"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

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LW:Danish?CB: Yeah. So they brought some guys from Canada and they said here’s what we can do and how it’dwork. We’re still… we still use the same guy that we started with in 1990.LW:What guy? On the mainland?CB:Yeah, in Canada.LW:So you were already pasturing in Canada?CB:No, no. He set all that up. Set the whole deal up.LW: Oh. So these guys came from Canada and said you can use the Danish boat to take from Honolulu toCanada…CB:Yeah… from Kawaihae to Canada.LW:Kawaihae to Canada. Ship your calves away…CB: Yeah. and we’ll put them on grass and put them in the feed yard and you can make more money thanif you did it in <strong>Hawaii</strong>.LW:If you sold your calf at the gate in <strong>Hawaii</strong>.CB:And/or…LW:Or cow…CB:Or continued to do the Hawai’i Meat Company thing.
LW:Oh, I see.CB: Then in the meantime City and County of Honolulu, they said that they wanted the site of the packinghouse and the slaughter plant for the bus barn.LW:Oh. So there was municipal money then, to buy up that land or something.CB:Yeah. Condemnation money.LW:Condemnation…CB: That’s what it was. It was sale under threat of condemnation. In the meantime I put together a deal forParker Ranch to buy out the minority stockholders. Now that’s another part of this thing that I learned about.How to do that.LW:When you were at Hawai’i Meat.CB:Hawai’i Meat Company, yeah.LW:And an executive.CB:Yes.LW:Okay.CB:Such as it was.LW: Well, you know that image of selling in the pickup truck and buying the Buick, that’s significant sowe’re…
Page 4 and 5: vacation I’d do his job. So I did
Page 6 and 7: LW:Two different times.CB:Yeah. And
Page 8 and 9: CB: So that’s what Jack was like.
Page 10 and 11: CB: ‘Cause they were there. Well
Page 12 and 13: CB: Mostly there’s four grades of
Page 14 and 15: CB: I went… let’s see… Kauai
Page 16 and 17: LW:Yeah.CB: And all the school kids
Page 18 and 19: CB: I’m just a cowboy, you know,
Page 20 and 21: CB: Robert… Robert was kind of th
Page 22 and 23: LW: Yeah that’s one of the things
Page 25 and 26: CB:Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Or to what
Page 27 and 28: CB: Yeah, yeah. Well you know Rober
Page 29 and 30: cows out of the deal. Didn’t need
Page 31 and 32: CB: No… yeah, he had cattle. But
Page 33 and 34: CB: Any way Bax and I are good frie
Page 35 and 36: CB: The rest of it stayed in Honolu
Page 37 and 38: CB:No, no.LW:Yeah.CB:They thought w
Page 39 and 40: CB: Old Baxter… he’s another bu
Page 41 and 42: CB:Actually that was way before.LW:
Page 43 and 44: LW:But he could do that because he
Page 45: CB:It was a dog eat dog deal, man.L
Page 49 and 50: CB: Yeah. Thank God. Yeah, they dec
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