Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation from my flagship station,

WSB and Atlanta, Georgia, and all over the state of Georgia. And because of that, we've been doing

something a little different. We've invited all of the candidates who are running in the

Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in from Georgia. We've had some on from other states as well, from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the like. But wanted to really focus on Georgia. One, I'm here and two, it's if we pick up Georgia, we win control of the U.S. Senate. So we've heard from Kelvin King. We've heard from Josh Clark. We've heard from Latham Sadler today in studio for this hour. I've got the Commissioner of Agriculture, Georgia. Gary Black,

joining me. Thanks for being here. Eric, good to be with you and all your listeners and look

forward. This is going to be a great visit. So now, just out of the gate, first of all, I want to

get you to give your background. And if you would, kind of explain what does the Ag Commissioner do

in Georgia? Sure, Eric. I live on the farm.

My dad purchased in 1969 up in Commerce, so we never farmed for a living, but it was the way I was raised.

I thought commerce was an outlet mall.

Yeah, well, it still is.

It's an outlet for wonderful scimitar Angus cattle, and I've got five bulls for sale right now so anybody want to call

we'll post the number later but uh we're we're up there lydia and i we've we've been married

for 39 years to celebrate a couple of weeks ago uh we we raised our kids there it's been forcied

where i grew up.

We moved back after my first part of my career was at Farm Bureau and then had an opportunity to work with the largest part of my, most part of my career, Georgia Agar Business Council.

So we moved back up there in 1993.

And we still, the things that we do on the land, we still do do for real that's my golf and my fishing and my other things it's just we we raise beef cattle and then we have a good time we're

active at Maysville Baptist Church up there in a wonderful church family but other than that I am

traveling the state to have my whole entire 40-year career in ag,

somewhere liable to be somewhere as much as somewhere else during the day.

Well, you know, let me, I'm going to, to a degree, ambush this conversation a little bit out of the gate

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