Speaker 0:01

If you're new to our From the Pasture podcast, this is one of our special pre-sale episodes. Our regular shows feature ranch stories, breeder interviews, and cattle knowledge. But today we're focusing specifically on this weekend's Texas Longhorn sale. So if you're wanting to learn more about Texas Longhorn Cattle markets, or you're a registered Texas Longhorn breeder looking to expand your herd, you'll want to tune in to today's episode. I'm Jamie. And I'm Molly. We're the owners of Hired Hand Software and Hired Hand Live, and we're excited to bring you a closer look at this upcoming sale. In today's episode, we'll be talking with the sale host about consignments, sale details, and what to watch for in the ring. You can view consignments at hiredhandlive.com and in most cases, visit the consigners' hired hand-powered websites to learn more. Now let's jump into this weekend's sale preview.

Jaymie 0:55

I'm here with Josh Dinwiddie, the event host for the upcoming Battle on the Prairie, which is held in Duncan, Oklahoma. Josh and I will be talking about the Faturity details, sponsors, and of course the entries. Let's get to it. Hey Josh, how's it going?

Speaker 2 1:08

Good today, Jamie. How are you?

Jaymie 1:11

So you're back for another year of Battle on the Prairie. Does this mark the third year you've had it?

Speaker 2 1:16

Yes, ma'am. This is the third consecutive year for us.

Jaymie 1:20

Well, let's jump into the schedule of events for the weekend. Everything I believe starts on Thursday, April 23rd. What all goes on that day?

Speaker 2 1:30

Uh April 23rd will be probably one of my busier days and setting up the facility. The pins should be put together, filling up waters, hanging pin hanger signs. Thursday will be uh the day we drop off all our cattle. So we we would like all of our cattle in place by Thursday. I think we put 8 o'clock on there. What we're trying to do is level the playing field for a fraturity that starts at 9 a.m. Um I've noticed some other fraturities have gone to this. No drop off the morning of, because it's just not fair that someone drive from the East Coast to Oklahoma Thursday, and then somebody an hour down the road doesn't want their animal in a pen, and they think they'll show better. So we want the playing field level and everybody in by eight or nine o'clock. I believe it is Thursday evening, but that'll be a real busy day for us.

Jaymie 2:22

And who's helping you in the back this year?

Speaker 2 2:25

Uh I have a new guy this year out of Arkansas that's moved a lot of cattle in his life. Um, but this is part of what we pride ourselves on, is we've typically handled our own cattle. Uh each and every year. We've got a group of people that move cows real calm, efficient, effective. You know, from the uh ITTLA days, I think this might be our my might be number 10, maybe number nine for charity to host, but at least nine years in a row. Not a 30-second pause in a show, not a not a riled up animal. We really pride ourselves on handling those. So I'm gonna let somebody help me this year. Other than that, it'll be me and my crew as usual.

Jaymie 3:16

Okay, so if anyone has questions, they should contact you. You or Kit, right?

Speaker 2 3:20

Yes, ma'am.

Jaymie 3:24

Alright, now let's jump into Friday where n everything I guess officially starts. Uh what time does it have for fraturity start on Friday?

Speaker 2 3:33

9 a.m.

Jaymie 3:35

And can you do you want to talk about the breakdown of your classes this year?

Speaker 2 3:41

Uh our classes will emulate and line up with the NLFR class breakdown. Um if you've attended our Faturities in the past, uh, it's getting simpler and simpler with uh the advent of the NLFR. Um take last year's class number or year number and roll it ahead.

Jaymie 4:07

And then how many entries did you have last year, or how many are you anticipating on having this year?

Speaker 2 4:13

You know, that's a good question. Last year we broke 300. And uh for the setup last year, I, you know, I was getting kind of nervous. I needed to stop it. You know, it was getting a little out of control, and I thought, as a matter of fact, I was talking to Joe when one of our first entries came in. I told him, you know, I thought people were tired of running the roads and futurities might take a little back step this year. And Joe said, oh no, it's gonna be bigger than ever. And that was, I don't remember. It was the first of the year, as early as I've ever got an entry. As we're talking on the telephone, I get an alert that I got an email with our first entry. It was December 31st or January 1st, somewhere in that range. So I I'm expecting under 300, but let's let's just see where we land.

Jaymie 5:07

What do you have planned for the the payouts this year?

Speaker 2 5:11

Our payouts will be a 70-30 payout, but what we do that's unique is we pay the top four places in the class. We don't try to pay down through ninth place or whatever. The goal with my payout structure, and and we've moved it five percent incrementally this year. We'll move to 75-25, excuse me. Our goal is working toward paying out nearly all of the entry, but my goal in a payout is that I don't want to send somebody away from uh a class four heifer winning with a check that is smaller than their entry fee. So our checks last year, we had some class checks that went out at twenty-two, twenty-three hundred dollars for their class winning, which I think is phenomenal to send people away with those nice big checks.

Jaymie 6:06

Nice. That's a good size check for the participants. I'm assuming you'll also give out buckles as well.

Speaker 2 6:12

Yep, we'll have buckles uh as well as your class payout, and then we also offer, we implemented this a couple years ago, a $5,000 check for our grand heifer and bull as well. So technically, if you win a big class here, I think last year someone left with $7,800.

Jaymie 6:36

I want to So who are the lucky five individuals that get to determine the buck goals and um, I guess who the grand champion is?

Speaker 2 6:45

We are not announcing our judges until after the entry deadline. That's a secret.

Jaymie 6:52

Okay, all right. A little suspense.

Speaker 2 6:54

Yeah.

Jaymie 6:55

You also do something special at your event called Sawyer Spotlight. Can you talk about how that got started? Who can participate?

Speaker 2 7:05

That was started probably seven years ago. I want to say this for the record, probably six or seven years ago. Just wanted to get that in there. Um because it deals with kids in Sawyer. Well, she was probably three or four, three or four years old. And um I'm big at involving kids in livestock and especially in the show arena. And what that did for me as a kid was give me confidence to be able to talk to somebody. So, our Sawyer spotlight, we allow a parent that has brought a heifer or a young bull that they're showing. After the last class of heifers goes through, we have our judges sit in place, and then we bring our kids back there and pair them up with their parents' animal, or um, like Mike and Callie have had animals to bring that are halter broke before. We'll have animals for them to show. Basically, let any kid get in the ring with an animal in front of people, in front of judges, and Dan or Chase has been really good about having a small dialogue with that kid, getting them to talk, getting them to open up, the judges to make eye contact with that exhibitor, have them speak and be comfortable in a ring, and at the end of that, each one of those kids gets a buckle. Uh I think who knows how many buckles we've given away. Um, this year the buckles and every year, really, since we've had Battle on the Prairie have been sponsored by the Source, Ryan and Devin Culpepper have been a pretty active part of that for us.

Jaymie 8:47

Looks like from the schedule of events, the next thing after the Sawyer Spotlight is the spotlight animals that will be for sale. Um, that'll happen from 2 to 3 p.m. Um, same with this. Who can participate? How do they participate? What do they need to do?

Speaker 2 9:02

So those spotlight animals will technically be for sale all weekend, and this is something I started with the inaugural battle on the prairie. We offer a sponsorship above and beyond what's publicly offered, and we invite some criteria that's me. I guess, you know, being selfish entire event, we get set set to criteria. We'll invite breeders and an animal that I really get can get behind that I think is doing the industry really good, that may even be a little underpromoted. So we bring that breeder into the spotlight and their bull or cow, and then promote that animal throughout the whole weekend. That animal is pinned. If you've been to that fraternity before, you'll see that animal right out in front, left and right of the sail ring all weekend, or even we've built pins out toward and into the audience to where those animals are visible. You don't have to go in the back and look for that animal. That animal's on display all weekend. This year, with that sponsorship package, we added something unique that each one of those sponsors are going to bring. A good example would be Andrea Siller's bringing Texac for us to promote. So Texac will be in the crowd for the whole world to see. She is allowed to select to bring two bull prospects, two heifers, something related to that spotlight animal for sale. The caveat to that is that breeder brings those, selects those, prices those. Even, you know, we'll promote those and make a pin hanger or whatever they want to do. But those will be the only animals for sale in the entire building for the entire weekend. We really like to take our sponsors to the next level and keep a spotlight on them and sell some animals for them.

Jaymie 11:07

Well, it sounds like a great way to do that. Um, you mentioned sponsors there for just a second. You want to talk about the other sponsorships that you have available?

Speaker 2 11:15

Uh yeah. We're kind of set on the same schedule that we've had from the beginning. From $2,500 down to $350. They're each named after one of the famous cattle trails that run from Texas North, the Shawnee Trail, the Chisholm Trail, the Western Trail, and the Goodnight Lovin' Trail. Um, these sponsorships will include a reserve banquet table for you for the whole weekend, full-page catalog ads, your ranch name on the marquee outside, uh banners displayed in or around the show ring. Um the bigger sponsors come with fraturity entry, so I mean that knocks $175 off each. Social media promotion, which I feel like I do a decent job at. And the Banquet Breeder spotlight, where we can, you know, put a small dialogue together about you and your program and have you promoted in front of the audience there at the event. Um, down to the Shawnee Trail, which is you know your normal fraturity sponsors, a quarter page ad, you get your banner displayed and a class sponsorship. Um, it's really a diverse set of sponsorships. One of my favorite ones is in the Western Trail, the Outhouse Advertisements. Uh, we came up with this, I don't remember what it's called, but our printer has this paper. It's like sticky tack or something like that. So we take your banner, we take your ads, we take all of the material that you've sent to us, and they put it on this high-tack paper. So you can basically make a three by five banner and throw it at a brick wall and it sticks on there. So we take those advertisements and we'll put them on the urinals, the sinks, the common areas and places where so I want people to see your advertisement. Um, they have to go to the bathroom or they're just weird, you know, who can hold it for three days? Nobody can, right? So somebody's gonna see your advertisement at least once, because then you know they're not holding it for three days.

Jaymie 13:27

That's true. The other unique thing that I saw when I was looking over your um sponsorships was the Goodnight Loving Trail sponsorship includes a fast pass to loadout.

Speaker 2 13:39

Yeah, that's got me in some trouble in the past. I didn't read it out loud on purpose, but it is there and I love it. I'm gonna leave it there. But you know, when people want to leave, there's not much that's gonna get in their way. But when you send somebody out there with a fast pass and they say, Josh said I can go to the front of the line, they paid for it. They get it, it works, but sometimes that you might have to fight your way into the line.

Jaymie 14:34

I'm sure those sponsors will definitely appreciate it. I know sometimes I can that line can go all the way around that building.

Speaker 2 14:42

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, and and you sit in that line three hours. What's three hours worth to you?

Jaymie 14:47

Right. Well, to wrap up Friday night, you're gonna have some entertainment. You want to talk about who you chose for that?

Speaker 2 14:57

We've got a up-and-coming girl named Sawyer June Dinwiddie. I'm a little partial to her. Um she loves to play and she loves to sing, and you know, if you've been any part of this Longhorn world for the last 10 years, yeah, I'm sure you've heard her. Um she seems like she just gets better every single day to me. We have her and a special guest, Emily Ryan. Emily Ryan is a girl that is a friend of Blake Shelton's that um it might even have been a year and a half or so ago. She started to invite Sawyer to go with her to play at Old Red's, which is Blake Shelton's restaurant in Tishamingo. Now, Emily has her own band, her own gig. She does uh a lot of road work, but her to come and sing with Sawyer, I think, is going to be a unique show, you know, with which is what we're after. We don't need a huge concert. That seems to be the way the Longhorn industry has gone the last couple of years. But we want a couple of girls that sing beautiful with acoustic guitars, and you can sit and eat your meal, and you can sit and talk cows, or you can sit and listen to the music. So I think they're gonna provide just exactly what we need for some entertainment.

Jaymie 16:15

Well, let's move on to Saturday, April 25th, right away in the morning. You start with the bull fraturity. What time is the official kickoff?

Speaker 2 16:25

Um, the official kickoff for the bull furity, I wanna say, is 9 a.m. bull fraturity, so we have our dinner and awards at noon. Also, we skipped on Friday, Samuel Faske will be there um to give a bovine feet clinic, you know, that's his area of specialty. He will also be there Thursday, Friday, and he will actually be trimming feet there for folks too.

Jaymie 16:55

He usually does um has a lot of success when I think when he travels to different places um for people to take that opportunity.

Speaker 2 17:03

Yeah, absolutely.

Jaymie 17:06

So then you'll have the awards banquet and the meal at noon. Will everything be right there in that same building, or will you move to a different building?

Speaker 2 17:15

No. The the table you sit at Thursday, or if you're a sponsor in the table that you've bought, uh that'll be where you sit for every event for the fraterity, the Calcutta, for the awards, for the music, for the meals. Everything is in one convenient location. You don't have to move 30 feet.

Jaymie 17:36

And one of the awards that you were going to give away is called the Bob Loomis Award. Um, I believe you did this last year as well.

Speaker 2 17:44

Yep. This I don't know how old this award is. I think it started with Rick Frederick, um, when it was the this was the Red River sale. Um Rick Frederick, Frank Averdes, and Bob Loomis. I want to think I'm accurate in saying that. So the the Bob Loomis Award has been given away, I want to say eight or nine, maybe ten times. Um I'm not gonna announce who it's going to yet. But it's a real nice bronze plaque and uh statement of a milestone achievement, someone that has done their part to advance the breed, and we we like recognizing them each and every year.

Jaymie 18:31

Do you remember some of uh the previous recipients?

Speaker 2 18:36

Dale has gotten one, Ryan Culpepper got it last year. Um You know, I can tell you the history of the award, but I can't name off more than two people that have received it.

Jaymie 18:50

It's okay.

Speaker 2 18:51

Um and I think Rick Frederick was also a recipient as well.

Jaymie 18:56

Well, some very deserving people. How does one get nominated for the award, or how is there some sort of committee that chooses it? How does that work?

Speaker 2 19:06

Yeah, it's a one-man committee. His name's Bob Loomis.

Jaymie 19:09

Oh, very nice. And Bob's already made the decision this year on who gets it.

Speaker 2 19:14

Yes, ma'am.

Jaymie 19:15

All right. Well, I guess I know um who people or we all know now who people should uh butter up to throughout the year if they want a shot at the award, huh?

Speaker 2 19:24

Yeah, you know that old man notices a heck of a lot more than a fellow would think.

Jaymie 19:30

So then after this award is given out, are you allowing people to load out on Saturday? Or is that only Sunday? Would you like everybody to be out on Saturday? Are you allowing loadout on Sunday too as well?

Speaker 2 19:58

People can stay just as long as they want.

Jaymie 20:01

Through Sunday.

Speaker 2 20:02

Yep. I mean if it's drugged a Monday before.

Jaymie 20:06

Okay. Well, is there anything that we have not talked about that you would like to mention if there's, you know, common questions that you get asked that you would like to um answer here? The floor is yours.

Speaker 2 20:19

You know, as many years as we've done this, um I think I've pretty well worked all of the futurity faux paws out. I'm not saying nothing new can come up and happen. We will have water tubs. They will be filled, uh, and we'll have a crew to fill those tubs. We'll have hay in your pen. When your animal gets there, it'll be full of water, it'll be full of hay. There'll be hay there for sale. Hay is provided by Mike and Callie Smith, cold copper commodities. It's some of the best I've ever seen. Might be our third year to buy hay from them. Unbelievably green coastal Bermuda. Um, what else? We want to really stress to people that when the show starts and the corner gates get locked, um, that we stay out of the way of people moving cattle, which this Fatherity's never had a problem with that, but I know some that have had in the past. I wanted to spend a little bit of time on our spotlight animals and spotlight sponsors. One of our big sponsors that we had actually last year, I fell in love with the bull the year before. It's Jason and Barb Shigoda, and now it's Pat Hindler with 1883 Cattle Company, or partnered on a black and white bull named Jess the Cowboy. They will be the exception to animals being sold at this event. Neither one of them are ready to part with an animal out of him. They sold a young bull out of him to Umberto Nobre. That bull's currently breeding in Brazil, so it's he's already got some international traction. They're bringing a whole pen of calves for you to look at out of just a cowboy, and they are offering, they're bringing it back for one more round. Um, they'll have a limited number of straws available on that bull. He is just something to see. He's probably going to be a hundred inches tip to tip by the end of straw. Spring here, the battle on the prairie was 98 and some change back in November. And to me, it's not uncommon for a young bull like that to put on an inch and three-quarters over a winner. Another animal we're gonna have is Jeff Wilson's bringing M7 double jack. You know, this fits a fraturity, right? I mean, this bull is uh 13 or 14 first places, four or five high points, NLFR grand champion bull, and he's got another year to roll. Uh cactus jack by the Sen CP cow. Jeff ran the roads hard with that that bull. And we're turning around to where that bull's gonna be breeding cows. We're gonna start seeing some progeny. Someone else is uh Andrew and Max Filler. Um, you know, you look at a lot of these big purchases people make, and their name is on the list. Definitely. They've bought some rippers of cows over the years here and really supported this industry. They're bringing Texaco back to display for the public. Who knows what Andrea is going to pick for heifers and bulls and offspring out of Texac? I will preface this with in 2025, there's been five animals sold out of Texaco, and their average sale price is $40,100 apiece. So we're talking about some herd-changing dynamics that will be standing there, and we couldn't be happier to get behind Mac and Andrea because they've supported us for years. Um not only do they, you know, have a pointed program, they've always been open to listening. They've always had a very watchful eye as to moves that would recover these massive investments in cattle that people look and they think, how's that ever coming back? You're selling $40,000 offspring out of one bull, I think you're on the road to bringing some of that money back home. And and the herd that they've put together is just absolutely outstanding. Um Mike and Callie will also be there. They've, you know, cold copper has contributed greatly to this breed over the last few years. You know, we've we've watched them put a herd together that'll stop you in your tracks. I picked a bull that they own right now named Tide Off. And I I picked him for his confirmation, for his size. Um he does, he's not burning the woods down with his horns, but they're also not on a single trait path breeding either. They've bought some of the biggest horned cattle in the industry, and they're they're putting tied off uh on cows like the sweet maxi cow. Um Dunlucky Dice. Um they're they're really advancing a completely rounded animal that checks the block of clean on the top, clean on the bottom, feminine built in, uh, masculinity built into their bulls, flashy colors, and the horns gonna follow along for the ride no matter what they do. I can't wait, and I know you guys probably can't wait either to see what what they bring and offer at the Battle on the Prairie. You know, the motto for this deal is gonna be for sale, not on sale. They've done an outstanding job at putting a herd together, and every time I've turned around, man, through running these fraterities, uh themselves or JC has been right there to help me. I mean, I'll have a crew that's dog tired and walk out back to take a little break, and there's Mike and Callie with a whole trailer load of pizza for all my guys. And JC just walking her little heart out, up and down those alleys, helping move animals, helping water animals. They're just a jewel of a family that we've lucked into putting into this longhorn industry. Um, our next and last spotlight sponsor. It's no surprise that they topped the charts of about everything they do. Rex and Sharice Glen Denning have agreed to bring a bull named GF Buckwyn. And I started down this road with looking at animals. Much like I had a frank conversation with Andrea a couple of years ago. Hey, this Texaco bull is amazing, and you're not doing a great job at promoting them. Well, GF Buckwyn is probably the best drag iron son ever bred. Hands down. I mean, this guy is freaking massive. And you talk about a female producing sucker, the phenotype that is rolling off of this bull is amazing. And you almost have to go to Rex and Sharice's to see what they've produced out of this bull. Um, there is a top secret bull out there that I told Bob we weren't going to promote, and we have kind of got a plan to promote next year named GF True Grit. Bob bought half of this young bull from Rex and Sharice. He's out of Buckwyn and a cow that we all know named H.L. Adored. Now you talk about some genetic power they're fixing to bring up. We want to show you Buckwyn this year. We want to show you what he produces this year, and then next year we want to show you GF True Grit. Um from topping sales and and burning sale catalogs down to winning furities to private treaty sales leaders. Um of these genetics are stuff that dreams are made of, really. And then Rex and Sharice, I don't I don't know that I have to say anything good about them that you already don't know. You know, they took the place of the Red McComb sale, carrying the torch for the Fiesta sale, and I will never forget my experiences at the Red McComb sale. And, you know, that was in 2015, 16. And I, you know, I was blown away by it, right? And I heard people saying even then, oh, this is nothing, like it used to be. That big green and white tent, some good enchiladas, some good music, Alan's margaritas. We always had a great time there. Well, when they canceled that, Rex and Sharice picked that fiesta sale torch up. And I'm gonna tell you, I've never been to a cleaner, better run sale. I've never seen animals better promoted than Rex and Sharice have done. I've never seen them or anyone put together a set of people under one roof and feed them and provide them drinks and promote their animals. Um, I've never seen anyone do it quite that well. And the inaugural sale there, you know, I forget who it was. It was somebody older that had been around quite a long time, and they said, now this is what the Fiesta sale used to be like. And it's amazing to me to know that you know, Rex didn't pull any punches. If if it had to be there, it was there and it was the best that it could be. Rex and Sharice have supported us all for a lot of years, and we're so proud to be able to put one of their best bulls. He's now he's their main herd sire, so hands off, we can't be touchy. This this bull's gotta get back in one piece because I'm on the line for it. But I'm really, really humbled that they have allowed us to promote not only them, but the Buckwind Bull. Um, I think it's gonna be a stellar lineup of spotlight sponsors with animals for sale. You know, there'll be animals there I can't afford. There'll be animals there that in three or four years I look at and go, by God, I could have afforded them, and I didn't. So come with the attitude that, you know, you're gonna meet some new people, there'll be a lot of new breeders there, um, a lot of opportunities will be there to be had. And I can tell you from experience, more cattle, I believe, have traded hands in the backpens of a fraterty than have ever traded in a sale for what I call reality dollars, you know, out in three or four years that they've just made a pile of money on. We've got some other sponsors to name here that are gonna be um newer breeders. Todd and Rhoda Farrell with Farrell Ranch, they're newer breeders that have just jumped into this really in the last year or so. They're at Nakona, Texas. They're they're approaching this with a, you know, some of my advice, a real dollar approach. This needs to be a profitable business. And we're so happy to help them along the way. Roger Cole is with us. He's been with us every single year. Brian and Karen Allen, remember we promoted their Firestorm Bowl last year. They've come back to sponsor again. Uh, deal has since put together Rex and Sharice now on half of the Firestorm Bowl with Brian and Karen Allen. PNC, Paul with PC has supported us for every year I've been doing this. Um, he has a unique deal. He'll have chutes there. If you order a chute from him, he'll bring it there. You can pick it up so you avoid some delivery charges. Um and Sam Fast have partnered up with Hoofinite Solutions. They've built a new chute with uh, I haven't seen it, so I can't tell you exactly what it is, but it is a chute that is specifically designed to be able to trim feet. That's gonna play really well with Sam coming with Hoofinite Solutions to give us a clinic on bovine feet and be able to trim feet there, so you'll be able to see PC's new Hoofinite Solutions attachment for their PNC squeeze chute and listen to Sam talk about feet. And if you feel like you got something that needs trimmed, you can bring it on. Um hired hand, of course, sponsors this each and every year. Try to use their sponsorship to the best of its ability. And this year, like we talked, Jamie, one of our spotlight sponsors, I can just get it out of the way, is getting a Jamie, what's the name of the package?

Jaymie 34:22

Um, a simple Buckaroo website.

Speaker 2 34:26

Buckaroo, see, I was hunting the word. And and you know, as far as you guys go, I can't say good enough things about hired hand. I have no idea. I mean, I guess I do because we used to have a binder, like a three-ring binder, with pictures of our cows in it and a description of them and a little calving chart, you know. So when people would come, we had this golden book. No, I think it was orange, kit made of orange binder. And when people would come, we had this whole plan, you know, we're gonna bring this book with us everywhere we go, we're gonna crack this book open. But somebody had to be here, right, physically, to see that. The the advent of hired hand pushing, promoting, and the data that you guys have compiled, it's just about a no-brainer anymore. If you're gonna breed something that's of any value, uh, especially in the longhorn world, but you guys do a lot more than that, the shoe-in for hired hand is the monopoly on the data, 100%. When someone can sit at home and research hired hand websites, um, you know, I really don't think that there's any end to it. And I don't think that there is any justifying anymore of not participating and not having a website because it's such a vital tool. You know, you can if people keep up with it, the tool you guys put on there that we can see every calf a cow has had if people are diligent about managing their own uh websites. We can see their vaccinations, we can see their exposures, we can see pictures of them when they were a calf, all the way to pictures of them as six or seven-year-olds. And there it was again. I said six or seven. I'm just gonna try to work that in a bunch. Hired Hand has definitely been um an irreplaceable tool for the longhorn breed, and we sure appreciate and thank you guys, Jamie.

Jaymie 36:20

Well, thank you, Josh. That's very nice of you, and um, we are so very happy to help and do what we can. And it sounds like you have a great group of ranches for the spotlight sale. Uh, if somebody is interested in any of those animals that those breeders are bringing, do they contact you? Do they contact the breeder directly? How do they navigate that situation?

Speaker 2 36:43

You can contact me or the breeder directly. What I think I'm gonna do, which we still have a little bit of time here, what I think I'm gonna do is have a banner made to put in the center of that arena. And each one of those is gonna have their hired hand pedigree of each animal, and it's gonna have the price of that animal on it. And I really want to put a Sharpie there. Uh, and if someone wants one of those animals, this way we're not competing, we're not saying, well, I asked about it first. You walk up there and write your name on that for the amount shown, that's who bought that animal. So that might be first. If you decide you really want that animal, remember, we typically bring 220 for a low to 500 for a high of people to this event. You're not the only one that may want that animal. Now, this is not an auction, but you dang sure need to be pretty quick. If you decide you want that animal, you better run up there and write your name on it and then contact the breeder or myself, and we'll get payment arrangements made and health paper arrangements made and make sure you get loaded out Saturday or Sunday whenever you leave.

Jaymie 38:01

Well, for those people that are interested in participating in the Facharity, the form is up on your website, plaindurantfarms.com. And I believe the deadline is April 1st.

Speaker 2 38:12

Yep, the deadline is April 1st.

Jaymie 38:15

Thank you for joining us, Josh. We look forward to hearing about who takes home new buckles and who wins the grand champion. Until next time.