Jarrod Montford Interviewed at 96th Texas FFA State Convention in Houston

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres and I am at the Texas FFA convention in Houston, Texas. And my guest today is Jared Mumford. Jared, first off, we met a couple of years ago. It's good to see you again. Welcome back. Thank you, sir. Good to see you. What was it? No, Waco. I think in Waco. Or no, was it, what are we? Dallas. Dallas. Also, it was last year we met. Okay. I don't know why I thought it was two years ago. So just to get us kicked off here. One of my goals with this series and this interview series is to introduce people outside of Texas, outside of FFA to what's going on. Like what's the big deal. Why do I fly here every year for the last three years? Why, why be here for the next, next year, the year after? Why do I keep coming back? So just to kick, get us kicked off here, Jared, what keeps you coming back year after year? What keeps me coming back here is just the phenomenal list of. The youth being in agriculture being a fifth generation cow care producer We don't have good quality youth coming up they just there We have so many students that Don't have the work. I think they need they don't have the the personable skills and they don't have the ability to say You I want to do X, Y, Z, and then they do X, Y, Z that lacks until you get here. Yeah. And when you get here, these students, they have drive, they have motivation, they have the want to, they have the desire. Mm hmm. These students here will be the ones that follow in our footstep. Yeah. That do what we're doing now. They're the ones that. We'll carry the next generation for these are the leaders. And when you get to, we have to realize that, that, that Timothy had Paul. So we are the Pauls to these Timothys. Yeah. We look up to those that are older than us and we're their Timothys. They're our Pauls. They've taught us so much about the industry. And and how the industry is progressing forward with technologies And we've got to get these students brought up today and we've got to bring those students in into the the ag world and into the ag sector and these are the guys that Gives you that future that brightness that hope that hey, you know what we're going to live another day We we have we have the students and that's what this organization Of the texas ffa and the national ffa in every other state You That's what they bring is they bring those quality students into the next workforce, where they go to college first or where they go to the work first one. It doesn't matter. They're coming to take our place. They are coming to fill our shoes, according to George Jones. Yeah. What's been one of your favorite parts of convention so far this year? Just to get to meet the students, to shake their hands, to, to get to share hugs, to get to know that That I am here as an industry representative talking, you know, about what I do to realize that there's students that's gonna That's gonna come and take our place There's students that have the want you to desire to do what I do that I can be a mentor of But man, just just see the kids talk a little bit about what you do. You might show fifth generation Like that's a little bit about so at home. I'm a fifth generation calc F producer Mm hmm, and we run a I would say a pasture to play programs It's raising and selling beef directly into consumers. But I'm going to say that we have a caveat in that. That's that, that I've kind of missed. They're a really big part of our program. We raise beef for Charleston state universities, meat science center to have beef for those students in the college world to cut up to see the high school students that are going into the the meat science judging contest. Getting more and more popular. I had two, two students on the show this week about that are in the end of that program. One, one young lady, she goes to, I think, Texas A& M. Yep. She's in their program. So we are helping that Charleston State University as a university, giving them quality beef for them to raise or not to raise, but for them to process and turn into retail cuts for those students to either say, Hey, I want to be in the meat science industry or Hey, I I don't want to be in the media science industry, but now I better consider it. Yes. So that is what we do at home. We raise we're about being the fact that Tarleton is a university and not a USDA facility with USDA grading and marketing. The, their facilities. Would be equivalent on a grading scale because it's an educational scale. So we're 80 to 85 percent prime graded carcasses Which is a feat that maybe only 10 percent 12 percent of the nation's cowherd can attain. Wow. So we're running an 80 to 85 percent carcass kill rate on that aspect and that's what we do at home and then my day job is I'm a Do a lot of things but anyway My main day job, I'm a cattle embryologist. I do embryo work in cattle. Do AI work in cattle. I sell semen for ST Genetics. And then I teach AI courses

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