The biggest concern for everybody is that once this rain quits, we will get a hot spell where everything goes to head and goes to seed and doesn't grow. We need warm weather, not hot weather. With warm weather, the grass will grow without going straight to head. If it gets too late in the year, it'll just want to head out without growing any height.

The futures market has been driving the live market prices. Today (Jan. 20) was not a good day to sell cattle. I probably won't try to sell any cattle for a couple more months. But, we've existed for the past two years without any export markets. It can only get better.

She is somebody we can really depend on. When we have a problem, she or her committee will deal with it - even if she has to buck her own party a little bit.