Thursday, October 8, 2026 - Part 2

0:00The views and opinions expressed on analyzed this are entirely those of the on-air participants and do not reflect those of the station's board management staff or underwriters. And we're back here. I don't know, ladies and want to thank in Combin Center that I get can you get in for joining us? I'm the candidate speak and I also go conversation. Then all the we're gonna get another issue right now. There's a big issue going on in the mainland right? Remember when the administration first took back over President Trump serving a second term in January of 2025 the issue was the Castle Bags and eggs was a big issue then I throughout the last it's been

1:02what? About 20 months? Yeah they're about the issue has been about beef. And we got joining us from the Swanson family farm. I believe they're in Georgia. One second. You have to be in Georgia. Joining us, I'm Sussan and joining us. Good morning sir. Welcome to analyze this. Good morning. How you doing? I'm doing good. Introduce yourself and know we can get to the realities on the ground with respect to beef business. Yeah, my name is Wayne Swanson. I'm owner and operator of Swanson family farm. I'm an ex corporate guy so I started a family farm just to kind of feed myself and some friends and as I gave out product people kept calling me back and I realized there was a business and almost 20 years later here we are. Tell us about yourself originally from

2:03New Jersey. Born and raised in South Jersey in the suburbs. With interesting family dynamic my mom's family is from Camden which is the city. My dad's family is from Glassboro which is the country and I grew up in between but spending a lot of time in both cities. Now Camden is a suburb of Philadelphia. Yes sir. Cherry Hill right next door. Cherry Hill right next door. Yeah you know and and then you said you from Glassboro that's that's in between your area and Atlantic City. Yeah so I'm from Woodbury. You from Woodbury. Okay from Woodbury. Okay yeah right. Exit what used to be three eight they changed the exit since I live. Yeah yeah yeah I I have driven the turnpike many times throughout the years I think I think the exit to get off the Jersey turnpike South to get the fillies exit four I believe. Yeah I'm three so I can see the bridge sometimes as

3:05a kid. I want to one of my close friends he lived in Willemboro. Yeah yeah yeah that's the black areas and that's where that's where that's where that's where Carl Lewis is from. Yeah yeah yeah okay so. And little Willemboro secret a lot of the New York gangsters from like Nikki Barnes and them air yeah yeah mostly lived in Willemboro. Oh really all the way down south. Yeah all the way down south. I mean you want to live in there all that. No that's a good I actually actually did that drag from New York to fill you in an hour or 15 minutes one day. I mean the turnpike was empty and I was taking a course you're taking chances because it's stay troopers you know they'd be out you know I was saying but it's possible. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So many people there. It's hard for people to understand just how densely populated the North these is if you didn't you don't live in. Correct correct correct and then but you said you transition from New Jersey to to to Georgia. So when you said that I thought you were going to tell me that you from the central central to

4:07Jersey which is a lot of farmland. And the sixth name is central Jersey man. It's south Jersey North Jersey. No no no the folks in Trenton the folks in Trenton I make sure I pronounce it the way you the Yankee twang right Trentino child. Yeah the Trentino right you guys don't pronounce the the second T right it's Trentino right and that whole area and that that that farm area and I'm familiar with that because I like harness racing in New Jersey's a big harness racing state right and they got cream rich that whole area right where you're a lot of farmland and all that stuff. Now you said 20 years ago what did you go to where did you go to college that could you said you were in the corporate. I came to Atlanta for Mars Brown College. Okay okay and and then you stayed in Atlanta then you stayed in Atlanta or you went back home and then went back to Florida. No I knew the moment I touched down and I saw all the beautiful black people I was never leaving.

5:10Wow so you graduated from Mars Brown. Yes sir 1995 1995 1995 and then uh so wait a minute what a different world was was was still in in Georgia at that particular time. Different world probably the reason I went to an HBC. Wow. That's probably it. Wow. Yeah because the cars be sure of course that different world is a spin-off for the cars. Right. So you stayed in Georgia you never went back to Jersey. No stayed in Georgia. Uh I got a job I worked in the insurance industry. I was uh uh in its insurance adjuster and then I became a people leader in that space. I had a great career. Uh I also always had rental property. Always had you know my family is uh we believe in the side hustle that can produce income. I flipped a couple of houses I've always you know bred dogs that do other things that led me to where I am now. Um and when did you go full-time

6:12into the to the family on the the farm business? 2016 2017. Okay and and early on what did you find to be the biggest challenge? Knowledge um so much of what we are told and shown about farms is 100% incorrect and mainly it's because people telling you what a farm is aren't actually farmers and they're not farming and they're maybe institutional or some schools and since they don't have to turn a profit the farms reflect that. Uh so I had to I crashed the business the first time. Almost lost the farm. Uh probably is one of the reasons why I got divorced. It was a whole lot of stuff man. You crashed. I crashed. I'm gonna not sat down and uh and was able to build everything back because I stopped looking at institutional knowledge and I started talking to people who do the work but the people who do the work generally aren't you know around the institutions because they're busy doing the work. Um how many acres is the farm?

7:16I started out with 30 acres um with the leases I'm over close to 1,000 acres with with the leases but one thing I want audiences to know is that the amount of acres that matter it's how productive you are with one acre. How much product can you produce on one acre and can you replicate that across the breadth and width of your operation and some of those acres are designated just for rest. Like if you don't have a place for the wild life to go they're going to come into your operation. If you don't have a place for your mom is to cab easy so that they don't feel exposed out no uh and like I believe they just love tall grass and have their babies in. It makes life easier they're not stressed so I don't use all my acreage for farming. Some of it is for rest some of it's for wild life. The realities underground right now as it relates to the farming industry um is it as bad as we're hearing in particular

8:16with those cattle ranchers and and farmers out in the heartland in the in the Ohio in the Iowa and Nebraska Kansas uh Oklahoma are you feeling the same streams uh down in Georgia? No no uh until you why this has probably been the best 10 years in black ag since before integration if you are focused on black people if you are focused on black people if you're trying to do what they do in Iowa if you're trying to reach all these institutions um you want to become like a a feedlot or you want to sell restaurants you're probably struggling but if you have carved out some space and showed black people that you're trustworthy they don't spend money with you but did you carve that space out or are you just trying to come on out because everybody's spending money? It's been the best 10 years i've had a business and it is because my focus is black people.

9:18No you you you have clay and tell because you mentioned it you have a uh a market um for black people people are color um but that that does not preclude you from being um subjected to the negatives in the business world if you don't have sound policy to protect to protect to protect any industry it's not limited to your industry to any industry so talk about talk about talk about ways important for farmers to always pay attention to what's going on in the political world as well because if you are dependent on on a strong policy that allows for you to run your business manage it uh and for daily day for my day-to-day operation on standpoint um and then all of a sudden you have a policy that turns everything on its head that could flip your life into into some place you never expected it to go

10:22well 100% correct in farming expect that to happen right there we go there we go okay but i also had to learn that especially as black folks you have to play the game you have to be seen in the rooms you have to go there and talk to people you have to make political donations you have to do all the things and deal with lobbyists like other uh entities like other business groups too you can't just rely on somebody else to uh to take care of you and the saying that was told to me was because i didn't want to do politics and they were like you don't have to either you do politics or politics will do you so you might want to get involved because otherwise you still won't be affected by it now george is a state where a lot of black folks and people of color from the north have migrated to um over the years um where where in george are you located because we know fulton county decalb uh gwinett uh carb those are the big counties um where

11:29you have people of color but out in rural areas people of color aren't there talk talk there was uh uh some insight as to where you're at and how you're impacted as a result yeah so that's the misconception is that people of color aren't there this because they call it the black belt for two reasons outside of metro Atlanta is because the soil uh whether what black but it just was very uh nutrient dense but because that's what all the black people did so it's a lot of black people in like peach county Lamar county um hand card county up when you go out lot of black people are downward for valley status peach county um and around those at Crawford county a lot of black folks so it's it they want you to they wanted to seem like we're not out there but we out there and i leased a lot of property from black families who may have had operational farms in the 40s and 50s that they sat follow for a while and now i'm leasing those farms and uh getting them back active again for for for grazing for what we

12:31do but um i i live in the cab county i put a bunch of miles on trucks so my farming operations are from Henry County south down to awards for valley towards makings they say metro Atlanta to makings where my operations are and also one of the counties you'll have to put in that metro Atlanta you gotta start saying Henry County now Henry County is a big county for uh and it's a big room county for Atlanta i mean it's for everybody i don't want people to be mad at me for saying that but leadership there has switched and it's now mostly led by very smart very capable African-American people now make making his do south of of Atlanta yes sir straight down 75 straight down 75 and that goes all the way down to Miami right um and all the way up to Detroit right yeah um and then savanna which is another another another city another area where um you have a lot of people are calling that's as i'm a shoreline

13:31right that's that's that's east of of Atlanta right and then um uh where's Columbus at Columbus is west so do west do west of Atlanta that's that's where the masters is right the masters is in a gust of the west i guess that correct that's do east that's the east of the west that's kind of southwest okay come on okay take i-20 then you go take 85 south mm-hmm but you can go i gotta take back roads everywhere because i'm usually pulling a trailer so i like all the back roads yeah you see yourself staying in the business forever or are you looking at doing the right thing and and and the hand down um to the family members or other people who might be interested in it in in that particular industry yeah i'd love to do that um part of part of what happens with the business is you hope to one day sell it uh i didn't i don't i don't build it um for it to be stagnant but i i want to sell it i love to sell it to my son um you know there's there's a reason that we sell businesses to our children instead of give it to them

14:36want them to have skin in the game and we want them to appreciate it correct um but yeah i would love to uh build it i'm still working on some things well i want to build out a uh a processing plant further processing plant in the next year or so um and doing things like what i'm coming to the version islands for but these conferences to meet people so that we can so that we can build these things out so that they're ready to be sold now you you've never been to the version islands before this your first visit coming out no no it's my first trip and and what proud i want prompted this so i'm coming to uh say your farms is hosting a livestock and technology conference and i'm coming to speak about uh helping our people set up direct to consumer channels i've i've done well setting up direct to consumer uh markets that's interesting sage our farms has always been uh like a visionary in the agriculture industry don't hear now we have a problem here in the territory where we're importing

15:4097% of what we consume there's something fundamentally wrong with that yes that's one of the things we hope to fix so at least look into finding some some positive outlooks and i think it's i think it's an easy fix well if it's easy well tell the audience why you think it's easy i think it's easy because people want to eat and people need to eat and it's food right next on they just don't know they can buy it yet but we need to eat healthy that's the part that's the most important thing yeah well i mean if you get them from a farm we're just going to think that the the the help is buying it from farms it's healthier so we just need to make sure that we're marketing the correct things like we may be like uh from what a conversation i had people are marketing a name of a cow hungry people don't care they just want to know do you have something they can buy it eat so if you're selling cow stock as breeder stock but 90% of your food is being imported maybe we need to shift that to meat instead of breeder stocks because what we call it

16:45you need you need a terminal animal right now you we don't need to be modeling cows like this is a cow modeling down the runway we need to be butchering cows so we can feed people we we were impacted with with major hurricanes nine years ago right and um of course we're in a political season right now candidates are talking about agriculture one candidate is suggesting a food processing plant a major a major investment um that could not only help the island but actually be a leader in the region what's your take on that absolutely if you're not doing it why that's why it would be important so much food that's one of the things that's the first thing that said was can i visit the processing plant and the farms and they told you we don't have one that would be a small average one yes small average one yeah but well no we're talking the advertor that you're talking about we're the what i'm hearing from this particular candidate and other candidates as well is a real investment we got 25 billion dollars to reinvest in the virgin islands uh as a result of

17:52the storms and and agriculture and economic development is a part of any recovery you can just build back what you had you got built back with a vision and one of the one of the ideas that i heard um and i actually liked it was a significant investment in a food processing plant that will you know allow for a lot of development a lot of processing of foods uh here in the virgin islands uh think about that during the break and then let's talk a little bit about that going forward be back right after this you

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20:56all right back here at analysis and we're talking with we in swanson from the swanson uh from the farms good morning with the swanson let's have you anisho good morning sir good morning how you doing i'm good no no no i'm reading here way to say you got 38,000 farms producing a variety of food commodities in Georgia right and it said Georgia's processors capitalize on an abundance of raw materials Georgia is home to a highly skill affordable workforce exceptional transportation infrastructure and world class technological

22:03resources geared toward promoting the success of the food processing industry um is this the the uh ive league way of saying that um farming as we knew it way back in the day has evolved and technology is now playing a big part in the industry no what that saying is that food production on a massive scale has improved farming for nutrition has not changed you can't get away from the soil putting something in the soil and growing it up that hadn't changed and if that made that sound really good but for what i do for what we're going to talk about um for the conference with sage of farms is we need to go back to being simple we need butchers we need people to learn how to cut carcasses so that we have an outlet even if we have this facility we have to have an outlet for people to learn how to cut the second piece of that is we have to have teach farmers

23:09what their carcass score is what their carcass data is what their carcass yield is and then how to sell that yield so that they can make a profit there's a lot of steps to it's not just as simple as just open up a process and plant um there's some training in some years to go and i hope that i can spark some thought around that with this at this conference no they speak about the strengths of why the the Georgia farming industry uh is as strong as it is uh abundant agricultural assets skilled affordable workers excellent accessibility to market and a business friendly environment all of these components make for a strong agricultural industry is that correct that's correct 100% now skilled affordable workers which is always something that we've had a problem with here in many industries not even not just the agriculture industry um wouldn't that require us to have uh educational component so that they could be skilled uh and and then we could generate enough

24:13revenue so that it could be affordable for them i think in terms of the textbook answer yes but in the real world and economic answer is you got people there that want to eat and you have resources like you got a bunch like y'all center pole you saying korey sheave um y'all have them in abundance cut them tell them and then we'll learn as we move forward but we're not going to wait until we properly educate we get this business running we're going to make this money and we're going to learn why we making the money but sir we'll see i i don't know if i could support that from this perspective if you take something for granted and in this case it would be the educational component what you're doing is you're setting people up who are educated and who know the industry inside out um to always be in control and and and and and monopolize and monopolization of anything is never a good thing so the more people are educated what wouldn't that be better if the more people are educated well let me let me be clear on what education does to certain industry okay go

25:18ahead ahead it slows everything down right because the the people are waiting on a grade on a paper or on a certificate some things you don't really need to be certified i agree with i agree with that part yeah i agree with that if you if you have some cows and there's a place that can cut them cut them sell them and then learn in that process while someone else that may be from your farm is in school and then you marry the two together but you don't wait until the person in school graduates because they're graduating with institutional knowledge they don't have any real world experience you need the real world experience coupled with the institutional knowledge a question from one of my listeners acts acts that the the guess how many of the Georgia farmers are in cooperatives and by this and by and by definition speak of the benefits of agricultural

26:19cooperatives and the negatives if there are any um there's a the one cooperative that i'm aware of and that i used to be a part of is the west Georgia farmers cooperative and i think some i from there will be in in the virgin islands next week with us i'm pretty sure they will also i know a couple others that are going to be there they'll be speaking at the event as well i think that they are great um if you are trying to uh provide a large scale product direct to a a single buyer um the downsize is that is if one of the farms becomes more productive and they are in your leading um in producing whatever you're producing and they decide to go direct to the market or consumer and compete everybody else loses because the big farm is leading away so it's important to make sure that all your farms can produce uh and then they're being paid to scale for what they're producing but the the problem is that somebody gets big and they figure

27:24some things out and then they're going to go direct to that market it's just uh it's unfortunate capitalism that's human behavior let me ask this question um speak to your operation how big it was when you first got into the industry and where are you now yeah when i first got an industry i was doing one cow maybe every six months maybe every six months because it took so long it's so hard to get into the processor because the people didn't know me um now like i'm looking at my board right now uh i'm doing a dozen cows a month looking at a dozen sheep um which i'd do on 24 sheep then sound like a lot until you put it and mix each other over 12 months um so it's a it's a significant operation we're from the Mississippi River up and down the east coast uh i've got a ship of lady to Salt Lake City reaches waiting on the weather to break before to get cooler we're gonna ship her our order um so it's

28:29it's grown uh significantly with my reach and and no disrespect to anybody but every time Trump says something dumb or says something racist he drives more people to black farms and uh he's not good but he's dumb word to help no you well i think you just you answer my question if you are getting one one cow six months you said yeah yeah and now you're at 12 per month yeah that's 72 compared to one i think that's that's that's a that's a no brainer yeah that's two different that's two different universes two very different universes but also keep in mind i failed first almost lost the farm um was dead bro did everything wrong because i was at two the point you made earlier i was only following the education piece up i need to be educated no but but but but in anything you do you still

29:30need that practical component yes it can be it can't it can't i'll be by the letter of the book you know what i'm saying uh you you won't be it's just like any other industry any other industry correct and you're gonna learn how to really do it once you get into the workforce how much how i'm gonna people are employed well if you were doing one every six months that with you alone then there's me and my kid and and now where you at i don't have employees so i worked relationships with other people who have the employees okay where i can manage the business yourself so now my expertise i give my expertise to one person yeah who has a staff and i'm important to them because i'm paying for them the cut product or i'm buying count i'm giving them us uh at least and i'm gonna buy the cows from them um but so that i can manage the business of it so you and i have my personal cows as well yeah but in order to grow you're going to

30:31have to have relationships so you so you transition you transition from day to day into marketing yes that's the only way to to grow this side of the business because if i'm fixing fences every day um you can't do the work yeah wow and i had to get i'd figure out a way to not fix fences but increase my herd size how big is it heard depends um it depends on what's going on uh i would say 400 right now come come come compared to where you compare the where you work 10 years ago uh because you said you had a great you you said you had a great patch we had about 50 cows yeah 50 cows yeah but what i personally owned is under 30 cows what i personally owned mm-hmm my mindset was there are people who don't want to do this they want to do interviews they don't want to deal with the public and i go to them and then we sit down and work out what the

31:34we call husbandry what the practices are going to be here's what my customers want all right i will lease this place from you and i will pay you this for these cows but i'm coming whenever i want to come i'm spot checking i'm gonna do videos and this will be swan's and family farm if you agree to that here um and that's how we built it if i got farmers listening to the show now or even someone who who has uh retired at an early age and is ready to invest in the agriculture industry and they have capital uh on hand in hand what would you suggest to them uh one by land good land not like cut over timber that we got to wait five six years yeah well but i just want you to know before you get to synchrony um yeah we got the most we got the most for fertile land in the Caribbean i know i'm coming to see those centipoles yeah y'all got free money everywhere i've been to defoliage but i thought that storm came through and ripped all that yeah the grass and trees and everything yeah yeah the way y'all grow forward there it's i just

32:39it's free money like i don't want a farm that looks all pristine i want my animals eaten everything weeds what we call weeds here are really herbs so back to your question the other thing i'd invest in is um uh uh processing facility you have then you can't do any of this without processing so so so that's that's a clarion called ultimate government um know that you have because we have capital we have resources we just need to make sure we spend it correctly to get the best bang for the buck so are you suggesting that um we we we we we seriously consider a legitimate investment into a food food processing plant or something of the likes if if what the storms have done to you guys over the last 10 years i don't see i don't think you have a choice not to that's what i'm talking about i think you should be compelled to invest in yourself and in the some talking about and i'm talking real investment i'm talking half a billion billion dollars

33:41like i've got we we got 25 billion uh in in in federal funds to rebuild the territory um so so that's suggest sort of suggestion that i told you about earlier coming from political candidates for real investment that is not paying the sky are you are you validating that today i'm sure i'm validating that and i'm telling you from a logistics standpoint do it on either ends of the island don't make one make two so we could have so you suggest in two two um small well actually no let me tell you how the island is set up no no no no hold on a second let me explain it to you right uh diversion islands we got three main islands right we got St. Thomas and St. John uh over to the north and then we got synchroi to the south synchroi is bigger than both of them combine right and synchroi uh we we we are we have a agriculture industry going back hunters at years

34:47right however on synchroi the majority of our farming is is like new jersey you new jersey is bookend with new york metropolitan new york city to the north and metropolitan for left-foot to the south right and then you got the farmland outside of the suburban suburban areas and in the central part of island same thing exists here on synchroi our farmland the majority of our farm farmland is in is in the center of the island and that doesn't mean that we don't have farmland on the western side or the eastern side of the island because we do more than northern side or the southern side because we've had farms all over the island but the the heavy concentration high density the area for farming is in the central uh central part of the island however you're suggesting if we don't go with a main food processing plant we could go with micro food processing plants um not even micro um but you want to consider that all of this has to be thought of we have to think of the customer yes but we're

35:51we we we we we can move we can move we can move things on island oh I we I always tease my friends and family from St. Thomas and St. John when they come to synchroi they can finally drive some place flat and not have to worry about going up hills and all that stuff so that wouldn't be a problem but it's still it's still a legitimate suggestion where you don't have to necessarily concentrate everything in one area you could build smaller facilities and they could be energy what we're trying yeah what we're trying to build is capacity correct so you're building these soda the farms can grow uh but also so that the customers can get to the product faster so we're going to grow it at the time it takes to grow it but I want the farms to have options so that they're not bottleneck as as soon as you build this thing if you haven't had it if the one is going bottleneck almost meet um because everybody's trying to go in there to get their product and the point that I'm making to you is um this is not Georgia this is not North Carolina or small we can get from one place to the next

36:5415 20 minutes that's the point that I mean yeah um but what I'm telling you to get into it we're talking about getting out of it yeah yeah but that's what I'm saying but I'm saying logistically logistically time is not a concern here in the Virgin Islands quality right is a concern but we're not talking about cars we're talking about product so there's only so many slots to cut animals right correct there's only so many slots so once the coolers are full in one space that's it you're full and they're going to have to stop producing to get their back end coolers empty because they got a run on that's the capacity issue talking about that's the capacity issue so that's why when you go to multiple spots you you you'll have the ability to offset like all right so we're open here on the north we're going to take these we're going to let that kind of thing out then we go to south and that's kind of what I do with my multiple processors is that's it's a hard thing if one freezer

37:55goes down you done no that makes sense so I'm cool I'm cool that we're talking Wayne Swanson from this one's and uh from the farm LLC we'll come back out to this break wrap up the conversation he's going to be here next week uh CJA farm does their October conference every year and that's taking place on next week we'll be back right after this morning

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41:16I'm back here. I'm laser's Rapa Napa conversation with Mr. William Swanson. You going to be here next week, Mr. Swanson? Yes, sir. Give us the details. I think I'm speaking Tuesday. I'll be here Sunday through Thursday. I'm speaking on Tuesday about building direct to consumer channels. And what we do at Swanson Family Farm, I'm going to be talking about some of the mistakes I made that you don't have to make or those farmers don't have to make. And then just some information that hopefully people can glean something from it and make the adjustment to fit their operations. And then there's just a lot of great programs with people from across the diaspora. I'm very excited to get in and learn in some of the breakouts. I don't know. I don't think I'm going to be here for the bush cook, though. I've got to go to New Jersey for one of my aunts passed away.

42:18And I'm in Jersey at the end of the week for the lesson. Condola, condola is just a young and friendly adolescent. Okay, so you get here on Saturday instead of Sunday. Sunday. You get here on Sunday. Make sure you hit the beach at least once. That's in the plant, brother. I'm also like a hobby, an urban talented. So I like reptiles and I got little lizards and stuff that I keep as pets. Okay. So I'm excited to get on the island to see what's what I can see. Okay. You might say a guana or two. You know, if you say, yeah, I'm a look for. I'm learning that way. Well, look, man, it was nice talking to you. Awesome, awesome story. And you speak, you spoke from a practical perspective, learning and hurting early on. And you're in a good position now. But you, but you pay, but you paid your dues. I pay, I'm still paying my dues because everywhere that we, we had to build our own stuff, like like hyper, we need to be on our own. But we have to control some things as essential as food.

43:19We can't rely on other people for that. No, the actual conference is going to be at the farm itself or a UVA, University of Residence. UVA. UVA. Okay. Good. I'll reach out to Dale Brong and the vet. Good. I hope you see it, man. That you have when I see it. Yeah, I actually was a part of that. I had a last year or the year before because I had a second annual belief. Yeah, yeah, I had, I was the prime sponsor for Act 6836, which is a sustainable agriculture industry act. We actually have a 20 year anniversary because that was passed in April of 2026 and signed into line made a year. So, you know, we, not, well, thank you very much, but it came with the, came with the gig, you know what I'm saying? And not, but we got to feed ourselves. And it's not just about feeding ourselves for the sake of feeding ourselves. This healthier is cost efficient and it's more dependable. If you, if you, if you, if you're depending on food product to come from outside the territory,

44:21anything, the pandemic actually proved how critical that is. You know, so, yeah, those are the things that people take to tend for people tend to take for granted. So we need to focus on a little thing so that the big things could pay out for all of us. Thank you very much for joining us and I looking forward to seeing you next week on Ireland. We'll see you next week. At the CJA Farms Conference. Thank you very much. Thank you. Take care. You got it. That's Wayne Swanson from the Swanson family farm located there in Georgia, okay? And they're going to be here next week. CJA Farms. Let me look this up. No, hold on there. Give some input about the CJA Farms Conference. You've had to be told to me, but you know, we're doing the heart of the campaign season. And we're going to find some time for them next week. That's for sure. CJA Farms. Hold on CJA Farms Conference. Another used to do a bush walks.

45:24Remember that bush was the name. That's an ace to be a lot of part of October. Remember one day I was playing out in New York. I actually had to go out early morning at 6 o'clock and then go right over and west your east ear, put the road to happen. I see one flight to get to Puerto Rico to flight to New York. This was in 2016. And it just so happened that when I got on that American flight, the current governor of Puerto Rico, Jennifer Gonzalez was on the flight. So we were reminiscing because 11 years prior to that, we were in the same class at the Eastern Leadership Academy for the Consulate State Government's Eastern Regional Conference. Okay. So the second annual farmer's conference, right, USVI LifeStack Development Workshop series. The dates are October 12th to the 14th. So I believe that's Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The location is the UVI grid hall with events and community focus at CJA Farm, which is

46:269 p.m. State Casabot, Frederick St. Croy. The focus is technology, innovation, livestock, development and producer education for local farmers. Then they got a bush cook, chef cook, week, 10th annual celebration. And that's that that will pick up on the 15th to the 18th. So that's Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Right. What's the today's what? Thursday, right. Thursday, right. Thursday, right. Thursday, right. Thursday, right. So yeah, 15th next week, yeah, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at CJA Farm itself. And the theme is roots, tech and taste. At 12 o' 15th, you got to elementary cook off, free health screenings and community outreach at CJA Farm, right? And then the 16th and 17th, you got main cooking competitions, live music, including reggae

47:31bubble, impact band and how about now and local food showcases and then the 18th, which is the Sunday, you got a six course farm to table dinner at CJA Farm. Right. Conference registration available via CJA Farm, Jot Farm registration or through CJA Farm and event tickets are available via CJA Farm and Event Bright. Okay. So the second annual farmers conference Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, you'll be agreed hall and then from there, you'll find all the enough. So my suggestion, right, to all the candidates and all the incumbents at some point next week, make a visit or two, some type of connectivity to CJA Farm. Okay. You can be talking about agriculture, right? And then talking about feeding the Virginia Islands and worrying about food security and don't embrace what the farmer is trying to do. Don't do that. Okay.

48:31So anyway, Yankee season done. Yankee season, well done. So put on that fire fire that doing that being being what's talking about, right? So, not the corrupts of the rules, version. Put on the top of the events here, version. Right. I take it might be like a man, right? Might be as bad a year done. Only consolation and this for the second year in a row is that we were the ones who ended the red sack season. And then you know, but who who who ain't a rivalry in sports, come match Yankee's on red sack. But I ain't going to be the sad winning championship. So the fire fire going on, the Bronx is burning. Right. And we struggling. Campa B, come up and ended our season. Granal Shang. I hope you're happy, man. Mr. Free agent, fun. Thank you very much. I'll tell you the top.

49:32Thank you very much, man. I'm going to tell you the top, man.

50:35Thank you very much, Slich. Yeah? With Wobee. Like Gustavuring. And then of course that's to say. You got to be here. Meet me, coach. Aminkeʻika. That's how they've taught me. I'm in this season. As you guys, thank you to become a Blueke you would probably be happy to come here in color. Oh gosh. I got a can of chocolate man from the sun. And, egg that white? You had a chocolate on the sun? No, I don't find that food. We have a can of chocolate. Hey. Every time I hate them, they... I don't hit me with my ring of grass.

51:43I believe I just... I believe I listen to the greatest trumpet ever. Whoever I'm playing that trumpet, because that is activity. Yeah. So you know what it is, right? Lisa just text me and say, she asked me if that's my coat or somebody else's. The only consolation is that the Yankees ended the red sacksies. And I got a look for something Lisa. I mean, we couldn't even win a game. I mean, every time they scored, we scored. And then last night we hit a home run. The claim was found interference. So we only got one run instead of two. And nobody else scored after that, 43. So it's over. I'm saying, but, you know, I'm a Yankee fan to the end man. To the end. I'm saying, I'm going to take my blow. Like a man or a first text to me now. She said, you have to remind those who didn't hear Raki's disparaging comment about the co-bell. I'm going to let you have Raki walk her dog back. I like to tease Raki, but that tends to school things in general.

52:43Right? Or those schools, you ask me back, but I love the rhythm, the rhythm, powerful, man. Powerful. As a matter of fact, you know, I like to talk about events. I joke, put on the... Put on low-bode domestic album. That's where I found out. That's why I learned about... Tomi Elevator, of course, that's because the lead singer... The lead singer, Hector Tricucci. Right? And we know him as such a coach. The ampaya and the gym teacher. Come here man. And be choo de mi. Yeah man. Bap, bap, bap. I can't let Yankee lose him. Keep me down man. I can't let him die. I can't let him die. Yeah. Be choo de mi. No, no, no, no. No, no. All the hater was Han. And Ruffus, you hear the Han? That's why I come when I...

53:45I can't let him die. Hector Tricucci, man. Oh, God. I know Rupa's song will hear in the beast man. He liked it. I wonder if every Christian listening is bad. That's when I played the song. That Monday in July is when he fell in love with me. He's the one who has the best of all. Bamushi, back in 68. That's beautiful music. I'm really sorry for the delay. I'm going to stop this. I got a ball. I'm not long. I'm 162 games. I'm going to get a division. I'm going to get a division. I'm the rating is missing.

54:48In pouch, drink and drink. Mmmmhhh. Be changed. I know someone's trying a Y foreign guy. So in a way you're.... Okay, watching in the game I'm definitely not being a wrong neighbour. I've been sauverin was a DJ during the Years candies, beautiful music the suit my brain Lisa thank you very much for feeling my pain you know how it is she's the hostess like that rabbit Yankees fans here alive Here handsome not he Um

55:50here not Understand? Must be fast… I'm going to sing. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you so much, I want to go. Me? You said that Yankees last. That's what I'm about to move on. I'm not a score, I'm a... I've been with a man, never. You're saying good morning, or frank, and I try having a guy know. You'd love this orchestra music. Old blue eyes, don't you? Boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Anyway, great show today. Can you get to join us in our number one, well, actually, me and Dean. So, I'd have to show. Don't forget the Calypso event.

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