(upbeat music) - Welcome to "A Shot of Ag."

I'm your host, Rob Sharkey.

We are live in Nevada, Missouri.

(audience clapping) It's the second show.

They clapped a little louder in the first one, didn't they?

- I'm guessing it's because of the guest.

The first one's better.

- You just got it done eating.

How was the meal?

- Excellent, it was excellent, yes, it was.

- [Rob] They don't know what you ate.

- Pulled pork.

- Yeah.

- Cheesy potatoes, cole slaw.

- Is that a typical Missouri like buffet type of meeting meal?

- I would, yeah, I would say that's, yeah.

- Okay.

- Probably one of the better ones.

- The cheesy potatoes over the mac and cheese?

- Yeah, definitely.

- Okay.

- In my opinion.

- All right, I'm here with food talk.

(audience laughing) Brad Majors, you are an owner of Record Harvest and a sales manager too.

How long you been doing that?

- I've been here since the end of 2004.

- Okay, when did you move into the owner category?

- Last November.

- Oh, so you're a newbie.

- Newbie.

- And the owner.

- Yep.

- Is it more or less headaches?

- About the same.

- Well, shoot, you should have done it earlier then.

- I don't know why we didn't.

- And you are from Nevada?

- Yeah, I was actually born and raised in Walker, but it's close to Nevada.

- I heard you guys had like a sketchy past, like civil war, sketchy past, you had like burned down your town or something?

- Yeah, Nevada.

Yeah, the Bushwhackers, yeah.

I don't know much about it, but.

- They used to be a tag team in wrestling in the eighties, is that what you're talking about?

- No.

- What did they burn down the entire town?

- I guess so.

I don't you really know.

(audience laughing) - Did you go to school in Nevada?

- No.

Walker.

- Well, how far is Walker?

- Six, seven miles.

- Well, then you would think Walker would really be happy to teach the history of burning down the neighboring town?

- They probably did teach it to me, but I just probably wasn't paying attention.

(audience laughing) - All right, Brad, should we do the quiz?

- Let's get started.

- Okay.

- Jared Liles, Jared, where are you at?

- Here.

- Come on.

And Jared, who do you work for?

- Agzaga.com.

- Say what?

- Agzaga.com.

- [Rob] That's a cool name, isn't it?

- It really is.

- He's a tall one.

How tall are you?

- 6'8".

(Rob whistles) - Is that how y'all grown 'em?

Now, where did you grow up?

- Let's give Metz a shout out.

(audience clapping) Metz, Missouri.

- Oh, I thought you said the Mets.

- No, Metz.

- I'm like, that's an odd flex, but here we are.

- Yeah, here we are.

- Okay.

Jared, are you a smart individual?

- Moderately.

- Moderately?

- Yeah.

- You think you're gonna do fairly well on this?

- I probably won't get the three like the last guy.

- Okay, three out of the five questions you have to get right for your table.

Which one are you playing for?

- Third table back.

Got a young couple here from Chinook, Kansas.

- From Kansas?

- Yeah.

- [Rob] Okay, well, we'll talk slower.

(audience laughing) Okay, and it isn't a given that you guys are gonna get the coasters.

These coasters, with the Shark Farmer coasters.

So we need another table, a loud table.

Let us hear you and you'll play.

- Woo.

(audience laughing) - Wow, that, that was bad.

- I don't know who that was, but you win.

(audience laughing) Who was the wooer back there?

Raise your hand.

Oh, there you go.

- Yay.

- Okay.

- Alright.

- Wow.

Let's go Metz.

(audience laughing) All right, Jared, you ready?

- Yes, sir.

- What is the hardest mineral on the planet?

- The last guy got easier stuff?

- And again, your table can help you.

- Let's go Chinook, Kansas.

(audience laughing) - [Rob] This is good TV right here.

- It is excellent TV.

- Yes.

Yeah.

- We're oh for one.

- [Rob] You aren't even gonna guess?

- [Attendee] Carbon and graphite, I don't know.

- Carbon and graphite, I don't know.

I don't remember seeing that one on the periodic table.

- I don't either.

- Now you can supersede him, which gives that table a point.

Or, you can not supersede him and it gives the single wooer a point.

- I think I know the answer.

- Okay.

- I hope.

I'm gonna go with a diamond.

- It is a diamond, yeah.

- But a diamond's an element?

- Huh?

- A diamond's an element?

I thought it was an element.

- It's a mineral.

- Oh, mineral.

- Yeah.

- I screwed up.

- What I like is a table that got the point is complaining.

(audience laughing) That you got it right for 'em.

Okay.

All right, Jared, you ready?

- Yes, sir.

- How many Dollar Generals are in the United States of America?

And I will give you within 2,000.

How many within 2000?

You know, we should have had a talk with Jared about the speed and how, like, not saying anything on TV.

(audience laughing) It doesn't necessarily- - I'm gonna say.

- [Rob] Your table can help you.

The Kansas people can help.

They might have to take off their shoes to count.

- That's Arkansas.

- Do we wanna say like 6,000?

- Higher.

- 16,000?

- Higher.

- 60,000?

- This one's on you, Jared.

- This one's on you.

- 1,000,000?

- 29,000.

- 29,000.

Okay, you have a chance, you wanna supersede that or not?

- I have no idea.

- 29,000.

- So, I'm gonna go with, I guess I'm gonna have to go with his answer.

- Okay.

The single wooer gets the point on this.

18,700, yeah.

- [Brad] Oh.

- You should have gone with your gut.

Yeah.

- 6,000.

Let that be a little lesson.

- 6,000 still wouldn't have won it.

That was his gut.

- I'm trying to make him feel better, all right?

Let that be a lesson about trusting yourself and not trusting random people at tables.

- [Jared] I thank you, thank you for that.

- Okay, so we're one and one.

All right.

Name one of the two mammals that can lay eggs.

(audience laughing) - Please say chicken.

Please say chicken.

(audience laughing) Please say rooster.

(audience laughing) - [Jared] That's not helping.

- I'm so glad we don't have service in this building.

Yeah.

- David, you have anything you'd like to help with here?

- [David] How does a whale come out?

I don't know, man.

- How does a whale out?

- That's not a mammal.

(audience laughing) - Generally out of its mother.

- Not out of an egg.

- It's a whale egg?

- I don't, not out of an egg.

- This PBS spotlight's really hurting.

- You're preaching to the choir, buddy.

(audience laughing) Name one of the two mammals that lay eggs.

They're not in Missouri, I'll give you a hint.

- Man, I'm struggling.

- It's obvious.

(audience laughing) Okay.

- I'm sorry, I don't have an answer.

- That's all right.

It is the echidna or the platypus.

The echidna or the platypus.

- Hey, you didn't ask me.

- I don't really care.

(audience laughing) Sometimes the rules get bent.

Did you know it?

- No, I did not.

- Oh, good.

All right.

So, we've got two and one.

What famous country singer has a birthday today.

We gonna have to get Aaron back up here?

- Reba.

- Reba.

- [Jared] McIntyre.

- Would you like to supersede his answer?

- If I say that's not it, did they win?

- No.

- Because I, oh, I have to actually name 'em.

- You can help.

- Well, I was gonna go- - Go with Dolly.

- Ooh, Dolly?

- It's obviously not Reba.

- He's given the answer, so it's up to you.

- Yeah, I don't know.

I mean.

- We'll just go with Dolly.

- Dolly.

- Okay.

I guess we're making up our own rules now.

- I'll go with Dolly Parton.

- Dolly Parton is correct.

Happy Birthday.

(audience cheering) - [Jared] Oh gosh!

- Yes.

That's my table.

- I think there's some foul play abreast.

- [Jared] I see what you did there.

- You get it?

- Yeah.

- I got it.

- Dolly?

- [Brad] I got it.

- Forgot where in Missouri.

You know, in one of the speeches, I tell a joke where it's a joke about Hillary Clinton and we were, I didn't even think about it, but we were in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and I gave that joke.

Did not go over well.

(audience laughing) Whoo.

- Did they get it?

- They got it.

(audience laughing) Oh, they got it.

They got it.

All right, where are we at?

- Two and two?

- Two and two.

Oh, so this is it.

- This is it.

- Okay.

- No pressure.

- No pressure.

Jared.

- Yep.

You ever heard of 4H?

- Oh, yeah.

- Yeah?

What do the four Hs stand for?

- Head, heart, hands, and health.

- I'm going with that.

- It's you, to Kansas.

I'm sorry.

(audience clapping) - Thank you, Rob.

- Thank you, Jared.

That was underwhelming.

(audience laughing) But he gets to go back to his table, like a conquering hero.

He's 6'8" eight.

Who's gonna make fun of him?

(audience laughing) I'm gonna get my tail whipped at the end of this show.

All right, Brad Majors.

Owner and sales manager there at Record Harvest.

What made you get into Ag?

Were you a farm kid?

- My parents had a few cows, but no, I was not a farm kid.

I always wanted to, my grandparents had a farm, but I never had the opportunity.

And when I moved back, kinda the opportunity arose to work for Record Harvest.

So, that's where it all started.

- Mm-hm.

Your grandparents had a farm?

They also had a International Harvester dealership?

- My great-grandparents did, yep.

- Oh, they did?

- Yeah.

- So, do you remember that when you were a little kid?

- Very, yeah.

Very, I was pretty young.

- Pretty young.

- Seven or eight is when it went away.

- What was your favorite tractor?

Or what is?

- Two plus two is my favorite.

- Oh, okay.

- Yeah.

I don't know why, but it is.

- How many years did they make those atrocities?

- I have no idea, but it wasn't very long.

- If you don't remember, they're the ones that the front turned.

- Yep, instead of the middle.

Yep, in the front.

In front of the window, yep.

- Did you ever run one?

- Yep.

My grandparents had one.

- And you still, was it just nostalgia is why you like it?

- I think that's why I like it.

- Okay.

Do we still have your tractor?

- Yeah, they were under there.

- There's a beer here.

- Yep.

- That's for- - That's for later?

- For the commercial break.

- So, what do we have?

(audience laughing) It's PBS.

- Well.

(audience laughing) Okay.

Then I guess it's for after.

- Yes.

So, what do we have here?

- So, this is a toy I just recently bought.

I collect farm toys, but it reminded me when I was a kid, my grandparents, they would give us or whatever, four of us boys, grandkids, we got one.

So.

- Gotcha.

- It's a little nostalgic.

Yeah, I got.

- Wt is it, your phone is ringing.

- I didn't follow the rules.

I got people that call me all the time.

- Who's Denton Farmer?

Is that your wife?

- That is my daughter, actually.

- Oh, okay.

I'm glad I didn't make a joke.

(audience laughing) Oh, let's see, where were we?

- Yeah, yeah.

- So yes, a lot of nostalgia with the red paint.

- A lot of nostalgia, yep.

- Okay.

Did you go to school, college?

- I did not.

- Okay.

That is, see, I'm a little bit older than you are.

- I I guess I did go for a little bit, but I realized it wasn't for me.

- We're not fact checking here.

- Okay, I just.

- Yeah.

(audience laughing) I did go for just a little bit.

- It was pounded into my head, you gotta get a degree.

So, yeah.

Went off and got a degree.

Never used it.

- Yeah.

- Kids these days, they don't really see it that way.

Have you seen a change?

- Well, I mean, no.

I think kids these days are the same thing.

They go off and get a degree that means nothing and they don't use it.

- Do you think the pressure's on from the older generation like it used to be?

- No, I don't, you mean to get a degree?

- Yeah.

- No, I don't believe so.

I think it's all schools are pushing it and they want, I mean, it's just a money.

- Yeah.

- Money making deal in my opinion.

- Where'd you meet your wife?

- High school.

- [Rob] Oof.

- Actually probably grade school.

High school, yeah.

- Ooh, okay.

- Yeah.

- Did you meet her twice?

(audience laughing) - Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

- When did you start dating?

- In high school.

- Okay, and how long you been married?

- 21 years, I think.

- I don't know.

(audience laughing) - I'm taking my time.

I'm hoping she doesn't watch this.

I think it's 21 years.

- Nobody watches this.

(audience laughing) - I'm pretty sure it's 21.

- 21 years.

- Yes, sir.

- And how many kids?

- Two.

- How old?

- I got a daughter that's 18, she's a senior.

And I got a son that's a freshman's, 15.

- Okay, you look young.

Would you guess he has kids that old?

- [Attendee] No.

- There's a lot of people nodding.

(audience laughing) You say it was a turning point in your life when you met your wife.

- Yep.

- Tell me about that.

- With my story, I never grew up.

(phone dinging) (Brad sighing) That's my day.

(audience laughing) So, I never grew up in the church.

My wife did.

- Mm-hm.

- So when we started dating, when we got into college, I started going and that's kind of, has brought me to the Lord and that's kind of been the turning point in my life.

- So, were you even a Christian?

- I would think, I mean, when I was a kid, my mom would take us and I kind of believed I was, but I just didn't know.

- [Rob] Just going through the motions.

- That's it.

- You went to church because they made you type of thing?

- Yep.

- Yeah.

- And at the time, my wife, she went to the same church.

- I was maybe kind of the same way.

I didn't really, I'd never read the Bible until my wife described to me that it's probably worthwhile to read the Bible.

So, sometimes it's good to meet the wives that maybe don't shove, but give you a nudge.

- That's right.

- Yeah.

- That's right.

- That's what happened with you?

- That is what happened with me.

- Okay.

And that was the turning point, that changed your life?

- That did, it did.

- Well, that's good.

- Yeah.

- I hate when you get stuff like this where I can't make fun of it.

(audience laughing) - I appreciate that.

- Yeah.

- [Brad] I really do.

- What do we have here?

- So, this another thing in my life.

I enjoy the game of basketball.

My daughter gave me this.

She's a senior this year.

She wrote a little note on it for me.

And we've traveled and played basketball her entire life.

- Can I read it?

- You can.

- Okay.

We're gonna take off the PBS tape.

Ah, thank you for instilling my love for this game and teaching me how to almost be as good as you.

- [Audience] Aw.

- [Rob] Love you dad.

And then what's number 23?

What is that?

- That was a nickname I gave her when she was little.

Her name is Madison, but I always called her Mad Pad.

I don't know why.

- I don't know either, Mad Pad.

- I have no idea why.

- That's sweet though.

- She's a good girl.

- Okay.

- Not gonna lie.

- Did you play basketball?

- In high school I did, yes.

- Did you, I mean, did they ever let you on the court?

- They did let me on the court.

(audience laughing) - Yeah.

- That they did do.

- What position?

- Whatever we needed.

- Oh, yeah.

(audience laughing) Follower.

- There were only 12 kids in my class, so we got to play whatever you wanted.

- Yeah, who was your favorite player of all time?

- All time basketball player's Michael Jordan.

- Do we agree?

(audience cheering) Uh-huh, is there anybody team LeBron here?

- No.

- He's kind of a joke.

That's good, kinda makes me happy.

Yeah.

How old were you during the Bull's reign?

- I was born in 1980, so it was 10, probably from 10 years old is when I remember up until he played for the Wizards in 2000s.

- He, who, Jordan did?

- Yeah, he did.

- Oh, I forgot that, he did.

- Yep.

- It wasn't, at that point, he wasn't.

- Yeah, I mean, it wasn't the same.

- Remember when he played baseball?

- I do, I do remember that.

- That didn't go so well either.

- Not, nope, I'm glad he went back.

- Yeah.

Do you know who hunts right in an adjacent property to one of our hunting properties?

- I have no idea.

- Scotty Pippen.

- Really?

- That's right.

- I like Scotty too.

- I've never met him, but hey, it's, now I get to tell a story.

- Yeah.

And a cool one.

- To at least 12 people that are watching this show.

(audience laughing) So the Record Harvest, I mean, that's gotta be pretty cool to move up to where you are actually an owner with it.

- It is, it is.

I'm, yeah.

I'm extremely appreciative of the opportunity that we got to do it.

- Yeah.

- So, yeah.

- What's it mean to you to work with farmers?

- I enjoy it.

I feel like farmers are probably the most down to earth people.

- Mm-hm.

- I mean, I deal with a lot of people, a lot of phone calls during the day.

Sometimes they're not the best phone calls, but sometimes I get to deal with them.

- The stuff you messed up on.

- Maybe.

(audience laughing) I don't wanna admit it.

No, no, I didn't mess up on anything.

- That's the thing about agriculture, especially, I do think we are, as farmers, fairly forgiving when someone says, "Sorry, I literally forgot to place in that order" or whatever.

It happens.

You might see it a different way.

- Oh no, they're extremely forgiving.

I mean, as long as you're honest with them, I think that's the best way.

- Yeah.

- You just be honest with 'em.

- Record Harvest.

I mean, I just kinda got to meet you guys yesterday.

You seem like a very proactive group.

Seems like a very tight group.

Does it feel good to be part of a, what they call a winning team?

- It does, it does.

I'm extremely appreciative of everybody on our team.

I mean, I think from, I think everybody does a great job.

We have a really good team right now.

- Yeah.

And the people call you constantly.

- Constantly, yeah.

All the time.

- You act like you don't like that.

- It's part of it.

- Is it?

- My wife doesn't like it.

- Does she ever say, "Hey, you know, it's time to put away the phone?"

- All the time.

Yeah.

All the time.

- Mine does too.

You know what?

- My wife will do it in the middle of the day when I'm working.

- Oh, yeah.

- She'll be like, "Oh, hey."

- You know what I found works?

- What?

- Is to act like you don't hear 'em.

- The wife or the phone?

- Yeah, no, the wife.

(audience laughing) - Oh, the wife.

Yeah.

- Yeah.

- No, I do that too.

I do that too.

- You do that?

- Yeah.

- It makes 'em mad sometimes, but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

- Yeah.

- Are you gonna drink that?

- At some point, yes, I am.

- I don't think we're supposed to drink on the PBS show.

- So, you're gonna do it?

- Well, I mean, nobody got me one.

Somebody should grab him one.

Maybe the table that won something.

- Yeah, I'd be all right with it.

- I'm looking at the union workers here at PBS.

(audience laughing) (audience cheering) (battle clanking) Oh.

(Rob laughing) - We're good, we're good.

- We're good.

We're fine.

- All good.

- Oh, he says we have five minutes left.

- Fantastic.

- Nobody's gonna get you a, that says a lot.

- I, actually, I'm kinda surprised.

- Yeah, okay.

- I should probably just get up and get my own.

- Will you put your phone on here?

- Well.

- All right.

Okay.

Let's get back to a Record Harvest.

So, I'll give you a chance to give a little bit of a sales pitch because you are talking to a bunch of potential customers here.

- Okay.

- Why should they invest their money in you?

- Good question.

- Darn right.

(audience laughing) - Well, I think we have a great team.

We know our products very well.

- [Rob] Hold up, hold up.

- I'm not gonna do what he just did.

- Thank you.

- You gonna do it again?

(audience laughing) (audience cheering) - I'm not that good.

- [Rob] No.

- We have a great group of people at Record Harvest.

We have a good focus point and I think we got a lot of great products.

- Yeah, I would say, I would say you do too.

You know, I farm, I do exactly what the crowd does, mainly corn, soybeans and that.

And, you know, I have all this stuff on my planner too, and it always works.

I always complain when I write the check for it, but like every spring when I'm done, I'm like, "Oh, I'm so glad I had those shutoffs," or, "I'm so glad I had the down pressure" and all that stuff.

It's hard to sell because upfront it's a big old cost.

- It's extremely big cost.

- How do you do that to a farmer?

(audience laughing) - Okay, all right.

Maybe that, well, that was the beer talking.

- Yeah.

I mean- - How do you convince a farmer that it's gonna be worth it?

- Well, first off, you just kind of look at the ROI and I always look at like, when it comes to planters, that it seems like, at least in our area, the window for planting is just so much smaller than it used to be.

And to get it done quicker and a lot more accurate, I mean, studies are out there, shows the more accurate you can get it done and the faster you can get it done, the better opportunity.

You know, you're setting yourself up for success.

- Yeah.

- And you gotta get started at the beginning.

- The International Harvester Planter.

- Yep.

- Where are they built?

- Storm Lake, Iowa.

- Are you guys a dealer?

- We are, we are.

- They're a heavy built thing.

- They're a well built machine.

Very well built.

- Yes.

Have you had much luck with them compared to it's much larger in business competition?

- Yeah, we actually have, yeah.

I mean they build a good row unit and a good bar.

We've had good luck with them.

- Do you find that farmers are a little wary not to go with the green or the red?

- They are a little hesitant until, you know, like on most all planters, the wear items are all about the same.

There's not much difference.

So, yeah, but once they see it and once they get their eyes on it and their hands on it and look at it, a lot a guys are really liking it.

- But you guys are also using Ag Leader, which goes with all the colors.

- We use Ag Leader and we've got precision planning.

I mean, we got all different types so we can set these planters up with.

- That's gotta be confusing.

Don't you wish there was this like a template, like the other guys have, like the green guys have?

Like, hey, it's all green.

Just go that way.

You guys have to mix and match.

- Yeah, I don't want that.

- You don't want that?

- I don't like, I don't, I mean, I don't like the idea because the problem is, is that we were focused on one thing.

We're good at it.

We don't have to know everything.

So, I like these independent companies.

Precision, Ag Leader, that they can focus on it and they're really good at it.

- Are you guys on social media?

- We are, we are.

- What's your handles?

You don't know, do you?

- No.

Our website is recordharvest.com.

- Okay.

- You know that one.

- I do now.

- I do.

I know that one.

- Okay, but are you like on Facebook, but you don't know what it is?

- We're we're on Facebook, Record Harvest.

- Probably Record Harvest.

- That is correct.

- Twitter?

- We are, Record Harvest on Twitter too.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- TikTok?

- Record Harvest doesn't have a TikTok yet.

- Is it because it's owned by a China company?

- It could be.

(audience laughing) - No, it is.

- It is.

No, I know, I'm just saying it could be the reason why we don't.

- Okay.

- Maybe one day we'll get there.

- Well, I wanna thank you guys for bringing us on here, taking a risk to have our live shows on here.

We wanted to come here, we wanted to bring this show to a different part of the country before it goes on to the Roku channels.

So, we are thrilled that we got a chance to come on here and drink a beer.

- You didn't tell me this was live.

- We've got 20 seconds left.

(audience cheering) - I'm not as good as you.

(audience laughing) - We'll catch everybody next week.

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