the animals are good enough they would get to go through a sale, you’d do a premium. You weren’t giving up your animal, you were getting a reward for your hard work. People in the communities, the bankers, the co-op people, people in the businesses in the communities, they would come—still do to this day and support the kids and give premiums to them. I remember being the recipient of that, and Merrill Burruss of King昀椀sher Bank gave me the 昀椀rst premium, I remember still, at the King昀椀sher County Fair. But you know, those are important things for those kids. It is expensive to take care of the animals, buy the feed, and take care of them. To be able to get something back to buy the next animal or take care of the next animal is an important part of that. So the businesses that support those activities are providing an opportunity for our youth to continue to do things to develop them into the kind of people that are responsible, that will care for animals, that will care for each other, and all those things you learn doing so. I’ve been a big part of 4-H, FFA, at P&K we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars through the years on premium sales for kids in Oklahoma and in Iowa.” Pollard also is a staunched supporter of his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, including making higher education possible for students interested in agriculture. He is a member of the OSU Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Agriculture Hall of Fame. With wife Roxanne, they have a blended family of six children and 11 grandchildren. 31