#215 – Casey Toews – Adapting Enterprises as Market Demands
Casey Toews and his family at Fishburn Ranch have transformed what was once considered very poor land through strategic management. The number of creative ways they are finding success in their operation is incredible. They import cattle and feed, custom bale graze in...
#215 – Casey Toews – Adapting Enterprises as Market Demands
Casey Toews and his family at Fishburn Ranch have transformed what was once considered very poor land through strategic management. The number of creative ways they are finding success in their operation is incredible. They import cattle and feed, custom bale graze in the winter, and adapt their...
#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...
#23 – Jim Gerrish – Western vs. Eastern Ranching
Podcast Episode #23Episode #23 In part 2 of our two part conversation with Jim we discuss the differences in environment, and management of grasslands in arid Western environments and Midwest and Eastern high moisture environments. We discuss how every location...
#22 – Jim Gerrish – Kick the Hay Habit
Podcast Episode #22Episode #22 Jim Gerrish is an experienced grazing expert and well known author of Management Intensive Grazing, and Kick the Hay Habit. In part 1 of a 2 episode series we discuss the expense of making hay and how to reduce hay making through...
#21 – August Horstmann – Changing Perspectives
Podcast Episode #21Episode #21 August had his eyes set on building a profitable angus cattle operation operating in the old school way of high inputs and labor. After getting started he quickly realized it wasn't as easy as it seems. A coworker recommended he...
#20 – Wes Eaton – Ranching in the Desert
Podcast Episode #20Episode #20 Wes ranches in the Chihuahua Desert of Southeast New Mexico. Of all the people I have talked to, his environment might be the toughest to run cattle in. It's dry on an average year, and he's currently in the 3rd year of a drought....
#19 – Kit Pharo – Debt in a Ranching Business
Podcast Episode #19Episode #19 Kit and I discuss the role that debt plays in a ranch business. It certainly can have a place to help a business when used wisely. However, Kit believes, and I agree, that it's not a necessity and that freeing yourself from debt...
#18 – Wally Olson – Part 2 – Sell/Buy Marketing
Podcast Episode #18Episode #18 Wally joins us for a second week to discuss the Bud Williams sell/buy livestock marketing concept. We discuss how it is applied to stocker enterprises and cow/calf enterprises. We get more in depth on a few of the things we discussed...
#17 – Wally Olson – Building a Profitable Ranch
Podcast Episode #17Episode #17 Wally Olson says the primary thing an individual needs to be concerned with is profit. In this episode, Wally discusses the many things he has found to help ranches increase profitability. He shares how he implemented them in his...
#16 – Bobby Thoman – First a Businessman, Second a Cowboy
Podcast Episode #16Episode #16 Bobby Thoman's family got out of the cattle business long before he wanted to bring it back, leaving it to him to research and determine the right course of action for his cattle enterprise. He was intentional about selecting a type of...
About the Ranching Returns Podcast
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 a result of an article in our Summer 2025 Newsletter, I received the following email from Dr. Dayton Steelman. I will tell you more about Dr. Steelman after you read his email. I am 86 years old, and it makes me smile when I read that you continue to evaluate and score your bulls for Horn Fly Resistance, along with all of your other selection traits. As you know, our research showed that bulls with Fly Resistance pass those genetics on to their offspring....