Max Armstrong talks to a lot of people when he attends a convention, and he learns a lot too. Just coming off the 2017 National Cattlemen's Beef Association annual even in Nashville, he says he nearly talked himself hoarse with all the great conversations he had with people. In particular, today he shares what he learned from Austin Brown III from Texas.

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