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Speaker 1: Seven for fifty five krosee the talk station. Ran Thomas

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Speaker 1: happy to welcome to the fifty five Carssey Morning show Man.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be doing a seminar tonight seven pm. You

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Speaker 1: can nei the show up at Scarlett Oaks three hundred

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Speaker 1: Scarlett Oaks, drive to the Empower Youth Studio or log

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Speaker 1: in from home which is really easy to do. Just

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Speaker 1: register at empower Youamerica dot org so you can find

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Speaker 1: out why the hell beef prices are so high. Man

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Speaker 1: leading the seminar joins us this morning. Dustin Goldie owner

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Speaker 1: of Goldiebeef Farms located in Clarksville, Ohio. His farm is

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Speaker 1: called Goldie Beef North, where he runs a farm alongside

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Speaker 1: his father Rick. His brother operates Goldie Beef South in Stanford, Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: long with his uncle Jeff operating Goldiebeef East in Wilmington, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: They focus primarily on delivering custom process, farm raised beef

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Speaker 1: and hate production. He also has a master's degree and

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Speaker 1: a principal degree. He teaches at the Little Miami School

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Speaker 1: District Good for You. He's been an education and educator

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Speaker 1: and administrator for more than twenty three years. Dustin I

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Speaker 1: don't know how you find time to get all that in.

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Speaker 1: I have a really good idea about how how difficult

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Speaker 1: farm life is. My late father in law was a

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Speaker 1: dairy farmer who never left the farm because if you

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Speaker 1: don't milk the cows twice a day, they don't produce milk.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you on the morning show, Dustin Goldie.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. It's an honor, mister

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Speaker 2: Thomas to be on your show, a long time listener,

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Speaker 2: so thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, thank you, Dustin. That is so kind of you,

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Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you listening to the program. Man.

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Speaker 1: And okay, let's talk about why. But no, let me

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Speaker 1: ask you first. We've had a discussion because beef prices

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Speaker 1: are so high. I'm going to enter into a discussion

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Speaker 1: we've had with our family. We were thinking about buying

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Speaker 1: a half side of beef process and share, you know,

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Speaker 1: dividing the cost among several different family members and groups.

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Speaker 1: Do you do that you sell sides of beef?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we do. And I tell you when you buy

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Speaker 2: in bulk and quarters haves or holes from a local farmer,

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Speaker 2: you're actually saving a lot of money compared to the

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Speaker 2: big beef in the you know, big agg corporate farms

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Speaker 2: from the grocery store. So you're also gonna know where

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Speaker 2: your beef's coming from, going to know what's you know

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Speaker 2: as your beef been and you know it's not going

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Speaker 2: to be injected with antibiotics and growth hormones. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be healthy. And I really really am a big

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Speaker 2: proponent to buy from any local farmer, farms and the

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Speaker 2: tables the best way to go.

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Speaker 1: Ay man, I'm all over it. That's why I asked

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Speaker 1: you the question, what's your website? Free free publicity, Dustin?

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Speaker 1: Where do we turn to find out about this?

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Speaker 2: Eatgoldibeef dot com is our website. It's pretty easy to

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Speaker 2: maneuver through, and UH highly encourage you to go there.

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Speaker 2: And well, I always I always promote all my local

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Speaker 2: farmers that we're all we we compete, but yet we're

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Speaker 2: friends and farmed. The tables the way to go, and

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Speaker 2: a lot of folks it wasn't until COVID that a

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Speaker 2: lot of folks realize you could buy directly from a

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Speaker 1: Well, I've had Congressman Thomas Massey on many many times

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Speaker 1: over the years, and it's something he has brought up

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Speaker 1: and also encourages because he too raises beef himself. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's the processing is the part. But recognizing that you've

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Speaker 1: got that angle covered. While my wife's out there listening,

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Speaker 1: Paul Att eat Goldiebeef dot com. We're gonnat head on

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Speaker 1: over there. You may love it. You have a new customer. Brother.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're doing a seminar tonight. Why in the

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Speaker 1: hell is beef irice?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 1: Ten dollars a pound for plain old eighty twenty ground

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the herd levels, because I understand they're

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Speaker 1: What was the What is the reason or reasons for that? Sir?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So so really you go back to our economics

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Speaker 2: So we're at the lowest we've ever been and record

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Speaker 1: Well, asking the obvious. With record high demand, the incentive

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Speaker 2: because of these record high prices. A great example, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: you could buy a six hundred pound steer to fatten

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Speaker 1: Holy cow, that's a huge increase.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's three years of feed. Are feed prices

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So really, what's happened, mister Thomas, is out out

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, for whatever reason, the goose that laid

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Speaker 2: They are, they're selling out, they're selling out. And the

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Speaker 2: other thing is our population of the rancher is in

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Speaker 2: the sixty year range sixty years of age, yes, and

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Speaker 2: we're at a real crossroads where we're losing farms left

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Speaker 2: this country right now. Well, you run the Goldie beef

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Speaker 2: been raising cattle for slaughter? Well, we've been really doing

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Speaker 2: it at a high number since around twenty and ten.

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Speaker 2: My father did it really for family members prior to that,

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Speaker 2: table beef from local farmers has really been a very

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Speaker 1: Is there a labor I mean, obviously if people don't

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Speaker 1: that suggest maybe there's a labor shortage. Is there are

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Speaker 1: and it has to be you know, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And there's there's beef shortage or there's shortages

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Speaker 2: about every industry in America right now, it's hard to

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Speaker 2: And when and as you know, mister Thomas, as you

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Speaker 2: slow down production, that also raises the price of your product.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it does. Wow, this is enlightening. And finally I

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Speaker 1: have to ask this before we part company or you

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Speaker 1: do the seminars tonight at seven pm. UH empower you

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Speaker 1: three hundred Scarlett, OK, strive to be there in person.

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Speaker 1: Does does this? And I will call it nonsense going.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put the words in you mouse,

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Speaker 1: but this whole green cow flatulence is warming the planet up?

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Speaker 1: Is there any green component that's resulting in the price

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Speaker 1: cattle herds are down almost intentionally behind the scenes. Is

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Speaker 1: there is there a layer on that one? You know?

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't believe. So. I think it's simply

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Speaker 2: I think it's simply a supply and demand issue. You know,

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Speaker 2: South America as well that has shut our imports down. Now,

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Speaker 2: mister Thomas, we import a lot of beef from South

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Speaker 2: America that is lean Americans. Our beef is is fattier.

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Speaker 2: So what we do is we import that lean beef

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Speaker 2: in mix it with our fattier beef to give us

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Speaker 2: from all imports, that's also really really hurt our supply.

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Speaker 2: And again, tight supply, high demand equals high beef prices.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I'll tell you what it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: fascinating seminar. We'll barely scratch the surface with Dustin Goldie here.

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Speaker 1: It's tonight seven pm. A power Youoamerica dot org for

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Speaker 1: all the information and get your beef another free plug

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Speaker 1: ethgoldiebef dot com. Dustin, it's been great having you on

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Speaker 1: the show. And thanks again for being a listener. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm honored by that.

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Speaker 2: Sure, it's been an honor. You made my day.

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Speaker 1: Oh you made mine. Man. I know where to go now,

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