Transcript
A (0:00)
All right, guys, we got another preview, and I'm real, real excited for it. It's a neat opportunity. It's a great friend of mine, Mr. Garth Simpson, with Richland Farms. I'm really, really excited. This sale is what they call their embryo meltdown. They've got 96 lots of genetics to be offered to you as a buyer or for the public. And I know they're real excited. There's a lot of neat stuff in this sale. And so what I like to do with that is, Garth, introduce yourself to the listeners, have everybody get to know you a little bit, and what y' all do there at Richland Farms, and then we'll dive into the lots.
B (0:34)
Awesome. Thanks, office. First of all, thanks for having me, Weston. I really appreciate it and quite the opportunity here to do this with you. I'm Garth Simpson here with Richland Farms out of Trent, Texas. We raise show steers, show heifers, sell a lot of embryos, a lot of donor cows, have a couple bread sales a year, show steers, kind of the. Kind of the whole ray of everything on the show cattle industry. So we're getting this sale here on February 15th, and we're going to call it the meltdown sale. And basically we have a very large surplus inventory of embryos and going to offer them to the public, no reserves, and get some of these things out there and get them in guys, cows and on the ground, and let everybody else have the opportunity to raise some of their own cattle.
A (1:21)
Awesome. Awesome. With that said, what I'd like to know, with everything that you just stated, what was the decision behind having a sale like this and releasing so many embryos?
B (1:32)
We've been selling quite a few embryos, you know, the last probably eight years online here on SC and kind of since our move to Texas from Indiana, shift more of our focus to getting more live calves on the ground and, you know, not having so many embryo sales. So we're going to try to cut back on a little bit of our overhead inventory on, you know, the cows that have really been working for us and the matings that have been working for us. And it's kind of like everybody else, you know, we have so many embryos and just a limited number of receipts and trying to get them utilized and on the ground and, you know, in the show rings. So just a lot of embryos and not enough recips. And so we're gonna. We're gonna open this thing up and. And get them out there to everybody. Is is the plan awesome?
A (2:16)
Well, to start off with lot one. You got some sexed female embryos. Four of them up for grabs. They're out of 24 carat sexed females. And they're out of yalls donor that you'll call 5722. Talk to me about the mating, what they go back to and what that embryo or mating has done for y' all there at Richland farms.
