 I'm Nathan Ogden, this is my wife Tracy and our daughter is Oakley and Huntley and we're at Ogden Ranch and we are at least four generations of cattlemen and our children. My grandfather was on this particular farm, my father raised cattle here and now here we are so right there there's four not counting my great-grandfather that settled over in Madison County years ago so it's in our blood. I mean I grew up on a farm on a river on the Kings River in Madison County and it's just invaluable for kids to grow up doing this. It's kind of a dying breed. With two locations here locally we're right about 800 acres and we run, we try to keep about 400 head of mama cows, 300 of those are commercial angus cross cows and we run about 050 or so registered Angus mamas and raised bulls, breed bulls out of those and we also have a little hobby herd of 35 or 40 bucking mamas so you know our fun we do it the girls are getting involved in is doing a little bucking bull stuff. We bought the the first two bulls back in 2014 and they were futurity calves kind of like what we're gonna buck down here with the dummy on them they were two year olds and they really probably weren't supposed to make it to the big time and find Jesus was good enough. We named them find Jesus just so it's a blessing to be able to purchase a bull like that and wanted to use it as an opportunity to glorify God and it's turned into a pretty good ministry we do a Bible study when we go to the big PBRs with a lot of guys in the locker room with their families and we did a baby dedication for one of the guys kids a few weeks ago in Sioux Falls two years ago out in Vegas we baptized one of the riders on the strip of Sin City right outside of T-Mobile Arena in the casino pool so we got lucky you with those first ones we got them pretty cheap and and honestly those first two paid for our first four bulls you know and so you've got to be lucky enough to win some money to keep playing and keep going at it and it's a lot of genetics a lot of it is genetics so you've got to really get involved and pay attention to that side of it. I think when you when people just want to get involved I think it's really important to find the right people to get involved with that know something about it because why we love it so much is the people we've met I think that's key. So I absolutely knew nothing about bucking bulls when when I came here and just by being around it and getting involved and you know and enjoying it and working with the animals trying to gentle them down and working them in the shoots you know start them from small to big and the goal is to start when they're small you know we we have the bulls in the cows we raise our kids and then we raise them up we wean them and then we go to bucking them and the goal is is to have one to reach all the way to the top and just you know be able to say we done it. Been itching to do something like this and trying to find an excuse to do it and COVID really gave it to us so when that hit our phone started ringing off the hook about meat and I so it's time to go time to jump in and do it. Because we had a lot of people reaching out to us I you know you always hope it'll do well but I think many things we just kind of we take the leaf and hope it does good and no but we did I think we have 60 appointments a year something like that now you know so from 8 to I think last year we did 40 something by the time we got the butcher appointment. Social media was our way to let everybody know what we were doing and you know we launched the website people order online they come pick up here it's just worked really well and I think I think we had to do that if we want to keep up for our kids when they take over I think we've got to move with the time. The big hurdle about doing something like this was when you sell a quarter half or a whole you can just take it to any custom butchering shop but to do the retail deal like we do and to be able to sell to some restaurants that we sold you have to have a USDA stamp you know and there's there's not many around and we partner with being our processing down in Winslow and that allows us to do this without the USDA stamp we couldn't sell by the cut. Well even with our pets you know it's I tell the kids did you eat today yes okay then your your dogs your cats and your baby calf everybody needs to eat so you know we try to make sure they're fed as good as we are you know because you can't starve a profit out of an animal is what my my grandpa and great-grandpa used to say they never starve a profit out of one and that goes to you know having plenty of grass and pasture to eat having the right minerals with the sweet pro tubs we feed in them and every bit of it just goes to the end game and what kind of quality animal you have at the end and obviously with our beef cells our our target is marbling we definitely fatten our animals out on corn and you know a five-way feed with the goal of getting that marbling because that's where your flavor comes from. I tell everybody this is my retirement plan just because nobody wants to retire and quit so there's always work on the farm and you know cattle don't talk back they'll kick the fire out of you but they don't talk back and they you know I could tell you they they love you especially when they go you got a feed bucket in your hand you know so that's the goal ultimately and then hopefully one of the girls or both of them will want to do it someday and you know we've got two beautiful farms you know and places for them to build houses someday maybe if we can get this one says she's gonna live with us forever.