Well, it by the time the average person realizes it, it, it, it's
- 23:15too late. You know what I mean?
- 23:16You can't stay back in the rears and say, well, we'll see if it
- 23:20goes through. It goes once it goes through,
- 23:23then it, it, it's a done deal. So you got to head that son of a
- 23:27bitch off before it ever, ever even gets a chance of going
- 23:30through. And, and I think our
- 23:32conservative nature is not well, I don't think it's going to go
- 23:36through. And I don't want to spend a lot
- 23:37of time fighting for something that probably isn't going to
- 23:39happen anyway. And then Wham, it's through and
- 23:43you think, well, shit, we need to stop this.
- 23:45This is horrible. Well, guess what?
- 23:47You screwed the pooch. But it's already it's already
- 23:50over and they're coming and we're going to run that So bitch
- 23:53right through your Rancho and adios mother and ain't a
- 23:57shitting thing you can do about it because it's the the whole
- 24:01program's already been approved. So just kind of to reiterate it.
- 24:05It pays on all of this stuff to get on the ground floor and get
- 24:09active. And I know it takes a lot of
- 24:11time and a lot of commitment and a lot of money and most of us
- 24:14aren't geared that way, but it doesn't take much time just to
- 24:18let your representative, your senator know Senator know that
- 24:22man, Oh man, this, this ain't worth the shit.
- 24:24And, you know, we're, we're kind of at a point now, I think with
- 24:28Rollins and a lot of people, they're going back to the
- 24:31country and kind of tuning out the lobbyists and the big
- 24:35institutional people that take government money and, and go to
- 24:39the boots on the ground grass root guys that really have, you
- 24:43know, stock in the game and pay it a little more attention to
- 24:47them. Don't you think that there's a
- 24:49gradual shift that way conscientiously?
- 24:52Because I've talked to senators numerous times, wrote letters,
- 24:57had phone calls, da, da, da, da, da.
- 24:59And as an individual, you get nothing because you're up
- 25:03against the Farm Bureau or you're up against the NCBA.
- 25:06And they look at that as that's the spokesperson for everybody
- 25:10out there. And we've said it before,
- 25:12everybody meaning about 3% of us.
- 25:15So I think there's a general shift if that to the 97% and
- 25:19people are saying, you know, I'm going to talk to as many of the
- 25:22people that's directly affected by it as I possibly can.
- 25:26And I'll get a little more of an unbiased.
- 25:28Well, it's definitely biased, but I'll I'll get somebody at
- 25:31least got stuck in the game and not some some bitch out here
- 25:35that's making 200,000 a year from a lobby deal.
- 25:38That that's his whole goal in life.
- 25:42He don't give a shit whether it's right or wrong because it
- 25:44don't affect him. That's his job.
- 25:46And you quit listening to themselves with bucks and start
- 25:49going back to the people that make a difference that actually
- 25:51own the land and are involved in the commerce of the whole
- 25:54program. So anyway, hopefully it's
- 25:57shifted going places. Yes, I could not agree more.
- 26:00Absolutely. We talked about so many great
- 26:02things today. John, thank you for bringing
- 26:04this topic to us. And as always, thank you for
- 26:06coming on and sharing your wealth of knowledge and your
- 26:09candor and your thoughts and opinions and all of the things.
- 26:12We always appreciate it here. Even if there is some healthy
- 26:16back and forth between us, It's always, it's always great.
- 26:19Keeps me on my. Chest back and forth you and I
- 26:21agree on. No, we do.
- 26:23Everything. We do OK, We do OK.
- 26:28Another thing real quick, King of the ring this Saturday, be
- 26:33there, I'll be there. I look for I, I, I want to see
- 26:36you come up, slap me in the back of the heads.
- 26:38A lot of times I don't hear well, so you know, I, I don't do
- 26:42good. So you, you know, you have to
- 26:44get my attention, but Dodge City, KS Saturday 9 o'clock 8000
- 26:50cattle 8 champion auctioneers competing at one location.
- 26:56You don't have to drive 15 places to hear two of them.
- 26:59They'll all be right there and they've got a tremendous slate
- 27:02and it's just the winners do an outstanding job.
- 27:05It's Lauren, you, you, you've been there and they've split it
- 27:09up this year. They're going to have the Hall
- 27:11of Fame deal later in the year, but going to have the golf
- 27:15tournament and there's a big Derby party and they just do it
- 27:20upright. And boy, if you want to see the
- 27:22country's best auctioneers and Wheaties in one day, I'll see
- 27:27you Saturday. This Saturday, Dodge City.
- 27:30Absolutely. We will have all of the links
- 27:31for that down on the show notes where you guys can check it out,
- 27:34get the information to join them in person.
- 27:36Or if you're not able to join us in person, we also will have the
- 27:39live stream and the information where you can get all of that
- 27:42down below in the show notes. And hope to see you guys there
- 27:45in Dodge City this weekend. John, thank you for your time
- 27:47and to all of you listeners, we will see you all next time on
- 27:50another episode of the Cattle USA Daily Podcast.
- 27:52Have a good one y'all.