#197 – Kit Pharo – Unexpected DNA Results
Kit Pharo and the PCC™ team have been sending in DNA on bulls recently and have received some exciting results on both the A2/A2 test and the TENET® Beef test. Listen in to find out what we learned. Don't Miss Next Week's Episode For more information, check us out at...
#197 – Kit Pharo – Unexpected DNA Results
Kit Pharo and the PCC™ team have been sending in DNA on bulls recently and have received some exciting results on both the A2/A2 test and the TENET® Beef test. Listen in to find out what we learned. Don't Miss Next Week's Episode For more information, check us out at RanchingReturns.com. You can...
#42 – Ryan Schmid – The Importance of Bugs
Podcast Episode #42Episode #42 Ryan Schmid is an entomologist at Ecdysis where he researches the importance of insects and the roles they play in our ranch businesses and our grassland ecosystems. He shares some pretty cool data and fun facts and shares...
#41 – Andree and Bianca Soares – Service Based Grazing
Podcast Episode #41Episode #41 Andree and Bianca Soares of Star Creek Land Stewards have built a solid service based grazing business where they manage 7200 sheep and goats in California. They strategically graze in highly populated areas as well as along fire...
#40 – Taylor Collins – Roam Ranch
Podcast Episode #40Episode #40 Taylor Collins has an awesome story of building a national food brand from scratch, selling and then starting a regenerative ranch from scratch in Texas along with his wife Katie. He shares a ton of value that should get anybody excited...
#39 – Cody McDaniel – From Kansas Farmer to Montana Rancher
Podcast Episode #39Episode #39 Cody has a pretty unique story of doing what many would not be willing to do and moving his family farm and ranching business not once, but twice! First ten miles down the road, and second to another state! Hear his journey and...
#38 – Patrick Robinette – How to Become a Price Maker
Podcast Episode #38Episode #38 Patrick Robinette didn't grow up on a farm but when he had the opportunity to move back to his in-laws family farm in North Carolina he took the opportunity. They immediately began the transition from conventional crop farm, to...
#37 – Doug Ferguson – Sell/Buy Marketing Follow-up
Podcast Episode #37Episode #37 After continuing to hear great feedback on the episodes we have based around sell/buy marketing, I had Doug Ferguson come back on for another episode to go more in depth on this business plan. We learn how to talk to your bankers, how to...
#36 – Duke Phillips – Ranchlands
Podcast Episode #36Episode #36 Duke Phillips built a ranch management business managing nearly 300,000 acres across the American West starting with nothing more than a truck and trailer, a few horses and twenty cows. Listen in to hear Duke's fascinating story...
#35 – Brian Munger – 1883 Ranch
Podcast Episode #35Episode #35 Brian Munger, along with his wife and six kids, run a diverse ranching business in Nebraska.They operate their personal low-input, regenerative model cowherd and they manage a ranch and cowherd for a non-operating land and cattle...
#34 – Ryan Usmar – Pharo Cattle Australia
Podcast Episode #34Episode #34 Ryan Usmar manages Furracabad Station in Australia and is part of the start of Pharo Cattle Australia. Listen to hear about their cattle station, their rotational grazing system, and how they brought PCC genetics to Australia. Resources...
#33 – Doug Voss – Not Afraid to Pivot
Podcast Episode #33Episode #33 Over the years Doug transitioned from a high input commodity dairy farm to a low input grazing based operation with a stop as an organic crop farmer in between. Hear how he made those transitions and how his focus has never been on...
#32 – Kit Pharo – Make Ranching Fun Again
Podcast Episode #32Episode 32 Today Kit shares how we can reduce the work required to run a ranch and make it more enjoyable! If a business isn't enjoyable it's not sustainable and there are some very simple changes that we can make to simplify our ranch businesses....
#31 – Ed Bezett – A New (Zealand) Perspective
Podcast Episode #31Episode 31 Ed Bezett came to our farm in 1981 as a foreign exchange student and wasn't afraid to tell my grandpa that he thought there was a better way of running our beef, sheep and cattle operation here in Goodhue, MN. This began a decades long...
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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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After 38 years of private research, Frank Hendrix found a way to DNA test beef animals for superior tenderness. He first took his test to a couple of big-name AI companies because their bulls are in the pedigree of most of the beef animals in America. For over 40 years, the big-name AI companies have been winning the race to increase the growth and the size of our cattle. Frank was surprised that less than 2% of their high-growth bulls tested positive for TENET®....