#229 – Ben Minden – Training Cowboys and Buying a Business
Ben Minden is the founder and president of Bear Hug Cattle Company, a non-profit organization that trains retiring military members on the basics required to work in the cattle industry in the West. In the second part of our conversation, Ben shares his unique...
#229 – Ben Minden – Training Cowboys and Buying a Business
Ben Minden is the founder and president of Bear Hug Cattle Company, a non-profit organization that trains retiring military members on the basics required to work in the cattle industry in the West. In the second part of our conversation, Ben shares his unique experience of purchasing a...
#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...
#68 – Kim Maloney – Brylee Farms
Podcast Episode #68Episode #68 Kim Maloney returned home to her family farm in Quebec, Canada to work as their day-to-day operations manager but also to build a direct marketing enterprise! Over the past 3 years of her time on the farm they have greatly expanded their...
#67 – Riley Shay – Building a Ranch
Podcast Episode #67Episode #67 Riley Shay is a friend of mine and inspires and impresses me whenever I hear his story! From a young age Riley has had an entrepreneurial spirit from trying to start a cow herd with four bottle calves to buying a tractor and starting a...
#66 – Derek Schmitz – Building a Grazing Dairy
Podcast Episode #66Episode #66 Derek started his farming journey immediately after high school when he decided he could learn better through experience and self-study than college. He gained experience working for several farmers, studied books, magazines and YouTube...
#65 – Jared Luhman – Ranching for Profit School
Podcast Episode #65Episode #65 I just got home from my week long trip to Oklahoma attending the Ranching for Profit School. Each night I tried to do a quick update on my day to summarize some of the topics they discuss each day to give you an idea what the school...
#64 – Darrin Drake – Peaceful Pastures Story
Podcast Episode #64Episode #64 In Episode 11, we talked to Jenny Drake. Today we talk to her husband to get more details on their story of moving from Indiana to the mountains of Tennessee and building a large successful grazing based and direct marketing farm there....
#63 – Paul Landrigan – Building a Ranch While Working Full Time
Podcast Episode #63Episode #63 Paul always had a love of cattle from a young age! His father recognized it when Paul could put together cattle family lines in a commercial herd when he was just a kid. However, the opportunity to take over a large family ranch was not...
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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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What A Difference Five Years Makes
Your calves are worth nearly three times more than they were worth just five years ago! See the blue line in the Cattle Range chart below. Because calf prices continue to go off the chart, several lines have been added to the top of this chart since January. On January 11th, the top value on the chart was $320. Last Saturday, the top value was $420. It could very easily be higher next week. Although the high of the last cattle cycle (2014-2015) was well beyond...