Cody Archie

We had got our check, cashed it.

Like a month later was when Eastern folded, and there were guys all around us that they had picked up two or three loads of steers from them.

I see.

And they never got paid.

Oh.

You know, they had already been delivered to the feed yard.

The feed yard had paid for them.

I mean, where the money went from there, we don't know.

Had that happened to us at that point in our life, we'd have been over and done.

Yeah.

I mean, it would have been.

end of the story for us, but the Lord blessed us.

We were, we dodged that bullet.

And at that point we decided, Hey, we're going to start buying and selling replacement females.

I've got a cousin that's a business partner of mine, very savvy, and he was already doing a little of that.

So we started, you know, we just, we call ourselves like equal opportunity employers.

I don't care if you're fat or skinny, red or black.

I don't care what you look like.

If I think you can make some money, we'll buy you and put you to work.

So, and that goes from