National Finals Rodeo

I guess we've got quite a fair few kind of local-ish shows in around the Hunter Valley.

We were in Scone this weekend for the National Finals Rodeo on Friday night.

Back here in town, Toronto Diggers on Sunday.

Then we do a Sydney Harbour Cruise every year.

Kansas Farm Bureau will celebrate its 108th annual meeting December 5th through 7th in Manhattan.

It will begin on Saturday evening with KFB's Foundation fundraiser themed around the National Finals Rodeo.

On Sunday, informational workshops, trade show vendors, and a silent auction will be open to attendees.

Jason Brown, former NFL lineman who now owns and operates First Fruits Farm in North Carolina, will provide the keynote address.

Good to have you along.

Say the NFRC, the folks that run the National Finals Rodeo in conjunction with the PRCA, have changed the payout just a bit for the National Finals Rodeo and the goal rounds therewith, along with the aggregate or the average.

We'll talk about that change when we come back.

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payout at the national finals rodeo has changed particularly in the go rounds in the past only six places have been paid in the go rounds now they've changed it to eight a total of a hundred and twenty seven thousand eight hundred ninety nine dollars will be paid per go round per event times eight events Times 10 go-rounds, that's $14 million and some change.

And when Cowboys enter Vegas, they get a $10,000 check just for the qualifications.

Mickey G was here.

There was world champions and NFR guys every day just running steers.

Coming in and out because they knew if they wanted to get better, that was the place to go do it.

And, you know, obviously it's shown with your family.

They were, they were steers that got used, but he was so good.

And you guys were so good about making them where when you took them to the rodeo, there was about a chance every time you nodded your head.

Yeah, it was my first year of high school rodeo was 07, and we ran steers that y'all ran at the NFR at 05.

And, man, they were 600 pounds and had huge horns and would throw themselves.

Speaking of roots, let's talk about Roots Run Deep.

This is not only your brand, but your show that's been at the NFR, I think eight times now.

So dive in there.

Okay, so of course, if you haven't gathered by now, Roots Run Deep is very much my life mantra.

It keeps getting put on the back burner because all these other things happen.

But I was really fortunate.

You mentioned that I have a show at the NFR.

That all started, I hate to say completely by accident, but quite a bit by accident, talking about right place, right time.

In the end, Gardner finished 15th in the world standings, qualifying for his first Renger National Finals rodeo.

I kind of prioritized October, taking some time off.

Kind of after I hurt my knee there, I realized that maybe getting my Canadian count wasn't going to be beneficial if I wanted some time off to get ready for the NFR.

And so it was a hard decision to make, but I decided that I was going to miss the CFR and take that month to heal up so that I'd have a month in November to...

Really, you know, get in good shape and get on a lot of practice bulls and be ready for the opportunity.

Gardner becomes the first Canadian bull rider to qualify for the NFR since Jordan Hanson and Jared Parsonage in 2023.

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Today, Cade Saunier, number four in the world in the bareback riding, going to his third national finals rodeo, talks about his dad, Joey Saunier, who was a saddle bronc rider and made the NFR.

A night at the Thomas and Mac watching his dad changed his life forever.

A great story from the Louisiana bareback rider on the Roadshow, coming up next.