brian reisinger? guest: you are talking about a very real dilemma for many farm families. we are about 100 acres picket we have 50 cows. we actually ended up selling our dairy herd for a lot of the same reasons, the economic pressures. in our case, we decided we needed to go bigger and get many more cows, probably hundreds or thousands, or we needed to sell and diversify our farms, so what we are doing is we are raising cows for other dairy herds, raising beef for consumers, trying to find a way to make it as my sister takes over from our dad but those pressures are very real and there is a people to see the benefit in leasing that worked out to others. there isn't a lot of hardship to it and difficulty. look at my family story over the century from my grandfather surviving the great depression to my parents. there is a lot of beauty. waking up and working with your data from sunup to sundown, hearing my dad bringing the cows income of these memories that i have. it is a way of life and i know our far

host: what is your question or comment for brian reisinger? caller: i have friends of mine who have relatives that have farms and stuff like that. for instance, we had one dairy farmer who had 100 cows who had to close his door because he does not have the employees, and what happened during covid, and a lot of people started buying goods online and a lot of these farmworker areas and stuff worked for the farm -- why work for the farm for x when you can work for amazon for $20. when they would fill these positions, they got nobody to fill these positions. chicken farming for eggs and chickens and dairy farming and hog farming are a 24/7, 365 days a year jobs. they require more than just seasonal workers. they need people to move in. i know donald trump the immigration bill. a lot of those folks at the border, they come from farm communities. we don't have to do much training to put them to work. for some reason, a friend of mine, his brother-in-law has a chicken farmer and he will probably have to close his doors because he is an farmer and on

brian reisinger?are talking about a very real dilemma for many farm families. we are about 100 acres picket we have 50 cows. we actually ended up selling our dairy herd for a lot of the same reasons, the economic pressures. in our case, we decided we needed to go bigger and get many more cows, probably hundreds or thousands, or we needed to sell and diversify our farms, so what we are doing is we are raising cows for other dairy herds, raising beef for consumers, trying to find a way to make it as my sister takes over from our dad but those pressures are very real and there is a people to see the benefit in leasing that worked out to others. there isn't a lot of hardship to it and difficulty. look at my family story over the century from my grandfather surviving the great depression to my parents. there is a lot of beauty. waking up and working with your data from sunup to sundown, hearing my dad bringing the cows income of these memories that i have. it is a way of life and i know our farm listeners