Who We Are

But I think kind of the big thing, and a lot of people need to maybe know about us, is all those extra experiences that we've had outside of just the traditional going to school and being part of Extension work.

Um, for myself, I was able to participate in a program called the Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program.

And from that I got to, you know, explore a lot of Oklahoma, but also an international trip.

Got to go all the way to South Africa and see cattle production in one of the most southern places that you can be, and have been able to travel and see other places, made some relationships through the purebred industry, and have got to see cattle from, again, South Africa to South Florida to Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, a lot of the states right here in the middle.

So what are some extra experiences that help kind of define your curiosity and experience with cattle?

Well, I think what I did most is I came through and went through on all these ju- judging scholarships, right? So went to Northeastern Junior College, and I had a coach there that was very good and practical in his approach, and the one thing he taught me was no matter where you go, no matter who you're talking to, you can learn something from that individual or that situation.

And I think Alan Nelson there, as my instructor, really instilled that in me.

And boy, when I was at Wyoming coaching their judging team, I got to go from San Francisco, California to Louisville, Kentucky and stop at different operations around the country and see purebred operations that have a castle and racehorses to the commercial operations in the desert where it's two gallops between clumps of grass in Nevada.

And being able to see what works in those environments, what doesn't work, um, I think the biggest thing it's given me is the ability to stop, pause, observe, and hopefully ask the right questions when I'm in those situations to see what information I can take away, and now utilizing some of those, that information to go to my clientele and on this podcast and share those experiences where we think outside the box a little more than we have.

So those kind of things have really shaped me over the last 35 years to get to where I am today.