#236 – Giovana Benitez – Keeping the Ranch and Faith!
Wow! This conversation was incredibly powerful and inspiring to me. Giovana and her father faced hardships that most people will never experience, including the loss of family and nearly losing the ranch. Through it all, Giovana grew in her faith in God, and today,...
#236 – Giovana Benitez – Keeping the Ranch and Faith!
Wow! This conversation was incredibly powerful and inspiring to me. Giovana and her father faced hardships that most people will never experience, including the loss of family and nearly losing the ranch. Through it all, Giovana grew in her faith in God, and today, both she and the ranch are...
#81 – Kit Pharo – Diversification
Podcast Episode #81Episode #81 Today we discuss the idea of diversification. Is it truly best to be diversified? Does it help or hurt a business? For more information, check us out at RanchingReturns.com. You can also check out PharoCattle.com for more information on...
#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...
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Fat Bulls
When time allows, I like to glance through bull sale catalogs and advertisements. It doesn’t take long to see that everyone has bulls that are way too fat. Many look like they’re ready for slaughter. Fat is beautiful – or so they think. With enough high-energy feed, you can make even the most mediocre of bulls look pretty good – at least for a while. Allow me to provide a partial list of problems created by overfeeding bulls. Fat bulls fall apart when you take...