Cody Archie

And as a young man, I like to sit over there and eat tortillas with the South Texans.

And it kind of set me up for a lifetime of eating disorders, I guess you could say.

Because I love tortillas and sweets, you know, but...

Yeah, still on it, the carnivore journey.

I mean, if you're going to sell beef, you might as well be on the carnivore diet, right?

Yeah.

But, yeah, I mean, my folks didn't own any land to speak of, eight or nine acres, and that's got involved in 4-H and FFA.

You know, my first show animals were show goats.

My aunt had some goats, and I'd show some goats.

And then got into high school, I wanted to show cattle.

We couldn't afford to buy any cows, so...

In Texas, you can calf scramble at Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Waco.

If you catch a calf, donors have donated money so that you get that money, you go buy an animal and then bring it back and show it the next year.

So that's how I started my journey into the beef business.

I calf scrambled, caught some calves, was able to show some cattle.

I kept those, raised some calves out of them, was able to lease a place when I was in college.

Ended up selling those out when I came back home and just worked in the preconditioning yard.

Not really a feed yard, but a preconditioning yard, backgrounding yard.

And bought a place right before Eric and I got married or started dating.

I bought our place, and then we've just kind of been growing it.