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I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water. Let's see what's happening out there. Spring wheat $5.20 a bushel, 550lb steer calf $4.41 a pound, a butcher hog in Iowa, 66ยข a pound six six, and a 100lb lamb that's fat in Billings at $2.13. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. I promise not to say about anything about baseball today. Promise. Since it's a travel day and the World Series doesn't resume until tomorrow on Friday in Toronto. So nothing about baseball today.
OK Solberg:And I definitely won't tell you about Joe DiMaggio having a 56 game stretch where he got at least one hit in every game spanning 56 straight games back in 1941. You know, the Heinz fifty seven company was gonna pay him $10,000 if he got 57, but he didn't. Yeah. I was born in '57. I got that going for me.
OK Solberg:So no baseball today. If you listened yesterday, you may have heard me tell you that I got to help Jimmy Murdoch work cattle on Wednesday because he was shipping calves. Well, yesterday I went to the equity co op to buy me a new pair of white line working gloves. While I was there, I happened to see the sorting sticks in the entryway. I thought, you know, I already have three, but a pastor can't have too many sorting sticks.
OK Solberg:So I took one to the till. As Virgil Abrahamson saw the sorting stick, he instantly said the best words I could have possibly heard at that moment in time. Virgil picked up the sorting stick to scan it and said, don't get run over. She's only bluffing. Wow.
OK Solberg:Perfect lead in for a wonderful story. There was a young man that moved to Phillips County some decades past, and he answered to the name of Randy. Now he's moved away now. But Randy was helping out there at the French ranch, Bill and Corky, you know, French's. And he was a big strong guy, bulging biceps and well, in fact, he was an arm wrestler.
OK Solberg:Well, Randy could arm wrestle, but he hadn't worked too many cattle, and he wanted to learn how. Now he saw the French family out there in the corral and they were stepping this direction and stepping that direction and well, it looked pretty easy to get the cows to go where you wanted. Randy thought he'd take a crack at it. Well, they're sorting cows in a 12 foot wide sorting alley, and there are gates in that long alleyway, and they swing on hinges. Bill, he told Randy to stand near this gate.
OK Solberg:And if Bill hollered Randy's name, Randy. Well, if he heard that, he was to turn the cow into the pen. Easy peasy, quick, and easy. Sounded good to Randy. So the sorting began.
OK Solberg:It was working pretty well. When Bill said bye, meaning let the cow go by, Randy would do it. Then Bill would holler Randy, and he'd turn the critter into the pen. Well, the day continued. Bill said, bye.
OK Solberg:Bye. And then he said, Randy. Well, Randy tried, but the cow went right by and he did not get her into the desired pen. Bill patiently walked