Ranching Returns Podcast
On the Ranching Returns Podcast we talk to farmers and ranchers who share how they have improved their returns from ranching including extreme profitability, an improvement to their land resources and creating a priceless lifestyle.
286: James Paul Bailey - Cattle Ranching and Chicken Farming
James Paul had a goal of becoming a full time farming! A challenging goal but one he none-the-less accomplished by building chicken houses and contract raising chickens, making hay on non-grazeable land that others didn't value and building a ranching business and raising red angus cattle for Pharo Cattle Company! Lots to learn from James Paul in this episode!
Resourced Mentioned:
Ranching Returns Podcast
Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown
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285: Tyson Langland - Running a Profitable Ranch
Tyson moved back to his family farm and took over the cow/calf operation with the goal of turning it into a profitable enterprise. He changed up grazing management, calving window, cow type and more and has been successful! Listen in to learn how he did it!
Resources Mentioned:
South Dakota Grasslands Coalition
South Dakota Soil Health Coalition
Alderspring Ranch
Ranching Returns Podcast
Ranchenomics
Allan Nation
Ranching For Profit
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284: Brian Munger, Wally Olson, John Haskell - Sell/Buy Q&A
John, Brian and Wally join me to answer your questions on sell/buy marketing! We discuss the cattle square, cost of gain, cow depreciation, intrinsic value and much more!
If you are looking to add somebody to your team to help with your farm or ranch numbers, check out John Haskell and his team at https://www.ranchrightllc.com/.
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283: Nevil Speer - Beef Demand is Real
Nevil joins me for the third time to discuss the industry and beef market! Turns out beef demand is extremely strong and supports even this high market! We discuss what beef producers need to do in these times to strengthen their businesses for whatever the future holds!
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282: Charles Rohla - Silvopasture Explained
If you've ever wondered what silvopasture is, how to establish it, or the many benefits that come from it then this episode is for you! Charles answers all those questions and more!
Resources Mentioned:
Noble Research Institute Classes
Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown
Elaine Ingham
Nicole Masters
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281: Todd Churchill - The Business of Ranching
Todd has an incredible resume including active participation in farming and ranching, building one of the largest meat marketing companies, and serving at fractional CFO's for many food and ag companies! We discuss his story, how accounting is the language of business, perspectives on managing a ranch and more.
Also tune in until the end to listen to Charles from Noble discuss overgrazing and grass management.
Resources Mentioned:
Knowledge Rich Ranching - Allan Nation
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280: Joe Gardiner - Cover Crops for Farm and Ranch Profitability
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Joe Gardiner shares his awesome story of getting into farming and hitting the farming lottery followed by learning the hard way about volatility and unpredictability of the commodity world. He discusses his learning experience in cover crops, regenerative agriculture and building what has become a very successful cover crop company Covers & Co.
Resources Mentioned:
Ranching for Profit
Ranching Returns Podcast
Working Cows Podcast
Ranchenomics
Ranch Right
...
279: Michael Detweiler - Cows and Water Buffalo on a Missouri Ranch
Michael manages a 4000 acre Missouri ranch where they are using cattle and water buffalo along with good grazing management and cover crops to build they rocky soil. We discuss his history coming to manage this ranch as well as him sharing his faith and hope he has in Jesus after losing a son. So much value to gain from Michael!
Resources Mentioned:
Robert E. Lee on Leadership
Ranching Returns Podcast
Working Cows Podcast
High Wire Podcast
Holistic Management
Green Cover Seeds
<...278: Grant Harder - Sell/Buy Marketing Success
Grant shares his story of being a multi generational rancher on his own first generation ranch, starting from scratch and making a living off of his ranch business. We discuss how he grew the business, his focus on stockmanship, high risk cattle and sell/buy marketing!
Resources Mentioned:
Thoughts and Advice from an Old Cattleman - Gordon Hazard
Knowledge Rich Ranching - Alan Nation
Wally Olson and Ranching.FYI sell/buy marketing schools
Ranching for Profit
Stockmanship schools
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277: Hayden and Taylor Sievers - Lifestyle by Design
Hayden and Taylor together are creating the lifestyle they want. We discuss the changes they've made over the years and what they are still working towards. We discuss the their plans of shifting more towards a grazing based farm in row crop country as well as what it takes to be a published author.
Resources mentioned:
authortaylorsievers.com
Sievers Blumen Farm on Youtube
Joanna Penn
The Survival Podcast
Save the Cat Writes a Novel
Wish I'd Known Then
Wild at...
276: Cory and Jennilee Bird - How Virtual Fence Improved Their Ranch
Cory and Jennilee ranch with his family in Montana on a combination of public and deeded land. They discuss their diverse operations, management and talk in depth about their experience using Nofence virtual fence collars to manage a group of cows on tough to fence terrain and how they hope to expand the use of nofence to more cows in the future!
Resources Mentioned:
Nofence
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275: Glenn Elzinga - Building Alderspring Ranch
It's important to not just look at successful ranches when we try to learn how to build a successful ranch, but to look at how they became successful! Today we dive into Glenns story of building Alderspring Ranch from 6 cows on 60 acres to what it is today as one of the pioneers in regenerative ranching!
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274: Jarod Kiggans -Creative Financing as a First Gen Rancher
After 270+ episodes there are not to many episodes where I hear an idea that I have not heard before. But in this episode Jarod shares how he came up with creative financing ideas to get into his first line of equipment, his first cows and his first land purchase! An absolute must listen for anybody interested in building a ranch from scratch! We also discuss his shift in cattle genetics, marketing and everything else that has led him to a successful, profitable first generation ranch!
Resources Mentioned:
Greg Judy Youtube
...
273: Michael Mendel - Finding Success in a Diverse, Multi Family Farm
Michael shares how his family emphasized an early transition of farm ownership to the next generation as well as discuss the many different enterprises they run and how they work together. We discuss his spring and fall cow herd, heifer development and calving enterprise, feedlot, farm and more!
Resources Mentioned:
Cattlecon
Beef SD
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272: Kit Pharo - Kit Addresses Low Input Critics
Kit responds to comments and questions on podcast clips. The following are just a few of the topics we discuss:
- Maternal vs. Terminal Selection
- Applying pressure in heifer development
- What is ideal cow size
- Calving season affect on lifestyle and profit
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271: Dylan Enger - Growing a Family Ranch
Dylan shares how he and his brother came home to ranch with their uncle. They discuss adding enterprises, and maintaining full time off ranch jobs which left more money in the business for reinvestment and expansion!
If you are looking to add somebody to your team to help with your farm or ranch numbers, check out John Haskell and his team at https://www.ranchrightllc.com/.
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270: Tristen Miller - Building Businesses and a Farm
Tristen realized quickly he didn't want to work for anybody else and he along with his wife have been building their own cattle operation while also building several other businesses. He shares his story of how he got into custom spraying, trucking and starting a feed company as well as his farm growth and land ownership journey! I love when people go out and make things happen and Tristen and his wife do just that!
Resources Mentioned:
Ranching Returns Podcast
Working Cows Podcast
Pasture Profits with Stocker Cattle<...
269: PJ Budler - What Makes a Profitable Cow
PJ is a cattle expert who has judged over 100 different cattle breeds in 51 countries! He has seen what well adapted, functionally efficient, fertile cattle look like around the world and we discuss that here today.
Resources Mentioned:
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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268: Dallas Dodson - Building a Profitable Ranch
An investor wanted to buy a ranch and asked Dallas to manage it. His two comments were 1) I don't lose money at anything and 2) If we can't have fun doing it, lets not even start!
Dallas shares in this episode how he took those words and built a ranch that was profitable and enjoyable!
Resources Mentioned:
Ranching for Profit School
Stockman Grass Farmer
Allan Savory and Holistic Managment
Kit Pharo
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267: Tristan Swartz - Doing it Wrong Dairy
You can find Tristan on Facebook either under Tristan Swarts or Doing it Wrong Dairy with combined over 400,000 followers! He's not afraid to do things differently. He shares his story of farming in Missouri, owning a wheat harvest crew, and moving to Wisconsin to start his own dairy!
Resources Mentioned:
Common Sense Livestock Feeding - Michael J. Mehren
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266: Joe Pokay and Hugh Aljoe - Cutting Inputs on 13,500 Acres
Noble Research Institute does more than put together awesome classes on ranch finance, soil health, and grazing management. They actually own and manage 13,500 acres spread across 6 different ranches. Today Joe Pokay and Hugh Aljoe join me from Noble to discuss their experience cutting inputs from their ranch 5 years ago and diving into a low input regenerative and profit focused production model. They discuss the challenges and successes and tips for people interested in doing something similar!
Resources Mentioned:
Noble Research Institute courses
How Not to Go Broke Ranching - Walt...
265: Harry Cope - Missouri Grazing Farm
Harry discusses his farmily farms history, getting through the 80's farm crisis and his decision to shift from row crops to a grazing based operation. We discuss the different enterprises he runs, how he converts endophyte infected fescue to a diverse warm and cool season pasture mix, and much more!
Resources Mentioned:
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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264: Dallas Simmonds - From 40,000 Acres to 0
Dallas built a large successful grain farm in Canada and grew it to over 40,000 acres. He then quit hoping that more time and freedom would help him find peace or fulfillment. It did not. He shares his story of building the farm, building a team, quitting and finding peace after giving up something he loves! Enjoy!
Resources
The Launching Pad - Steve Weatherford
Tony Robbins
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263: Dallas Mount - Succession, Debt, People, Investing
I pulled questions and comments from popular social media clips with tens of thousands of views and brought on Dallas Mount, owner of Executive Link and the Ranching for Profit School to address them. We discuss a wide range of topics from people management, succession planning, analyzing return on investment and much more!
Interested in easy care sheep raised on pasture and crop residue. Reach out to Matthew Grimes at 402-432-5124
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262: Jesse Nelson - Regenerative Crop and Livestock in Idaho
Jesse Nelson shares his story of buying his grandfathers farm in Idaho and discusses the challenges and successes that have come with that journey. They raise organic crops, beef cattle, laying hens and direct market!
Resources Mentioned:
When Weeds Talk
Calibrated Ag
A Better Way to Farm
Soil Works LLC
Man, Cattle, Veld - Johann Zietsman
Jim Gerrish
Carbon Cowboys
261: Dr. Tom Roskos - Farmer and Veterinarian Discusses Animal Health
Dr. Tom is a vet, farmer and preventative health expert for cattle. He shares his thoughts on the difference between expenses and investments when it comes to animal health as well as how he manages his farm while being a vet.
Resources Mentioned:
Ranching Returns Podcast
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
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260: Matthew Grimes - Scaling Low Input Sheep Production
Matthew wanted a scalable enterprise that was consistently profitable. After considering his skill set, interests and opportunities he dove into easy care hair sheep. He has since scaled it to a couple thousand ewes and in this episode we discuss his families history in farming, why he decided on sheep and what he has learned since going down that path. We discuss how he grazes them on cornstalks all winter to keep his feed costs low and much more!
Resources Mentioned:
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Ranching Returns Podcast
<...259: Jamie Hamilton - First Generation Full Time Farmer
Jamie is one of those young farmers proving you still can make a full time living and build wealth as a first generation farmer! He shares his story of growing his business, how he invested his money early on, what he would do different and where he's planning on going in the future! So much to learn from Jamie!
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258: Gabe Brown - Cattle Production Paradigm Shift
Everybody has heard Gabe Browns row crop challenges that led him to shift to regenerative agriculture minimizing inputs and diversifying crop rotations. A story that I hadn't heard but wanted to was the progression of his mindset towards cattle production and his cow herd genetic decisions. We discuss that in detail in todays episode from his Gelbvieh/Angus genetics with winter calving to summer calving and pushing his genetics to match his context. We discuss succession and over-diversification of enterprises and much more!
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257: Ted Miller - 600 Cow Grazing Dairy in Louisiana
Ted is a first generation farmer who started and built a large scale grazing based dairy that allows him to compete in an industry typically dominated by high capital production focused dairy farms. We discuss his start, the decision to get into this model, using virtual fence in a dairy context and so much more.
Resources mentioned:
National Grazing Lands Coalition
Graze Magazine
Ranching for Profit
Grazing Grass Podcast
Business of Agriculture Podcast
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256: Marlene Moore - Fighting to Keep the Ranch
Marlene Moore shares her incredible story of taking over her Grandfathers ranch with little experience and fighting to keep it alive and growing it into a thriving profitable ranch. She discusses the enterprises she started with and changed to and also discusses her current progress towards transitioning the ranch to a non-family heir to keep the legacy moving forward!
Resources Mentioned:
Jesus Calling
Ranching for Profit
Glen Beck
Charlie Munger
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255: Karson Rippstein - Family, Government Leases, Salt and Mineral
Karson ranches with his dad and brother in Utah and we discuss the challenges he deals with working in the mountains on permits as well as his recommendations for successfully partnering with family on a cattle ranch. I learn about how traditional salt/mineral programs are not necessarily the best option, and so much more!
Resources Mentioned:
Man, Cattle, Veld - Johann Zietsmann
Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown
Montana Soil Health Symposium
Soil Health in the West
Ranching Returns Podcast
Grazing...
254: Lawson Harper - Ranching in Australia
Lawson shares his families story of ranching in the land down under! His parents ranch expansion and exit of the industry and his entrance into the industry, working on multiple large cattle operations and beginning his own.
Resources Mentioned:
Greg Judy
Ranching Returns Podcast
KLR Marketing
Grazing for Profit
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253: Caitlin Word - Crossroads of Profitability and Regenerative Management
Caitlin and I discuss ways to improve profitability on the ranch. We discuss impacting it through improving gross margin, and reducing overhead. We discuss regenerative agriculture and how that impacts profitability and so much more!
Resources Mentioned:
Noble Research Institute
Ranching for Profit
Mindset
Tribe
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252: Luke Perman - End of Year Preparations
Luke is owner and operator of Rock Hills Ranch in South Dakota. In this conversation we discuss what he does in the 4th quarter to prepare for the end of the year. We discuss his winter feed planning, financial management and more!
Resources Mentioned:
Outsiders
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251: Brian Munger, Wally Olson, John Haskell - What is Sell/Buy Marketing
In this podcast episode, ranching experts Wally Olson, John Haskell, and Brian Munger to discuss the intricacies of sell-by marketing in the cattle industry. The conversation covers the importance of understanding market dynamics, the risks associated with traditional buying and selling methods, and the practical applications of sell-buy marketing strategies. The guests share insights on valuing livestock, identifying market inefficiencies, and they discuss their innovative sell/buy marketing school.
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250: Nick Bailey - Scaling Direct to Consumer
Nick Bailey of Grand View Farming shares his story of starting and growing their direct to consumer meat marketing business. He shares the marketing strategies, meat production and acquisition methods, inventory management strategies and so much more! You can reach Nick at nick@grandviewfarming.com
Resources Mentioned:
Free to Focus - Michael Hyatt
Launch - Jeff Walker
Farm to Table Legal Defense Fund
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249: Ray Marxer - Insights of a Large Ranch Manager
Ray Marxer managed a large scale ranch running thousands of cows for multiple decades and in this episode we discuss many of his tips for running your farm and ranch like a business.
If you are looking to add somebody to your team to help with your farm or ranch numbers, check out John Haskell and his team at https://www.ranchrightllc.com/.
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248: Derek Schwanebeck - Seasonal Grazing For Improved Lifestyle and Profit
Derek and his wife took over her families ranch and weren't afraid to make changes to improve their ranches profitability and lifestyle. They switched from an owned cow/calf operation to an entirely seasonal custom grazing of fall cows model that come in the spring and leave in the fall. He shares how this improved the profit of the operation as well as the impact it had on their lifestyle.
Resources Mentioned:
Knowledge Rich Ranching
1491
Bible
Ranching for Profit school
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247: Brian, Tyson and Rob - Bull Development and Evaluation
Rob Pierce, Tyson Pharo and Brian Munger join me to discuss what happens when bulls are dropped off at a bull development site in January until the fall bull sales in November. We discuss the grazing, evaluation and culling process!
If you are looking to add somebody to your team to help with your farm or ranch numbers, check out John Haskell and his team at https://www.ranchrightllc.com/.
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