WEBVTT 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:26.699 Welcome to the Louisiana Delta Crop Podcast covering 00:00:26.699 --> 00:00:29.760 agriculture and all things related in West Carroll, 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:34.000 Morehouse, East Carroll, Madison, Tensough, Concordia, 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.679 and Catahoula parishes. Hello, everyone. Thanks 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:40.520 for listening, because I think this is our first 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:42.920 podcast this year, maybe? Well, the new year, 00:00:43.179 --> 00:00:45.280 yeah. It's been a minute. It's the new year. 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.840 Here we are in the end of February. Yeah. Well, 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.909 January is pretty wild for us, but now that I 00:00:52.909 --> 00:00:56.210 guess all those mandatory meetings are slowing 00:00:56.210 --> 00:00:59.350 down. We can get started back on our regular 00:00:59.350 --> 00:01:02.390 schedule program. But anyway, thanks for listening. 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:06.590 And my name is Kylan Miller and I've got, we're 00:01:06.590 --> 00:01:10.590 in Winnsboro. We just finished up a fun little 00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:13.090 training, I guess. I'm gonna say, we'll be polite. 00:01:13.189 --> 00:01:15.290 We'll be polite. It's a day long training. I'm 00:01:15.290 --> 00:01:18.209 Bruce Hall, everybody recognizes me. Yeah, we've 00:01:18.209 --> 00:01:24.230 been here since. early morning doing our day 00:01:24.230 --> 00:01:26.569 -long training and we decided we'd go ahead and 00:01:26.569 --> 00:01:29.609 throw together a quick podcast. Sun's shining 00:01:29.609 --> 00:01:36.670 today. I know guys what today is February 25th. 00:01:37.549 --> 00:01:39.670 I know some guys are probably chomping at the 00:01:39.670 --> 00:01:42.829 bit today to put corn in the ground. It's still 00:01:42.829 --> 00:01:47.709 wet everywhere. I mean soil temperatures are 00:01:47.709 --> 00:01:53.000 hovering in the 40s. So, you know, guys just 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.780 give it a little bit more time. That's what I've 00:01:54.780 --> 00:01:57.379 just been telling folks, just wait. That little 00:01:57.379 --> 00:01:59.659 chance of rain at the end of the week, many have 00:01:59.659 --> 00:02:03.340 been thinking about it. It's warming up. We'll 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:05.400 see ground temperatures coming up, I think, starting 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.939 this week. We're supposed to be in the 60s and 00:02:07.939 --> 00:02:12.159 70s. Sunshine, that's good conducive drying, 00:02:13.060 --> 00:02:15.400 good ground warming, but we're still looking 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:18.379 at real chilly. Ground temperatures, I think 00:02:18.379 --> 00:02:20.919 statewide, in the northeast part of the state, 00:02:21.379 --> 00:02:25.379 I did check some soil temperatures first part 00:02:25.379 --> 00:02:28.419 of the week, and they were in the upper 30s. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.379 So, you know, grain of salt, we're getting there. 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.120 It'll be here before we know. Yeah, and with 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:37.599 everybody getting rolling, like I said, I'm joking, 00:02:37.819 --> 00:02:41.020 I've seen a lot of them. planters backed up to 00:02:41.020 --> 00:02:43.259 the front doors of shops. Oh yeah, we're working 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:45.699 on them. And getting bushings and bearings and 00:02:45.699 --> 00:02:48.639 grease and everything ready to go. I guess we're 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:52.120 getting close, but still not quite. You know, 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:56.319 in the years past, we got to the 25th of February, 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:58.039 there was a lot of cold weather. Valentine's 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.860 Day is what Neil will always talk about. I think 00:03:00.860 --> 00:03:04.819 he planted one year, no, or somebody was planting 00:03:04.819 --> 00:03:06.879 one year around that time. I think that was up 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.840 by a year actually. We had some guys that went. 00:03:10.739 --> 00:03:13.139 Early, yeah, it was Valentine's Day a little 00:03:13.139 --> 00:03:16.900 bit after, and then on March the third, we had 00:03:16.900 --> 00:03:20.599 23 degrees that morning. It just, it burned it 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.960 back to the ground. A lot of that corn had to 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.139 be replanted. That's a whole lot of discussion. 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.659 Shelly's not with us today. She's at a conference 00:03:28.659 --> 00:03:32.900 that she can discuss. She can talk about the 00:03:32.900 --> 00:03:35.759 challenges of planting that early corn with cool 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:39.090 temperatures. It's easier for me to sit back 00:03:39.090 --> 00:03:41.289 and say, don't do it and wait. But I know when 00:03:41.289 --> 00:03:42.789 you got to get over a lot of ground, sometimes 00:03:42.789 --> 00:03:47.129 it's hard not to go. Talk about meetings for 00:03:47.129 --> 00:03:49.789 a second. We've got a lot of meetings that have 00:03:49.789 --> 00:03:53.830 taken place. I'll mention pesticide recertification. 00:03:54.750 --> 00:03:56.509 Guys, if you're looking at your card, you haven't 00:03:56.509 --> 00:03:59.310 been to a pesticide recertification meeting yet. 00:03:59.889 --> 00:04:04.509 And your card says that it expires March 31st, 00:04:04.650 --> 00:04:08.879 2025. We've got to get you any contact, your 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.919 local extension office. We'll try to find you 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.759 a meeting somewhere in the state. I know here 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.279 in the northeast part of the state, we're probably, 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:19.139 I don't know if I'm saying probably, but I don't 00:04:19.139 --> 00:04:21.500 know for sure. We're going to try to have a meeting, 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:25.180 kind of a wrap -up meeting sometime in March. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.339 Don't bet the farm on that. If you can find a 00:04:29.339 --> 00:04:31.259 meeting that we can get you to and get you certified 00:04:31.259 --> 00:04:34.040 before it expires, let us know. We'll try to 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.430 find a meeting for you to get to. Most of ours, 00:04:36.509 --> 00:04:39.029 we've already had ours. I shoot for the first 00:04:39.029 --> 00:04:41.290 week of February, I think. Me and you are always 00:04:41.290 --> 00:04:44.629 the same, yep. We shoot the same time. Other 00:04:44.629 --> 00:04:48.370 agents, we're in that mid -February. So we're 00:04:48.370 --> 00:04:50.629 kind of past them right now, but I promise you, 00:04:50.629 --> 00:04:52.430 we can find them even if you need to be certified. 00:04:52.870 --> 00:04:54.790 And I don't mind hosting another one, because 00:04:54.790 --> 00:04:57.730 I think there's in our area a fair amount that 00:04:57.730 --> 00:04:59.490 haven't gotten it. And I certainly don't mind 00:04:59.490 --> 00:05:02.329 hosting another one, but... I don't want to do 00:05:02.329 --> 00:05:04.170 it if you're not going to show up. Right. Because 00:05:04.170 --> 00:05:06.170 it's a lot. It's a lot for us to try to get put 00:05:06.170 --> 00:05:08.589 together. So yeah, if you need help trying to 00:05:08.589 --> 00:05:10.910 get a meeting, give your local extension agent 00:05:10.910 --> 00:05:13.610 a call, give me a call, get Tyler a call, whoever 00:05:13.610 --> 00:05:15.670 where the parish you're in, I'm always glad to 00:05:15.670 --> 00:05:17.790 try to find you. We can find anyone somewhere. 00:05:18.250 --> 00:05:20.490 It may be in Calcasieu Parish, and you may have 00:05:20.490 --> 00:05:22.529 to go out and eat crawfish for lunch one day, 00:05:22.670 --> 00:05:26.360 but anyway. So what else we got Kyle down on 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.339 as far as meeting goes? I see. Well, first off, 00:05:29.699 --> 00:05:32.579 too, I want to remind everybody if you need WPS 00:05:32.579 --> 00:05:36.779 training for your guys, to reach out to us. I 00:05:36.779 --> 00:05:38.600 know, I don't know how you do yours, Bruce, but 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.839 typically if someone needs WPS training, they 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:44.259 can either come to my office and we can knock 00:05:44.259 --> 00:05:47.180 it out in 30, 40 minutes, or I can go to the 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:49.040 farm, or if you and your buddies want to get 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:51.199 together and y 'all meet up and shop, you know, 00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:53.839 a neighbor or whatever. I've done that too and 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.300 I can train like 10 or so guys at a time. Just 00:05:57.300 --> 00:05:59.279 however is convenient for y 'all because I know 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.600 you are busy and I'm willing to work with y 'all. 00:06:02.620 --> 00:06:05.540 I do it the exact same way. If you've got guys 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:10.100 that we catch a rain morning and need them to 00:06:10.100 --> 00:06:12.639 give me a call, a lot of times I can try to do 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.899 them that day. Just like you if you need me to 00:06:15.899 --> 00:06:18.100 come out to the farm, I'll be glad to come out. 00:06:18.259 --> 00:06:25.290 All I need is a So yeah, if you need WPS, please 00:06:25.290 --> 00:06:28.629 reach out. If you're here in the college area, 00:06:29.009 --> 00:06:31.069 reach out to us. If you're one of the other areas 00:06:31.069 --> 00:06:35.170 of the state, reach out to your local kind of 00:06:35.170 --> 00:06:37.930 agent and he can get you set up to get trained. 00:06:38.290 --> 00:06:39.910 That's real important. I mean, that's one of 00:06:39.910 --> 00:06:42.930 the things that when LDAF comes in and does a 00:06:42.930 --> 00:06:44.870 check, one of the first things they're going 00:06:44.870 --> 00:06:46.170 to ask you for is that piece of paperwork. And 00:06:46.170 --> 00:06:48.870 they are asking. They are asking. I'm gonna ask 00:06:48.870 --> 00:06:51.269 you for that piece of paper where your guys have 00:06:51.269 --> 00:06:54.329 had WPS training. And it's an easy thing. It's 00:06:54.329 --> 00:06:57.389 free. It doesn't cost anybody anything. Don't 00:06:57.389 --> 00:06:59.670 let it be a big deal. We can take care of that 00:06:59.670 --> 00:07:02.009 for y 'all real quick. All right, the next thing 00:07:02.009 --> 00:07:05.910 is we have a regional rice growers meeting at 00:07:05.910 --> 00:07:08.930 the Delhi Civic Center on March the 5th. And 00:07:08.930 --> 00:07:13.040 that's gonna start at 9 to go to 1230. If you 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.220 need more information on that, you can contact 00:07:16.220 --> 00:07:19.639 Nate Jennings. He is in the Richland Parish office, 00:07:19.699 --> 00:07:23.500 or one of us who can get you a flyer. There's 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:26.079 a beef and forage youth field day coming up on 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.600 March 19th, and that's gonna be here at the Scott 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:31.000 Center. If anybody is interested in that, that's 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.019 gonna be, I think, from 10 to one. I think they're 00:07:35.019 --> 00:07:36.839 doing a sign -up list, like they have a total 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.120 or something that they mentioned today. Either 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.459 way, if you're interested in that, Also reach 00:07:42.459 --> 00:07:47.120 out to us. And that's pretty much all the other 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.939 events that we can kind of get to our, I guess, 00:07:50.100 --> 00:07:52.120 what we're here to talk about. We've got one 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.019 meeting coming up that's going to be the first 00:07:54.019 --> 00:07:58.079 part of May. And that is the, I'll let our guest 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.779 talk about that. And I'm going to use his official 00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:09.040 title. He's Dr. Luke Stamper. Yay! For me and 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:12.100 Kylie, he's Luke and... I think he started about 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:13.560 the same time. They were the same time, yeah. 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:18.699 So it's cool to have a co -worker that has gone 00:08:18.699 --> 00:08:24.540 on and done better things. But Luke is the new 00:08:24.540 --> 00:08:27.759 wildlife specialist for the state, not just the 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:30.600 Northeast region. So for us, it's just a cool 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:32.580 time to sit down and catch up with a co -worker, 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:34.740 but wanting to bring him on and kind of talk 00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:36.600 about his programming and kind of talk about 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.080 how he got where he's got, type of thing. So, 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.820 Lou, welcome. Glad you're here today. Yeah. Thank 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:47.360 you, Bruce. I appreciate you having me. I guess 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:49.980 I am a little glutton for punishment there, I 00:08:49.980 --> 00:08:52.860 suppose. So, you're all correct. We, you know, 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.639 I've been working or employed by the AgCenter 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.700 for many years now and kind of chipped away at, 00:08:58.700 --> 00:09:01.600 you know, some extra education there. And as 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.080 luck would have it, I guess we've wrapped that 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.519 up. And here recently I've taken on a new position 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:10.450 here within the AgCenter. as the statewide extension 00:09:10.450 --> 00:09:13.690 wildlife specialist. Now, my appointment will 00:09:13.690 --> 00:09:17.370 be primarily extension. So I'll have heavy -handed 00:09:17.370 --> 00:09:20.970 and extension programming around the state. Fortunately, 00:09:21.730 --> 00:09:24.110 I will still be housed here in the Northeast 00:09:24.110 --> 00:09:27.250 region, which don't hold it against me, but I 00:09:27.250 --> 00:09:29.330 would have to say this is the... the greatest 00:09:29.330 --> 00:09:31.070 region in the state when it comes to wildlife 00:09:31.070 --> 00:09:33.669 management. We have some serious wildlife managers. 00:09:33.950 --> 00:09:37.750 This is the Delta portion of our state. From 00:09:37.750 --> 00:09:40.009 an economic standpoint, from a sustainability 00:09:40.009 --> 00:09:44.649 standpoint, we have a lot of wildlife opportunity, 00:09:44.649 --> 00:09:46.809 I'll say, here in the region. So a good place 00:09:46.809 --> 00:09:49.929 to be housed out of. We want to get across the 00:09:49.929 --> 00:09:52.009 entirety of the state and offer some programming 00:09:52.009 --> 00:09:55.529 and give everybody an opportunity to learn and 00:09:55.529 --> 00:09:59.240 be maybe better educated. You know, it's a, you 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:03.360 touched on it. I mean, almost every farmer or 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.639 landowner that I know has some sort of wildlife 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:11.679 enterprise, be it duck lines, be it CRP ground 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:15.720 or timberland that they either lease out or make 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:17.360 arrangements for the folks to come on property 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:21.779 and hunt. I had a guy I tell him years ago out 00:10:21.779 --> 00:10:25.139 in the Little Missouri area, talking about hunting 00:10:25.139 --> 00:10:27.610 duck hunting. And he made the comment to me, 00:10:27.750 --> 00:10:31.470 he said, you know, he said he used to lease out 00:10:31.470 --> 00:10:33.970 the duck blinds and that was just extra little 00:10:33.970 --> 00:10:36.769 laying out. And he said, but now this is like, 00:10:36.769 --> 00:10:39.730 this has been 20 years ago. He said, now that 00:10:39.730 --> 00:10:43.309 duck lease is part of the farm population, that 00:10:43.309 --> 00:10:45.210 they took that money. And I said, this has been 00:10:45.210 --> 00:10:47.269 20 years, so I imagine now it's even a bigger 00:10:47.269 --> 00:10:52.590 part of what these guys are, it works into the 00:10:52.590 --> 00:10:54.860 budget. Of course, when you're looking at $10 00:10:54.860 --> 00:11:00.259 ,000 to $1 ,000 for a bottle of duck wine, $8 00:11:00.259 --> 00:11:01.500 ,000 to $10 ,000 for a bottle of duck wine, that's 00:11:01.500 --> 00:11:03.860 going to be real money. They invite me to come 00:11:03.860 --> 00:11:10.639 up with it. I wish I could say I still duck up 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:15.059 like I used to. It's amazing. My first daughter 00:11:15.059 --> 00:11:17.360 was born, and I stopped playing golf. And when 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.320 my second daughter was born, I stopped duck hunting. 00:11:19.659 --> 00:11:21.659 I still fish though, so I didn't even a third 00:11:21.659 --> 00:11:26.820 of them. That's right. I don't say that economic 00:11:26.820 --> 00:11:30.639 phrase loosely there. A lot of people may think 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.940 of Wildlife Mansion maybe as a byproduct of something, 00:11:33.700 --> 00:11:36.120 but there's a lot of people that depend on this, 00:11:36.259 --> 00:11:38.379 whether it's from a recreational standpoint or 00:11:38.379 --> 00:11:40.620 from a business standpoint, but there's a lot 00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:45.000 of dollars that go into this. It's us as Accenture 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.320 employees and Extension personnel, it's our duty 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.240 to... put forth these best management practices 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.919 so that stakeholders can make their best decisions, 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.039 because it does. Especially in this day and age, 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.179 it can get rather expensive, and you definitely 00:12:01.179 --> 00:12:02.940 don't want to be backtracking. You want to be 00:12:02.940 --> 00:12:05.340 making progression. Well, yeah. I'll say that 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:08.820 after this one, but I think about Jeff Simmons 00:12:08.820 --> 00:12:13.039 and Baxter. Jeff's a cattleman. Jeff runs a bunch 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.720 of cows across northeast Louisiana, but he also 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.570 has a big sporting install. And sometimes I wondered 00:12:19.570 --> 00:12:24.250 which one supports which. With the price of cattle 00:12:24.250 --> 00:12:27.190 right now, I wonder if Jeff isn't supporting 00:12:27.190 --> 00:12:30.809 the store offer of cattle prices. I don't know, 00:12:30.809 --> 00:12:33.250 I was in there during Christmastime and it was 00:12:33.250 --> 00:12:35.549 standing room always. You bought a cow, I'll 00:12:35.549 --> 00:12:38.570 tell you why. Yeah, they just take old Will and 00:12:38.570 --> 00:12:42.340 they keep him. I just learned a long time, but 00:12:42.340 --> 00:12:44.940 sometimes you just don't try to justify the cost 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:48.320 of walking and sporting goods store, especially 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:55.419 one that has good stuff. We talked about the 00:12:55.419 --> 00:12:57.980 economic side of it, from a programmatic side 00:12:57.980 --> 00:13:01.080 of it. I mean, I hate to bring this up, but chronic 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.740 wasting disease, that seems to be something that 00:13:03.740 --> 00:13:06.460 is everybody's, if they're deer -huntered now, 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:08.240 seems to be something we're talking about, at 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:12.779 least in North Louisiana. What do we see? What 00:13:12.779 --> 00:13:14.559 are your views there? What can we do and not 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:17.779 do or do differently? Yeah, well, you know, that's 00:13:17.779 --> 00:13:21.220 a real open -ended question there with that particular 00:13:21.220 --> 00:13:23.460 disease and where we're going. I will approach 00:13:23.460 --> 00:13:26.620 it from this viewpoint. You know, we are in the 00:13:26.620 --> 00:13:29.960 epicenter of the state where we first had our 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.559 first positive out of Tensile Parish. We're not 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:36.580 far from there. But I can say that my phone rang 00:13:36.580 --> 00:13:39.519 off the hook after that because some of the regulation 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.399 that is involved with that particular disease 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.740 limits some of our landowners in the way that 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:48.960 they conduct business. So habitat was one of 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.080 the first things that I got lots of calls on. 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.899 So speaking from that standpoint, landowners 00:13:53.899 --> 00:13:57.000 are wondering, what can I do differently? We're 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.960 in a quarantine zone or maybe we're on the outskirts 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:01.919 and we want to start being more proactive towards 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:06.799 this to have maybe a sounder herd health going 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.659 on and just trying to make the best decisions 00:14:08.659 --> 00:14:11.500 that are put forth by our ... our state wildlife 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:14.000 agency. So one of those things, it comes back 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.620 to, you know, just being a land manager, you 00:14:16.620 --> 00:14:20.080 know, creating, you know. things that are important 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:21.779 to a white -tailed deer herd that takes place 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:24.000 on somebody's property. So, you know, speaking 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.759 from that standpoint, that's what I really got 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.820 a lot of questions on. That's why people are 00:14:27.820 --> 00:14:29.179 kind of rethinking the way that they're doing 00:14:29.179 --> 00:14:30.840 things when they're hunting properties. That's 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.679 kind of where we start. But, you know, that's 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:35.759 a proactive disease on what we're going and we're 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.799 kind of managing it day by day and kind of following, 00:14:38.139 --> 00:14:40.580 you know, what our state agencies is putting 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:43.320 forth. Michelle, you touched on it right there. 00:14:43.779 --> 00:14:46.899 It's a year -round management mindset. Yeah. 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:53.080 herd health, but it's playing that food plot 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:55.740 that's going to provide the nutritional needs 00:14:55.740 --> 00:14:58.700 for that white -tailed deer during the year when 00:14:58.700 --> 00:15:02.700 he needs it to keep the animal healthy and possibly 00:15:02.700 --> 00:15:06.019 not have them clump up around a central site. 00:15:10.889 --> 00:15:13.750 needs with that disease, it's what we talk about 00:15:13.750 --> 00:15:16.009 distribution. So one thing that landowners can 00:15:16.009 --> 00:15:18.769 do is try to create a more even distribution. 00:15:19.230 --> 00:15:22.590 That's very difficult to do. We're talking about 00:15:22.590 --> 00:15:24.529 a social group of animals and a white -tailed 00:15:24.529 --> 00:15:27.230 deer. But where I was going with that is we even 00:15:27.230 --> 00:15:29.289 have landowners that I'm working with outside 00:15:29.289 --> 00:15:31.929 of some of these regulatory areas that are looking 00:15:31.929 --> 00:15:33.850 down the road and saying, hey, what if we get 00:15:33.850 --> 00:15:36.690 a positive or what if this thing kind of moves 00:15:36.690 --> 00:15:38.909 one way or the other, what can we be doing right 00:15:38.909 --> 00:15:41.620 now to be And then bringing it right back home 00:15:41.620 --> 00:15:44.220 to this northeast part of the state. especially 00:15:44.220 --> 00:15:47.179 in a Delta, we deal with some really high deer 00:15:47.179 --> 00:15:49.919 densities. So a lot of landowners are looking 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:52.080 at that. They're trying to maybe increase their 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.019 antlerless harvest on their properties. They're 00:15:54.019 --> 00:15:57.440 trying to bring overall population numbers back 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:59.220 within carrying capacity or where they should 00:15:59.220 --> 00:16:02.100 be. And these are all things that we can be doing, 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.000 be thinking about and just try to maintain the 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:08.399 best we can and look at it from that standpoint. 00:16:08.820 --> 00:16:11.960 Well, I think that's the thing that we're going 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.029 to at least Because I'm the same way. I get phone 00:16:15.029 --> 00:16:17.490 calls and I'm guilty because sometimes I'll say, 00:16:17.669 --> 00:16:20.710 look, we need to call Luke. Because I mean, a 00:16:20.710 --> 00:16:23.669 lot of the questions that they're asking are 00:16:23.669 --> 00:16:26.389 walking up to that regulatory line. They're willing 00:16:26.389 --> 00:16:29.929 to know, hey, what can I do? And I don't want 00:16:29.929 --> 00:16:32.350 to tell somebody. I mean, I talk to you. I get 00:16:32.350 --> 00:16:34.309 information from you and I say, look, I've told 00:16:34.309 --> 00:16:36.149 folks, look, it's a whole lot easier when you've 00:16:36.149 --> 00:16:37.929 seen Luke. Because Luke is going to be the guy 00:16:37.929 --> 00:16:40.429 that's been sitting in the meetings that have 00:16:40.429 --> 00:16:43.440 been there talking about it. So, you know, I 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.440 encourage everybody to definitely keep your ears 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.120 open, read everything that comes down the pipe 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:54.360 because I don't think anybody can tell anybody 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:58.419 what the future is when it comes to managing 00:16:58.419 --> 00:17:01.460 this disease. We're talking to, you know, tomorrow 00:17:01.460 --> 00:17:04.519 we're talking to Will Strickland about poultry, 00:17:05.339 --> 00:17:08.240 specifically about avian flu. So, and that's 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.829 a whole other... That's a whole other thing to 00:17:11.829 --> 00:17:12.970 think about when you start thinking about duck 00:17:12.970 --> 00:17:18.259 populations. Absolutely. You said it best there. 00:17:18.299 --> 00:17:22.720 I mean, education is always a great need to combat 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.279 some of these issues. And trying to bring that 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.720 back around to our extension programming needs 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.940 and efforts. I always try to have somebody on 00:17:30.940 --> 00:17:33.299 at least an annual basis at some of these meetings, 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:37.059 especially here in this region where the first 00:17:37.059 --> 00:17:41.509 detection was found. We try to get... updates 00:17:41.509 --> 00:17:43.509 often, you know, what are the best management 00:17:43.509 --> 00:17:46.930 practices? You know, who do we call in some of 00:17:46.930 --> 00:17:49.349 these situations and issues? You know, what are 00:17:49.349 --> 00:17:51.289 we doing going forward? So, you know, checking 00:17:51.289 --> 00:17:54.170 us out, looking at the meetings, being in attendance, 00:17:54.509 --> 00:17:56.670 like you said, doing as much reading as you can, 00:17:56.890 --> 00:17:58.769 and we try to put information out there that's 00:17:58.769 --> 00:18:09.339 going to keep our clientele up to date. Yeah, 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.779 I think this may be our fourth or fifth year 00:18:11.779 --> 00:18:15.859 doing this now. It's a very well -received meeting. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.019 It goes back to that wildlife overlapping with 00:18:19.019 --> 00:18:21.460 so many different disciplines. We can find it. 00:18:21.700 --> 00:18:24.480 So you really get a wide general audience that's 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.880 interested in some of these topics. But we kind 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.700 of rotate that around the region and we may be 00:18:28.700 --> 00:18:30.480 rotating that around the state some more now. 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:32.759 But this year is going to be held at the Northeast 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:34.920 Research Station. We're going to have it sometime 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:36.839 in the first two weeks of May. We haven't nailed 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:39.160 that date. down but as soon as I do here in the 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.220 next just few days I'll let you guys know and 00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:44.559 maybe you can at a later date you can you can 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:46.940 solidify that but we'll have multiple speakers 00:18:46.940 --> 00:18:50.059 multiple topics we'll have some indoors and then 00:18:50.059 --> 00:18:51.839 we'll have a field day component too or we can 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.299 take folks out and you know how like the Northeast 00:18:54.299 --> 00:18:57.000 Research Station for even from an agronomy standpoint 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.380 but you know look at these different wildlife 00:18:59.380 --> 00:19:06.869 topics too. The diseases, and I guess the third 00:19:06.869 --> 00:19:09.430 one I'll bring up that I guess could be a scourge 00:19:09.430 --> 00:19:12.809 or disease is feral hogs. Yeah, absolutely. I 00:19:12.809 --> 00:19:15.750 have a guy, a colleague, I'm talking about being 00:19:15.750 --> 00:19:17.950 around a long time, being old before we started 00:19:17.950 --> 00:19:22.490 recording. About 10 years ago, 15 years ago now, 00:19:23.529 --> 00:19:26.079 a US Wildlife and Fisheries agent. He made a 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:27.900 presentation and he said, there's two kinds of 00:19:27.900 --> 00:19:30.519 landowners in Louisiana when it comes to feral 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.079 hogs. I mean, what is he talking about? He said, 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.200 those have got hogs now, and those are gonna 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:40.640 have hogs. And that was 15 years ago, and I wish 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.819 I could say that has not proved to be true, but 00:19:42.819 --> 00:19:46.619 it tends to prove them to be true. Feral hog 00:19:46.619 --> 00:19:53.380 population still is growing. Especially, that 00:19:53.380 --> 00:19:56.880 affects a lot of things. It affects row crop, 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.960 it affects agriculture, but it affects turkey 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.640 hunters. It affects anybody that's trying to 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.099 establish a quail covey, any kind of ground nesting 00:20:07.099 --> 00:20:10.900 birds, any kind of ground burrowing animals. 00:20:11.180 --> 00:20:13.539 Anything that would tear up a raccoon or armadillo. 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.960 I mean, that's pretty tough. Or just the landowner 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:20.099 in general. I mean, they mess up. I mean, they 00:20:20.099 --> 00:20:26.000 just tear up everything. I know that the educational 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.900 efforts there are just ongoing, always. But can't 00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:34.019 we just hunt them out? You know, no. I wish that 00:20:34.019 --> 00:20:36.819 was the answer. That was the comment I got when 00:20:36.819 --> 00:20:40.390 we did that meeting. What was that two years 00:20:40.390 --> 00:20:43.289 ago with with what he came up to talk about the 00:20:43.289 --> 00:20:48.549 bait? Yeah, Glenn can talk about that and The 00:20:48.549 --> 00:20:50.690 you know, there's a lot of people for it, but 00:20:50.690 --> 00:20:53.670 I was shocked There was just as many people against 00:20:53.670 --> 00:20:57.410 it because of the honey like that We like to 00:20:57.410 --> 00:20:59.609 hunt and we want to you know, I don't think you 00:20:59.609 --> 00:21:01.829 can kill the number of hogs that you need to 00:21:01.829 --> 00:21:08.009 kill The way they reproduce the way the hogs 00:21:08.009 --> 00:21:11.680 reproduce is, for lack of a better word, just 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.079 like rabbits. But that's what Dr. Gentry was 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:18.940 talking about, was that they did some work down 00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:22.000 in South Louisiana, one of the wildlife management 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:24.720 areas, where they did a hunting, an intensive 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:27.759 hunting, one island, one marsh, and a marsh. 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:30.480 And at the end of the, I think, I want to say 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:36.730 at the end of the... at the end of the period, 00:21:37.170 --> 00:21:40.750 I think the population is going up. It's a job 00:21:40.750 --> 00:21:44.970 though. So we farm and it's a lot to work all 00:21:44.970 --> 00:21:48.509 day, hunt all night. You can't keep up with what's 00:21:48.509 --> 00:21:55.250 going on day and night. Well, if you use a plot 00:21:55.250 --> 00:21:57.369 this or look at this in comparison to other wildlife 00:21:57.369 --> 00:21:59.930 species, I mean, it's what we call an exponential 00:21:59.930 --> 00:22:02.670 growth curve. So you're not seeing that on a 00:22:02.670 --> 00:22:05.269 linear progression or anything like that. So 00:22:05.269 --> 00:22:08.250 it's very difficult to get out ahead of the recruitment 00:22:08.250 --> 00:22:11.670 rate that they can have. They are adapted for 00:22:11.670 --> 00:22:13.809 some of this environment. They are able to breed 00:22:13.809 --> 00:22:17.609 almost year round once they become reproductive. 00:22:18.130 --> 00:22:20.910 So it does begin to get very... difficult to 00:22:20.910 --> 00:22:22.690 stay out ahead of them. It is something that 00:22:22.690 --> 00:22:25.009 takes, we talk about this year -round endeavors 00:22:25.009 --> 00:22:28.950 in wildlife management, feral hogs are absolutely 00:22:28.950 --> 00:22:31.210 something that is a year -round endeavor. Now 00:22:31.210 --> 00:22:32.849 one common thing that, you know, you call them 00:22:32.849 --> 00:22:34.690 an invasive species and they absolutely are, 00:22:34.710 --> 00:22:37.049 they're non -native invasive species. And whether 00:22:37.049 --> 00:22:39.470 you're talking about plants or animals, there's 00:22:39.470 --> 00:22:41.349 one thing that they have in common and that's 00:22:41.349 --> 00:22:44.890 they displace more native species. So they tend 00:22:44.890 --> 00:22:47.410 to out -compete a lot of our native species for 00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:50.049 resources that are, you know, just like a plant, 00:22:50.410 --> 00:22:52.210 an invasive species plant, competing with another 00:22:52.210 --> 00:22:55.230 plant. They're competing for that same light, 00:22:55.349 --> 00:22:58.029 space, resources, nutrients. It's no different 00:22:58.029 --> 00:23:00.410 with a feral hawk. So, you know, you just kind 00:23:00.410 --> 00:23:03.970 of, you got a toolbox there. You got to try to 00:23:03.970 --> 00:23:05.829 pull everything out of the toolbox, hit them 00:23:05.829 --> 00:23:08.490 from every angle, do the best you can. And, you 00:23:08.490 --> 00:23:10.289 know, I always tell folks, you know, depending 00:23:10.289 --> 00:23:12.690 on what, every scenario is different, but you 00:23:12.690 --> 00:23:16.099 know. Put some pressure on that's what you got 00:23:16.099 --> 00:23:19.259 to do. Yeah, you know no matter the scenario 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:40.779 Now, if your neighbor can get on the runoff and 00:23:40.779 --> 00:23:43.359 the third neighbor, that's even better. But no, 00:23:43.539 --> 00:23:46.099 it's a tough game, really tough. Make sure you 00:23:46.099 --> 00:23:48.420 have two neighbors at any time if you buy beans 00:23:48.420 --> 00:23:54.740 and broccoli. And we mentioned Dr. Gentry. He 00:23:54.740 --> 00:24:01.299 has worked on the bait to help control the population. 00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:04.940 This is with him back in the summer, and he told 00:24:04.940 --> 00:24:07.819 me next to Bruce, he said, we're still... fighting 00:24:07.819 --> 00:24:11.400 this to get it through the EPA and get it through 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:14.319 all of the steps we have to take it to get it 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:16.380 to where we can produce it to have it available 00:24:16.380 --> 00:24:20.960 for public use. And I was trying to get him to 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.680 commit to a timeline. He's like, man, I wish 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:24.940 I could give you a timeline. It's been years. 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.720 It's just going to take, it's a time thing. And 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.059 he was listed on all of those trials they have 00:24:33.059 --> 00:24:38.890 to do. Part of the issue is off -target consumption 00:24:38.890 --> 00:24:42.230 by other animals. So they think they've figured 00:24:42.230 --> 00:24:44.769 out that, you know, how to use the bait and how 00:24:44.769 --> 00:24:47.990 to move the bait and how to broadcast the bait 00:24:47.990 --> 00:24:51.730 or whatever. So it's a more complicated issue 00:24:51.730 --> 00:24:54.509 about the baiting side of it to eradicate them 00:24:54.509 --> 00:24:58.029 than it is. It's just a matter of literally just 00:24:58.029 --> 00:25:00.529 running them off to the bait. We talked about 00:25:00.529 --> 00:25:02.809 two bad, you know, three things are kind of down. 00:25:03.470 --> 00:25:05.970 Then I'm gonna bring up a fourth thing that some 00:25:05.970 --> 00:25:08.609 people may, yeah, but I think it was exciting. 00:25:08.869 --> 00:25:11.329 We completed our first bear season. We have. 00:25:11.369 --> 00:25:15.730 Oh, that was fun. I mean, to see, I think for 00:25:15.730 --> 00:25:17.890 them to, there's some information that's having 00:25:17.890 --> 00:25:21.289 to be rewritten about the size of bears after 00:25:21.289 --> 00:25:23.529 bear season this year. I think there was some... 00:25:23.369 --> 00:25:29.509 I can think of two, one that was a 697, 98 pound. 00:25:29.849 --> 00:25:31.710 I haven't heard the Boone and Crockett final 00:25:31.710 --> 00:25:33.970 yet, but it was going to be, everything I heard 00:25:33.970 --> 00:25:36.369 was going to be in the top three in the nation 00:25:36.369 --> 00:25:40.009 for size. And there was one before that that 00:25:40.009 --> 00:25:44.009 was in the 500 pound range. Last time, last thing 00:25:44.009 --> 00:25:48.890 I read, black bears are cool. No, it is some 00:25:48.890 --> 00:25:52.410 interesting results coming from that first bear 00:25:52.410 --> 00:25:55.309 season. One thing I will say is we are trying 00:25:55.309 --> 00:25:59.269 to have the program leader for... for the large 00:25:59.269 --> 00:26:01.269 carnivore program, I believe it is, with the 00:26:01.269 --> 00:26:03.170 Department of Wildlife and Fisheries come to 00:26:03.170 --> 00:26:06.369 this wildlife field day. Now, I'm not a large 00:26:06.369 --> 00:26:08.210 carnivore guy, I can't give you a whole lot of 00:26:08.210 --> 00:26:10.890 insight into that, but he'll be there and hopefully 00:26:10.890 --> 00:26:13.630 we can get some season updates on how this past 00:26:13.630 --> 00:26:16.089 season went, what we're looking at in the future, 00:26:16.329 --> 00:26:19.849 maybe surrounding this next season, and some 00:26:19.849 --> 00:26:21.869 basic bare biology for folks, because I know 00:26:21.869 --> 00:26:24.230 that it has generated a lot of interest from 00:26:24.230 --> 00:26:27.630 a social media standpoint. It was, it was exciting. 00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:29.579 to see some of those things, some of the ages 00:26:29.579 --> 00:26:31.640 that they correlated with these bears and some 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:34.640 of their weights. So I know it'll be a well -received 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.059 topic and a lot of questions from stakeholders. 00:26:37.059 --> 00:26:39.119 Do you know how many they killed? I can't remember 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:42.059 anymore. No, I'm pretty sure I know, but I'd 00:26:42.059 --> 00:26:45.299 hate to say and be held to it. It wasn't high 00:26:45.299 --> 00:26:48.720 numbers in this first season. I think there were 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.900 10 or 11. I was thinking 10, but I really don't 00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:55.380 remember. I don't. I don't remember, I remember 00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:57.259 hearing, I want to say there were 10, either 00:26:57.259 --> 00:27:01.539 10 or 11 tags and something about that 11th one, 00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:04.960 I'm not sure why that worked out that way. But 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:07.859 yeah, it was just to watch those numbers come 00:27:07.859 --> 00:27:10.839 in on Facebook, on different social media posts 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:15.700 of bears that were taken. The story's with him. 00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:19.579 It's the classic thing about hearing about somebody 00:27:19.579 --> 00:27:22.740 being corn fed. Some of those bears were corn 00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:25.559 fed. You got almost a 700 pound black bear over 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:29.299 here. That rascal was corn fed. He has eaten 00:27:29.299 --> 00:27:32.799 a lot of corn on the cob and some corn fields 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:38.640 to get to that size. Just no doubt. I guess they 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:40.779 say bears are carnivores, but they're omnivores, 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:43.460 they don't eat anything. You talk to different 00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:45.640 guys, they'll eat telephone poles, they'll eat 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.940 diesel fuel lines, they'll eat parts off of diesel 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:53.799 pump motors, and just whatever. But I know in 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:58.099 my part of the world, it was a, we see bears, 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:00.220 I'm not gonna say, I'm gonna say I see bears 00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:03.660 on a daily basis, but on almost a weekly basis 00:28:03.660 --> 00:28:09.099 in Western Paris, out in the fields. during planting 00:28:09.099 --> 00:28:12.319 and during water and then at the end of the seed 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:15.539 and harvest, almost on, well, during harvest 00:28:15.539 --> 00:28:21.059 almost on a daily basis. They are definitely 00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:26.859 a resounding success story for recovery from 00:28:26.859 --> 00:28:30.619 the brink of extinction. It depends on what numbers 00:28:30.619 --> 00:28:33.569 you believe or what numbers you listen to. But 00:28:33.569 --> 00:28:36.529 I know now that, boy, I've seen some tracks and 00:28:36.529 --> 00:28:38.630 seen some bears that make me want to go back 00:28:38.630 --> 00:28:42.210 and get in the truck. No, I've got a weak heart. 00:28:42.230 --> 00:28:45.630 I had a heart surgery. When I see a 400 or 500 00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:48.390 pound bear, I really don't want to, you know, 00:28:48.509 --> 00:28:51.150 say, hey, how you doing? I'm going in the truck, 00:28:51.349 --> 00:28:54.089 so. I saw one once on Bo Hutton's, and I can 00:28:54.089 --> 00:28:57.549 remember, like, I think I even got the screen, 00:28:57.569 --> 00:28:59.809 the conversation in Texas was screen -shotted, 00:29:00.329 --> 00:29:03.609 like, hey, it's... you know everything got quiet 00:29:03.609 --> 00:29:06.710 all of a sudden the birds stopped chirping everything 00:29:06.710 --> 00:29:08.890 just kind of shut off and then the next second 00:29:08.890 --> 00:29:11.890 was a bear walking out go ahead you don't really 00:29:11.890 --> 00:29:14.809 have anything on the other end you know yeah 00:29:14.809 --> 00:29:17.410 i'm sure everybody's seen the videos of the bear 00:29:17.410 --> 00:29:19.630 climbing the tree the guy sitting i love that 00:29:19.630 --> 00:29:22.130 video yeah he's sitting in the climbing stand 00:29:22.130 --> 00:29:27.099 the bear climbs the tree looks at him Yeah, you 00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:31.160 definitely hear stories like Kylie's very regularly. 00:29:31.700 --> 00:29:34.259 I work with a lot of deer managers for several 00:29:34.259 --> 00:29:36.819 years now. I don't have any hard data to back 00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:38.960 this up, obviously, but from an anecdotal standpoint. 00:29:39.619 --> 00:29:41.859 You hear about more observations, more people 00:29:41.859 --> 00:29:46.519 seeing them, having interactions. With this first 00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:48.220 bear season, they've kicked something off. It 00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:51.200 seems like a positive thing. I'm looking forward 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:53.180 to getting more information on that as well. 00:29:55.889 --> 00:29:58.309 Well, we've kind of glossed over a lot of topics 00:29:58.309 --> 00:30:02.009 today. Luke, I appreciate you. I'd like to have 00:30:02.009 --> 00:30:05.250 you back as we move through the coming year and 00:30:05.250 --> 00:30:08.109 you develop your program. It's a cool thing, 00:30:08.109 --> 00:30:11.930 again, to have a co -worker that has moved up 00:30:11.930 --> 00:30:16.690 through being an extension agent, county agent, 00:30:16.809 --> 00:30:19.910 and into a specialist position. That's me for 00:30:19.910 --> 00:30:22.990 me as a professional. I want to have you back. 00:30:24.029 --> 00:30:27.759 as you grow your program as you have. Yeah, I 00:30:27.759 --> 00:30:29.359 know you're 100 % extension. You're still going 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:31.799 to do a little bit of research? Oh, yeah. We'll 00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:34.119 do some applied research, for sure. I've got 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:36.420 some pilot sky things that we're wanting to accomplish 00:30:36.420 --> 00:30:40.059 and collaborate with. And we've got a really 00:30:40.059 --> 00:30:42.339 great team here in the Northeast, from agent 00:30:42.339 --> 00:30:45.019 to more specialists. I'm looking forward to collaborate 00:30:45.019 --> 00:30:48.680 with folks and have a strong program. So we'll 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:50.940 definitely come back and give us some updates 00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:53.619 on what we're working on. So no doubt about that. 00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:55.440 Well, I haven't said wildlife was here before 00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.400 us. There's always been a buzz, like anytime 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:02.039 you throw a glen or anybody in there, that would 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:04.440 bring the crowd, so you should, and your field 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.680 day's a really good one, so. I appreciate you 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.259 staying time to talk to us today. Where can they 00:31:11.259 --> 00:31:13.539 reach you? Which office are you gonna be? Yep, 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:16.640 I'm still housed in the Caldwell office there, 00:31:16.859 --> 00:31:20.180 it's in Caldwell Parish, you know, but. Being 00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:22.539 a statewide specialist, contacting any of them, 00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:24.140 especially here in the Northeast region where 00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:26.099 I'm going to be housed, contacting any of the 00:31:26.099 --> 00:31:28.579 agents there, they can get in touch. I've got 00:31:28.579 --> 00:31:31.140 an email there, probably a quick Google search 00:31:31.140 --> 00:31:34.180 to our website. We'll probably offer up my email. 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.440 That's a great way to get in touch with me. I'll 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.339 put it in the show cap. Yep, absolutely. Thank 00:31:38.339 --> 00:31:40.579 you for coming. Just good sitting down with us, 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:44.740 Kyle. Thank you. We're going to kick off. We've 00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:46.920 been kind of daring up this past couple of... 00:31:47.779 --> 00:31:50.059 Well, we have two people retire, we've brought 00:31:50.059 --> 00:31:54.839 on Shelly. It's just meetings time of year. It's 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:57.240 meeting season. I mean, we literally have been, 00:31:57.299 --> 00:32:00.519 we've had Aggie adventures last week and it's 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:02.200 been re -certification meetings, this, that, 00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:05.359 and the other. So we're going to get back on 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.900 a little bit better schedule as we start, as 00:32:07.900 --> 00:32:10.160 we move into planning season. I think we're going 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.240 to sit down with Shelly in the next week or two, 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:15.549 talk about some core planning. Talk about some 00:32:15.549 --> 00:32:17.089 of these things that we're looking at in the 00:32:17.089 --> 00:32:19.890 market. Might even try to have Dr. Del Berto 00:32:19.890 --> 00:32:21.990 on at some point. I know that came out in my 00:32:21.990 --> 00:32:28.630 advisory set. Yeah. I know you're on that. Yeah. 00:32:28.630 --> 00:32:31.490 We want to hear from Dr. Del Berto. He's the 00:32:31.490 --> 00:32:35.009 economist, the profit analyst. That's sometimes 00:32:35.009 --> 00:32:37.869 the sole point right now with guys, but we'll 00:32:37.869 --> 00:32:40.730 try to have Dr. Del Berto on to talk about the 00:32:40.730 --> 00:32:44.650 economy and the life thereof. So thank y 'all 00:32:44.650 --> 00:32:47.410 for spending some time with us and I'll throw 00:32:47.410 --> 00:32:49.069 it around to everyone one last time. Yeah, y 00:32:49.069 --> 00:32:51.230 'all join us again next time. We appreciate you 00:32:51.230 --> 00:32:53.690 listening and thanks again Luke for coming. Yeah, 00:32:53.690 --> 00:33:09.309 thanks for having me. The Indiana Delta Crop 00:33:09.309 --> 00:33:12.430 Podcast is produced by the LSU AgCenter Extension 00:33:12.430 --> 00:33:15.789 Service. 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