Welcome back to the We Live It podcast here live at Coors Field on this great Thursday morning. We are gonna have one heck of an auction here about 09:00 this morning, Casey. Me, myself, Tidey Cordova, co host Casey Mabry, we are joined with White Agar of Code Little South of Cody, Wyoming.
Wyatt Agar:Yes, sir.
Ty deCordova:Durban Creek, Herefords. That's right.
Wyatt Agar:Yes, sir.
Ty deCordova:Yeah. So, we're going to sit here and chat with him a little bit about this but before we get started, we do have a well of a lineup today with a little over 23, zero head of cattle today. Start at 09:00 Mountain Time at liveag.com to to bid and buy on there or we are on our YouTube channel, the Live Ag YouTube. So just tune in there and be sure to hit subscribe and like but just kind of wanted to get that out of way before we got started. We got a really really good line of cattle day, weaned and feeders and beef terry crosses and an exceptional set of red Angus females at the end of the day.
Ty deCordova:So just tune into that. What's up, man?
Casey Mabry:How you been? Man, the weather is phenomenal out here,
Ty deCordova:isn't it? I mean to tell you, it's kind of be short sleeve weather if we wanted it to be.
Casey Mabry:Well, was pulling in here yesterday and I was drove drove from the airport over here, and there's guys playing golf out there, and some of them were in shorts.
Ty deCordova:So tell me about your change. Did you help them change the tires on your plane, or how did this go? I mean, how do you get on
Casey Mabry:and off? We're loaded up. We're ready to go. I think we're about to take off. And they say, I don't know.
Casey Mabry:We got a flat or Yeah. Get off the plane. We got to change some tires.
Ty deCordova:We get on the runway. We're fixing to take off. Well, they spin us around so we got to go out to the gate. We had computer failure. And then our pilots come in to say, well, not only do we have computer failure, but I'm out of time.
Casey Mabry:So I've always thought that there's some low budget airlines out there and I think we might need to look at the ones we're flying on. I make fun of everybody else that flies the yellow airplane and then maybe I need to go check that one out. Need to look
Ty deCordova:it out. No doubt. So next week, I guess when do y'all head up here?
Casey Mabry:Yeah. So I'm going to fly
Ty deCordova:home
Casey Mabry:today. Load the trailer up and then we're to drive up here on Saturday to, I guess a swine show with the daughters would be Monday and Tuesday.
Ty deCordova:I'm gonna cheat. I'm gonna fly home, and I'm gonna fly back. Yeah. And we're gonna show Wednesday.
Casey Mabry:You're put your steer on the airplane too?
Ty deCordova:Hot numb. Who's driving it up? The guys.
Casey Mabry:See, I don't have the guys. The guys. You're a little bit different status than I am.
Ty deCordova:No. I don't know about
Casey Mabry:I am
Ty deCordova:the guy. I don't know about I was too last year. And then I said, you know what? It about killed me. We drove up here before.
Ty deCordova:We stayed here for two straight weeks. And I mean I mean to tell you now, this is a this is not a place you want to be here for two. I love Denver. Don't get me wrong. But two weeks is enough.
Casey Mabry:Last year was a heck of a lot colder than it was this year. And then I mean
Ty deCordova:negative seven one morning when I went out to the
Casey Mabry:I don't even think it's going to freeze while we're here. No. Forecast.
Ty deCordova:Not mad about it though.
Wyatt Agar:So, we were talking. It was 60 degrees Christmas Day, you know, just south of Cody, Wyoming. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah.
Wyatt Agar:The home place sits, you know, it's six between six to 6,500 feet and 60 degrees.
Casey Mabry:You'll have dandelions popping up here pretty quick.
Wyatt Agar:The cheatgrass is dincture coming. It's gonna have
Ty deCordova:a rude awakening here. So let's kind of get in your history. Where you grew up? Did you grow up in the industry or did how did this all kind of come about?
Wyatt Agar:Absolutely. I'm I'm a third generation, generation, been blessed to be raised in a family that's been very involved in the industry and raised in a family that a large amount of our family members were involved. And so Durbin Creek has gone through a transformation several times. It started with my grandparents and my dad and my uncle, and they all pooled their assets and built something. Then they divided that up, and a lot of people know of Agar Livestock Transportation in the Northwest.
Wyatt Agar:That's my uncle, Matt Agar, and my dad Bruce.
Ty deCordova:I wouldn't let a lot of people know that.
Wyatt Agar:Well, just kidding, Matt.
Ty deCordova:Calm down.
Wyatt Agar:Calm down. You know, a lot of people say I'm a lot like him. Well. Anyway, they split up the assets. And my mom and dad went on with Durban Creek Ranch.
Wyatt Agar:And Uncle Matt started Agar Livestock. And so then both my brother and I had been in business with my parents for twenty plus years. And just this last year, we divided assets again. And my parents have a background in a lot called Washakie Feeders. And my wife, Joey, and I, we took the seed stock cows and went on with those.
Wyatt Agar:And my brother, Jake, and his wife, Hannah, took the commercial cows. So it's kind of a we build the assets, we divide, and we move on. And you see the family, you know, we all work together, we work close, but we're in business for ourselves. And it's a blessing.
Ty deCordova:Yeah.
Casey Mabry:I know that's a challenge probably to keep all the different family dynamics. I mean, I've got family. I don't know if we could be in business together, but, we all love each other. But it's it's interesting to watch families, to continue and to continue that legacy. And that way you guys get to keep your ranches and raise your families into that.
Wyatt Agar:And we've always said you don't want too many cooks in one kitchen. So we try to be very broad based and you know, we've probably been as close to fully integrated as any ag family can be. You know, we run the commercial cows and produce or we run the registered cows, produce the genetics. We run the commercial cows and then we have the backgrounding lot where those commercial calves go to. And we sell a lot of F1 baldy females and that kind of stuff.
Wyatt Agar:And then we have the trucking company that can take those cattle anywhere in the nation. And so we've been as fully integrated as you can be, but diverse as you can be so more family members can be involved.
Ty deCordova:Man, that's awesome. That's awesome. So you served a little bit. You've done some political work, I guess you say. So did you start at the Hereford Association being chairman of board there?
Ty deCordova:Did you start at the state level?
Wyatt Agar:So I started as a state legislator. I was a state senator in District 20, which is Central Northern Wyoming. And I did that for four years, but I had a very young family. And the last two years, I served on Appropriation Committee and Select Capital Finance, which those two committees set the budget for the state, and then they set the investment policy for the state. So it became a full time job really fast and it wasn't what my wife signed up for.
Casey Mabry:Had your family had any political involvement?
Ty deCordova:Home with all the registered cows and you were in the office doing finances and she's like, none of that.
Wyatt Agar:Yeah, I was in Cheyenne doing the things politicians do and she was planning a February bull sell without me. So we decided after a long conversation to step away from politics and that lasted about twenty four hours. After I announced my retirement from the state senate, I got several calls from individuals that I had a lot of respect for in the Hereford industry, and they said, Hey, we want you to run for the board of directors. So, fast forward eight months, and I was to the board of directors of the Hereford Association.
Ty deCordova:There you go. There you go. One thing about it is if you're not involved, if you're if you don't sit on or do those kind of things, everybody else makes decisions for you.
Wyatt Agar:Absolutely. If
Ty deCordova:you're involved, then you have a you can at least kind of half way mold the decision or be involved in the talks.
Wyatt Agar:Absolutely. And you know, our generation is is notorious for complaining about the situation we're in, but not getting involved to
Ty deCordova:change it. Correct.
Wyatt Agar:And that was always it's been my drive since was I a little kid. I'm not going to complain until I'm involved. And I've made an honest effort to improve the situation. And so, yeah, there I was, at that point in time, the youngest sitting state Senator. Senator and then I was the first freshman senator to to serve on appropriations and I was the first freshman senator to serve on slut capital finance.
Ty deCordova:Cool. Pretty good stuff. So. Kinda tell us about the bull cell that's coming up.
Wyatt Agar:Absolutely. You know, we set at like I said, the home place sits at about 6,000 feet. We're a high elevation operation. And it's Central Northern Wyoming. It's very dry, arid, short grass country.
Wyatt Agar:It takes about 80 acres to run a cow. But we're blessed in the fact that the way the topography and the environment lays out, we can run those cows outside twelve months out of the year, not run a lot of processed feeds through them. So we're a high elevation, and we're the largest set of Hereford bulls in the Hereford breed that are Pap tested. And we've done that for the longest of any breeder in the Hereford breed. So February 4, there'll be 110 head of those two two year old Pap Testa bulls.
Ty deCordova:Wow. That's a lot of bulls. Yeah. That's good stuff. Good stuff.
Ty deCordova:Yeah. And you can watch it where you can, bid live and then you can bid where else?
Wyatt Agar:Live ag. Okay. I thought
Ty deCordova:I'd throw that out there. But the another thing is you just as of what two weeks ago, I guess, kind of made the decision to come on board with us guys and
Wyatt Agar:Absolutely.
Ty deCordova:And start repping some cattle up in that area for live ag. And we're excited about that. I think there's a big opportunity in that area to kind of you and you got a team built up there for you. Yes. Who you got
Wyatt Agar:going with? So, you know, I've been blessed for the last three years. I've worked with Drew Nielsen who started out as a a bull customer of mine. And he was just on fire for what our program had done in his commercial setting. And he was telling a lot of people about our program, and I finally felt guilty and felt like I needed to compensate him.
Wyatt Agar:So I hired him to be the director of marketing there at Durbin Creek. And as we've talked about ways that we can help our customers, one of those is repping in order these F1 calves are landing.
Ty deCordova:You bet. And that's a good product to rep. Oh, sell like hotcakes. We tried to get him on here with us, but Casey took up too much room so he could fit.
Wyatt Agar:But so so Drew and I are working together and and we're looking forward to to repping those customers calves in the future.
Ty deCordova:Man, that's awesome. We appreciate your here. Your faith in us and coming on board and having your cell with us and now coming on board and being a rep with us, man. We can't thank you enough for believing in the vision that we have.
Wyatt Agar:Oh, absolutely.
Ty deCordova:So, anything else we need to talk about kiddos? So,
Wyatt Agar:if you were talking about your kids, I've got a daughter over here. It used to be on the hill. It's no longer on the hill, but she's fitting cattle this week. She was in Oklahoma City last week. They had the champion pin of five bulls.
Wyatt Agar:They dropped three of them off at the she works for Linda Sidwell Sidwell Hurford.
Ty deCordova:Okay.
Wyatt Agar:Dropped three head off and came on with two head and they have them on the hill here. And so we've been playing phone tag with her all day. But the good Lord blessed Joey and I right off the bat with twin daughters. Awesome. Joey didn't have a sister in the world, and she was the youngest kid by a long, long ways, and she didn't know what she was signing up for to raise two agar daughters.
Ty deCordova:God bless her soul. Yeah. Girls are awesome.
Wyatt Agar:Yeah. But you know, and then we have a son that's 14. An avid avid team roper and he would just as soon be in Wickenburg right now is helping me get ready for a bull cell.
Ty deCordova:That's right. How old are the daughters?
Wyatt Agar:They're 18. 18. Yes,
Ty deCordova:sir. So, I got nine months turned 17 Friday.
Casey Mabry:So, are they are they still in high school or
Wyatt Agar:they're school? They're both in their freshman year of college. They both have full ride scholarships to Livestock Judge.
Ty deCordova:Okay. Where?
Wyatt Agar:Riley is in Casper and Taylor is at LCCC, which is in Cheyenne. Okay. So they split up. They did.
Casey Mabry:So they're going to compete against each other.
Wyatt Agar:And they do.
Ty deCordova:That's That's pretty greedy when they do, I guess.
Wyatt Agar:It's dynamite. You know, in our part of the world, the first competition of the season is put on by Casper College. And so we had them home just shortly before the Casper competition. And Riley, the daughter that's in Casper, she informed Taylor, her daughter that's in Cheyenne, that the competition is set for Casper to win. Well, when the day was said and done, Taylor was High Point individual, second High Point individual, and she won Reasons.
Wyatt Agar:And Riley was fifth high point individual and was second in Reasons.
Casey Mabry:That's pretty cool. So you raised them so competitive that they had to kind of split up,
Wyatt Agar:You know, the doctors told us when the twins were born, they said be watching for the passive passive twin. So
Casey Mabry:last year, my wife and I, we work with meat judging kids. We always had us what we did in college. And so we work with four H kids. And last year we brought a team up here to Denver and there was a set of boys on there, their twin brothers. And they they were they ended up going they're at w t now, judging meats.
Casey Mabry:And they just they they didn't live in the same room. They went and found roommates. Yeah. But what's funny, they didn't split up and they were talking about splitting up. It's interesting to watch that.
Casey Mabry:But for you as a parent, I bet that's gonna be great to watch both girls, and you're gonna have to try to figure out how to balance that out.
Wyatt Agar:You know, and Jeremy Burkitt, which he runs the judging program there at Casper College, he wanted both of them something fierce. And, he tried really hard recruiting them. And I told him, I said, you don't want them both. I said, it'll be it'll be two two years of cat fights. So
Ty deCordova:Better off they split up.
Wyatt Agar:So Yes.
Ty deCordova:Well, man, we thank you for coming on with us today. Absolutely. February 4 bull cell, Derman Creek, Herefords.
Wyatt Agar:There'll two also, there'll be 200 head of F1 black baldy females in the cell.
Ty deCordova:Wow. Open heifers?
Wyatt Agar:Yep. Heifer calves ready to breed. Wow. And we have an option. They can roll right back to feeders.
Wyatt Agar:My parents backgrounding a lot and they can be bred right there and and Well,
Ty deCordova:that's something there by itself right there. Them things are, yeah, that'd be pretty cool little program right there. So, tune in at live-ag.com or join them live there at the ranch. So.
Wyatt Agar:Absolutely. Yeah. Sales in it's actually in Worland at the the Worland Sale Barn.
Ty deCordova:Okay. Worland Sale Barn. Yeah. So. Well, y'all heard it right here.
Ty deCordova:Tune in. Go buy some fantastic here for bulls up there and sounds like even better black body females. So Absolutely. Thank you all for joining us here on the We Live It podcast. Tune in at 09:00 this morning.
Ty deCordova:Still over a little 20 a little over 23,000 head today. This market is on fire, so you don't wanna miss that. Once again, thanks on behalf of Casey and myself. We appreciate you, and God bless.