Welcome, everyone listening to Telecom Radio One.

We're just starting off here.

I'm talking with John Larson today.

And the conversation's been so good just talking with you for the first five minutes that I'm like really wanted to just tell you to shut up and let me forward.

But guys, welcome.

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Today, talking with John Larson.

He is the manager of enterprise infrastructure services in engineering at CHS,

and in parentheses network computer storage, in short, IT stuff.

So, man, first of all, thank you for being on the show.

We have a lot of great stories to talk about today.

First, I'd like to know why you manage network connections on tugboats.

Well, first, just tell me a little bit about CHS because, hey, it's a great company, Fortune

100. You guys have a co-op or support a co-op model. So maybe just tell me a little bit about

that. Sure. And thank you very much for

having me on. It's a, first of all, CHS, like you said, great company. As far as a, you know,

a technologist to try to deliver services, this is a very, very interesting case and quite frankly,

very challenging in that this is very, or it's atypical as far as organizations, because this is not a hierarchy in which we can kind of say this is how you're going to do it.

This cooperative model represents 600,000 American or North American farmers. Our board of directors

is comprised of farmers. You have to be a farmer, an actual practitioner, one of those

600,000 North American farmers in order to sit on the board. So it is a very unique, you know,

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