#213 – Dean Hunt – Ranching in South Dakota
Dean Hunt shares his story of growing the family ranch while working an off-farm job. He reflects on a pivotal opportunity to expand the ranch, even when he wasn’t sure he could manage it, and explains how they made it work. Dean also discusses his experience using...
#213 – Dean Hunt – Ranching in South Dakota
Dean Hunt shares his story of growing the family ranch while working an off-farm job. He reflects on a pivotal opportunity to expand the ranch, even when he wasn’t sure he could manage it, and explains how they made it work. Dean also discusses his experience using Farmatan to prevent coccidiosis...
#80 – Jordan Thomas – Cattle Reproduction and Profitability
Podcast Episode #80Episode #80 This one was way beyond my level of expertise and I felt like I learned a ton! Jordan talks about how our breeding management and selection of cattle based on breeding windows can drastically increase the profitability of our ranches! He...
#79 – Vannie Collins – Building a Profitable Ranch in 6 Years
Podcast Episode #79Episode #79 Vannie Collins just got started in the ranching business in 2016 and because he had no previous paradigms he had to break, he started immediately down the right path. He attended Ranching for Profit and with what he learned there, along...
#78 – Craig Fischer – Sleepy Bison Acres
Podcast Episode #78Episode #78 Craig Fischer and his family have a long history in agriculture in South Central Minnesota. They have a background in crop and dairy production, but chose a different route by raising pastured hogs, poultry and bison on their family...
#77 – Kit Pharo – No Excuses
Podcast Episode #77Episode #77 There are plenty of things we can blame for a lack of profitability in our farm operations but at the end of the day it's our decisions that impact whether or not we are profitable, no excuses. Kit and I talk about this idea and how...
#76 – Aaron Bradley – Changing the Food System
Podcast Episode #76Episode #76 Aaron Bradley farms with his wife Nicole in Bostic, North Carolina. We’re talk briefly about grazing operation and discuss in depth his marketing enterprise and how they hope that their brand can be a marketing outlet for other farmers...
#75 – Chase Jones – Custom Grazing
Podcast Episode #75Episode #75 Chase Jones recently had the opportunity to take over his families generational farm in Southwest Wisconsin after his father decided to back out of the farming business. Recognizing the capital requirements of getting into the cow/calf...
#74 – Colter DeVries – Ranch Land Values
Podcast Episode #74Episode #74 Colter DeVries is a ranch broker in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado and is host of the Ranch Investor Podcast. Today we discuss the increasing ranch values over the past several years, who is buying it, and what that means for those of us...
#73 – Doug Ferguson & Wally Olson – Q&A
Podcast Episode #73Episode #73 Doug and Wally are experienced sell/buy marketers as well as educators. They join me in this episode to answer your questions! You can listen to episodes 17 & 18 where I had some initial discussions with Wally Olson and then episodes...
#72 – Dale Strickler – Pasture Can Be Profitable
Podcast Episode #72Episode #72 Dale is a sales agronomist for Green Cover Seeds as well as a speaker, consultant, author and experienced grazier! He shares his experience building a grazing farm and dramatically improving grazing productivity, and profitability as...
#71 – Ben Beichler – Herd Share Dairy Success
Podcast Episode #71Episode #71 Ben Beichler always had a dream of being a farmer, but with no farm to inherit, he set out to build one of his own. After apprenticing with Polyface Farms under Joel Salatin, he bought and built a dairy selling raw milk directly to 1250...
#70 – Joseph Hubbard – Part 2 – Cattle Production, Land Leases, and More
Podcast Episode #70Episode #70 This is the second part of our conversation with Joseph Hubbard. If you haven't, I would highly recommend going back and listening to part 1 before listening to this episode just for context but also because there is a ton of value in...
#69 – Joseph Hubbard – Part 1 – Sheep Production
Podcast Episode #69Episode #69 This week's episode is part one of my two part conversation with Joseph Hubbard of Olsburg, Kansas. Joseph has a large diversified ranch made up of 450 cow/calf pairs, 800+ stockers, and 2000 sheep managed on around 10,000 acres of...
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On this podcast, we talk to farmers and ranchers who are leading the industry in so many ways. We’ll discuss the various returns they get from ranching, including, of course, the significant financial returns, but also returns to their land resources and ultimately the amazing lifestyle. That might be the most important return ranching can offer!
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