Twin Creek Ranch Online Sale

Today's guest is Lauren Frick from Twin Creek Ranch in Kansas. Why don't you go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started in the cattle business, Lauren? My husband and I have a pretty unique story. I grew up in Kansas with my dad running the ranch and raising cattle his whole life. My husband and I met at college and so he moved here from Illinois and we took over the cow herd about three years ago and mainly set out to be a registered herd and get everything to be percentage Simmental. So we're having our second annual bull sale coming up March 7th. What were you both studying? I actually have a degree in meat science and he studied animal science and so we've kind of been all over the country because we went to school in Illinois and then he moved just out to Coda. I moved to Arkansas and then we ended up back here in Kansas. Did you cross paths because of the classes that you were taking were similar? Yes, we cross paths mainly because of livestock judging. We both were on the team at Black Hawk College and then I went on to be on the livestock judging team at Kansas State and so livestock judging brought us together. Livestock judging? Okay, that's another whole subject. What was that experience like? Livestock judging is something that just means a tremendous amount to me because I actually grew up in the city limits in Wichita and I ended up getting involved with that when I started college and it's an experience that I just think every kid should have.