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#232 – Keith Olsen – Low Input Crop and Cattle Farming

#232 – Keith Olsen – Low Input Crop and Cattle Farming

Keith Olsen is passionate about low-input, regenerative agriculture and is exploring both approaches on his own operation in southeast Minnesota. We discuss how he’s working to improve both his land and his bottom line through these enterprises—and much more....

#77 – Kit Pharo – No Excuses

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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...

#69 – Joseph Hubbard – Part 1 – Sheep Production

#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

#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

#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

#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...

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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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Rattlesnakes

We have seen an inordinate number of rattlesnakes around PCC® Headquarters in Eastern Colorado the last four weeks. Tyson and Becky Pharo are finding them out and about on the ranch. Deanna and I are finding them during our evening walks with our dog Chico. Most are in or near fence lines. You will remember that I carry a garden hoe on my morning and evening walks to dig up goathead stickers. That hoe has proven to be a very effective tool when it comes to slaying...

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