- Farm kid?

- Farm kid, whole life.

Didn't really have any other aspirations other than that.

- What did the farm look like when you were growing up?

- So, you know, it was funny.

I always kind of tell this story is, you know, I'm always appreciative of my father who kind of kept the farm together.

But he also, like you just mentioned, you know, he had an off-farm job and a good one of that as an operator.

So he was a pretty prototypical, very... I shouldn't say not a prototypical father in the fact that he kind of took a step back and saw where my brothers and I were taking this and wanting to do and kind of let us take over, right?

Which isn't very, isn't a common theme in the ag world.

So he was working a full-time job, you know, six days a week when I was in seventh and eighth grade.

So I remember being seventh and eighth grade with my two older brothers out in the field.

We probably looked like ding-a-lings out there compared to some other farm operations.

But, you know, it... From a management perspective, you know, people laugh at me when I say this, but I mean, heck, we were calling, my brothers were calling the co-ops and things like that when he was 13, 14 years old, setting things up.

And so it started at an early age for us three.