Beef and labor

I asked Norm Voyles Jr, a rancher who is also Chair of the Cattlemen's Beef Board about labor challenges the beef industry is encountering. 90% of it is my family, myself, my brother and my son take care of things. So from that issue, it's not bad, but from the issue of some of our suppliers and we hire company to do all of our chemical application and fertilizer application. And certainly we've had weather events here in Indiana as well. I mean, we are still wet. I sure wish I could ship some of this water to you guys in the West. We're wet and way behind on planting because of it and everybody's margins are tight. And so this little fertilizer dealer that we work with, he's having trouble keeping folks hired and keeping all of the equipment running so in between rain. So it's certainly the labor parts of challenge. It's become a challenge in some of the factories that make our products, whether they're packaging commercial corn seed, soybean seed or manufacturing chemicals or transporting those chemicals from coast to coast. You know, it's all a challenge for us and we'll eventually get through this. But we may be kind of in a tight situation for a while to in order to get all of our products produced this year. So many jobs and opportunities exist with so few Americans wanting to accept them.