Louisiana Farm Bureau Podcast

Jamie and Aaron Lee of Vermilion Parish join the Louisiana Farm Bureau Podcast to talk about how Young Farmers & Ranchers helped shape their path in agriculture and leadership. They share how Farm Bureau gave them confidence, connections, and encouragement to grow as farmers, advocates, and volunteers. From parish involvement to leadership at the state level, their story is a reminder that sometimes simply showing up can change everything.

Creators and Guests

Host
Allie Shipley
Social Media Specialist at Louisiana Farm Bureau

What is Louisiana Farm Bureau Podcast?

Louisiana Farm Bureau is constantly working protect and promote Louisiana's farmers, ranchers, and rural residents. This podcast exists to share stories of those farmers with interviews about their farms and issues important to them. Here, we will also share about the work Farm Bureau is doing on their behalf on issues related to public policy from the parish level all the way to the halls of Congress in D.C.

Welcome to the Louisiana Farm Bureau podcast. I am Ali Shipley, and today we are in the show barn with the Louisiana Farm Bureau. Young farmers and ranchers, state chairs, Jamie and Aaron Lee from Vermilion Parish. So thank you all for being here today and taking the time to sit with us.
Thank you for having us.
Okay. I kind of, you know, we're kind of joking. We sat down with, like, we don't even know what we're talking about today. So there is new to this is, this conversation and these questions as the viewers are. Let's talk about Aaron. You and Jamie serve as a state chair for the state board. Can you kind of tell us how you got involved in Farm Bureau and how you got to that seat today?
Well, I have known about Farm Bureau, the Farm Bureau Federation my whole life and kind of what they did because, my father was on the wife and or, committee.
when I was a kid, and we go to the convention on the pressure that he ended up getting off on the board, and, it was until 2011, when I was in college that I kind of got more involved, got involved again with Farm Bureau, because I knew I wanted to farm and and I figured I needed to help you get started again.
And that's I kind of had piqued my interest to get involved.
Can you tell us a little bit about you said, like in 2011 while you were still in college, which is interesting because I feel like most people don't get back involved until they're back home on the farm. Did you get involved in your parish farm bureau back home? Kind of. What did that involvement look like when you were like, oh, hey, I'm about to get my feet back on the farm.
I need to get ahead of that a little bit, which is very proactive. And I'm so proud of you.
Oh, I had a good friend of mine that I worked with, at the dairy farm on campus. Her family was big in the Farm Bureau, and she kind of mentioned life and or Tim and how it kind of piqued my interest. And and I, spoke with our parish president at the time, Mr. Arrow, and he welcomed me with open arms.
Get involved. And at the time, it was me and one other person on the YF&R in our parish.
That's fascinating.
Within five years or so we were at 50 to 60 members in our parish..
We had rapid growth.
That's crazy. I would not have what I know of Vermillion Wife and I would not have thought that.
So the yeah, we had a lot of couples at one point I think it was 25 couples plus a few singles.
I want to get to know, I want to come back to this, but since I want to obviously introduce Jamie and kind of, why don't you tell us where you came into the story? Because you're not from Vermilion and didn't grow up on the same family farm that Aaron did through the Farm Bureau pipeline. So kind of tell us where you fit into the story and where you started with Farm Bureau.
Okay, so Aaron and I had met at LSU. We had been dating, for a while by the time that 2011 state convention rolled around. And so he said, hey, I want to go to New Orleans this summer. There's this thing called Farm Bureau and kind of explained. And I was like, hey, that sounds like a great time.
I was also in the college bag, and while my parents didn't farm, I do have family that sugar cane farmers and I grew up riding horses. And so I wasn't a complete stranger to the industry, and we agreed it sounded like a good time. So we went to that first convention, like I said, in 2011, and we haven't missed one since.
That's crazy. That feels like yesterday. And full disclosure, I'm very good friends of family, friends of Jamie and Aaron and Brittany was Jamie's college. My sister was Jamie's college roommate, and I promise not to disclose any of the fun stories that I have on the podcast, but,
obviously you were cool going to Farm Bureau convention, but you were no stranger to the ag industry. But you also were in the college bag where we all met. So tell us why you decided to kind of go that route even though you didn't grow up on a farm, but you wanted to be in agriculture.
Right? So when I first started at LSU, my major was animal science with a concentration in Pre-vet. I grew up riding horses, like I said, and so I really wanted to stay involved in the industry somehow. And so after I decided a couple of years into college, I decided I wasn't going to go to vet school. And so I started looking for other options.
And at that point, we had been to our first Farm Bureau convention. So I actually looked into ag communications because I was like, hey, this Farm Bureau deal is pretty cool. Maybe I can do something with that. And LSU doesn't have ag communications, so that would lend me to ag education. And then, I don't know, they convinced me to student teach somehow.
And then it just kind of stuck from there.
God has a God has a way, apparently, because you're now a ag teacher.
At Kaplan High.
And FFA advisor, and y'all have two lovely little boys, you have to give them a shout out since they're somewhere here in the barn being chaperoned by others.
Yes, they are behind the barn with my mom.
Okay, so now that we have introduced how y'all have all intertwined and now everybody's up to speed with all that I know about you or close to it, let's all kind of go back to because I'm, I think this is an important part
maybe for somebody who's listening who is and wife and are but their parish isn't like I mean, Vermillion is kind of the standard right now.
And but you said it
Hasn't always been that way. What? Tell us the secret to success or how y'all get to where y'all were. What do y'all remember about how y'all grown?
I think at the time it's not necessarily anything we did. Just our group of friends are all pretty close, and we were hanging out anyway on the weekends. And we all had a passion for agriculture. So once we got on,
the next couple came with us. We invited the next couple and it just kind of just kind of snowballed from there.
I think a big part of that was that it never felt like extra work we had to do. It was genuinely just hanging out with our friends who were also in agriculture or forming or ranching. And so they gave us all a place to talk about that and to keep it fun. I mean, we always have a meal.
We always we bring our kids. I mean, at this point, our wife and our meetings, it's like a daycare operation. I mean, there's I might have to come all over the floor. Absolutely. And if you ever come back in college, you have plenty of friends to run around with.
That's funny. Let's backtrack even further because it's got like, we're kind of talking about life and assuming that listeners know what that is. But let's just say that somebody is listening and is like, well, this live. And it sounds fun. It sounds like a social club, but can you kind of explain how would you give the elevator pitch of to what the Young Farmers and Ranchers program is and what you do, what y'all do, and kind of what the selling point of the
group is?
So Young Farmers and Ranchers is an organization for anyone between the ages of 18 and 35 who is involved in agriculture, specifically farming and ranching. But we do have lots of members who are involved in other aspects of agriculture. Not only does it give you a great place to network with people, which I feel like is the strongest, but you can also highlight a lot of your attributes.
There's contests that you can participate in that have amazing prize packages.
Like the achievement award and some past achievement award. Winners are sitting here with.
And not just that too, but even Excellence in Act, which is great for those people who aren't farmers or ranchers, are whose income isn't just that,
as well as the discussion meat. For those who are great at talking about what they do, and the young farm woman, which is a really big one that I think is amazing, that showcases a woman's role on the farm.
There's our wife and our commercial air, and you're going to have to practice your pitch. But since you let Jamie have, she dig right on and put this one on. Aaron. Okay. Talk about you talked about where she's practiced is. So she. We're going to put on a brochure later. Work on that is the next project.
we are a grassroots organization, and sometimes we get, like, it's easy to see people to say it won't be like that.
That's just people just started there. You started at the grassroots. Aaron, can you talk about you are now the state chair and that is the state position. But you started in life and are what your pipeline in the leadership track kind of look like. And how you went from just, hey, I'm about to farm and I need to go back and see.
I need some help back in Vermillion to being the state chair and being in cap on DC, on the Hill in DC, talking to legislators, just kind of how what that track look like for you.
Well, when I first started the first convention I went to, I was seated in our chair up on stage, you know, I went to the luncheon where the elected offices and stuff. And I was thinking to myself this week, there's no way I'll ever be up there. You know, at the time I was
I wasn't very comfortable, networking, you know, with with eyes on me and,
And I knew I need to work on that,
I started off where I just opened my mind to doing so. I didn't think, like, discussion, like I was not very good at it the first couple of years, but, you know, but I knew I needed to work on that. So I figured that was a good way for me to learn how to converse with other members and, and talk about our issues
in a more professional setting or less.
did that for a couple of years, and then, after a few years, I became the wife and or chair of a game and I became the wife in our chairs in our parish. You know, that game we stepped into a little bit more leadership role then
through my involvement with the Farm Bureau, it gave me the courage and encouragement to apply for the ag leadership class, through the Act center. And after that, that really helped me with my leadership and my confidence, to speak and just tell our story. Because, you know, really and truly, if you're nervous about talking about what you do, all you need to do is get up there and tell your story.
And that's what people want to hear. You know, you don't have to be formal when it most of the time you just see what you do on a daily basis. And people really like to hear that.
And it's awesome. And you a few bloopers along the way, like we all do want to hear. That's what people want to hear. And you're not giving yourself enough credit. You're you're great speaking to people, I got the chance to travel to DC with y'all and kind of be behind the scenes watching y'all talk to legislators, and you're not giving yourself enough credit.
You're you're in the position for a reason. You're doing great. So be nice to yourself.
Okay. So we've kind of talked a little bit about wife and our we've kind of talked about how it didn't feel like work. But this also is a volunteer organization. And it is it does take time. Took time today you're sitting down with us.
It takes time. Parish board meetings take time away from the farm. State board meetings take time away from the farm.
Y'all have two little boys at home? You're teaching in the classroom. You're farming full time like this. It's a lot. And this time is a precious commodity. Why do you find farm? Your involvement and Farm Bureau is worth the time that you sacrifice for it.
And y'all can both give answers and I'm sure they're a little different.
When I graduated high school, my parents did not want me to follow on and all things want to do. Just coming out of the disasters of Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike flooded our form twice within three years. And so that wasn't for me to rise at the time. And and so, you know, now you have to go to college is what I heard, you know.
That's right. Okay. Whatever. So I started college animal science. And then as I said before, my friend invited me to wife and or the whole time I was in college, all this thinking about what I could be doing and so on.
so I got involved with Farm Bureau, and after I got involved, you know, I was here and at home, you know, and there weren't there weren't mean about it or anything, but they just wanted me to experience something else, make sure that's what I wanted to do.
And, you know, at the time, you know, it's like we came out of this disaster and, you know, how am I going to do this? I mean, everything is destroyed before this. All right? Back home, you know, what can I do? Well, after going to convention and getting involved in Farm Bureau, you know, I talked to a lot of people, and they gave me the encouragement, really, to go back home and do it because I, I learned that, yes, I can do this and I can be successful at it.
And we never look back since.
Jamie, you want to get up for me?
I really see the value of it. Yes, it does take a lot of time.
when we go to Washington DC, you know, first of all, that something neither of us ever thought that we'd be a part of. Like you said, when we first started, it was, oh, wow.
Like, what they do is really cool, but, like, we're just cool staying on this side of it.
But as we've gotten involved and we were able to make that tour and talk to people at the Capitol, they want to know. They want to hear from the people who have boots on the ground. They want to hear what we have to say.
And I think that's something powerful that people need to take advantage of.
As long as somebody is willing to listen, somebody needs to be telling a story. And so I also see this side as
Agriculture and farmers need representation. And if we don't tell our stories, somebody else will. And so if you want to make sure the right story is being told, it's kind of up to you to tell it. And then also just having the recruitment tools. If young people would understand, like the benefit of just knowing the people and farm Bureau, any time we've had a question, whether it be how did you paperwork, how to fix a certain piece of equipment, where to find something somebody knows.
And if that person doesn't know, they know who that is now. So it's just a great group of people to be involved with. And so that in itself is worth every minute that we put into the program for sure.
Right. And everybody else that's involved wants to see you succeed. And, you know, as a whole.
What advice would you give this others kind of two point? I want to come back to you. But the first one is kind of talked about
I realized I have to go tell my story. I think we kind of talk about this a lot, nag, like, we're really good, I just will. I don't have time. Somebody else will do that.
Like, that's somebody else's job. Like I don't need. I never saw myself at the Hill telling legislators what I was doing or having those hard conversations. What would you tell somebody that don't like, sees themselves in the background is like, I'm good where I'm at.
before you got involved in leadership, you you were content being in the back and you're like, oh, that seems cool. Those are for other people. I'm good back here. What would you tell them? That person that maybe has that similar mindset like, you know, I see the benefit of it and I know that somebody has to tell our story, but somebody else is going tell it.
What would you tell that, young farmer?
Well, I think I would start off by telling him my experience and my story from from the beginning, because I was that way at one time. And, and, you know, I think I would just encourage him to, to just
just show up, you know, and over time you're going to, you know, if you keep showing up over time, you're going to get to hear and meet people.
You're going to be feel comfortable there, and then you're going to really appreciate what Farm Bureau does to the agriculture industry. And and once you know that and you cannot be scared anymore
to get involved.
Right? I think it's important to let them know it's okay to take baby steps. You know, the first time we told our story, it wasn't in DC, right? It was just, you know, in the Marriott talking to somebody at a Farm Bureau conference. And then from there, like, you get more comfortable and you realize that you you can't tell your story wrong.
You can't
technically, I guess, mess it up mean we, you know, there's no wrong way to do it, right. It's just sharing a little bit about yourself. And when you realize that nobody's going to look at you like you're doing something different, you know, everybody's like you said, everybody wants to see you succeed and everybody wants to hear what you have to say.
It makes it a lot less intimidating. Yeah, because like you said, it is easy to stay at the back of the room and be like, oh, it's great that this is happening. But, you know, at some point those people are stepping down and we need people to step up behind us.
Mic drop again this commercial.
The more times you tell your story, you're going to hear self-esteem is going to go up. Yeah, you can say, look back at where you started and when you tell your story again, while I'm since then. Yeah. You know, now look at us. You know, it's fun to go back and remember.
I mean, honestly, even just like I'm kind of recalling back to the DC trip I was on with you all just listening, even throughout that trip, from the first time you told your story in the first office, to like the second day in the last visit, like, oh, you got more, you get more comfortable and you realize, hey, these are people.
We're talking to people, but these are the people that are helping make decisions that impact us. So they're just people. And you're having those conversations. And I mentioned two points, and I now remember what the second point was because I thought I had forgot. But you kind of talked about this kind of going off the Farm Bureau script, but more about and at no fault of your parents, obviously farming is tough.
Rice farming, grain farming is specifically tough. It was then, for different reasons. We're kind of in another farm crisis currently, especially in the grain world. You all have two sons that very well are very integrated on the farm and in farm life. What would you tell AJ or any of your kids if they didn't want to come back again?
Kind of. You kind of probably now that you have your own kids can see where your parents were coming from, but you persevered through it. Well, what would you tell them if they came to? You were like, I want a farm with what we know about agriculture right now. Y'all can both answer, well.
Look back in time. You know it would you would kind of it would kind of break my heart out. Good for you. That's all. I knew I'd never work anywhere else through high school. In this school, you know, all I did was working for my dad. It's all I knew. And that's what I wanted to do when you told me that, no, you shouldn't do that.
You know, in me, it kind of lit a fire.
Hold my beer.
Yeah. You know, give me a challenge, you know, to do it. And
through my involvement with Farm Bureau and going back to what you said, like, why do we why do I spend my time at Farm Bureau is because I somewhat maybe kind of over at the Farm Bureau. Because maybe if I didn't get involved, I might not be farming now, and I might not be as successful as we are.
You know, there's hiccups along the road, but we're still moving forward.
I'm gonna let Jamie answer to you, but I kind of just to let. I mean, I know there's a lot of diversification. Y'all kind of say, what did what did you gain from Farm Bureau that changed your operation? That allowed you to continue farming? Can you kind of just give us a little history of the operation and what
dad succession plan to you and kind of what that integration look like a little bit.
I'm the sixth generation of for,
for my family, the lease and land, they, they always did farm rice, raised cattle, and he started selling crawfish, you know, all the time. And that's just what that's what they did. And they were great at it, you know, did a good job. They were successful.
And then once I got involved, you know, as you know, with the rice prices and stuff and of things up and down and stuff sometimes.
Well, after I got involved, we had the opportunity to,
get in with the sugar mill with my sugar cane. So we took the opportunity to diversify our operation so standard and growing. And that really has made a difference. You know, one year this might be good. Next year kind of helps not keep our year one back. Right.
Especially with rice right now. Can you talk a little bit. And I'm gonna let you answer the question my kids because I know you also have a take as a mom, which is sometimes different, but
how did Farm Bureau play into that opportunity or did it
into diversification and changing the operation a little bit?
the people, you know, the people that came helped me get started in and sugar cane were all Farm Bureau members. You know, people I knew
from the committees I'm on. And, you know, they gave me information, kind of taught me how to do it. So yeah, if I if I would like going back if I wasn't involved in Farm Bureau, I mean, I'm sure we I would think we still would have done it, but it's definitely helped.
For somebody who's listening that maybe isn't directly involved in production agriculture or has no idea what we're even kind of talking about when we talk about planting rice and sugar cane, because for some people, like if you plant a garden, you can plant two different kind of flowers.
It's not that different. But I know from rice country and from being involved in Farm Bureau, rice and sugarcane are very different. I'm learning totally different equipment is totally different game kind of what you had to be educated on to integrate sugar cane into your operation?
Well, we kind of learned as we went, the biggest thing was converting the land. You know, if we took Rice Land out, that was sugar cane. We had to make it go from holding water to draining water.
To add another.
So that was probably the biggest learning curve, you know, used to when we would precision level rice to we made it flat where now we had to go in and start putting slopes on fields and breaking levels down so the water can get out to you
because the sugar cane it needs to drain is the.
Fascinating.
Number. That was the number one thing somebody told me, I.
I don't know anything about sugar cane like, I mean.
Exactly how they.
Said it, which is like totally opposite of rice or it's like hold water, hold on water.
So a lot to as far as, learning the different varieties because even between different fields, you have some sugar cane that's known for growing well in this type of soil versus this might get saltwater on it when the hurricanes come and knowing which variety was going to perform, where and where we can get the seed varieties of these because, you know, you don't just go to the store and buy seeds for sugar cane.
It has to start with an actual.
Standing stone also doesn't know that. So you have to find.
A farmer or a group or a company
or work through the mill and source cane that has to be cut for you to lay down in the ground. You know, it's not like rice where you just go buy a bag of sheet and throw it out with the tractor.
Yeah. So mainly the first year when we got involved, we got some land ready and, we just planted those plots for seed plots for us to cut harvest the next year to really create.
You know, grow. Right.
So that first harvest, we didn't really have much to harvest because we cut a lot of them. Yeah.
And it's also a two year or three year, two, three.
You can get three stillbirths.
Cause that also blows my mind.
On average I think it's awesome.
So how many years into sugarcane farming are up?
This past harvest is our third harvest.
Oh, awesome. That's how fun. Does it make you feel a little more at home? Like you come from sugar cane land. Like when.
It was a huge kind of leap of faith. However, I was definitely a teacher around it, so I love it. I love to see it out in the fields. And it's, it's important to him to diversify and still keep the rice. Like he said, you know, he's a sixth generation rice farmer. So I do think we'll have the rice around for for quite some time now, but it kind of goes back to what about telling.
Our kids what I say? What's so, you know, that leap of faith? Like I never let you answer. Sorry. I went down a rabbit hole.
That's exactly where my answer was going to go, is you can't be scared to diversify as long as you do your homework. I mean, you know, which can be scary. Any leap of faith in farming involves a lot of money. That's true. If you do your homework and you, you know the market and you are willing to put in the work, try something new.
There's there's niche markets in agriculture. There's everything from, online marketing, farmers making TikToks to support income.
Now where we're gonna have to learn on tick tock. Oh, I don't know, but. Oh, you got some blooper reel. So start. Oh, you.
But I mean, there's so many streams now to find ways to make a revenue
So yeah, I would definitely encourage them to stay in agriculture if that's what they choose to do and just not be afraid to diversify, to be creative, to look into
different ways they can turn a profit.
it sounds like
seventh generation. It's going to happen with sport, and mom and dad are like leaps of faith. We got yeah, let's.
And they want to do it. Definitely.
That's awesome. And I know your mom and dad support into. Yeah.
Back
on my mom and dad. Yeah, I have questions. I call my dad five times a day. Yeah, sometimes I aggravated me.
And I bet he's really glad that you were hard headed as you are.
Now that I came back and we're doing what we're doing now. I think he's happy that I got.
Some Independence Day.
Yes, know. But he's always a great resource to fall on. Yeah. Experienced a lot. He knows what he's doing. Awesome. See what he's given him. And that opportunity.
And we are too because our obviously clearly assets to obviously I get to now mingle with y'all in my professional life. But you are a huge asset to the life and our program and to agriculture and are huge advocates for it. So it's just wonderful. Let's kind of talk about that. If you had to name your biggest life and our or what's your favorite victory moment, memory of life and what would it be for me?
It would definitely be the achievement award. And not just because of the great prize package. Yeah. But because I distinctly remember sitting at our kitchen table typing on that application. That seems like it takes forever. But by the time you finish it and you look back, is it really makes you self-reflect to see how far we came.
Because when you wake up in the morning, you don't wake up and think about everything you've done, right? You wake up, you get the kids dressed, you go to work,
you go to bed and you do it again the next day. And so, you know, sometimes you don't take the time to to stop and look around and see how far you've come.
And so knowing what our goals were when we started and what our mindset was going to that first convention in 2011, to actually being one of those couples up on a stage, it was it was humbling. So to me, that was my favorite because we just got to see everything that we had accomplished and how much we.
Do owe to Farm Bureau. And, that was such a full circle moment for me. I love it.
And after doing that application, it kind of it made me think, like on the hard days when things aren't going right, you know, you can, you know, always make me reflect back from when we started and how far we've come. And, you know, it makes those hard days a little bit easier and kind of made me realize, you know, a hard day is a blessing now, you know, because we built something that's good working that road for growth.
In my opinion.
This is just. Yeah.
This is this is poetic. Aaron, I didn't know. Look, this is not blooper. Aaron. This is poem Aaron. When he podcast.
Takes.
We know you have been. I'm just joking. Okay. We're going to kind of wrap up if somebody is listening that is curious about life and are is considering donating. Donating. I feel like donating your time is maybe actually a good way to say it. Volunteering their time. What do you want them to know? What do you hope they took?
Not just from this episode, but what do you hope they know about Louisiana Farm Bureau, their parish farm bureau wife and
you know, the Farm Bureau has their back, and they're here for them and every step of the way, and the resources are.
Not limited on what you can do, you know, by being involved.
And the main resource is the people. A lot of people talk about membership benefits. And don't get me wrong, there are lots of those. However, your biggest resource is that you get a family. You get a an entire network of people who want to help you succeed. And we just can't say enough about the people if they're not somebody who's wanting something from you all the time, except for maybe a little bit of your time.
But honestly.
I just got to say how many times it's Carl, call y'all.
And and sit and talk to others. It's your biggest resource. It's just the people you meet and having that support system. And it gives you the courage to try the new things, whether it's going to DC or applying for these awards or doing a podcast.
In the middle of the show. Barn when you're busy.
And I didn't notice if you do do something when you're not too good at it, everyone that's around you is going to encourage you to help you do better. They're not going to you're not going to look down on you. See, don't do something right. I say they all they all understand that it's a learning.
Curve and they want to help you.
But you know, we're just killing it today. I mean, they're also really fun to hang out with. So that's another plus. You should join. Is there anything
about Louisiana Farm Bureau life and are that we haven't touched on that. Y'all want to make sure that whoever's listening here's.
I think one of the most surprising things for me this past year, being involved on the executive board for why I've been or especially with with this new role as chair, is getting to know all of the board members on the state board.
That has just been so much fun.
And our quarterly meetings, hanging out with them every couple months,
their meetings are always a great time. I know sometimes people think board meetings are a great time is not what they think.
You can say it looks boring when you think about people sitting around the table, which is honestly what sometimes Palmyra is portrayed as just a bunch of farmers in suits sitting around the board table, and if that's all you've ever seen, that does not seem like a good time.
The meetings themselves, so much interesting stuff gets talked about, like the topics they cover as somebody else in agriculture. To me, they're genuinely interesting. But then also the the social aspect, after I've gone to dinner with everybody, getting to meet the board members and their wives or their spouses and just getting to know them on a different level, because being in life and or it's kind of that same group of people, and we know that that's a good time because that's what we've always known.
But to see that next level of kind of what else we can reach for after this road, to me that's been really exciting
And we really want to thank them for giving a wife and or a seat on the table on the board. And it's been a great experience.
I know they're happy to have you, and I know it's a it's an important seat. And I think there's a reason that wife sits on the chair. That's the future of that board, that there's one wife, the state wife in our chair sits on the table, but it's the people who are involved in life and are that are going to fill that table soon.
So I think it's important. And thank you all for taking the time to sit at that table and being at that table, I know it's really important. And again, we know that y'all are busy. I know they are busy, but thanks for taking the time to share your story and sharing it different. No matter how we ask you all to do it, how many times are always willing and we just appreciate it.
Thank you all for what y'all doing a great job.
You're thanking me, not Carl, right?
You didn't tell our story. If somebody didn't have a podcast.
Well, I think there's a show about to start up, so I think we're going to have to wrap it up. But if you want to learn more about Jamie and Aaron and all the dirty secrets I didn't air here today are more about the Louisiana Farm Bureau. Young farmers and ranchers are your parish farm bureau. We're going to link that in the show notes here, and we'll see you next time on the Louisiana Farm Bureau podcast.