"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

CB:No, no.LW:Yeah.CB:They thought we couldn’t do without them.LW: Guess what, you could. Interesting. Well… cowboy up but I think there’s something about changedmethods in there, too, a little bit. Which is partly what you seem to be saying.CB: And we were putting in a computer feed system, we were putting in a whole different set of… I meanthat feed yard was running without a computer. I mean that’s like… I don’t want to tell you what it’s like but it’spretty archaic.LW:And this is in the ‘80’s.CB:’85… ’86…LW:And that was archaic… at the time.CB:Yeah. Not to have a computer. Every feed yard in the mainland was running by computer. All the…LW:What did the computers do?CB: They’d tell you how much to feed each pen. You’d go read… look how much feed was left in the pen inthe morning. Tell you how much feed to feed this… I mean… before it was the feed truck driver decided howmuch to feed them.LW:And there’s a lot of waste there.CB:A lot of waste… or not enough or… you know…