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You, the listeners asked us to deep dive into the Common Ground coalition that you've been seeing pop up on social media and we are happy to oblige. Crew, let's ranch it up. Good day everyone and thanks for riding with us on this all new episode of the Ranch it up radio show. I'm Jeff Tigger Earhart. A big thank you goes out to our partners for today's episode. I'm Ajit Ingredients bringing us Farmitan and Jorgensen land and cattle, home of the mother Lode sale Keller Broken Heart Ranch. Their elite heifer sale is coming up December 10th Moose Creek Red Angus. Over a thousand head of Red Angus cattle will be dispersed December 22nd and 23rd. RanchChannel.com and Westway Feed Products Cattle Battle. Several of you reached out asking about the Common Ground coalition that has been popping up on social media feeds especially what is it? Who is part of it? What is the purpose? What is it all about? We have those timely answers for you. I bring in Jake Parnell. Jake is the president of Western Video Market, owner and manager of Cattlemen's Livestock Market in Galt, California and one of the co founders of the Common Ground Coalition. Jake, great to bring you back on the program. And you are literally on the road. So I appreciate you putting in the headset and talking with us. We have been seeing and hearing a lot about the Common Ground Coalition lately in light of the comments out of our president and watching the future boards bounce around right in the midst of when loads of producers are shipping and marketing feeder cattle. So let's start here with what is the Common Ground Coalition and how did it get started?
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It started probably 24 months ago and it started in a conversation, in a meeting as we were talking about a bunch of sale barn operators. We're sitting around talking watching our producers retire and dispersal after dispersal after dispersal of these cow herds. And how do we keep, you know, these producers wanting to be in the cow business because for a long time when this thing wasn't profitable for the last decade, for the decades before that, you know, intermixed profit, profitable years. But there's a lot of years when you're, when you're working to pay your bills, when you're ranching and you know, a lot of the second and third generation just weren't coming back to the family farm, especially out where I live, right? A state of 40 million people. Why do they want to go back and help mom and dad on the family farm and get by for, you know, meager means? And so it started as A conversation there. And it evolved into, you know, we need to fly around the country and we need to gather groups of people and listen to what they have to say. Are we on the right path? Does this make sense? Is this conversation we're having not resonating across the country? And so we. We had a meeting in Kansas, and we had a meeting in. In Missouri. We. We moved up into Montana for a meeting. We had two meetings in California where I brought the most diverse group of people I could get. Each. Each meeting, we sat down in a room and talked about what issues are important to you. What do you think needs to happen to keep production agriculture, to keep farming grass, which is what we do, relevant and profitable, or make it more profitable so that this cow herd can ultimately rebuild, so that there is a desire to come back to the. To the family ranch and be a part of, you know, the livestock business. We shouldn't just say cattle. I think sheep are very viable, you know, livestock to talk about that way as well. We collected all of these results and then kind of got together some leaders of us at Livestock marketing Association. And I'll digress a little bit. A lot of people say, well, why does livestock marketing care about this? Well, you know, we do represent our member markets and dealers around the country, but we also are very, very connected to grassroots rural America. We're very connected to the everyday rancher that may not get involved or get very active in different areas of the business. We sat down and said, okay, what are our next steps? We've identified probably six to 10 key areas that resonate, whether you're in Billings, Montana, South Alabama, you know, way out in the west coast or in the Midwest, where politics are different, where environments are different. But one thing is the same, and it's the message we're hearing from these producers. And so we decided that we needed to have what we initially called the Common Ground site. We gathered a list of names nationwide from influencers that we could connect with, from people that we knew that were well connected, that would have good thoughts. And what we were looking for was a. Was to put together a group of people that represented every segment. The packing segment, the feeding segment, the cow calf segment, the yearning operator segment, and everywhere in between. And then a few of us at LMA sat down and discussed these different names and what made sense. We decided that we were going to host the Common Ground Summit. And it happened at Denver, Colorado, and we invited 41 different people from that list to be there. It was one of the more productive two days of my life. I missed one of my Wednesday sales for it. But you get a bunch of people in there and you make it very, very pointed that they are there as individuals. You're representing yourself, you're representing your region, you're representing your industry, but you're doing it as yourself. You're doing it without the messages of any other organization that you may have loyalties to. You are strictly there to talk about the future of the livestock industry. And how can we come together, find common ground, and agree on some issues that we need to go out and fight together that directly affect the everyday producer with no hidden agendas, nothing else behind it except what makes it better for ranchers for rural America in this country? And we came out of there with five points that we all agreed on unanimously in that room. We didn't move on until we talked all the way through them. That's kind of where the coalition officially became the Common Ground Summit became the Common Ground Coalition after that third week of April.
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So in this day and age of what seems like an incredible amount of division and opinions that are going on out there, it's awful darn hard to bring people together to find common ground.
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It's terribly difficult. And so we've tried to do it from a grassroots level. We've gone out and had additional producer medians at sale bars to talk to them about these issues. We've been present at big summer video auctions, whatever company might be hosting them. We've been present at Farm Bureau meetings. We've gotten some young people involved to help talk and teach about the Common Ground Coalition. And you're exactly right. I mean, unfortunately, those that wish to be divisive, those that are looking for clicks and are looking to grandstand, get the most attention when there are so many good things that can be done. I mean, there are five key points of common ground that if we could win on all five of these in Washington, D.C. and within our states, it would make the future of the livestock industry so much brighter. We always talk about there's 95 to 97% of the issues in this business that every livestock producer agrees on. There's 2 to 5% that they might argue with. Those 2 to 5% pull us apart to a point that they overrun the good that can be accomplished. And that's the goal of this coalition and those who've now signed on. I think we're approaching 10,000 signatures. It's really, since this last three weeks, has really gained some more attention, and folks have really started to reach out and try to understand exactly what it is. Because we want to walk into Washington D.C. with a common message from the industry. Not this organization wants these two asks and this organization thinks these three things need to happen to the point where these folks making our laws and our regulations and our decisions don't know where they need to go. And we still got to stick together. And there are just some issues that we could dive into that just are winners 100% across the board for the livestock industry.
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Jake, hold on. We have to take a quick break and I want to go over these five points that you keep mentioning. The common ground, if you will. Crew, you're listening to the Ranch it Up radio show and we'll be right back. Keep it parked. Don't miss the 4th Annual Jorgensen Land and Cattle Angus Motherlode Sale Saturday, November 22nd Ideal, South Dakota. For the first time selling select bul + maternally focused Angus females backed by 10 + generations of proven genetics. Details@ranchchannel.com and jorgensenfarms.com the motherlode sale the source for maternal Angus genetics ranch channel.com.
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You can call it a dispersion if you want. We're calling it a once in a lifetime opportunity. For over five decades, the Moose Creek Red Angus cow herd has done what few ever do and that's quietly shape a program that stood the test of time and now is your chance to build that legacy. The Moose Creek red Angus dispersal Sal Dec. 22 and 23rd at the ranch His Bees, Saskatchewan, Canada selling a thousand head of elite purebred Red Angus cattle. All sale information available@moosecreekred Angus.com and ranch channel.com this isn't just a sale. It's an opportunity. A chance to bring home the kind of cattle that built a legacy. Crew. Welcome back to the Ranch it Up radio show. And we are back with Jake Parnell, one of the founders of the Common Ground coalition that you have been seeing and hearing about. Now here is the five points or the key points that you've been talking about and these are on your website by the way. I encourage you all to go there it's commonground coalition.net achieve and maintain egg friendly tax policy. Make risk management tools more effective. Improve access to labor. Increase flexibility for livestock haulers. I love that one. Create support for young and emerging livestock producers. I find a common theme in these five key points is towards the next generation of how are we going to call it sustainability. I know a lot of people don't like that word but I find that is kind of a common denominator is sustainability for the next generation. In these five key points, like you said, that are the umbrella to ultimate survival in the beef business.
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You're right. That word can be used in different facets and different. That could be a very dangerous word and interpreted very different ways. But it is 100% about the future. This thing is about the common ground really kept coming back to the next generation. How we keep these older producers from, from retiring and keep these family farms alive. And it is so true. It is, it is the, it was on the top of everybody's mind during, during these conversations. If you look at each one of those policies individually, it gears towards that. I mean tax friendly policies. This big beautiful bill was, was absolutely fantastic for, for production, agriculture. You, you add on this Heritage act that Senator Hightsmith from Mississippi is bringing in that Heritage Act. A lot of people don't even know that there's a tax law about special use exemption that's mainly used a little bit in agriculture and a little bit in commercial real estate. But for agriculture there's a special use exemption for land of $1.5 million. 1.495 I believe. Million dollars. And that gets you tax exemption if you leave that land in production. When you got to change that, you know, to the next generation. Senator Highsmith wants to increase that level to $15 million. So you take some of these, the debt tax and gift tax rule, combine them with the support for the step up and basis laws being continued and you add this Heritage act and there's going to be an opportunity for some of these legacy ranches to stay in agriculture production. And that doesn't necessarily mean that the second and third generation are going to come back and ranch them, but it gives them the option to lease that ground out to someone who does want to so that we keep that that ground in grass and continue to run livestock on it. Risk management is something that a lot of people think is just about trading futures or buying LRPs. They don't realize how much weight that these financial institutions put on an ability to manage your risk or take out some type of insurance like LRP on your product when they're financing you. And we had a guy that was in the room, Joe Cavanda from, from up there in Montana. He's kind of an expert in LRPs and futures trading and that he did some math and he used an example of a, of a hundred acre field in Montana where you could either farm wheat or you could run cows. If you were to farm wheat and use the same insurance policies that you're allowed to use in crop insurance right now, you could insure that ground for $460 per acre based on the way you could insure it for winter wheat. If you were to run cows on that ground, the way you could LRP it or take some of these other policies we have, it would be the value of $30 per acre. We're not even on the level playing field and we've got to get ourselves to the point where we can manage our risk, we can protect our producers at some level so that they've got the capital to go reinvest, re, engage or just simply start anew if they're a new and emerging producer. And so you're exactly right. The common ground is, comes back to keeping land and ag production, keeping these generational family operations from selling off to recreation or development or whatever it might be, and just encouraging. Not if it's not the second third generation. There's a lot of kids, young people that want to get back involved in ag or want to get involved in ag, giving them a pathway to become more involved, you know, and so there's a lot of commonality to it and it is right there on the top of mind.
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So what is the future of the coalition? What are we trying to do? Is it, you know, you said you've got 10,000 people have signed already petitions on there, you've got tremendous support. In fact, you know, when I was on your website and I was just looking at different names of people that are saying, you know, I support what you're doing, I knew so many of those different people on there. So what is the next step? What is the goal? Because let me just play the devil's advocate here, Jake, you know, I need to do this, that there's going to. People are going to say, oh come on, Jake, this is now just another association. People are going to say that, so what is, what is the next step? What is the goal?
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It's not, we don't want it to be another association. We've got enough of those. This is about Creating a common ground following. And we talk a lot about, you know, what is the next goal. I think it ultimately evolves into, you know, those that want to be involved in the coalition show up in Washington, D.C. at this time as part of this coalition at your own expense. And we're going to go out and we're going to talk about these issues that we've all agreed on. And we've been extremely careful. Every day a new issue comes up can be discussed. That day in April, we agreed on five that we could go out and get some wins on. And we're going to be very careful to keep it to those right now. And as this evolves, as we, you know, Senator Sheehy hosted a meeting for those that could attend in Washington a couple weeks ago. We think that there's probably some steps as this coalition continues to grow, where folks are allowed to continue to be involved, some forums online where we can get together and discuss what makes sense and where exactly our thoughts need to be as a coalition and what makes us more powerful as one as producers. And I think ultimately the goal is, you know, a lot of these producers, they're involved in other organizations. They know their elected representatives. So as we learn more about these five points, let's just spread the message about them in a true grassroots fashion. Let's start the conversation, let's start the rhetoric, and let's get out there and say, hey, you know what? This Heritage act that hightsmith is sponsoring, we need to get some support on the House side of this, and we need a bill that comes through the House side so that we can get this thing done along with some of these big, beautiful tax policies. Secretary Rollins addressed so much of the emphasis on these labor programs and the seasonality that comes with this h2 labor and the way we need to fix some of these labor policies, let's continue to preach to those who are making decisions, to those who have influence over some of these labor laws, that we've got to get this changed. And if they hear it from North Dakota and they hear it from Washington and they hear it from Virginia and they hear it from Florida, it's going to start to resonate and build a consensus from within. And so it's truly meant to be a grassroots coalition. You know, there's. We have taken a little bit of a leadership role, you know, just funding some of these events and stuff so far through lma, but it is not an LMA coalition. This is about those of us that operate market. These are about our producers. This is about us, you know, getting them what they need to stay in business long time, you know, long term.
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It's about, it's about those of us that live at the end of dirt roads 100%.
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It's those of you that live way out at the end of dirt roads that work 365, seven days a week that feed this country a wholesome, healthy, good product and giving you an opportunity to not just stay in business, but be profitable and put something away for the future generations.
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Jake Parnell, thanks so much for the time. Now you can learn more about the Common Ground Coalition by checking them out on Facebook and heading to their website, commongroundcoalition.net and I guarantee you will find many names on that petition that you know and are familiar with from all aspects of the beef business. Crew. It's time for a quick break. When we come back, we talk the numbers and market reports. Keep it locked to the Ranch it Up radio show.
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Keller Broken Heart Ranch, a leader in Simmental and Sim Mangus genetics invites you to their first annual Heart of the herd fall elite female sale. Wednesday, December 10th at the ranch in Mandan, North Dakota South. Selling 86 registered bread heifers, eight breed leading donors and 12 elite young cows, literally the absolute top of the herd. Bid and buy online at dvauction.com catalogs, videos and sale information available at KBHR, cemetal.com and ranchchannel.com don't miss this exciting Simmental and Simangus event. Wednesday, December 10 Keller Broken Heart Ranch.
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Going to be a tremendous offering, tremendous offering. The best that we've ever put together. No question about it. I think there's five bulls in here right now and they're all bulls that we've collected semen on and used in artificial insemination. And so we thought it would be a good idea for us to go ahead and use these bulls cleanup for the cows that we're offering for sale. So they're not just bred to any old bull. These are also bred to our bulls that we're using A.I.
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That'S the Jorgensen Landon cattle motherlode sale coming up Saturday November 22nd at the Ranch Ideal, South Dakota. Welcome back everyone to the Ranch it Up radio show. That time in the program we check in with Kirk Donsbach, Stonex Financial Incorporated. Recommendations recap of the markets from the previous week. So Kirk, what do you got for us? What are numbers looking like, buddy?
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Well, good morning Tigger, and all your listeners out there. As of Friday, November 7th, November feeder futures close the week at 326. That's down 1240 on the week with the CME feeder index down $1.29 at 345.96. Obviously with a different movement in those two. It drove the basis to a positive $19.96 versus November futures. That's a very, very wide basis. December live cattle closed the week at 221.15. That's down 855 on the week with cash trading 232 in the south and the north trading 228 to 230. That left the five area weighted average down $1.05 at 228.97 and the basis versus December futures at a positive 782. Choice boxes are down $1.73 on the week, closing at 376.40 and the weekly slaughter was 555,000 head. That's 4,000 head below the prior week and 65,000 head below the same week last year. Dressed weights and yearly production were not reported. March corn closed the week at 4. 42. That's down 11 3/4 cent. The million dollar question is that the market has been trading a reduction in yield. But will the USDA report that?
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What if your ranching vision and passions were actually more attainable on an operation other than the family one? Hey. Hey. I'm Shea Wanner and I host the Casual Cattle Conversations podcast. I recently visited with Elaine Frase about how both the younger and senior generations can utilize non family transition plans to their benefit. Here's a small portion of our conversation.
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So if you are in a farm or ranch situation right now with your family where you have no signed agreements, you been there 11 years, they promised you all kinds of things when you came back from college or ranching for profit or wherever you've been off getting new learning to happen and nothing has changed and you tend to be in what we call this neutral zone, the pain of not knowing, then I want you just to stop and pause and say what are my options? And you have options, Jay. And I think that's the key point of our time together today is for the voices that listeners listening to this today that you know that if you're in a farm and ranch business arrangement that's not working and the people that have all the power in terms of control of the assets, possibly the founders or the grandparents, and you have no power to get things written down and get agreements that help you build equity, then you have other options ready to.
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Tune into the full conversation conversation Check out the casual Cattle Conversations podcast on your favorite podcast player as soon as you're done listening to the Ranch it up radio show.
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Heading to the Ranch Channel Sales Calendar coming up Saturday, November 22nd Baldridge Tiedemann and Frank Cattle Genetics Their annual Angus and Red Angus Elite Female Sale Open and bred Heifers, Donor and bred cows and embryo packages. Lodge Pole, Nebraska also Saturday, November 22, Jorgensen Landon Cattle hosting their annual motherlode sale featuring 150 registered Angus cattle including 11 motherlode donor cows, 12 bred heifers and 40 age advantaged bulls in Ideal, South Dakota. Thanksgiving Weekend November 2229 Prairie Hills Galvey presents the Princesses on the Prairie Sale Gelvee Balancer and Red Angus Openin Bread Heifers, Select Embryo Packages and Semen Packages. This is an online only sale through DV auction. Wednesday, December 10th the Keller Broken Heart Ranch presents their first annual Simmental and Simangus heifer sale featuring 100 bred heifers along with select choice female lots. Mandan, North Dakota that's the Keller Broken Heart Ranch. Also on Wednesday, December 10th Gil Red Angus and their annual fall Bull and female sale selling 130 coming two year old bulls, 275 commercial bred heifers and 20 bred cows. Timberlake, South Dakota don't forget about their feeder cattle buyback program. To maximize value, you buy their bulls, they bid on their calves. Contact Brian about that program and the big one Moose Creek Red Angus one of Canada's premier Red Angus breeders located in Southwest Saskatchewan with over 53 years of breeding. Superior Red Angus Genetics Their dispersion Monday and Tuesday, December 22nd and 23rd the Moose Creek Red Angus Dispersal selling over a thousand head of Red Angus cattle. Everything goes in Bisbee, Saskatchewan. All of these sales, their details, sale reports and lots more can be found at your fingertips@ranch channel.com and real quick like answering a message that came in through a text message. Randy, that website is common groundcoalition.net hope that helps you. And now that's going to wrap it up for today. A big thanks goes out to our crew. Jake Parnell with the Common Ground Coalition. Kirk Donsbach with Stonex Financial Incorporated. Shea Warner with casual cattle conversations. And now a big thank you goes out to our partners for today's episode. Imogene Ingredients bringing us farm a 10 Jorgensen land and cattle home of the mother lode sale, Keller Broken Heart Ranch. Their elite heifer sale is coming up December 10th. Moose Creek Red Angus. Over a thousand head of Red Angus genetics will be dispersed December 22nd and 23rd. Ranch Channel.com and Westway Feed products and crew. So glad you all came with us one more time as we ranch it up. Be sure to follow and like like us on Facebook at Ranch it Up show. Our email is ranchituphowmail.com you can call and text 24 7. That phone number is 707-RANCH20. That's 707-726-2420. Spread the good word and join us again next week where it's always Tigger and Beck approved. Stay ranchy and ranch it up.
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