Cody Archie

We earn enough on our ranch side now to, I could quit those other jobs, but we'll never be able to expand further than where we are now.

It would just kind of maintain.

Does that make sense?

Yep, it does.

And I want to grow.

I want to be able to leave not just one place that we got to divide in half to our two children.

I want to have two or three separate places where they can each have a good start if they want to continue farming and ranching in the future.

But to do that, we got to keep working hard.

I mean, you can't, it's so volatile, and we can't control enough of the markets.

You know, I mean, we don't get to set our prices.

Somebody else tells us what it's going to be.

It's not like we're selling John Deere tractors, and we get to say, hey, this is what a John Deere tractor is going to cost.

You know, we have to, we're depending on what the markets say, which all businesses are, but we have way less control on that than somebody else does.

Right.

The biggest, not proponents, I don't know what the right word, haters, I guess, that we face really come from agriculture, not from other walks of life.

I like to call all of agriculture, for the most part, we're like the poor white trash of any community.

If we can't find somebody else to fight, we'll just fight each other.

Fight each other.

And it's terrible because...

You know, the organic or all natural guys will come after the regular production agriculture guys and say, you know, that's an inferior product or it's going to kill you if you eat it or whatever.