And how in past presenters or lectures have you seen that really come to K-State and the attendees? You

know, I think what's really been fun, Shelby, is to just see – the light go on for so many, including me, as we have these discussions.

You know, we had the water expert from California and how we were talking, I'm not saying his name quite right, but he was excellent.

And I think that brought some things together with Kansas State and working together with with him and the Ogallala Aquifer and how we can get better.

And there were a lot of things that came from that.

Sarah Minker, who was very, very, she had just an intelligence and agriculture, bringing things together to where, and the Kansas State Ag Clubs and Kansas State, and I'm not sure exactly whether it was agronomy or ag econ, but she gave them access to to their information and she was very interesting.

And then you had, you know, Frank Mitlaner and a lot of the work done with methane and, you know, beef cattle.

And who is getting added to this impressive list of Gardner lecturers for this year?

and all that

you bet ty casey it's a real joy to be here today and we're we're looking forward to visiting and i am mark from ashland kansas and that's in southwest kansas which sounds like it's a long ways away but it's just when i talked about driving down here this morning it's the same as if i was going to drive to topeka kansas it's the same distance so it's not that big a deal but my family like yours ty and uh you know the beef business has been our passion my family homesteaded there in 1885 my granddad was born in that homestead in 1889 and didn't get married until later my dad was born in 1931 so uh always been a part of the beef business and i think it's uh very similar to most of us in agriculture today but Henry Gardner was, like I said, born there in 1931, and he went to school at Kansas State, and that was at the beginning and the advent of artificial insemination, and he was very curious about... learning how to do that technique.

And interestingly enough, the way they were doing it back then, Ty, they weren't very successful glass pipettes.

They didn't go all the way through.

I used to tease him, did you get anything, Brad? He said, no, not very many.

But he went to school there from 1949 to 1953, and that the the technique got better henry got better and in 1964 he made the decision to become total artificial insemination i usually just say ai but in this day and age we there's i'll tell you about ai boys it's the real ai and that's artificial insemination but In 1964, when I was three years of age, he made the decision to breed all of our cows at that time, total AI without the use of cleanup bulls, which that was pretty revolutionary.

And the difference then was we didn't have near as many cattle then.

about that earlier.