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[music] I'm Larry Marble, we're at the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association meeting in Denver, Colorado. I'm with Marty Sis. Marty, where are you from?
I'm from McCook, Nebraska. Tell us about where McCook, Nebraska is.
It's down in the corner, about 28 miles from the Kansas border, and approximately 80 miles
from the Colorado border. So you're right down there in that part of
the state. What's the topography like? It's mainly a lot of irrigated ground. It
goes from valleys to up in the hills where we've got most of the grass. Hard country
grass. It's not the sand hills. Tell us about your operation in that part
of the country. We have 400 cows that my son takes care of
and then we have a backgrounding yard, custom and own part of the cattle.
So within that, how do you use Z Tags? In the Z Tags, every head of feeder cattle
that come into the feedyard receives a lot number on a Z Tag and then a lot of times
on our offspring from our cows we'll tag the calves with the Z Tags.
Now do you use the pre-printed tag or do you use the marker itself?
We use the blank with the marker. Do you have good luck with that?
We have had. The yellow marker, we get good longevity out of it. The cows…we use some
on some of our cows that aren't getting their permanent tag yet. Two, three years down the
road, you're still able to read the numbers. That's right, two, three years down the road,
you're still able to read those numbers, and two or three years down the road, that original
tag is still in that ear. We're going to get a quick lesson from Marty
Sis from McCook, Nebraska about how he uses Z Tags on his cows in the yard. Marty, let's
take this one right here. Now I'm going to pretend this is the cow's ear, and you take
that, set it up… [pause]
He's going to show us how it's done. Here we go.
[pause] We've got it. Stayed in her ear. Remember,
you'll lose that cow before she loses her Z No-Snag Tag. We've been with Marty Sis.
Marty, thanks so much for being on Z TV. Still got the tag!