 This farm has been in the Shannon family since the nearest I can find my grandfather was born here in 1876 and then my father and my uncle for a while and then my father only ran cattle here then when he passed away I took over and have been running cattle here ever since. I was an agri teacher for 30 years so I did the agri teaching and this at night and on the weekends and then I retired from teaching and started doing this full-time. I try to run about 90 to 100 mama cows. I have used limousine, sanogrotrudus, and some Angus and now pretty well settled on Angus and Herford crosses so I run Angus bulls and Herford bulls and then I have a few oddball long horns here that are for looks mainly. I mean they do raise calves and I've got two steers that are mostly conversation pieces. I mean they're there's something to look at. If I didn't like the cattle business I wouldn't be doing this because it does get kind of hard sometimes and the case in point was two weeks ago when it was below zero here. Cutting ice and trying to save baby calves that were born in the cold and snow that that does get hard. I was raised around cattle and I've always had something to do with cattle. The number of cattle has increased you know that we run. We've got more land added a little more land to it cleared some land and increased the amount of cattle that we run and cattle have gotten bigger. The ones that we used to run my dad used to run mainly Herford and they were not all that big. Some of the bulls a big bull was fourteen fifteen hundred pounds and now you know bulls are close to a ton. I sold one a couple of months ago. He was full but he weighed twenty three hundred and forty five pounds so that that's in my opinion a little too big for me. I will probably continue to farm and raise cattle probably as long as I can but I have one son and I hope that he will want to come back here and take over and keep the Shannon farm going and then he has some little boys my grandsons and a granddaughter that really like to be out here that they like to come to the farm. One of the grandsons the first words I heard him say was ride gator feed cows so he enjoys that he likes to come out here and ride around with me in the tractors in this gator here and be with the cattle and at some point I will turn it over to them.