Gary Porter Quotations

We used to try to get it all done in one deal. But now we approach it more like marketing our grain crop. We don't aim to get 100% locked in at the very top of the market. We try to get some on the way up and some at the top. And then we live with how it averages out. It has served us pretty well.

We're not caught up in rumors. We don't know what the plan is. We'll cross that bridge if it comes. Obviously, his grades are good enough for him to go on to college.

There is further work to be done. We must not and will not allow things to go back to what they were.

I think it's a great way for me to share my gift with other people because I like seeing other people learn something. I like the feeling of how I taught them that. It's a a really rewarding feeling.

We waited to see if the price would come down. In April we got a call from our supplier. The price was $1.36/gal. We thought it would probably go down. So we decided to wait.

We will hope for a shift in the wind and the tide ... but you never know from one day to the next.

Tubby is really good at pulling things together. He's sharp at those things. He sees the big picture. Recruiting is hard. A lot of young men are not honest with coaches. It's a tough job because even the coach does not always know what is going to happen in recruiting. That's why we'll just keep listening to what Tubby says and not pay attention to anything else.

You have to be able to listen to what you're being told and implement that on the court, but we didn't do that.

We had the time and the weather was perfect for it. With everybody talking about prices going up, it seemed like a good move.

There wasn't really that much of a benefit to doing the fall work. Not doing it will help us reduce our fuel use. And we'll also save on labor and on machinery wear and tear.

It seems like you have to make decisions earlier every year. When I first started farming, we wouldn't buy seed until a couple of weeks before planting. Now we find ourselves working on that during the harvest.

I am not going to say no we wouldn't (go to a prep school). It would be up to Michael. We still have not heard one word about that.