Catching up with Midwest at Omaha

In this lively and unscripted episode of Coffee in the Barn, Dr. Casey Bradley and Morgan Hart take you behind the scenes of the Midwest Swine Nutritionists’ family reunion in Omaha, Nebraska—recorded straight from their Hilton hotel room.

From Hilton skywalk networking to sneezing on sun-soaked skybridges, this episode captures the unfiltered reality of industry events: the good, the exhausting, and the energizing. Casey and Morgan share personal reflections on professional growth, confidence in public speaking, and why choosing the right outfit can change your whole presentation game.

You’ll also hear about travel with toddlers, on-the-road pumping logistics, award ceremonies that honor family support, and—of course—the vital importance of passionate people in ag science.

Whether you're an academic, an ag industry pro, or just here for the real talk, this episode reminds us that community matters more than venue—and that authenticity (and colorful jackets) can go a long way.

☕ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔️ What makes Midwest Animal Science meetings feel like a reunion
✔️ How style, confidence, and "doing your colors" impact public speaking
✔️ The realities of balancing motherhood and ag careers on the road
✔️ The emotional impact of industry layoffs and showing up for others
✔️ Tips on better science communication—especially for microbiome data

🔹 Live from Omaha, hosted by:
Dr. Casey Bradley — Founder of Animistic, Nutritionist, Educator
Morgan Hart — Industry Professional, Swine Enthusiast, Supermom

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Transcript

0:00:00
(Casey Bradley)
Welcome to Coffee in the Barn, where every cup tells a story. With a rotating lineup of hosts, we invite you to join us as we explore the diverse challenges and triumphs of modern life in the heart of agriculture. From the fields to the classroom, from innovators to everyday visionaries, each episode brings a fresh perspective and a new voice.

0:00:36
(Casey Bradley)
So brew yourself a cup of coffee, settle in, and let's uncover the stories that shape our lives, our farms, and our communities. We are live here from Omaha, Nebraska. It's the family reunion for Swine Nutritionists. So we thought with coffee in the barn, why not record a video?

0:01:00
(Casey Bradley)
And we're doing it in Hilton style. This is kind of a theme for Morgan and I, you know, meeting up in our Hilton hotel room. Iowa Pork, Midwest. Yeah, wherever. Now, I would say at Iowa Pork,

0:01:15
(Casey Bradley)
I didn't stay at the Hilton, but you did. But that's okay. But I do like Hiltons as well. But as Morgan said, it's a little bougie hotel.

0:01:24
(Morgan Hart)
It's very nice. Very quiet.

0:01:27
(Casey Bradley)
Great atmosphere. Everybody was happy to be back in Omaha. Nobody was happy to be in Wisconsin last year. Except you. Except me. Except me. Nobody, everyone complained about the airport. Parking. The only issue I had with that was the distance to get to different

0:01:49
(Morgan Hart)
places. Yeah. I mean most, there's a lot of stuff to eat around the Capitol and stuff but it didn't help that it's Madison in March. Yeah. It's kind of cold. I mean it's 60 down here yesterday. The sun was shining. It was great weather. Definitely can't say it wasn't.

0:02:06
(Casey Bradley)
But the great thing about the Hilton is that the bar and the skywalk. Because you can just sit down there and catch everybody coming over and I felt very difficult to talk to everybody. Like some people would say, I wanted to talk you, but you kept talking to other people. And I'm like, if you know me, just interrupt me because I'm literally trying to get around and talk to as many people as possible.

0:02:35
(Morgan Hart)
And there's still people that I haven't been able to talk to. I feel like it's hard though, because there's so many sessions and breaks at different times. And it's like, I feel like you can can even you could even not see anybody. Yeah. Like while you're here. I mean I guess the best hangout to try to grab people is really at the poster session. Mm-hmm. Or afterwards during the socials and when everything's done. But super proud I don't know if this is first, second year or what, but we had coffee all day, except in the afternoons.

0:03:07
(Casey Bradley)
But then we got snacks. They brought out the candy, like sweet stuff.

0:03:11
(Morgan Hart)
Popcorn.

0:03:13
(Casey Bradley)
People were giving away coffee mugs. People were giving away water bottles for it. So yes, I know I could have brought my big mug, but I did not.

0:03:22
(Morgan Hart)
Me either.

0:03:23
(Casey Bradley)
So I didn't drink enough water this week but I didn't drink a lot of beer either so I was wondering. So this is a big trip I mean you've traveled after the baby and being back from maternity leave. I've been on the road for five days. How do you feel about it? 

0:03:46
(Morgan Hart)
I haven't traveled for like two weeks so I knew I was coming but I was gonna have some travel coming up so it's okay. I like to get out of the house. It's nice to have a full night's sleep. No interruptions. Yeah and I'm assuming you still have to

0:04:01
(Casey Bradley)
pump and bring all your gear? Yep. Yep. So how did you juggle that from?

0:04:07
(Morgan Hart)
Convention Center over here. Oh, I just walked back. It's nice the skybridge I just walked back over here when I needed to take care of business and then walked back and

0:04:16
(Morgan Hart)
Got my ice packs off at the front desk and just my fridge is full That's awesome. Yeah, I just use mason jars like the big ones and then I just mix it all together. Hey, somebody was asking me could I take a water sample with a mason jar and I said yes.

0:04:33
(Morgan Hart)
There's a lot you can do with a mason jar.

0:04:36
(Casey Bradley)
They even make adapters to put on them to like water your chickens. It actually came up in conversation this week because I went to order water sample bottles on Amazon because we needed them in a hurry so we had to get them labeled and shipped back out for collection by the end of the week. They wanted $90 for like 20, 30 or 16 ounce bottles from Amazon. Plastic or glass?

0:05:06
(Casey Bradley)
Plastic!

0:05:07
(Casey Bradley)
Wow. And I said, no, no, we're just going to go to the Dollar Tree. Sometimes you have to do that. And I said, luckily I have an assistant now. I didn't have to go to the Dollar Tree. My assistant did, which I normally send my husband to.

0:05:23
(Morgan Hart)
My husband's on kid duty and chicken duty. Yeah, how are the chickens doing? They're good. We're getting nine more in three weeks.

0:05:33
(Casey Bradley)
Cool.

0:05:34
(Morgan Hart)
The kids are excited.

0:05:35
(Morgan Hart)
We have to tell the kid, well, our four year old, that's what we do after work is we go

0:05:40
(Morgan Hart)
go do chores.

0:05:41
(Morgan Hart)
Yeah, because they're at your mom and dad's, right? Yeah. work as we go. Go do chores. Yeah, because they're at your mom and dad's right? Yeah, but we I've made an Adlib feeder that holds a 50 pound bag and then I have just like a jug of water or a five gallon bucket that I've put like little water booze in. So for the most part we just collect eggs and they are very self-sufficient. That's awesome. 

0:06:09
(Casey Bradley)
So well, I think Morgan, I don't know if you mentioned it on a podcast or not, but the Shira Yaditcha colors. I did do my colors. I don't know if I did mention that. Yeah, I was, so, Crystal talked at the World Pork event last year.

0:06:22
(Casey Bradley)
Elevate Women.

0:06:22
(Morgan Hart)
Elevate Women in Ag. And I was like I love this concept I hate picking out my clothes I hate dressing myself besides

0:06:31
(Morgan Hart)
jeans and a sweatshirt I have no style I usually ask my husband if these things match or my four-year-old picks out my clothes.

0:06:39
(Casey Bradley)
I was gonna say, I thought your daughter was better at picking out your clothes than you were. 

0:06:48
(Casey Bradley)
She's good, but she likes the patterns and like bright colors. And I'm sometimes like, that really, I know that that really does not match.

0:06:53
(Morgan Hart)
But yes, I've been toying about doing my colors for the last couple months. Well, probably the last six months. and I just got came back to work had my third baby and I'm just like I'm gonna do this for me and So I ended up doing there's the colors part and then there's like a style part And so I am like, well if I'm gonna do this, I'm just gonna do the whole thing, right? Do the whole thing get the best Get the most I can out of it. So I did the colors part and I'm a autumn

0:07:23
(Morgan Hart)
Is my colors found out that black is not my color dark brown is my color so as I'm sitting here wearing white and black because that's what you get and white is not my color either I'm oyster is oyster it's like an off-white but anyway so I did that and then I did the style part and they looked at your body proportions and where like blazers should hit, where your dresses should hit. Found I'm actually very proportionate and long legged and I was like, I think...

0:07:58
(Morgan Hart)
You're long legged? Apparently. And she's like, I was like, I thought you just, that's like a short torso. And she's like, well, I thought you just that's like a short torso and she's like well It's a nicer way of saying a short torso is saying you have long legs I was like okay, but you are kind of proportionate. I mean you're not overly Well, I learned that your bust in traditional women's clothes the way that they make them is

0:08:24
(Morgan Hart)
Bust measurements are two inches smaller than waist measurements. So like, if you have a 38 bust, if you're in proportion, you would have a 40 inch waist. And that's how they make women's clothes.

0:08:41
(Casey Bradley)
Oh, I didn't know.

0:08:43
(Morgan Hart)
I didn't know. I learned that and I was like, oh. Somebody who sews, I don't know. No stuff doesn't fit me right. I got a full book that had all these different things in it and she gave me like a, I don't, it's kind of like a portal on a website that showed me different styles and things and I don't know. I, there's a lot to grasp around all of it and I went through my entire closet and they give you like a little fan with like 36 different colors that are all in your season and so I went through my entire closet I'd

0:09:15
(Morgan Hart)
say 90% of it like fell within my colors cuz it's just like what I like but there was a handful of things that I've just been holding on to that I just now I have permission to get rid of it. But I also thought it was nice, she was like, bring like five things you like, five things you don't like, and then five questionable items. And so I packed an entire suitcase full of clothes and took them and she was like, this doesn't fit you because it doesn't

0:09:43
(Morgan Hart)
or like doesn't feel right because it doesn't hit you where for your body style the best and so we like went through a bunch of things and yeah it was good. I, to say I enjoyed it well I may have to just give you my uh, but you're not petite so you probably, your arms are probably too long for my jacket my olive green jacket I don't think was in my color family. Olive green is in my

0:10:07
(Casey Bradley)
color family. Because I mean Monday I wore my light pink jacket light blue shirt and everybody's like oh it looks so beautiful blah blah blah. I'm like cool and I get lots of compliments on that outfit. Blue pants, pink jacket and then I wear this today and you're like oh that looks really good that must be your color. Yeah I think it is. So we just want to talk about color and style because obviously it is the year of color. We're starting to see some more people just not wear black at conferences and be more authentic in like how they dress. Yes. So, I was pretty impressed on Monday when I walked over.

0:10:50
(Casey Bradley)
I'm like, I am so glad I picked this pink jacket and blue pants because literally everybody was in black on Monday. And I'm like going, oh, we gotta brighten up. I'm gonna give a shout out because I already sent her a LinkedIn message. I didn't want to interrupt her dinner meeting. She was with friends and they were speaking French,

0:11:10
(Casey Bradley)
which I don't speak French. Aline Remus from Canada. Wow, she had a pink fuchsia jacket and matching lipstick. And you just walked over and I couldn't talk to her because she was having a meeting. And that's how it is here.

0:11:27
(Casey Bradley)
But I was just like, he just brightened this whole space. And like just owning it and being her and her curly hair. And I'm just like, you go girl. I am so impressed. I also got to hang out with my friend Andreas Toloso. He looks sharp in a blue suit.

0:11:48
(Casey Bradley)
I was like, you like this is this is style, right? But I was gonna say, being authentic, but didn't you think some people maybe were a little too casual this year? There was some, yes. There not that not so many jeans. I didn't see a lot. Oh, I saw a couple people in jeans. But, I mean, I would say a majority of the people were all dressed

0:12:13
(Morgan Hart)
up, but I did see some, well now like the sweatpants slacks. I feel like that's a guy style thing now. I don't know, I don't any style so I can't say. I'm learning. I'm learning. I'm getting better. But yeah there was a couple questionable things. Yeah. That yeah. I don't know. I don't know. We just kind of grew up in the West. Like if you're presenting it's a suit. Yeah I did have to look at my pictures last year though and see what I was wearing last year So I didn't wear the same exact thing this year and last year

0:12:51
(Morgan Hart)
I was in black and white and I was like Maybe that's why I didn't have as much confidence while I was giving my presentation and then this year I got a lot of compliments on my presentation and they were like we could just tell that you were being super cheery and you were using your hands and you're being yourself and I was like maybe it's what I was wearing as well. Maybe a full year into now podcasting going to Elevate Women getting your colors like confidence right? Wasn't that the whole point we started this? Yes the whole yes I mean full circle that was one of, when we got hooked up through

0:13:26
(Casey Bradley)
the women's, the food and egg. Yeah, what was that, fall of 23? Yes, fall of, winter of 23. Yeah. And then we started this whole podcast thing, it was just, I wanted to build my confidence

0:13:41
(Casey Bradley)
in public speaking and whatnot. And I know, yeah, all my co-workers were like, holy cow, from like last year to this year, it's uphill. Well, and I think that's what practice makes perfect, right? So my first experience, and I told this, and everybody couldn't believe it.

0:13:59
(Casey Bradley)
So I did an undergrad presentation. And so I was having dinner with Erica from the U of A. She came up for it and she's like, I didn't win, Amy Petrie's group won. But I'm like, you did win because you did it, right? And it's experience and you know, it takes confidence to do it. But I said, I literally was deathly ill my undergrad presentation.

0:14:20
(Casey Bradley)
It used to not be research, so we had to do a literature review and write a paper and then a presentation. It used to not be research, so we had to do a literature review and write a paper and then a presentation. Okay. So I did chromium. Go figure, right? I'm a mineral person back then. Dr. Hill and I did chromium. So I did a presentation on chromium, but I had a fever. I was really sick. My dad and my grandpa came out with me to watch me. They were super proud. I was literally had a fever up there, nervous as heck, and then Dr. Lee Southern was one of the judges and

0:14:51
(Casey Bradley)
he had to ask the questions and they were so hard. I didn't know how to answer them. I didn't feel well and so I used to get the nerves. Even as a professional getting up on the stage, something about presenting at Midwest Animal Science, that it just, that triggered that memory. You know, the first one.

0:15:15
(Morgan Hart)
PTSD.

0:15:16
(Casey Bradley)
Yeah, a little PTSD probably, but it took me a really long time. I think it was when I did the women's symposium That after that it I was fine. I didn't get nervous anymore and then I presented It was last year a couple years ago my friends stuff from South Africa. It was last year last year. Yeah And I like no big deal, even though I didn't do the research and didn't know it 100% and

0:15:45
(Casey Bradley)
it's like, I just came in my own and it's so gratifying when you get there. Because many people say, well, you're on a podcast, what do you mean you're scared to talk in front of people? Just something different. It's like, you can't, I mean, you can judge me, right? But you can't judge me

0:16:11
(Casey Bradley)
Like in person, but man you get up there and give me a hard question or say your results are bullshit

0:16:19
(Morgan Hart)
Something about it. Well, I still get nervous when I'm I I'm a hand talker

0:16:25
(Casey Bradley)
Me too. I would not have done well this year at Midwest because they were all podiums.

0:16:34
(Morgan Hart)
I did. I used my hands even though I was behind the podium. I was using my hands quite a bit. Yeah, but normally you have the option of being behind the podium or having like a lapel mic and a pointer. Yeah, I don't know. I guess I've always been behind the podium. Yeah I'm a walker. You're a hands person I'm a walker cuz I gotta go find that face. Yeah I need to get better at moving. I have a couple I have a presentation in a couple weeks with a bunch of dealers and stuff so we'll see how I it's a lot of me talking for like two days well so it'll be good practice i mean yes that's this is what i also noticed like i'm teaching

0:17:15
(Casey Bradley)
swine lingo again and i have chantelle so it's like a co-led thing and we're able to get the students to ask questions and be involved in the discussion.

0:17:25
(Casey Bradley)
I said, is it because how we formatted it or is it because... Is it virtual too?

0:17:29
(Casey Bradley)
It's virtual.

0:17:30
(Casey Bradley)
Oh, that's hard to get people to even interact on a virtual. But we're sitting here talking and so then they want to ask questions. I go, I wonder, I'm really good at pushing the discussion to get people to want to interact because of podcasting. Because sometimes you get some interviewees that are just hard. Like, you want to pull something out of them.

0:17:59
(Casey Bradley)
Pull it. Research is the same way. It's like, what is that nugget that I want? And I would just say some of these presentations, I'd like to see people get better at pulling what the nugget is out of their research. 

0:18:23
(Morgan Hart)
Yeah, I think I've been, when it comes to at least presenting our data and stuff, there's a lot of presentations that there's a lot of information on the slides and it makes it hard even if you're sitting up front or even in the back to grasp the message from the slide and like understand what's going on. And so at least as my presentation experience has improved over the years, I've tried to just do like four bullet points max and more not complete sentences but just thought points and like high level.

0:19:01
(Morgan Hart)
And you know, sticking to like, here's the key takeaway message from this slide or this graph or whatever. Hit the high points and go into detail as needed type thing. Yeah, I mean, there were some really good presentations and I'm going to be honest, so I did the reporter thing and I recorded like the whole symposium, the Cargill microbiome symposium, because, and reporters used to do this all the time. You can't remember anything people said and I want to, so when we were on the astronaut

0:19:40
(Casey Bradley)
nutrition program, if we put on a symposium, we'd want to try to come out with a white paper of that symposium. Well now since I have the transcripts from everybody, I can come out with a white paper and hopefully, and then you publish that and I think that would be good. So I haven't told Cargill that, so if you're listening, I have a plan, Cargill, you get an email, but I don't know which will come first, the video out or the email out, but you know. But I think, um, I was talking to somebody about it and actually recording that, knowing that I'll get the transcript, allowed me to be a better active listener. Yeah, I'm always, I, I'm a, I'm a writer, I have to write everything down to remember things.

0:20:27
(Morgan Hart)
And that, I mean even through like college, during lectures, I'm sitting there writing things as the professors are going through, even if I have the powerpoints and stuff, you know there's key things that they say that are not on the powerpoints. And I think that I, and back then, by the time I got through my grad school, a lot of our lectures were recorded, so that was really nice, like prepping for tests and stuff, but I would agree with you.

0:20:53
(Morgan Hart)
It's nice being able to go back and listen to things because I definitely don't grasp everything while I'm also trying to write everything down during presentations. And so now my notes, I still took a good page or two notes per presentation, but it was the key things that I, but I could also hear like listening to them because they put up the microbiome graphs, which is a nightmare to try to understand, and then they still did it. I love you microbiome scientists, but you still did it you put 10 graphs up that were these color charts

0:21:28
(Casey Bradley)
Not everybody's got good color eyesight or just good eyesight in general and I'm trying to follow along and I'm like Like I don't care, you know, you lost me So I tried to do better of like what is, what are you trying to say? And I think there's a better way we can actually present microbiome data to the novice or general audience.

0:22:02
(Casey Bradley)
This is really all we need to look at. This is really what this is saying. This was, this treatment was downregulated. This treatment was upregulated. But we have these shades of blue and the shades of red and I'm going, well I can see this is a darker red, this is a darker blue, so there's obviously something going on.

0:22:28
(Casey Bradley)
But I still think we need to go a long ways of... Because the microbiome is so darn important to understand. I don't deny that. And same with gene expression. Like the stuff we're learning, right? The modes of actions.

0:22:44
(Casey Bradley)
But there's got to be a better way for us to present it to people who don't know. And I'm not knocking the presenters because they present it how they know it. But I have to commend Cargill on this one that they did a really good job.

0:23:04
(Casey Bradley)
I was on the planning committee and I was kind of harsh a little bit to say let's not make it too much Cargill-y and I think they were very successful in that. It's a shame that the two people who actually put it together, Caroline and Ishan, Ishan was supposed to present. They were one of the layoffs from Cargill and didn't get to come. We had the same problem with the USDA. And then I heard, so last week, emergency meeting, Crystal Lovink can't come and present in the filio symposium.

0:23:40
(Casey Bradley)
That's on Wednesday. So we're like okay we'll do a recorded one. And then I heard that they were allowed to come or somebody was but one of the ladies even had to pull her abstract. Oh wow. Yeah yesterday one of the USDA presentations I caught yesterday was all recorded. Yeah. Because they couldn't come. And so there's a lot of that I would say with all the layoffs that we've had some of my good friends weren't here. It's

0:24:09
(Casey Bradley)
like it felt like a family reunion but it wasn't because they weren't here. One of my friends is getting her PhD at Iowa State and the soybean board funded some of her research and she's like I'm graduating in two months and defending and she's like I go to the USDA office and like I don't know what I'm gonna get on like who's still here who's in the office like just to get anything done has been a struggle. Yes and I mean it's just a lot of unknowns.

0:24:46
(Casey Bradley)
I feel like the swine market's a little more optimistic feeling this winter than last year, but there's a lot of people nervous. Yeah, and I don't know what's going to happen in the next three months. Some of my friends are like, I'm just glad I have a job. I'm like, that's also sad. Like if you're not happy in your job and you're saying, well, at least I have a job, it's a problem.

0:25:12
(Morgan Hart)
Yeah.

0:25:14
(Casey Bradley)
Right?

0:25:14
(Casey Bradley)
And then you take these people job hunting, they're gonna take the first one they get. Cause I have friends, Jim Smith, Ben Bass. Why they can't get jobs, I don't get it. But I mean, it's difficult. Just want to give a shout out to the young career or early career recipient. Award recipients. Yeah. John DeJong and it was incredible. We love that you brought your family. Yes.

0:25:46
(Morgan Hart)
I was like, perks to your wife, rolling in with all five kids in the double stroller last night. But he helped! I mean, it wasn't just her. He was actually having the older kids with him and stuff. I was like, thank you for showing up that way. It's so important to recognize your award as if I consider you a friend, that your family also had to sacrifice for you to get that award, and your family was part of it. And I think, thank you for showing up the way you did, because yes you could not have been that earlier career success that he has been without a family yeah and a great wife

0:26:31
(Casey Bradley)
behind him yeah yeah the same with me like I couldn't be doing this if it wasn't for my husband because the afternoon news that I got yesterday I was like OMG I'm glad I maybe I was here but I just got a phone call from the library saying that my husband forgot the diaper bag. Did I tell you what I got a phone call from? Yes. My son finally got tired of getting bullied and bullied the bully back and did a little fight club on the playground.

0:27:12
(Casey Bradley)
And we're like, yeah, this is not acceptable, but at the same time we're proud of him. I'm not saying that, but you gotta learn to stand up for yourself every once in a while and I think we take it a little too extreme that we can't have a good throw down on the playground. Something always happens when one of the parents is gone. Something yeah.

0:27:35
(Morgan Hart)
Always happens.

0:27:36
(Morgan Hart)
At least he didn't get sick this year. My father in law traveled a lot like when my husband and his brothers were younger and he would go to China or international and every single time one of the boys would do something end up in the emergency room someone would get sick it would always happen when my father-in-law was out of town that used to be my husband you know I go to Greece and he calls me I'm hurt I

0:27:59
(Casey Bradley)
gotta have surgery and I'm like I was so pissed at him because he just got recovered from like another injury and then he had to have his arm I'm like and he was playing flag football. I just reached out he said that's all happened I just reached out and then my apple bicep tore and I'm like, mm-hmm, just reached out. Just happened, but it did, but. Yeah, I'm in Greece trying to get home, delayed flights.

0:28:32
(Casey Bradley)
It was a disaster, had to spend an extra night in Greece. He's got the baby, he can't barely hold the baby. So yes, things do happen. We control what we can control. So Arthur tomorrow will be, you know, going through the Verox training with me because he'll be home. Jason's like, I'm not letting him watch TV. I'm putting him to work. I'm like, exactly. It's not like two free days off. But what was the most interesting presentation or information that in your mind from the

0:29:09
(Morgan Hart)
week? Well I only got to, that was a really bad question for me. That was a really bad question because it's not the meetings inside the rooms, it's the meetings outside the rooms. I don't know. You only get such, the oral presentations are only 12 minutes 15 minutes long It's a just a small brief snapshot of what's Well, I think I guess the one one presentation that I thought the USDA

0:29:42
(Morgan Hart)
Professor the guy that presented on soybean meal and gene expression and kind of relating it back to like how much soy is just used in processing of eggs and fish and different byproducts and what not and how they're genotyping soybean meal to find the whatever part of soybean meal that expresses and causes allergies as like a soy allergy within humans. They're trying to eliminate the protein or create a soybean meal version that will fit within the human feed world as a, food world, a food world, to help those with soybean allergies

0:30:43
(Morgan Hart)
or soy allergies, soy allergen.

0:30:44
(Casey Bradley)
I think that's cool because someday, you know.

0:30:46
(Morgan Hart)
I don't know, I did a really bad job explaining that, but that's what I grasped from the presentation. You know, if PETA keeps winning, you know, someday it's tofu.

0:30:54
(Morgan Hart)
So...

0:30:56
(Morgan Hart)
I mean, I ask my kids if they want feed. Sometimes it just comes out. I have to remind myself when I work with pets, it's not pet feed, it's pet food. It's not feed, it's food. It means the same thing. It just comes out that way. But, and it's also legally defined as food and technically we're under the food laws, but yet we have a division that's feed and I found out Casey's like a regulatory expert and everybody needs Casey's help and I'm like, yes, I can do this, but do I want to do this? we'll see. I'm not.

0:31:48
(Casey Bradley)
I just hear about our Canadian colleagues who are like, you have those products in the US and we want them in Canada,

0:31:51
(Morgan Hart)
but it takes three to five years to get anything. Yeah, you think it's bad here. Anything in the Canada. Canada's worse. Yes, I mean, we are blessed a little bit bit but we still have our own internal politics and I was really happy because there's quite a few, you know, Canadians here and different

0:32:14
(Casey Bradley)
things.

0:32:15
(Casey Bradley)
I got a little bit of a break from politics this week. I was like, we're just being friends and you know, living our lives and you get on social media or the news, it's like the world is ending. The stock market's crashing. And I got the feeling that we are all, regardless if we were looking for a job or not. We're all in the same boat.

0:32:40
(Casey Bradley)
We're all in the same boat, but we're like, when you get together with people that have the same passion as you, magic happens. And that's all I have to say about animal science meetings because a lot of cool award winners, yeah, we can't go through the whole list and probably pronounce their names properly.

0:33:01
(Casey Bradley)
On some of them, I tried to get to as many awardee talks as I could because I tried to get to as many awarding talks as I could because I wanted to show up for the graduate students, but I didn't. Was not successful in that mission. So it was not because I didn't want to. I just couldn't make it happen. What do you got going on in the coming weeks? I'm coming to Minnesota to do a mixture of poultry training. So I get to do some live nutrition and necropsy work.

0:33:32
(Casey Bradley)
Interesting. Interesting, yes. Casey teaching poultry nutrition, yes. Spring break, a work spring break for me. And yeah, I heard you're going somewhere fun. Yeah, we're going to Florida for spring break.

0:33:49
(Morgan Hart)
We'll be driving 18 hours from Wisconsin to Florida.

0:33:53
(Casey Bradley)
Wow, with three.

0:33:54
(Morgan Hart)
Pray for me.

0:33:55
(Morgan Hart)
I will be praying. Our kids are pretty good. We did like a five hour trip up north a couple weeks ago to kind of do like a little trial run. Are we going to do a stop? Oh yeah, we're going to break it up into two days. We're going to spend the night in a hotel, take the kids swimming.

0:34:12
(Morgan Hart)
They can burn off all their energy. Stop at some parks, you know. I'll just pack all the snacks and maybe watch a couple movies, but I think we'll be okay. I think I'm going to be up north I think I'm gonna be up north more in the next month then down south. My road trip next week. My road trip home and drop my son off and then I'm work out of that area and then peak. So poultry

0:34:39
(Casey Bradley)
meeting coming back to peak. I don't know where else I'm going. I got pet food for him, a couple pet events. Everybody wants me to go to Global Pet Summit in Orlando which I think it's about the same time you're taking a trip the week of the 24th but I said yeah it's spring break I can't be in two places or three places at once. It is so nice I have a team and I'm like going, you mean I don't have to like sacrifice being able to see my family and my customers in the north to go bleed chickens? I'm like

0:35:13
(Casey Bradley)
yes. So I'm getting out of two VeraxARAC sessions in the van. No traveling in the van. Interesting. Yeah, I found out that the BPP. DPP. DPP is in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin this year, so I'm like, now I have to go. Party, that's in May? Party time. We think Midwest Animal Science is party time. That's when I get all my swine nutrition friends from around the world. I've never been to that to that

0:35:44
(Casey Bradley)
conference, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm like now I have to go since it's 45 minutes from my house. One of the best scientific meetings for pigs that I've ever been at. That's what I've heard. I'm looking forward to it. Now yes I did go to Brisbane, Australia. It was a great venue. We're hoping Lake Geneva will be that too. It's gonna be risky in May for perfect weather. Oh, May will be. May should be okay. Yes, but it could be windy, rainy, cold. That's March. You sure? At least in Wisconsin. It's been 60 degrees with 20 mile

0:36:21
(Casey Bradley)
an hour winds. Okay, well. Like I said, I grew up in Michigan on the other side of the lake. And it could either be beautiful or not a nice time. But we're gonna make the best of it. We'll see. It's all about the people.

0:36:39
(Casey Bradley)
It's not about the, yeah. It's not about the venue, it's about the people. So yes, that's what we have going on. So yes, I'll put our next live video together, like physically in person, it'll be at Lake

0:36:55
(Morgan Hart)
Geneva. Probably.

0:36:57
(Casey Bradley)
Maybe in another hotel room. So we'll be a helping. It'll be a different hotel. It'll be warm enough we can be a help. It'll be a different hotel. It'll be warm enough we can do it outside. I recorded it yesterday outside and it was a little chilly. I'm like, I would have done like a 10 minute video with you, but it's cold.

0:37:15
(Morgan Hart)
I'm going in. I would, whenever this is, this is a little optimistic. But whenever it's super sunny or even just to sneeze, I look at the sun. And it was so sunny yesterday. Every single time I walked back and forth from the venue back to the hotel to take care of feeding my baby when I'm traveling. I had sneezed about six times on the skywalk because the sun was just shining.

0:37:47
(Morgan Hart)
Every time I walked past I had to sneeze about six times. It was just chilly where we were sitting because it was shaded, but in the sun it was beautiful. I can't complain. But hey, we gotta let this go. It's breakfast time. It's breakfast time for somebody, but I already ate my Pop-Tarts and my grapefruit. So we're good

0:38:07
(Casey Bradley)
Catch us live from somewhere else in the country In the Midwest. Well Midwest and Whirlpool we got coming up together This spring so it's not that far in between We're rolling. Yeah. Hey and shout out to Morgan for really stepping up. I did tell your boss thank you for letting you be on the podcast. Ernie's pretty easygoing. He's like yeah okay.

0:38:35
(Casey Bradley)
I didn't even ask him. I said I really do appreciate it. We try not to steal her time too much but. We mostly record during my lunch.

0:38:46
(Morgan Hart)
I get my shit done.

0:38:47
(Casey Bradley)
Nah, I don't. But I still think Hubbard and Altec... Another thing I wanted to point out before we go... The pin, The World Without Cows. If you haven't watched that, watch that. I think it's extraordinary that Al tech funded that that video and documentary

0:39:06
(Casey Bradley)
And I think everybody needs to watch it in ag or not. So I do want to thank Hubbard all tech

0:39:13
(Casey Bradley)
for

0:39:15
(Casey Bradley)
Allowing us to have an amazing co-host and friend And we really do appreciate it and we love doing this kind of stuff. So we need to grow our tribe So listen and it warms my heart all of you who have pointed out. I follow you. I'm listening doing a great job No matter what your statistics on social say It's those that will keep driving our content and yet producing stuff

0:39:44
(Casey Bradley)
Till next time that will keep driving our content and producing stuff.

0:39:46
(Morgan Hart)
So. Till next time.