I'm Dylan Phelps, and we're today we're at Crowley Ridge Classic Imperial, Arkansas, at the Green County Fairgrounds.

Me and my brother were kind of born into it.

We've been in barns since we were one and two years old, with goats, calves and hogs, all kinds of things.

We've always had some form of livestock.

We had beagles that we raised.

They had dogs that they took care of from the time they were, you know, little guys.

You can learn all types of life skills within this industry.

Teamwork, leadership, hard work.

I've met plenty of friends all over the nation just showing judging and all things livestock.

We bought a beef master bull.

Stay with that for a while and learn about Gil the kettle.

Main goal has always been to raise well-rounded children, to teach them work ethic and how to take care of things.

We grew up that way and it's something we enjoy as a family.

Our parents both showed livestock y'all on the county and state level.

So I know it goes back three generations.

There's, you know, a few different levels of shows.

There's like these jackpot shows are pretty local.

There's state shows like State Fair and AYE, and then there's national shows.

Like Catalans, Congress, Dixie National Open show, it's really big show.

They got multiple barns full of cows, full of goats, full of pigs, lambs, everything you can think of.

Sometimes you get a trophy, sometimes you get a ring, you get belt buckles and just all kinds of things that you can win.

Well, I show market usually I have a steers, he shows the breeding breeding stock we we raise and the steers, you know you want muscle you don't muscle them with.

You know you want a big wide top in them.

You want some rib to them, you want to look nice from the side, you know, and be long fronty and long necked and tying high at their shoulder.

Some bones, big legs, a lot of hair.

They'll kind of judge you based on how good your animal looks and how good it is in terms of breeding standpoints and structural standpoint.

Keep it all, you know, it's medicine, medicine free as we can, you know, low antibiotics and all that.

But you got to have vaccinations to get them healthy.

Raise it, you wean it and.

You get it pretty, I guess you could say.

And you feed it, make it look good and then bring it to the show and see what it does.

I like spending time in the barn, you know, getting them ready for the show.

But I think like the day you really, you know like the most when you get here and you get them ready, got them looking their very best and you go in there and you win a banner, there's a lot of blue ribbon effect, I guess you could call it and.

It's there's a lot of thrill that goes into it when the judge comes up to you, shakes your hand and tells you you won.

There's a lot of emotions going through there because you think about all the hard work that you've put in and how much your family's put into it.

And there's all kinds of different things you can do besides just showing and breeding livestock.

And I think that's overlooked a lot because things like FFA in the name, it's future farmers of America.

But you can do a whole lot more than just.

Being a farmer and whatnot, it's not just about the cattle and raising the cattle.

They also do livestock judging, public speaking.

My dad went to college judging livestock collegiately, and I kind of want to go down that same path, their scholarships for everything.

You know, there's lde's, which are leadership development events where you speak.

You know I did, except for any speaking where you get a topic and you have 30 minutes for our speech and deliver it scholarships for public speaking.

And then there's stuff like this where you get scholarships for winning big shows.

That's my favorite part of it, is seeing them progress.

Watching how much they've learned and, you know, what they picked up on hard work pays off always, you know, it's just what you get out, what you put in.

This is what it boils down to.

During the school week, get up about 5:30 and go out.

Feed the heifers, feed the Bulls, you know, get everything taken care of for the morning.

Make sure if my cows had a calf that it's healthy and doing well and just check on everything in the morning.

Go to school, come back home.

And, you know, do it all again.

You take care of you feed them, you water and check on them, make sure they're all doing well.

You know, when sick, you gotta get up and doctor it.

Whether it's nice outside or whether it's cold or whether it's hot, it's it's something that has to be done.

Sometimes it's going to be rough.

It's good days and bad days just like everything else.

Just like sports, you have to learn to prioritize.

Figure out how to make it to baseball practice, how to get the judges gun test, how to get your homework done.

I mean, there's a lot of people that feed once a day after school and don't do anything in the morning.

But us we feed morning and night.

He had a cow at home and you don't take care of it.

You don't feed this.

You don't feed it when you're supposed to feed it.

You know it gets a little skinny show up here and you kind of you don't do well 3B is 3 Brothers Cattle Co so we me and my brother Thompson and my brother Garrett all started this about four or five years ago.

They wanted it to be 3B because there are three brothers.

I think it's important to kind of you know if you want to stay in this industry for a while get your name out there.

You know get you win some shows.

Yeah, there's some rivalries, like on a baseball field, you know, you could be playing with your buddies in a friendly game and if it's a state championship, you're out to win it.

The rivalry between us, when it's our cows that we're showing, you know, we breed those, raise them together.

We're always hoping for the other to win or us to win.

If we win our cows to do well.

But in showmanship, that's when they judge you on how well you exhibit your animal.

That's always been a rivalry between us, but there's always that showmanship class that you're judged on your showmanship and how you're, how you actually present your animal.

And I think there's plenty of cavalry there.

What we've tried to instill in these boys is regardless of who's there that weekend, you're there to help.

It's amazing to go out there and compete against someone you love.

I love it.

I've been in it my whole life and I really can't picture my life without it.

Whether they want to go be nurses or farmers or doctors or whatever, this this program prepares them for whatever lies ahead.

It instills a lot of values and instills a lot of work ethic and regardless of what direction they go, it prepares them for it.

I hope that we've got grandkids that are here showing one day, hopefully a lot of years from now, but it's a common goal.

I think with most people in this industry we're we're trying to raise better young men and women and we're using the cattle to do that.