Welcome Will Harris to the program. So glad to have you here today. Thank you so much for making the time.

Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be with you.

Well, pleasure is all mine. You know, what I talk about with my people a lot is about how we're going to have to start doing things very differently in the future.

And much of that is going to be of no surprise to say my great grandparents in every generation

prior. We have to be smart about being in relation with each other, with the land, with the animals.

And I know you are just a world leader in that. So let's start there. Tell us about your operation and

how you kind of got on the path you're on. White Oak Passes. Thank you. White Oak Passes is our

family farm in Bluffton, Georgia. Bluffton is in southwest Georgia, in Clay County, which in 2020 was the

poorest county in the United States of America. And my great-grandfather came here in 1866

and started white oak pastures and ran the farm, followed by his son, my grandfather,

followed by his son, my father. My father was born in 1920, took over the farm post-World War II,

1946. And my dad was a very successful farmer.

He, it was on his watch that the farm was industrialized. Under his dad and granddad, it had been a multi-species farm, raised a lot of different animals, slaughtered them on the farm, sold the meat six days a week in Bluffton, in town here.

My dad took a lot of pride in the fact that he moved the business to a purely cattle operation.

He was very, very good at it and knew a lot about it and very focused on it

and took a lot of pride in that. It was very successful. When I inherited the farm, there was no

debt by a thousand legs of land and my dad had done a really good job. And all I ever wanted to do was what he did.

I was born in 1954, went to the University of Georgia, majored in animal science,

and enough to come home and do what my dad did, industrially raised cattle.

And I did.

I came home and raised cattle very industrially, same model as my dad.

I probably torped it up a few degrees and ran it for 20 years that way and made money doing it.

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