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And, uh, a good mentor of mine that, um, I never, I was too young to have the opportunity to judge for him and in college, but Shane Bedwell.

He's with the Hereford Association now.

Always said good cattle are good cattle on the move.

And this guy is just the epitome of that thing.

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Uh, also, uh, the, there'll be some, uh, uh, publication, uh, guys be at the sale if somebody's wanting to talk to them and get a second or third opinion or even their opinion as well.

Uh, opinion, that'd be Austin Brandt, he's, uh, now with the American Hereford Association as a field rep.

Uh, Shane Ryan and, uh, Cody Crumb, both on special assignments.

And the...

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Here's your host, Shane Bedwell.

Welcome back to another episode of 1881.

Like, how do we start gathering the next step of where these cattle are gonna end up? Because at the end of the day, the consumer, um, the consumer is our buyer, really.

And so we just, we had to figure out how to, how to find that, that next step.

And when we had heard about, um, the partnership with HRC and the American Hereford Association, I was like, "We've gotta figure out how to, to be involved in this." The other part that led us to that was, you know, in our, in our area, Hereford cattle do take a bit of a hit at the sale barn.

So we needed to figure out how to maximize our investment.

Um, somebody's making money on those cattle, so why isn't it us or our producers or our buyers? Um, so that was really the ultimate, the, the two driving forces that made us want to get involved.

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Yeah, so graduate in May.

And then I'm actually the summer intern for the Hereford Association.

So I'll be in Kansas City this summer working with Jack and Shane and Amy and all them.

And then this fall, I will be coming back to Kansas State.

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