Rising Advocates: Shaping the Future of Texas Agriculture
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Rising Advocates: Shaping the Future of Texas Agriculture

welcome to We Live It the Live A podcast

your source for livestock market

insights management strategies and real

conversations with those who don't just

work in the cattle industry they live it

here are your hosts Ty D Cordova and

Casey

Mabry and take

two welcome to the We Live It podcast

with Live A i'm myself is Ty Cordova

part of Live A and uh I'm here with

three young ladies today on the cattle

raisers floor here at the convention um

they are all part of the 4

ambassadorship and the 4 council program

i'm going to let them introduce theelves

to y'all as we go down the line we'll

start here with P i'm Paigoski i serve

on Texas 4 Council and I'm a Texas Youth

Livestock Ambassador

i'm Texan Rston um I'm a water

ambassador while also serving on Texas

for state council and I'm Jaylen Lamb

and I'm also a Texas youth livestock

ambassador and I serve on state council

so we're full of ambassadors and state

council of the 4 here today and this

outreach program is pretty near dear to

me too cuz my daughter serves on the

ambassadorship program as well and uh so

and I've known P for a long time we

showed together we traveled together her

dad was our extension agent for a while

till he left us and I'm not still not

over that so we're still going to give

him a hard time and I hope he watches

this cuz he is our guiding star no his

guiding light wasn't it what was it

shining light i wouldn't call him a

guidance at all i would just call him a

good mentor and role model oh see now

you're trying to suck up now he is a

good mentor no he's been great for our

kids and we want to give Misty and David

a shout out that they're awesome people

and and also y'all's parents i mean

that's what people on the front end of

this thing don't understand what it

takes to get y'all to where you need to

go and all the things y'all are involved

in it takes a great foundation at home

to get y'all where y'all are where y

where y'all need to be and the places

you need to be and the time it takes as

parents we we don't want to get that to

go unrecognized and want y'all to thank

your parents every day for what they do

for y'all because they do do a lot i

mean and your ACT teachers and your

extension agents i mean that it it's all

needs to be touched there that we want

to personally at Live A we want to thank

y'all for all y'all do because this is

the future of our industry and that's

kind of what we want to talk about so

let's get into and y'all take on this

however you want let's first talk about

the ambassadorship kind of what that's

means to y'all one of y'all can take

that or all of y'all and then the 4

council what do y'all do there and and

how does that how does that how does

that how is that formed y'all and what

y'all are planning to do in the future i

can kind of start on the livestock

ambassador program so I've been in the

program since 2022 and I have traveled

to different countries Australia and

Canada learning on global agriculture

and it's the best program I've ever been

in i have experienced my leadership

responsibility i understand agriculture

on a more diverse level not just cattle

but everything in between and I just

love it my passion has grown i love

advocating for the industry and it's

really good to get kids experienced with

it and it prepares them for the future

as well

so like I said I'm a Texas 4 water

ambassador so we get to travel all

across the state and learn about the

different water systems and um we've

really learned that Texas is a very dry

state now and that we're in a very big

drought and so it's been very

interesting learning about the different

um systems and where our water comes

from and how we treat it and um it's

actually caused me to want to go into

water law and specialize in um water as

a natural resource lawyer so um getting

involved really does set you up for the

future that water deal is going to be a

big industry issue in the years and the

and years to come i mean with the

regulations that the state and the

government's trying to put on all of it

we need people like yourself that that

understand the constraints of it in the

agriculture industry that we need people

like you to advocate for us and go to

that law and learn all those laws on

that water stuff and be able to stand up

for us and thank you to be the voice and

to help people understand that it is

more than just a water drop out of a

faucet that's right awesome and I'm kind

of going to wrap us up or maybe not wrap

us up but definitely touch on state

council and all that it entails there

are 30 members um 24 two from each of

the 12 districts and then we have six

atlarge kind of positions that get voted

on during our state roundup and this has

definitely been my favorite officer

position um we get to come to cool

things like this we met with Brooke

Rollins earlier you can touch on that

here in a second my favorite project

that we did though was we went to state

fair for a awareness day and we got to

partner with the FFA state officer team

and the FCCLA state officer teams and

did a whole bunch of you know community

service and community outreach i was

actually chosen to go and read to some

of the inner city Dallas schools and

that was just super cool super touching

reading a book about agriculture and

just seeing those kids' eyes light up

because they never knew where their milk

was coming from how far the grocery

store was it was just things that you

know us ad kids take for granted and

that we may overlook they had no clue

about so it was I don't know it was

definitely a cool perspective and it's

the green jacket and opportunities like

TLA that give me and all of us those

opportunities and those experiences that

can truly change your outlook on a whole

lot of things very touching and we talk

a lot about the voice of the industry

and we do as a industry whole need to

get better at voicing what we do how we

do it and how it impacts the world not

just our

community Mr said

earlier food security is

is national security if we don't have

that kind of security and that and we

can't provide food for the country then

we don't have anything and that's our

voice that we have to get that out there

and I love to see the youth of of

America being involved in it and getting

that voice out there so what about

Rollin what about that that was pretty

cool y'all get to get a picture with her

and got to talk to her and she Yeah yeah

she hugged you i watched that she took

pictures of all you and that that was

pretty cool so tell us about that

involvement i mean um you know you

always see these big people in the

government and you're like oh it would

be so cool to meet them but somebody

that advocates for what I grew up in and

what all three of us grew up in and

seeing somebody that's so passionate

about it and then getting to meet them

and realizing that she is such a sweet

person on camera and off camera was so

amazing and the fact that she was so

kind to us and acknowledged us and

listened was also very heartwarming and

she hugged me she hugged me so I am

content and will be smiling for the next

four months i will say my favorite thing

that she said while she was giving her

speech was a has changed yesterday it's

changing today and it's surely going to

change tomorrow and then she kind of

highlighted us youth organizations that

truly are the next generation or the

future of agriculture because it is an

everchanging industry so that was super

touching to me too just like you were

saying someone in that high of a

government position reflecting on you

know the students first and really the

future generations super cool she

recognized what we do she didn't just

kind of push us aside she acknowledged

us which I mean personally made me feel

very good i mean cuz sometimes our stuff

does go unnoticed i mean well she she's

been there she's done it she was part of

the program she grew up in the in the

industry she grew up showing cattle she

That's what's so cool just to see

somebody that that has taken the passion

of our industry and went up the ranks in

it and now she's secretary of a Yeah how

cool could that be it's very cool and

the fact that she highlights what we do

through Texas youth livestock and act

and our mission is to advocate others

about the awareness of agriculture and

focusing on food security we go to HB

engagements we understand and help

people what their food is because people

think that their food comes from the

grocery store not from farmers mhm so

our mission with Texas youth livestock

ambassadors to educate people and let

them know what farmers and ranchers do

for America and so it's just very cool

to have like the Secretary of

Agriculture highlight that for us and

allow our mission to be shown to

everyone well that is true and and and I

if I could maybe not close because if

there's other things y'all want to talk

about but I do want to reiterate one

thing ladies god has given y'all a

talent and a

platform stand on it go out there spread

his good word stand up for the industry

and do it with integrity and godly

visions so that's I I can't This is

awesome for me i I think I'm more

excited about getting to interview y'all

than y'all are to be on here to get

interviewed so I just I I love the

passion to see young people go out and

really advocate for an industry so

anything else y'all want to cover talk

about while we're here i mean I mean we

could be here all day you know around

talk about everything you want to give a

shout out to your parents thank you yes

thank you to my mom and dad and Dr

zanolini you are the best person ever um

thanks to my mom and dad Rex and Roxy um

they are really my biggest um my biggest

team members and they're always cheering

me on and Brooke Rollins because she's

my favorite person so and thank you to

my parents and really truly thank you to

my village because it does take a

village to build a foundation and get

you where you're going so thank you to

my village as well

oh yeah where are y'all going to go to

college what's your next steps what's

your What are you going to do when you

get to college what's your What's your

vision i wish I could say I had a set

plan but I don't right now but I do know

that's probably not a bad idea i'm going

to a junior college judging i'm just

undecided at the moment and then

afterwards I plan on transferring to&m

or Tech but with my major I want to

major in a leadership and possibly minor

in either a communications or animal

science the reproductive route oh you

judge cattle i didn't know you judge

cattle oh yeah i just know how to do my

free time i'll be done um I'm going to

go to WT West Texas A&M and um do adcom

with Dr lust and Dr keith and all of my

favorite people um just to kind of get

the degree so that I can go on to either

Dallas or San Antonio and go to law

school to become a natural resource

lawyer that's a beautiful campus

um I'm going to Oklahoma State

University in the fall that's why that's

why she wanted me to ask that question

cuz she knew hear the

gob and I'm going in with my associates

degree which is super cool so I'll be

going with about 62 hours so I'm going

to go ahead and get a dual degree in a

comm and a business and just kind of see

where it takes me from there i want to

study abroad definitely want to have

some cool intern positions and I always

had a passion for public speaking and

the leadership thing so maybe that's

where life takes me and I'll follow

God's plan and that's where I'll go

there you go there you go well ladies

y'all have awesome visions y'all have

awesome leadership

and the sky's is the limit girls y'all

can do it whatever you choose just put

your focus on it and put your hand to

the plow so absolutely thank y'all for

joining us today on the We Live It

Podcast thank everybody out there in

social media world for for watching us

and and giving us an opportunity to to

get the education out there to spread

the to spread the knowledge of the youth

leaders and the and the veteran leaders

of the of the industry so just thank

y'all so much for trusting us and giving

you all the information so once again

God bless and see y'all next time

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