#212 – Knute and Amanda Severson – Grass Finishing and Successful Marketing
Knute and Amanda are a fun duo with a unique story! They met while working for the Seattle Seahawks and, after a long journey, found their way back to Knute’s family farm in Iowa. There, they purchased land, built infrastructure, and created a successful meat...
#212 – Knute and Amanda Severson – Grass Finishing and Successful Marketing
Knute and Amanda are a fun duo with a unique story! They met while working for the Seattle Seahawks and, after a long journey, found their way back to Knute’s family farm in Iowa. There, they purchased land, built infrastructure, and created a successful meat marketing business, Grand View Beef!...
#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...
#30 – Blaine Hitzfield – Building a Food Marketing Brand
Podcast Episode #30Episode #30 In part 2 of our conversation with Seven Sons we talk to Blaine Hitzfield, CEO of Distribution for Seven Sons. He goes into depth on the transition from commodity production and marketing farm to a direct, diverse and profitable farm! He...
#29 – Blake Hitzfield – Seven Sons Production
Podcast Episode #29Episode #29 Seven Sons is a farm and food brand from Indiana that has focused on raising and marketing grass finished and pasture based meat products. Today we talk to Blake Hitzfield, Chief Ranching Officer for Seven Sons. He talks about the...
#28 – Doug Ferguson – Profitable Cattle Marketing
Podcast Episode #28Episode #28 Doug Ferguson is a cattle marketing expert, blogger under his blog and contributor to Beef Magazine in his column Dougs Market Intel. He has also built a stocker/backgrounder business of his own in southeast Nebraska. We talk about how...
#27 – Jim Howell – Ranching in Unique Environments
Podcast Episode #27Episode #27 This is our second conversation with Jim Howell, CEO of Grasslands LLC. Check out episode 13 of the Herd Quitter podcast to learn about Jim's story, experience, and how he started Grasslands LLC.Today, however, we dig in deep into three...
#26 – Jon Luhman – My Family’s Regenerative Journey
Podcast Episode #26Episode #26 I might be biased, but this is my favorite episode yet. Every time I talk with my dad about the history of our farm I learn something new! In today's episode, I sit down with my dad and get into the details of how our farm came to be...
#25 – Robert Pulliam – Changing Paradigms
Podcast Episode #25Episode #25 Robert Pulliam has a history of diversified farming in Missouri, beef production in Iowa, 12 years in ministry, and then found himself managing a ranch in the mountains of Western Colorado. After all his experience in agriculture, it was...
#24 – Kit Pharo – Building a Network
Podcast Episode #24Episode #24 Whatever your goals in life, career or business plans, very rarely are we able to accomplish much entirely on our own. Building a network around you of people to bounce ideas off, share work load, and to learn from is essential and Kit...
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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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As some of you know, I rode bulls professionally for eight years. I made a living – but it was a very poor living. Back in those days, a world champion did not earn much more than $20,000 per year. Times have changed. Today’s world champion may win as much as a million dollars during the season – and receive a million dollar bonus at the end of the season. Deanna and I have attended the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Finals since 2018. The last few years, we have...