June 15, 2025 • 36 mins
Meet Victor, a 16-year-old agricultural entrepreneur who's defying odds and building a farming legacy from the ground up. In this heartwarming conversation, we explore how a young man with determination and community support is carving his path in an industry often dominated by corporations and aging farmers.
Victor shares his remarkable journey from joining FFA (Future Farmers of America) to securing personal loans for purchasing his first herd of cattle. Despite early setbacks—losing calves and having to sell underperforming stock—his persistence has paid off. Today, he manages a growing operation with seven mother cows, a bull, and several calves, alongside his prized 1988 Case International tractor purchased through a youth FSA loan.
What makes this story truly special is the rural Kentucky community rallying behind him. Without owning land, Victor has creatively negotiated arrangements to farm others' property, secured equipment borrowing privileges, and gained invaluable mentorship from the Showalter family, who run a local butcher shop and 240-head cattle operation. Their guidance has been instrumental in his development as a young farmer.
Beyond cattle, Victor balances his agricultural pursuits with choir singing, volleyball with friends, and his new YouTube channel "Hidden Valley Cattle," which recently hit 100 subscribers. His wisdom resonates throughout our conversation: "Pick your friends wisely," "keep yourself busy," and "have a personal relationship with the Lord"—advice that reflects maturity beyond his years.
Whether you're a seasoned farmer, an agriculture enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates stories of youthful determination, this episode offers a refreshing perspective on the future of farming. Subscribe, share, and join us for our upcoming barbecue event on October 23-25 at Haste Draft Horses and Mules in Liberty, Kentucky!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
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(01:13):
Horses and mules.
How's everybody doing?
It's been a while, ain't it?
Yeah, I know I'd love to do awhole lot more podcasts for you
folks, but I've just been reallybusy.
I've had a lot going on.
I'm selling a lot of horses andrunning a lot of places.
But we're back and I'm going totry to do some podcasts here,
local in our community, a few.
I've been wanting to do that fora while and this young man here
(01:34):
is a local young man and weappreciate y'all listening.
I know y'all been waiting for apodcast.
You've been calling me andtelling me hey, come on out and
do a podcast where you at.
No, I'm sorry but I apologize.
We're gonna do one today foryou.
It's saturday and today is july, the.
What day is it?
Victor?
The 14th, july the 14th, andwe're here at the office, here
(01:55):
at the barn.
It's about four o'clock andwe's with customers all day, and
now we're here to record apodcast for you guys.
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Without y'all watching anddoing what you do for us, we
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couldn't do what we do, and itmeans the world to us.
So now we're going to dig in alittle bit to this young man
right here.
And one thing I wanted to doone with Victor.
His name is Victor and he's gotthat FFA jacket on.
I was in FFA in high school andit kind of means something to
me a little bit.
So Victor's in FFA at CaseyCounty High School.
So tell them about yourself alittle bit, victor, how are?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
you doing today and what's going on.
Good afternoon, I'm Victor andI'm a Casey County FFA member.
I'm not a committee chair noran officer yet.
I was a little bit late gettinginto it so I didn't really have
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the full experience.
I'm in my second year, goinginto my third year of high
school.
I just joined my sophomore yearand I enjoyed every minute of
it.
We went to rodeo events, wewent to the farm machinery show
up there in Louisville.
That was a blast.
Got to see a bunch of differentfarm equipment and that was.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
that was a lot of fun , um we went when I was in high
school too you did, yeah, yeahit's crazy.
It's just crazy.
Looking back, you know I'm 37year old.
I was in FFA from 02 to 05.
Now you're in it from now towhenever.
You got two more years Igraduate uh the 27 oh cool yeah
(04:30):
you got an sae program I do.
Yeah, you didn't know, I knewabout that.
I pulled that one on you youdid a little bit um tell me what
an sae is with it like.
First of all, tell them what ffastands for.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Even so ffa is uh future farmers of america and uh
it's trying to get young, youngyouth into agriculture because
our agriculture is dying, we'relosing farms and people don't
think farmers enough it is.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I mean, that's a good point you just said yeah
agriculture is kind of dying out.
Well, it's not.
It's not really dying becausewe got to have agriculture to
eat yeah, if we wouldn't havefarmers, we wouldn't have people
but what's dying out is, Ithink, is those small country
farms like your farm yeahthere's not a lot of that
(05:22):
anymore.
No, you just can't make no moneyit's all corporation, big,
massive, but you're doing it I'mtrying every day but you're not
doing it to make I mean you'renot going to make a living with
just did the rest of your lifeprobably not no but you're
making a, you're making a pointto try yeah, and it's your sae
program it is tell them aboutthat what that means.
(05:43):
Like what?
What does what does fa, ffa andthat go?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
together.
So an sae project is kind of aum.
It stands for supervisedagriculture experience, and when
you're in ffa you will havethis um.
You will have the umopportunity to create a SAE
(06:07):
project, and it could beanything from growing some
tomatoes in a pot to getting aloan and getting a bunch of cows
and raising cattle on your own,so it can vary.
What did you do?
(06:31):
Well, even before I started FFA,I was interested in getting
into farming and so I just knewsomebody that would be able to
give me a personal loan.
See, I'm just 16, so it's notlike I can just run down to the
bank and fill out a bunch ofpaperwork and get me a loan.
It's not that easy.
(06:51):
So I got me a good friend thatwe went out and we bought some
cows.
I first bought about 16 mamacows and I.
I was not impressed at all withwhat I got.
I was kind of I was kind ofmessed up, messed over a little
(07:12):
bit.
It was kind of rough, um, thefirst year of having them cows
it was.
It was not good at all.
I was, I lost some, I lost acalf and I lost a calf and I
lost a few mamas, and so I hadto sell a lot and get rid of
some bad stock.
I didn't have much to lookforward to, but it went well.
(07:35):
After a little bit it'sstarting to go back up, so you
got your loan.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, you bought your cows.
Now how many are you?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
running your cows.
Now, how many are you running?
I've got about seven moms and abull, and then I've got about
three heifer calves that I'mgoing to keep back from last
year, and I've got me one steer,and then I've got me about four
calves that were born this yearyear?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
is that steer, the one that just became a steer
yesterday you was telling meabout, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was quite an experience.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
That was the first one I had castrated and I didn't
have much help there, and so Iyoutube university helped me out
pretty good.
It helped me out pretty good butyou didn't put it on your
youtube channel well, the thingis, as I was with a little amish
boy, that amish boy was helpingme and they don't like to be on
(08:36):
the camera that much, and so,or at all, and um, so I can.
I didn't have no videographerthere to video me.
Steven here, he didn't go andvideo me, so he should have
called me.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I never knew it was going on, so yeah, well.
That's funny, Victor.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, but we got it figured out and it was quite an
experience.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So you got that going .
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And you recently got a big red tractor.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I did.
I went out and I got me anotherloan.
Um yeah, through the FSA, farmServancy Agency, they provide
youth loans, and so I got me ayouth loan and I bought me a
1988 Case International 1494.
Two-wheel drive cab.
It's a pretty nice tractor.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It is nice, I like it .
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The color really pops and the green field, it's
really nice.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So the land you're using, you know, know.
You can't buy your own land,right now so how's that going
about?
Like what land are you farming?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
so the same guy that I bought my, or helped me buy my
cows um, we kind of made upthis agreement and I was
actually in a partnership withan amish guy, but we won't go
into too much detail about thatI figured we better get out of
the partnership.
It wasn't working out and so Ibought them out.
(10:03):
And the same guy that we kindof got the cows through, he had
some property that nothing washappening with and so we kind of
bought the cows, mainly just tohelp clean the farm up.
That's mainly what that wholedeal was.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So you're kind of like leasing his land on a deal
that you clean it, kind of youtake care of the land.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's great because I don't have to
pay any rent.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Where was you cutting hay at?
You was cutting hay on otherland too, though.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, I rent about 10 acres Okay to pay any rent.
Where was you cutting hay at?
You was cutting hay on otherland too, though.
Yeah, I um I rent about 10acres okay, um, just right up
the road from the farm it'samazing how you're 16 yeah but
you can do this, and there'sways for all you other young
children to do it too.
Really yeah, you just got toknow the right people at the
(10:56):
right time and get in with it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But you live in a good community.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh yeah, I love my community.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I've bragged on our community here a lot and I'm
going to brag on it again.
But if he needs a bush hog, heknows where to go get one.
If he needs a hay cutter, heknows where to go get one.
The community will stand behindhim and help him.
He's a good boy and we want tosee him succeed.
You know we'll do anything wecan for him.
It just really means a lot.
Just to see him out in thefield with that tractor cutting
(11:26):
hay kind of puts a warm spot inyour heart.
You know it means something.
And to show this communitystanding behind this young man
and helping him get started andthe thing is you're not from
here either.
No, he didn't live here hiswhole life.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Where'd you come from ?
Picayune, Poplarville,Mississippi, that area.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Shout out to my buddies at Louisiana Carriage,
New Orleans Carriage.
I was in Poplarville and took ateam of mules to them at.
Poplarville at their farm there.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Really Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
They got a place there to keep their mules for
the New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Really, that's about where we lived and I should have
called you.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
three months ago I went to Picayune.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Really.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And sold a team of black perchings to a guy at RV
Park.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yep.
Shout out to you too.
You know who you you are.
Hope your horses are doing goodfor you.
You need to call me sometime.
Give me an update.
I'd like to know.
He bought a good team from usnamed tom and jerry that's a fun
team a lot of people rememberthat team.
They was good, good, good team,but so you moved here when you
was how old?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I was about five, six , about five or six, so you
don't remember a lot of it there.
No, I mean a little bit.
There's some fond memoriesthere, um, but no, I don't
remember a lot from being downthere.
You remember crawfish bowls ohyeah, I love crawfish bowls that
we ain't got many of them uphere what about king cakes from
(12:53):
the mardi gras?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
well have you ever had one.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I, I have one, but I I wasn't too, I wasn't too big
on them, yeah, you may like onenow, though I might, I might,
can't never tell, so you move.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
See, he moved here from mississippi and this
community's kind of took him inand it means a lot yeah, it has.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
yeah, they took me in and I got to know a lot of
people you have.
My network's pretty big.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You've been running around here, though, on a
full-blown lawnmower forever.
You know, victor's always beenaround running around doing
something, so that means a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And tonight he's going to play volleyball.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, I got another group of friends that we get
together about every Saturdayand play at the local private
school here the.
Galilean home.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
My daughter went to school there.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Really At Galilean, yeah, sure did.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Good place.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Mm-hmm, I actually got this um organized like I not
the beginning, but like tonightI actually went and got that
planned up I was.
I was the one that planned thatthat's good and that old 85
truck oh yeah, I got me a awhite uh 85, 150.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That is a sweet truck .
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, it's a super nice four-wheel drive,
four-speed, super nice truck.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I like it, and you've got a nice hat on too, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
the story behind the FFA jacket.
No, I don't.
Everybody just wears one.
It's a thing when you're in FFAyou have a jacket.
Stand up and show the camerayour jacket, Show them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Put his name on it and the FFA emblem.
I got two pins here.
The pin right here.
I went and did a competitionfor record keeping and we placed
.
There was a, it was a groupordeal and we placed.
I want to say that we placedfourth place in our region.
(15:07):
Our group did so that was.
That was pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I well, we had regionals and then we had the
state.
I did tobacco grading, tobaccostripping contest they still do
that or not?
no, I don't think when I was anffa, tobacco was still pretty
big and, um, you strip a hand oftobacco and you tie the hand
and you grade it in differentgrades and, uh, I did the
(15:33):
grading, the stripping contest,and then also I did dairy
judging.
I grew up on a dairy farm so Ijudged cattle.
We judged the udder of the cowand the whole conformation of
the cow and Holstein to Irishire, to Brownswiss, to Guernsey.
That's what we did and in 2003we was the state FFA tobacco
(15:55):
stripping team champions reallyit was wow casey county no, I
went to pulaski county.
See, I live in bethel ridge andwe was right by the line oh,
yeah, and my mama owned a beautyshop in science hill, so it was
easier for me to go to schoolthere than it was to go to
school in casey.
So that's where I went bigschool.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, pulass county is pretty big but I'll never
forget it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Green county kentucky had the best tobacco strippers.
I mean they was tough to beat.
We lost to them the other threeyears wow I remember it like it
was yesterday me and sam mintonand Darren Riley and I think it
was Josh Beshears.
He was the four members of theteam.
I don't know if Sam and Darrenand them has listened to this or
(16:42):
not, but I graduated with them.
Boys, sam's up in South Dakotanow or somewhere.
I ain't seen or heard of theother two since we graduated,
but who knows?
They may listen to this podcastand call me.
I'd like to talk to them.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You'll feel that someday.
Yeah, som this podcast and callme.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'd like to talk to them, but you'll feel that
someday yeah someday you'll besitting here like me and say
it's been 20 years since Igraduated high school.
I don't remember nobody.
Also, victor's got a hiddentalent of singing in the choir
yeah, I um.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
This year I auditioned for a?
Um, it wasn't a contest orwhatever, it was just
auditioning to go to some biggathering for choir and I got a
score.
I think the top score was.
Anyhow, I was two points awayfrom being at the top score, so
(17:39):
you sang bass yeah, I do can yougive him like a little or
something like that?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
uh, he can sing bass now.
We had music going in here theother day and this he was
harmonizing with that bass andsinging with like gospel hymns
and things yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
My favorite is gospel .
Oh, I love the hymns, yeah welove them.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They're good.
That's good, victor, that'sgood.
Anything else we're going totalk about.
Victor, I'm losing train ofthought.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We've covered a lot we have oh, we got to tell them
about what you got going on youryoutube channel oh yeah, yeah,
I started up my youtube channelabout oh, probably about two,
three weeks ago, about a monthago and the name of your farm is
hidden valley cattle go checkit out on youtube just hidden
(18:33):
valley cattle.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'll put his links in the description on the podcast
description and on the youtubevideo we'll share that and the
folks can go subscribe to you ifthey'd like yeah and follow you
along this journey I just hit100 subscribers today in about
uh, it was around two o'clock Ihit I hit 100 subscribers.
(18:53):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Thank you, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's good.
We want to help you get there.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
We're going to have some fun.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
All my YouTube people , if you're watching this, go
subscribe to this boy's channel.
Support him.
He's a good young kid.
It's hard to find young kidslike Victor now.
Don't let your hand get toodeep.
No, you calm down a little bit.
No, he's a good boy and he'sdoing a good job with trying to
do the right thing in life.
I thought he was going to be amule man there for a while and a
(19:22):
horseman.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, I was thinking about it, you liked him.
Oh, I love riding.
I love riding.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He did a video for me a time or two.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I did yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
A couple times.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I remember a story too too, that we can tell kind
of horse related.
Oh, my podcast, I think I knowwhich one it is.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We had an old walking horse mare over at my house,
black and white remember I thinkno, she was, she was red, she
was bay.
Yeah, she was bay and I was inthe house eating lunch.
They come in.
Victor got bucked off.
Oh Lord, that was a funny story.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, what happened was it was the second girth, it
wasn't tied to the first girthand it went back and it was
acting like a bucking strap Didyou jump or did she throw you?
She threw me right on my head.
But she's all right anyway, Igot up, stumbled up to the house
.
I was like ah, horse wentrunning off down the road, or no
(20:21):
, did it run off?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
she ran way out through the field.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, I remember that that was a wild time.
I said never again.
You helped me a day with thosecustomers.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That was fun.
Yeah, shout out to you all.
They just bought a Miss Bonnie,the Belgian Mary, from us, from
down in Tennessee, and they'llprobably be watching this, so
shout out to them.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Thank you all.
We enjoyed meeting you today,had a good time.
So I'm going to look at my list, victor, because there may be
some more things we're missingthat we wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
So that's all we wrote down, but is there
anything else you want to talkabout, victor, oh, I don't know.
It's harder to do a podcastwith a 16 year old yeah, it is
because I'm not one of them, oldpappies that's got a bunch of
stories behind me well, I know,yeah, some of them can talk a
lot, but you got stories.
(21:11):
You're gonna have stories, yeahI've got a lot of stories.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You want to give a shout out to anybody thanking
them or anything like, forhelping you.
Who's been the biggestinspiration to you?
Your whole life.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, about so two years ago, I'd met some people
in our community and they hadhelped me out a bunch.
The Showalter family Okay, theyhave the Showalter butcher shop
down here on Sloan Fork.
Good butcher oh yeah, they gotsome good meat in there, they do
(21:47):
.
And their boys see, they've gota farm.
They run about 240 head ofcattle and so, um, I'm a
farmhand there and I'm full-timethere.
Uh, while I'm not in school Iwork there and get paid to do
(22:08):
something I love to do.
And, um, the farmer of thefamily is joshalter and he has
helped me out a lot.
Good, earlier, we had mentioned, if I need a bush hog, that's
where I go.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We know Josh.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Josh is a good one.
He helps with the wheat careauction, yeah he's on the board.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He's on the board he is, but I think he's trying to
get off the board.
Okay, yeah, I don't think he'strying to get off the board.
Okay, yeah, I don't think he'sgoing to be on the board anymore
.
That's a lot of work that weCare auction stuff is.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's an auction guy .
Well, we're sitting hererambling.
We better tell them what we'reeven talking about.
It'd be bad.
It's an auction for a benefit,auction for plain people in
plain communities with likegenetic disorders.
They get and test these geneticdisorders before the kids are
born and really help them outand we had a benefit auction
here last saturday.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Actually I didn't really get to make it.
Well, we went for you, went forlunch, but we didn't stay very
long we's here all day lastsaturday, yeah, working on
youtube.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, we was working on victor's youtube channel but
no, it's good, it's a good thing.
So the Show Walters.
Yeah, shout out to them Ifanybody wants to order any
custom meat butcher, anythinglike that.
They do deer, they sell wholehogs, sell beef.
They do a good job, good,honest people and good, good
(23:30):
food.
And they got a full line ofprocessed food.
Their brats are unbelievablethey are pretty good at our last
clinic we went through about 30packs and things wow we was
eating them like crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Really, it was wonderful well, they just come
out.
So a lot of people like baconcheeseburgers, right bacon
cheeseburger brat.
No, they made patties, baconcheeseburger patties, with
cheese in the patty.
I bet it's good, it is reallygood.
They have it in their sampletable.
They have an incredible sampletable.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
If you're ever hungry and you're in this community
all you got to do is go toShellwater's and you can get
lunch, because they'll feed youenough samples to fill you up.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
When I'm working down there, I go down there.
You go get the samples, I godown there.
They normally have bacon on thegrill and I'll go and chow it
down.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I was down there the other day, they got that new
chicken sausage and that's good.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's real good.
They made it for people thatdon't need to eat pork or they
can still have, like a breakfast, sausage and chicken.
Yeah, that's pretty neat.
I need to get josh showalter onthe podcast.
You do?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think that would be really interesting and philip
and philip.
Yeah, because philip he's kindof the main boss there at the
butcher shop and abner abnerhe's kind of like a we could do
like a three-person podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Get them all on, just have a big conversation yeah,
that'd, that'd be fun, thatwould be fun.
You're going to head that upfor me.
I might see it, I'm going toask you to do that.
Ask them if they'll do it.
That'd be good.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Y'all might enjoy that too.
A family butcher shop andcattle farm.
That'd be kind of cool.
Be maybe the next one.
So yeah, I'm trying to do abunch of local podcasts.
We've got a wonderful communityhere and I never even thought
about doing it until somebodyasked me if I wanted him to do a
podcast.
And it's this man and I said,heck, yeah, let's do a podcast,
(25:26):
victor, that sounds good.
And he gave.
That inspired me to come outand say, hey, I need to.
I can do podcasts with peoplein my community too, not just
travel around the world and dothem.
So that's going to be good.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So we're going to start a little series here on
some local people, and I don'tknow who all I'll get.
I may get some pretty wild onesin there.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh yeah, you think you're going to get some wild
ones.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
There's some wild people community though.
You know bill hale.
Oh yeah, he called me one withbill hale, you think he would do
it, he's an 80 year old muleskinner.
He's the real deal, he'ssomething else I could ask him,
he would be a good one.
He would be a really good one,you talk about some stories now.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh my, I need to do that.
He's something else, he, he's.
The amount of stories I havewith him, between me and him, is
unreal.
I was down there at the localfeed mill and he I was teasing
him a little bit and he told meI better get on somewhere.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He's gonna hurt me yeah I could do one with albert
nurdle, that'd be good too, yeah, the feed store down there
that'd'd be cool Goldenrod Allright.
Shout out to your mama forletting you be on this.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, you've got to do that.
Tell mama you love her.
All right, mama, I love you,thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Kelly for letting Victor be on the podcast.
And then Grandma and Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Tell Grandma and Grandpa hello, shout out to them
.
Shout out to them.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Grandma Grandpa.
Thank you all for helping meAppreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They love you, they love their boy now.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Your grandma and grandpa's boy ain't you yeah, I
am yeah.
Ain't nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Mm-mm.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And shout out to the fellow that loaned you the money
.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, jack Kane.
He lives up in Indiana and he'sa really good businessman and
super nice guy.
I really appreciate him do youhave?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
you know some of the younger generation might be
listening to this yeah and younever know, you have any words
of wisdom to them pick yourfriends wisely.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I know everybody says that, but it is true.
Pick who your friends are andtry to get involved with stuff
so you don't get in trouble.
I don't get in a lot of troublebut I keep myself really busy.
I have many of late nights.
I was mowing hay until 11o'clock one night and I mean
(28:00):
it's rough sometimes but it'ssomething that needs to get done
.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And also have a personal relationship with the
Lord.
Yeah, that's another one.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Read your Bible, yep, I'm not real good at reading it
every day, but I try.
Well, nobody's perfect, but theone and only yeah, the Lord
Jesus is the only perfect one,but all we can do is try.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We've got to try and we're proud of you, victor.
I know, I think you're going togain a lot of people watching
you on this journey.
Yeah, we're going to hope.
Oh, I'm hoping.
We're going to push on all ofour subscribers on YouTube.
We've got 60-something thousand, so if we can even get 10% of
them, that'll get you a goodstart.
Yeah, that will Get them onthere.
Subscribe and watch Victor,because right now, he's starting
(28:47):
from little to nothing, buthe's starting from a lot really
yeah, it's got a good start yeahand I'm excited to see where
this thing goes in a few years Iam too.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I am too.
Um, the farm I'm on was an olddairy farm.
Um, some mennonites had uhfarmed it and then they left.
They went down to spencer,tennessee, and they, they just
left, um, they sold it and thenan amish guy got it and he
(29:18):
didn't really take good care ofthe place and kind of let it
grow up.
And so now I'm trying to tryingto fix it up, but it's rough,
you know.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You gotta do a little bit at a time when you got the
money to do it it's all you cando yeah just a little at a time
you got to crawl before you canwalk yeah, exactly, I remember
when we was doing this business,victor, I had an old iphone, no
computer, no diesel truck.
I had an iphone and nothing.
(29:51):
And now look where we are.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, you got yourselves a nice truck.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But we're still not where we want to be.
We want to grow more.
We want to keep pushing.
We're still in that mindset ofwe ain't got nothing.
We're still just trying toclimb up to the top.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And we're going to keep pushing until we get there,
and if we don't get there, itwon't be from lack of trying, so
we're having a good time doingit.
The main thing is we're makingso many connections across the
country with so many good peopleand I can't thank you all
enough.
It means the world to us.
It means the world to us.
I can't believe how blessed wereally are to have what we got.
(30:31):
We're waiting on Henry to gethome right now where's he at?
well, he's on the way back of mytruck, but he's not driving
okay, no, don't, I've seen youreyes we hired a driver to take
him, him and his wife, his wife.
They went up to ohio and Ihired a driver and I wanted to
get a new flatbed put on mytruck because I that deer hit
(30:55):
the side of my bed and knockedit all in.
So I said, well, I'm done withthis bed, I want to put a
flatbed on it.
So I did.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
And I couldn't get a way to go so much going on.
So Henry and them took it upthere for me and got it put on.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
And I'm pretty excited for them to get home.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
What kind of bed?
You get an aluminum bed onAluminum EB.
Them are nice beds.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm excited about it.
If you're around here you'llsee it, but you may not be
playing volleyball.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I might be.
It starts at 6.30.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah yeah, better eat supper first.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I'll probably just go straight from here over there.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'll probably just go straight from here over there,
I won't eat supper.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
You'll have to eat when you get home tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, probably I'll eat like a horse I like potted
meat and a lot of people don'tlike potted meat.
They say it's nasty.
A lot of people don't.
A lot of people say I'm stupidfor eating it.
Well, I got a bunch out therein the shop and crackers.
I keep it around because I likeit so much.
And Victor said that stuff'sgood.
Can I have some of it?
(31:59):
And he ate him a can.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I did, I was hungry, son, I was hungry.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He likes potted meat too, so that's good.
Yeah, victor, thank you forcoming and doing this no problem
Main thing, this, no problem,main thing.
Thank you for helping me cleanthis office today.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It was a disaster, it was bad.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I was ashamed of it.
It was a disaster.
Well, you got me and henryrunning in and out like two wild
animals and mud, yeah, so thereyou go victor helped me put
this up too, guys.
What do you think of this?
This nice banner with thepodcast logo and I'm um, I feel
like I'm actually sittingsomewhere down instead of a
run-down shack.
So thank you, victor, forhelping me do that, and keep
(32:39):
your eyes on the Lord and keepworking, and I know you'll do
that.
You're a good worker, goodyoung man, and we're proud of
you and we appreciate it.
Guys, thank you for joiningthis podcast.
That's the main thing.
Without our listeners, wewouldn't have no reason to even
do a podcast.
It means the world to us.
We appreciate you.
Follow us on Facebook at HasteDraft, horses and Mules.
(32:59):
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Speaker 3 (33:02):
Not.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Twitter, but X, tiktok, instagram and YouTube
our YouTube channel.
All of our videos are on there.
Everything's under Haste DraftHorses and Mules, and our
website iswwwdrafthorsesandmulesforsalecom
.
We're actually going to bescheduling another clinic, a
teamster clinic, in the month ofaugust.
Stay tuned for details for that.
(33:23):
And then our barbecue customerappreciation.
I want all you podcastlisteners to come.
Everybody's welcome to come,and it's going to be a blast.
You don't want to miss it.
Henry's two hogs in the Groundis some of the best eating
you'll ever eat.
Well, not on the ground, on hisbig smoker.
He roasts them on, or whateverit is.
They're good.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Do y'all have Show Walters, butcher them pigs for
you?
No, y'all do it yourselves.
No, no.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We buy them from Show Walters.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Oh no, we buy them from Show.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Walters?
Oh, I think, yeah, he boughtthem from Show Walters last year
and then he takes them to.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Pete up on the hill, Pete Gingrich and Pete scalds
them Really, and then we justcook them whole skin and all oh.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Apple in the mouth and then he just pulls them off
and they just fall apart.
Pulled pork sandwiches.
It's good.
We're going to take wagon rideseach day.
We're going to do demonstrate.
We're going to sell teams at it, sell harnesses, sell equipment
.
It's a good way to connect withother people.
In the draft horse and muleindustry, we have some of the
best people coming this year.
Don't miss it, and you bettercome too yeah, I haven't been
(34:28):
able to make one.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You need to come see, I got school.
Well, you can come on school.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, you can come on Saturday.
Yeah, and you can come at nightwhen school's over, if you
ain't busy farming orvolleyballing or singing or
anything else you do, yeah, andhelp this young man out and
subscribe to his channel.
Help a young man out.
He's doing a good job, so go toHidden Valley Cattle on YouTube
and hit that subscribe buttonIf you like what he's doing.
(34:55):
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Send him a comment on hisYouTube.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I reply to every comment that there is Good.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Reach out to him, leave him a comment, let him
know you sent him on the HarnessUp podcast.
Thank you all.
God bless you and we'll see youon the next one.
Until then, keep harnassing upyour horses and enjoy yourself,
and we'll see you real soon.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
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Up with Haste, draft Horses andMules draws to a close, we
extend our sincere gratitude toour listeners for joining us on
this enlightening journey.
We hope today's discussionshave deepened your appreciation
and understanding of thesemagnificent creatures.
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(36:04):
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So harness up and join Haste Drafte draft.
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Horses and mules.
How's everybody doing?
It's been a while, ain't it?
Yeah, I know I'd love to do awhole lot more podcasts for you
folks, but I've just been reallybusy.
I've had a lot going on.
I'm selling a lot of horses andrunning a lot of places.
But we're back and I'm going totry to do some podcasts here,
local in our community, a few.
I've been wanting to do that fora while and this young man here
(01:34):
is a local young man and weappreciate y'all listening.
I know y'all been waiting for apodcast.
You've been calling me andtelling me hey, come on out and
do a podcast where you at.
No, I'm sorry but I apologize.
We're gonna do one today foryou.
It's saturday and today is july, the.
What day is it?
Victor?
The 14th, july the 14th, andwe're here at the office, here
(01:55):
at the barn.
It's about four o'clock andwe's with customers all day, and
now we're here to record apodcast for you guys.
So a few things before we getinto this.
Guys, remember our barbecueevent coming up October 23rd,
24th and 25th here at HaystraftHorses and Mules Halen, young
Road, liberty, kentucky.
The website has all theinformation you need Check that
(02:17):
out.
It's going to be a great time.
Lots of people come to thisbarbecue and it's wonderful.
We have a blast.
If you're interested in comingand joining us, you don't have
to RSVP or anything Just show upand be ready to have a good
time and drive horses and enjoya great time with fellow people
that love Draft Horses, andwe're looking forward to it.
We hope you all are too.
So get ready for that.
(02:38):
And the website iswwwdrafthorsesandmulesforsalecom
.
Also, we're on Facebook, we'reon Twitter, we're on TikTok,
we're on Instagram we're allacross the board, so you can
find us anywhere under HasteDraft Horses and Mules Easy as
that.
So we appreciate all y'all andthank you so much for everything
.
Without y'all watching anddoing what you do for us, we
(03:02):
couldn't do what we do, and itmeans the world to us.
So now we're going to dig in alittle bit to this young man
right here.
And one thing I wanted to doone with Victor.
His name is Victor and he's gotthat FFA jacket on.
I was in FFA in high school andit kind of means something to
me a little bit.
So Victor's in FFA at CaseyCounty High School.
So tell them about yourself alittle bit, victor, how are?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
you doing today and what's going on.
Good afternoon, I'm Victor andI'm a Casey County FFA member.
I'm not a committee chair noran officer yet.
I was a little bit late gettinginto it so I didn't really have
(03:48):
the full experience.
I'm in my second year, goinginto my third year of high
school.
I just joined my sophomore yearand I enjoyed every minute of
it.
We went to rodeo events, wewent to the farm machinery show
up there in Louisville.
That was a blast.
Got to see a bunch of differentfarm equipment and that was.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
that was a lot of fun , um we went when I was in high
school too you did, yeah, yeahit's crazy.
It's just crazy.
Looking back, you know I'm 37year old.
I was in FFA from 02 to 05.
Now you're in it from now towhenever.
You got two more years Igraduate uh the 27 oh cool yeah
(04:30):
you got an sae program I do.
Yeah, you didn't know, I knewabout that.
I pulled that one on you youdid a little bit um tell me what
an sae is with it like.
First of all, tell them what ffastands for.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Even so ffa is uh future farmers of america and uh
it's trying to get young, youngyouth into agriculture because
our agriculture is dying, we'relosing farms and people don't
think farmers enough it is.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I mean, that's a good point you just said yeah
agriculture is kind of dying out.
Well, it's not.
It's not really dying becausewe got to have agriculture to
eat yeah, if we wouldn't havefarmers, we wouldn't have people
but what's dying out is, Ithink, is those small country
farms like your farm yeahthere's not a lot of that
(05:22):
anymore.
No, you just can't make no moneyit's all corporation, big,
massive, but you're doing it I'mtrying every day but you're not
doing it to make I mean you'renot going to make a living with
just did the rest of your lifeprobably not no but you're
making a, you're making a pointto try yeah, and it's your sae
program it is tell them aboutthat what that means.
(05:43):
Like what?
What does what does fa, ffa andthat go?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
together.
So an sae project is kind of aum.
It stands for supervisedagriculture experience, and when
you're in ffa you will havethis um.
You will have the umopportunity to create a SAE
(06:07):
project, and it could beanything from growing some
tomatoes in a pot to getting aloan and getting a bunch of cows
and raising cattle on your own,so it can vary.
What did you do?
(06:31):
Well, even before I started FFA,I was interested in getting
into farming and so I just knewsomebody that would be able to
give me a personal loan.
See, I'm just 16, so it's notlike I can just run down to the
bank and fill out a bunch ofpaperwork and get me a loan.
It's not that easy.
(06:51):
So I got me a good friend thatwe went out and we bought some
cows.
I first bought about 16 mamacows and I.
I was not impressed at all withwhat I got.
I was kind of I was kind ofmessed up, messed over a little
(07:12):
bit.
It was kind of rough, um, thefirst year of having them cows
it was.
It was not good at all.
I was, I lost some, I lost acalf and I lost a calf and I
lost a few mamas, and so I hadto sell a lot and get rid of
some bad stock.
I didn't have much to lookforward to, but it went well.
(07:35):
After a little bit it'sstarting to go back up, so you
got your loan.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, you bought your cows.
Now how many are you?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
running your cows.
Now, how many are you running?
I've got about seven moms and abull, and then I've got about
three heifer calves that I'mgoing to keep back from last
year, and I've got me one steer,and then I've got me about four
calves that were born this yearyear?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
is that steer, the one that just became a steer
yesterday you was telling meabout, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
was quite an experience.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
That was the first one I had castrated and I didn't
have much help there, and so Iyoutube university helped me out
pretty good.
It helped me out pretty good butyou didn't put it on your
youtube channel well, the thingis, as I was with a little amish
boy, that amish boy was helpingme and they don't like to be on
(08:36):
the camera that much, and so,or at all, and um, so I can.
I didn't have no videographerthere to video me.
Steven here, he didn't go andvideo me, so he should have
called me.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I never knew it was going on, so yeah, well.
That's funny, Victor.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, but we got it figured out and it was quite an
experience.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So you got that going .
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And you recently got a big red tractor.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I did.
I went out and I got me anotherloan.
Um yeah, through the FSA, farmServancy Agency, they provide
youth loans, and so I got me ayouth loan and I bought me a
1988 Case International 1494.
Two-wheel drive cab.
It's a pretty nice tractor.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It is nice, I like it .
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The color really pops and the green field, it's
really nice.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So the land you're using, you know, know.
You can't buy your own land,right now so how's that going
about?
Like what land are you farming?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
so the same guy that I bought my, or helped me buy my
cows um, we kind of made upthis agreement and I was
actually in a partnership withan amish guy, but we won't go
into too much detail about thatI figured we better get out of
the partnership.
It wasn't working out and so Ibought them out.
(10:03):
And the same guy that we kindof got the cows through, he had
some property that nothing washappening with and so we kind of
bought the cows, mainly just tohelp clean the farm up.
That's mainly what that wholedeal was.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So you're kind of like leasing his land on a deal
that you clean it, kind of youtake care of the land.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's great because I don't have to
pay any rent.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Where was you cutting hay at?
You was cutting hay on otherland too, though.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, I rent about 10 acres Okay to pay any rent.
Where was you cutting hay at?
You was cutting hay on otherland too, though.
Yeah, I um I rent about 10acres okay, um, just right up
the road from the farm it'samazing how you're 16 yeah but
you can do this, and there'sways for all you other young
children to do it too.
Really yeah, you just got toknow the right people at the
(10:56):
right time and get in with it.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But you live in a good community.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh yeah, I love my community.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I've bragged on our community here a lot and I'm
going to brag on it again.
But if he needs a bush hog, heknows where to go get one.
If he needs a hay cutter, heknows where to go get one.
The community will stand behindhim and help him.
He's a good boy and we want tosee him succeed.
You know we'll do anything wecan for him.
It just really means a lot.
Just to see him out in thefield with that tractor cutting
(11:26):
hay kind of puts a warm spot inyour heart.
You know it means something.
And to show this communitystanding behind this young man
and helping him get started andthe thing is you're not from
here either.
No, he didn't live here hiswhole life.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Where'd you come from ?
Picayune, Poplarville,Mississippi, that area.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Shout out to my buddies at Louisiana Carriage,
New Orleans Carriage.
I was in Poplarville and took ateam of mules to them at.
Poplarville at their farm there.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Really Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
They got a place there to keep their mules for
the New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Really, that's about where we lived and I should have
called you.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
three months ago I went to Picayune.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Really.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And sold a team of black perchings to a guy at RV
Park.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yep.
Shout out to you too.
You know who you you are.
Hope your horses are doing goodfor you.
You need to call me sometime.
Give me an update.
I'd like to know.
He bought a good team from usnamed tom and jerry that's a fun
team a lot of people rememberthat team.
They was good, good, good team,but so you moved here when you
was how old?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I was about five, six , about five or six, so you
don't remember a lot of it there.
No, I mean a little bit.
There's some fond memoriesthere, um, but no, I don't
remember a lot from being downthere.
You remember crawfish bowls ohyeah, I love crawfish bowls that
we ain't got many of them uphere what about king cakes from
(12:53):
the mardi gras?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
well have you ever had one.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I, I have one, but I I wasn't too, I wasn't too big
on them, yeah, you may like onenow, though I might, I might,
can't never tell, so you move.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
See, he moved here from mississippi and this
community's kind of took him inand it means a lot yeah, it has.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
yeah, they took me in and I got to know a lot of
people you have.
My network's pretty big.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You've been running around here, though, on a
full-blown lawnmower forever.
You know, victor's always beenaround running around doing
something, so that means a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And tonight he's going to play volleyball.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Yeah, I got another group of friends that we get
together about every Saturdayand play at the local private
school here the.
Galilean home.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
My daughter went to school there.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Really At Galilean, yeah, sure did.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Good place.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Mm-hmm, I actually got this um organized like I not
the beginning, but like tonightI actually went and got that
planned up I was.
I was the one that planned thatthat's good and that old 85
truck oh yeah, I got me a awhite uh 85, 150.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That is a sweet truck .
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, it's a super nice four-wheel drive,
four-speed, super nice truck.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I like it, and you've got a nice hat on too, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
the story behind the FFA jacket.
No, I don't.
Everybody just wears one.
It's a thing when you're in FFAyou have a jacket.
Stand up and show the camerayour jacket, Show them.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Put his name on it and the FFA emblem.
I got two pins here.
The pin right here.
I went and did a competitionfor record keeping and we placed
.
There was a, it was a groupordeal and we placed.
I want to say that we placedfourth place in our region.
(15:07):
Our group did so that was.
That was pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I well, we had regionals and then we had the
state.
I did tobacco grading, tobaccostripping contest they still do
that or not?
no, I don't think when I was anffa, tobacco was still pretty
big and, um, you strip a hand oftobacco and you tie the hand
and you grade it in differentgrades and, uh, I did the
(15:33):
grading, the stripping contest,and then also I did dairy
judging.
I grew up on a dairy farm so Ijudged cattle.
We judged the udder of the cowand the whole conformation of
the cow and Holstein to Irishire, to Brownswiss, to Guernsey.
That's what we did and in 2003we was the state FFA tobacco
(15:55):
stripping team champions reallyit was wow casey county no, I
went to pulaski county.
See, I live in bethel ridge andwe was right by the line oh,
yeah, and my mama owned a beautyshop in science hill, so it was
easier for me to go to schoolthere than it was to go to
school in casey.
So that's where I went bigschool.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yeah, pulass county is pretty big but I'll never
forget it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Green county kentucky had the best tobacco strippers.
I mean they was tough to beat.
We lost to them the other threeyears wow I remember it like it
was yesterday me and sam mintonand Darren Riley and I think it
was Josh Beshears.
He was the four members of theteam.
I don't know if Sam and Darrenand them has listened to this or
(16:42):
not, but I graduated with them.
Boys, sam's up in South Dakotanow or somewhere.
I ain't seen or heard of theother two since we graduated,
but who knows?
They may listen to this podcastand call me.
I'd like to talk to them.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You'll feel that someday.
Yeah, som this podcast and callme.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'd like to talk to them, but you'll feel that
someday yeah someday you'll besitting here like me and say
it's been 20 years since Igraduated high school.
I don't remember nobody.
Also, victor's got a hiddentalent of singing in the choir
yeah, I um.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
This year I auditioned for a?
Um, it wasn't a contest orwhatever, it was just
auditioning to go to some biggathering for choir and I got a
score.
I think the top score was.
Anyhow, I was two points awayfrom being at the top score, so
(17:39):
you sang bass yeah, I do can yougive him like a little or
something like that?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
uh, he can sing bass now.
We had music going in here theother day and this he was
harmonizing with that bass andsinging with like gospel hymns
and things yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
My favorite is gospel .
Oh, I love the hymns, yeah welove them.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They're good.
That's good, victor, that'sgood.
Anything else we're going totalk about.
Victor, I'm losing train ofthought.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
We've covered a lot we have oh, we got to tell them
about what you got going on youryoutube channel oh yeah, yeah,
I started up my youtube channelabout oh, probably about two,
three weeks ago, about a monthago and the name of your farm is
hidden valley cattle go checkit out on youtube just hidden
(18:33):
valley cattle.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'll put his links in the description on the podcast
description and on the youtubevideo we'll share that and the
folks can go subscribe to you ifthey'd like yeah and follow you
along this journey I just hit100 subscribers today in about
uh, it was around two o'clock Ihit I hit 100 subscribers.
(18:53):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Thank you, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
That's good.
We want to help you get there.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
We're going to have some fun.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
All my YouTube people , if you're watching this, go
subscribe to this boy's channel.
Support him.
He's a good young kid.
It's hard to find young kidslike Victor now.
Don't let your hand get toodeep.
No, you calm down a little bit.
No, he's a good boy and he'sdoing a good job with trying to
do the right thing in life.
I thought he was going to be amule man there for a while and a
(19:22):
horseman.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, I was thinking about it, you liked him.
Oh, I love riding.
I love riding.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He did a video for me a time or two.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I did yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
A couple times.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I remember a story too too, that we can tell kind
of horse related.
Oh, my podcast, I think I knowwhich one it is.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
We had an old walking horse mare over at my house,
black and white remember I thinkno, she was, she was red, she
was bay.
Yeah, she was bay and I was inthe house eating lunch.
They come in.
Victor got bucked off.
Oh Lord, that was a funny story.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, what happened was it was the second girth, it
wasn't tied to the first girthand it went back and it was
acting like a bucking strap Didyou jump or did she throw you?
She threw me right on my head.
But she's all right anyway, Igot up, stumbled up to the house
.
I was like ah, horse wentrunning off down the road, or no
(20:21):
, did it run off?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
she ran way out through the field.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, I remember that that was a wild time.
I said never again.
You helped me a day with thosecustomers.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That was fun.
Yeah, shout out to you all.
They just bought a Miss Bonnie,the Belgian Mary, from us, from
down in Tennessee, and they'llprobably be watching this, so
shout out to them.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Thank you all.
We enjoyed meeting you today,had a good time.
So I'm going to look at my list, victor, because there may be
some more things we're missingthat we wanted to talk about.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
So that's all we wrote down, but is there
anything else you want to talkabout, victor, oh, I don't know.
It's harder to do a podcastwith a 16 year old yeah, it is
because I'm not one of them, oldpappies that's got a bunch of
stories behind me well, I know,yeah, some of them can talk a
lot, but you got stories.
(21:11):
You're gonna have stories, yeahI've got a lot of stories.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You want to give a shout out to anybody thanking
them or anything like, forhelping you.
Who's been the biggestinspiration to you?
Your whole life.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, about so two years ago, I'd met some people
in our community and they hadhelped me out a bunch.
The Showalter family Okay, theyhave the Showalter butcher shop
down here on Sloan Fork.
Good butcher oh yeah, they gotsome good meat in there, they do
(21:47):
.
And their boys see, they've gota farm.
They run about 240 head ofcattle and so, um, I'm a
farmhand there and I'm full-timethere.
Uh, while I'm not in school Iwork there and get paid to do
(22:08):
something I love to do.
And, um, the farmer of thefamily is joshalter and he has
helped me out a lot.
Good, earlier, we had mentioned, if I need a bush hog, that's
where I go.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We know Josh.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Josh is a good one.
He helps with the wheat careauction, yeah he's on the board.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He's on the board he is, but I think he's trying to
get off the board.
Okay, yeah, I don't think he'strying to get off the board.
Okay, yeah, I don't think he'sgoing to be on the board anymore
.
That's a lot of work that weCare auction stuff is.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's an auction guy .
Well, we're sitting hererambling.
We better tell them what we'reeven talking about.
It'd be bad.
It's an auction for a benefit,auction for plain people in
plain communities with likegenetic disorders.
They get and test these geneticdisorders before the kids are
born and really help them outand we had a benefit auction
here last saturday.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Actually I didn't really get to make it.
Well, we went for you, went forlunch, but we didn't stay very
long we's here all day lastsaturday, yeah, working on
youtube.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, we was working on victor's youtube channel but
no, it's good, it's a good thing.
So the Show Walters.
Yeah, shout out to them Ifanybody wants to order any
custom meat butcher, anythinglike that.
They do deer, they sell wholehogs, sell beef.
They do a good job, good,honest people and good, good
(23:30):
food.
And they got a full line ofprocessed food.
Their brats are unbelievablethey are pretty good at our last
clinic we went through about 30packs and things wow we was
eating them like crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Really, it was wonderful well, they just come
out.
So a lot of people like baconcheeseburgers, right bacon
cheeseburger brat.
No, they made patties, baconcheeseburger patties, with
cheese in the patty.
I bet it's good, it is reallygood.
They have it in their sampletable.
They have an incredible sampletable.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
If you're ever hungry and you're in this community
all you got to do is go toShellwater's and you can get
lunch, because they'll feed youenough samples to fill you up.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
When I'm working down there, I go down there.
You go get the samples, I godown there.
They normally have bacon on thegrill and I'll go and chow it
down.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I was down there the other day, they got that new
chicken sausage and that's good.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's real good.
They made it for people thatdon't need to eat pork or they
can still have, like a breakfast, sausage and chicken.
Yeah, that's pretty neat.
I need to get josh showalter onthe podcast.
You do?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I think that would be really interesting and philip
and philip.
Yeah, because philip he's kindof the main boss there at the
butcher shop and abner abnerhe's kind of like a we could do
like a three-person podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Get them all on, just have a big conversation yeah,
that'd, that'd be fun, thatwould be fun.
You're going to head that upfor me.
I might see it, I'm going toask you to do that.
Ask them if they'll do it.
That'd be good.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Y'all might enjoy that too.
A family butcher shop andcattle farm.
That'd be kind of cool.
Be maybe the next one.
So yeah, I'm trying to do abunch of local podcasts.
We've got a wonderful communityhere and I never even thought
about doing it until somebodyasked me if I wanted him to do a
podcast.
And it's this man and I said,heck, yeah, let's do a podcast,
(25:26):
victor, that sounds good.
And he gave.
That inspired me to come outand say, hey, I need to.
I can do podcasts with peoplein my community too, not just
travel around the world and dothem.
So that's going to be good.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So we're going to start a little series here on
some local people, and I don'tknow who all I'll get.
I may get some pretty wild onesin there.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh yeah, you think you're going to get some wild
ones.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
There's some wild people community though.
You know bill hale.
Oh yeah, he called me one withbill hale, you think he would do
it, he's an 80 year old muleskinner.
He's the real deal, he'ssomething else I could ask him,
he would be a good one.
He would be a really good one,you talk about some stories now.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Oh my, I need to do that.
He's something else, he, he's.
The amount of stories I havewith him, between me and him, is
unreal.
I was down there at the localfeed mill and he I was teasing
him a little bit and he told meI better get on somewhere.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He's gonna hurt me yeah I could do one with albert
nurdle, that'd be good too, yeah, the feed store down there
that'd'd be cool Goldenrod Allright.
Shout out to your mama forletting you be on this.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yeah, you've got to do that.
Tell mama you love her.
All right, mama, I love you,thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Kelly for letting Victor be on the podcast.
And then Grandma and Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Tell Grandma and Grandpa hello, shout out to them
.
Shout out to them.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Grandma Grandpa.
Thank you all for helping meAppreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
They love you, they love their boy now.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Your grandma and grandpa's boy ain't you yeah, I
am yeah.
Ain't nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Mm-mm.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And shout out to the fellow that loaned you the money
.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, jack Kane.
He lives up in Indiana and he'sa really good businessman and
super nice guy.
I really appreciate him do youhave?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
you know some of the younger generation might be
listening to this yeah and younever know, you have any words
of wisdom to them pick yourfriends wisely.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I know everybody says that, but it is true.
Pick who your friends are andtry to get involved with stuff
so you don't get in trouble.
I don't get in a lot of troublebut I keep myself really busy.
I have many of late nights.
I was mowing hay until 11o'clock one night and I mean
(28:00):
it's rough sometimes but it'ssomething that needs to get done
.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And also have a personal relationship with the
Lord.
Yeah, that's another one.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Read your Bible, yep, I'm not real good at reading it
every day, but I try.
Well, nobody's perfect, but theone and only yeah, the Lord
Jesus is the only perfect one,but all we can do is try.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
We've got to try and we're proud of you, victor.
I know, I think you're going togain a lot of people watching
you on this journey.
Yeah, we're going to hope.
Oh, I'm hoping.
We're going to push on all ofour subscribers on YouTube.
We've got 60-something thousand, so if we can even get 10% of
them, that'll get you a goodstart.
Yeah, that will Get them onthere.
Subscribe and watch Victor,because right now, he's starting
(28:47):
from little to nothing, buthe's starting from a lot really
yeah, it's got a good start yeahand I'm excited to see where
this thing goes in a few years Iam too.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I am too.
Um, the farm I'm on was an olddairy farm.
Um, some mennonites had uhfarmed it and then they left.
They went down to spencer,tennessee, and they, they just
left, um, they sold it and thenan amish guy got it and he
(29:18):
didn't really take good care ofthe place and kind of let it
grow up.
And so now I'm trying to tryingto fix it up, but it's rough,
you know.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You gotta do a little bit at a time when you got the
money to do it it's all you cando yeah just a little at a time
you got to crawl before you canwalk yeah, exactly, I remember
when we was doing this business,victor, I had an old iphone, no
computer, no diesel truck.
I had an iphone and nothing.
(29:51):
And now look where we are.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, you got yourselves a nice truck.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But we're still not where we want to be.
We want to grow more.
We want to keep pushing.
We're still in that mindset ofwe ain't got nothing.
We're still just trying toclimb up to the top.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And we're going to keep pushing until we get there,
and if we don't get there, itwon't be from lack of trying, so
we're having a good time doingit.
The main thing is we're makingso many connections across the
country with so many good peopleand I can't thank you all
enough.
It means the world to us.
It means the world to us.
I can't believe how blessed wereally are to have what we got.
(30:31):
We're waiting on Henry to gethome right now where's he at?
well, he's on the way back of mytruck, but he's not driving
okay, no, don't, I've seen youreyes we hired a driver to take
him, him and his wife, his wife.
They went up to ohio and Ihired a driver and I wanted to
get a new flatbed put on mytruck because I that deer hit
(30:55):
the side of my bed and knockedit all in.
So I said, well, I'm done withthis bed, I want to put a
flatbed on it.
So I did.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
And I couldn't get a way to go so much going on.
So Henry and them took it upthere for me and got it put on.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
And I'm pretty excited for them to get home.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
What kind of bed?
You get an aluminum bed onAluminum EB.
Them are nice beds.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm excited about it.
If you're around here you'llsee it, but you may not be
playing volleyball.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I might be.
It starts at 6.30.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah yeah, better eat supper first.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I'll probably just go straight from here over there.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'll probably just go straight from here over there,
I won't eat supper.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
You'll have to eat when you get home tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Yeah, probably I'll eat like a horse I like potted
meat and a lot of people don'tlike potted meat.
They say it's nasty.
A lot of people don't.
A lot of people say I'm stupidfor eating it.
Well, I got a bunch out therein the shop and crackers.
I keep it around because I likeit so much.
And Victor said that stuff'sgood.
Can I have some of it?
(31:59):
And he ate him a can.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I did, I was hungry, son, I was hungry.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He likes potted meat too, so that's good.
Yeah, victor, thank you forcoming and doing this no problem
Main thing, this, no problem,main thing.
Thank you for helping me cleanthis office today.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It was a disaster, it was bad.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I was ashamed of it.
It was a disaster.
Well, you got me and henryrunning in and out like two wild
animals and mud, yeah, so thereyou go victor helped me put
this up too, guys.
What do you think of this?
This nice banner with thepodcast logo and I'm um, I feel
like I'm actually sittingsomewhere down instead of a
run-down shack.
So thank you, victor, forhelping me do that, and keep
(32:39):
your eyes on the Lord and keepworking, and I know you'll do
that.
You're a good worker, goodyoung man, and we're proud of
you and we appreciate it.
Guys, thank you for joiningthis podcast.
That's the main thing.
Without our listeners, wewouldn't have no reason to even
do a podcast.
It means the world to us.
We appreciate you.
Follow us on Facebook at HasteDraft, horses and Mules.
(32:59):
Twitter, or now X, I guess it'scalled.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Not.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Twitter, but X, tiktok, instagram and YouTube
our YouTube channel.
All of our videos are on there.
Everything's under Haste DraftHorses and Mules, and our
website iswwwdrafthorsesandmulesforsalecom
.
We're actually going to bescheduling another clinic, a
teamster clinic, in the month ofaugust.
Stay tuned for details for that.
(33:23):
And then our barbecue customerappreciation.
I want all you podcastlisteners to come.
Everybody's welcome to come,and it's going to be a blast.
You don't want to miss it.
Henry's two hogs in the Groundis some of the best eating
you'll ever eat.
Well, not on the ground, on hisbig smoker.
He roasts them on, or whateverit is.
They're good.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Do y'all have Show Walters, butcher them pigs for
you?
No, y'all do it yourselves.
No, no.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We buy them from Show Walters.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Oh no, we buy them from Show.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Walters?
Oh, I think, yeah, he boughtthem from Show Walters last year
and then he takes them to.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Pete up on the hill, Pete Gingrich and Pete scalds
them Really, and then we justcook them whole skin and all oh.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Apple in the mouth and then he just pulls them off
and they just fall apart.
Pulled pork sandwiches.
It's good.
We're going to take wagon rideseach day.
We're going to do demonstrate.
We're going to sell teams at it, sell harnesses, sell equipment
.
It's a good way to connect withother people.
In the draft horse and muleindustry, we have some of the
best people coming this year.
Don't miss it, and you bettercome too yeah, I haven't been
(34:28):
able to make one.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You need to come see, I got school.
Well, you can come on school.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, you can come on Saturday.
Yeah, and you can come at nightwhen school's over, if you
ain't busy farming orvolleyballing or singing or
anything else you do, yeah, andhelp this young man out and
subscribe to his channel.
Help a young man out.
He's doing a good job, so go toHidden Valley Cattle on YouTube
and hit that subscribe buttonIf you like what he's doing.
(34:55):
He'd love to have you watch hisjourney and reach out to him.
Send him a comment on hisYouTube.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I reply to every comment that there is Good.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Reach out to him, leave him a comment, let him
know you sent him on the HarnessUp podcast.
Thank you all.
God bless you and we'll see youon the next one.
Until then, keep harnassing upyour horses and enjoy yourself,
and we'll see you real soon.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
As another captivating episode of Harness
Up with Haste, draft Horses andMules draws to a close, we
extend our sincere gratitude toour listeners for joining us on
this enlightening journey.
We hope today's discussionshave deepened your appreciation
and understanding of thesemagnificent creatures.
(35:41):
Remember, the adventurecontinues beyond this podcast.
Stay connected with us onsocial media and share your
stories.
For more information and toexplore further, visit
Draftorsesandmulesforsalecom.
Thank you for being part of ourcommunity.
Until next time, keepharnessing your curiosity and
(36:04):
passion for these God-givencreatures.
Farewell for now.
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