 Today, we're out at Fowler and Bearden Farms in Friendship, Arkansas, and I have John Michael and Rachel Bearden. They are nominees for young farmers and ranchers, excellence, and ag. Guys, thank you so much for having us out. I first wanted to know, how did your operation get started? What's the history behind the farm? This farm has been in my family. I'm the seventh generation that's been here. We've been here longer than Arkansas has been a state with cow-calf operation, but John Michael and I got married. We got started doing this. We got started with some heifers out of my dad's herd. Since then, we have bought our own section of the family farm. We're a cow-calf operation as well. We also have a small acre to timber. John Michael is a large hay business. We raise a few performance horses, and we've started to do the sheep business. For me, at college, it was like a switch went off, and being able to probably be a part of SAU Farm and work on that farm taught me, this is what I wanted. And we, I was able to grow and learn through college, and when me and Rachel started dating and we started building our own place, we knew this is where we needed to be, and this is what we wanted. And we're glad that we get to raise our daughter to get to do the same things that I was lucky enough to be raised to do, and she should grow up in this world on the family farm as well. She, what are, what are girls' roles on the farms? What does that look like, responsibility-wise? For me, I take care of most of the feeding, the hay on the cow side. We kind of tag team the cow-calf operation and making sure her management, she's looking at the cows, I'm looking at the grass, seeing where we're at, and then we dove off into the sheep, and kind of she takes care of the day-to-day stuff, but we're both all the time out there working with them, learning. And Lacey Grace is our boss. Yeah. She, Lacey Grace will be two in August, and she goes with us all the time. She rides in the front seat, likes to call them, and she tells the horses where they're supposed to be and their shawls, and she's right there for a hundred percent of it and loves it, and tells us what we're doing wrong most of the time. I love that. That's awesome. So, speaking of that, I mean, family's obviously very important. What's outside of that, what's your favorite part of agriculture, what's your favorite part of doing all this? For me, it is bringing others in to see it. He has an ag teacher and her as an ag agent, we're all the time having kids out here at the farm. Watching them, the value of hard work, working with animals, and what that looks like. I think agriculture is not just our jobs. It's what we do every day, and when you look at the world and the people that are involved in agriculture, I think the society needs more of those kind of people. When you look at folks that are involved in agriculture, they're folks who value family. They value hard work. They know you get into it, you get out of it, what you put into it, and that you have to do a hard day's work to get those results that you want. And I think that's one of the things that I love most about my day job, is what we do, and we're helping other people do what we do, and getting more people involved in that lifestyle, because agriculture is a lot more than just a day job. It's a way of life.