Nate Bradford

We kicked off the year pretty good.

I would say this season for us was probably kind of a medium year.

We had quite a few customers show up.

We made lots of summer sausage, smoked a lot of meat.

We had to get in for the wintertime.

We got some pretty harsh seasons of cool weather.

Didn't last too long, but we ended up with a little bit of snow.

But we did need it, you know, needed that moisture, even though it came with some cold temperatures, because we was pretty dry, really, in the state coming into the fall.

You know, we normally have around 150 plus mama cows, but we have trickled down.

We've got a herd down a third, and we really want to rebuild, but the conditions have to be really, you know, really right, right.

So...

try to capitalize as much as we can out of the market but also we don't want to pay too much for our cattle and the markets fall out of it so been a lot of uncertainty in the market so that's kind of been slowing us down right now currently fertilizers skyrocketed diesel fuel has skyrocketed so when we go into the summer our contracts will be up and we're going to pay a little bit more money for amount of feed and already our markets are starting to fall off due to the

you know, due to war right now.

So, you know, we've been over, which is also affecting, you know, what we're giving for the price of fuel, and it's created a whole other heck of a situation in our commodity markets.

So prices of our cattle has been pretty good.

You know, demand for this beef is high.

You know, it goes back to we are at the lowest number in history with cattle numbers for producers in the United States.

So it does help stabilize these markets.

But you have to really be on your P's and Q's when it comes to selling points because if you try to decide to go to a sale one day, you may short yourself $200 to $300 a head.

That's how ball to it.