How are labor challenges shaping management decisions? on dairy operations?

Well, I think one huge challenge that we all know about is that rural Iowa is not really growing, right? They're not, they don't have a labor surplus.

So just finding people to work on the farm is a challenge.

And AI can definitely help with that.

a place where you can invest some capital and see returns and maybe not require as much labor as you would in the past.

But also, in addition to AI automation data, just finding alternative ways to staff your farm.

There's a few different farms that we've talked to that high schoolers aren't really known for being reliable, dependable, consistent, but sometimes you got to work with what you got, right? And the high school part-time labor is who's in town, right? um sometimes you have to work with local transportation industries like switta comes to mind immediately they take a lot of workers from the council bluffs area and transport them to different manufacturers whether that's dairy or other industries um so maybe looking at the labor pool beyond just your local small town where there might not be as many people

It keeps things for the state of Iowa and helps Iowa grow as a food state.