I have Cole Buffo on the phone with me with Buff Tuff Cattle Co, if I've got the name right. Welcome to the show, Cole, and if you don't mind, just kind of give us a background on that name there and how you got started in the cattle business.

"Yeah, so it was actually a nickname, a buddy of mine that I grew up with kind of gave me back when we were in middle school. And I mean, I got started when I was in grade school with cattle, we started in the Simmental and then kind of dispersed and then got back in the Gelbvieh side of it. And then now that after college, I married my wife, Cassie, and we moved to Jetmore, Kansas north of Dodge city. She and her family had an established Red Angus operation. So now we got Gelbvieh with our Red Angus. We were primarily red and we've kind of got into the black because we had a few customers needing some black bulls. So we started doing some cross breeding to compliment our customer needs."

"Like on the Red Angus side, a lot of guys have been crossing Angus in to incorporate Angus genetics on the Red Angus. So they're getting black, red carriers, and then they can get black or red calves depending on what they're breeding. And that's kind of what we've been playing with a little more on our Gelbvieh side. If we trying to breed for homo black bulls, but if we get a red bull out of a black cow, we still know we can sell it."

Do you have a sale each year?

"Yeah, so it's usually, I would say the last Friday in March, I guess next year might be a week later with Easter season. We used to be private treaty. Now we're gone to an open house, silent auction type format where we do invite everybody in kind of low key, like all of our buyers kind of see what the bulls are and see how they are. And then it's just kind of a silent auction format."

That was Cole Buffo from Buff Tuff Cattle Co.

22918 NW Highway 156, Jetmore, KS 67854 is the address for Hayes Red Angus, a cattle ranching operation and member of the Red Angus Association of America. The property also serves as the headquarters for Buff Tuff Cattle Co., which specializes in raising Gelbvieh, Balancer, and Red Angus cattle.