Ranching Returns Podcast

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123: Gene Goven - 450% Increase in Forage Production Jun 12, 2023

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Gene Goven is a farmer/rancher in North Dakota who has an incredible story of building soil and profitable ranching in North Dakota. He now leaves more forage behind as residue when rotating than the ranch used to produce when he took it over. Lots of wisdom in this episode.

As always, check us out at Herd Quitter Podcast on Facebook and Instagram as well as at herdquitterpodcast.com. You can also check out Pharocattle.com for more information on how to put more fun and profit back into your ranching business!

122: Laura Burandt - Journey Home to the Ranch Jun 05, 2023

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Laura has a pretty awesome story of education and work experience to getting back to her family ranch in the Texas Panhandle. Today she is running the family ranch with her dad and implementing sell/buy marketing, adapted low input genetics and grazing management to help her ranch become more profitable.

Resources Mentioned:

Healthy Land, Happy Families and Profitable Businesses - Dave Pratt

Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown

For the Love of Land - Jim Howell

The Art and Science of Sheparding - Fred Provenza

Chip Hines

Historical Journals like Lewis and Clark

The Book of Job

121: Logan Duvall - Marketing Regenerative Food May 29, 2023

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Logan Duvall and his family run a privately owned outdoor farmers market where they source and purchase food from local farmers and ranchers and market them to health conscious consumers shopping for high quality regenerative food. In this episode we talk largely about what it takes to market food direct to consumer, we talk about his store and considerations if we want to do the same thing.

120: Hobbs Magaret - Fire and Salt Part 2 May 22, 2023

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I'm joined again by Hobbs Magaret. In our past conversation on episode 110, we left a lot of topics undiscussed and so today we hopped back on a call again to talk about his genetics, grazing management, and more.

119: Greg Judy - Profitable Ranching in Missouri May 15, 2023

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Greg Judy is somebody who has personally impacted me and my farming career through his books and youtube videos! I'm honored to have him on the podcast today to share his journey from struggling to survive ranching to growing his farm as a custom grazier to the many enterprises he runs today!

Resources Mentioned:

Iann Mitchell-Innes

OnPasture

Stockman Grass Farmer

Social Media

118: John Pahlow - Building a Ranch May 08, 2023

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John and his wife have always wanted to run a ranch, and so after years of saving and with a slight push from Covid, they sold their home, equipment from his business and bought a ranch in Oregon. In just two and a half years they have grown their sales tremendously and sell a variety of meat products in a variety of ways off their ranch.

Resources Mentioned:

Joel Salatin

Greg Judy

Herd Quitter Podcast

117: John Haskell - Managerial Accounting May 01, 2023

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John Haskell of Ranch Right LLC walks us through his process of helping farmers record and understand their financial information. This financial information is essential for making informed decisions related to our business and enterprises.

116: Jared Luhman - Expensive Lessons Apr 24, 2023

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A couple weeks ago in my episode with John Haskell and Wally Olson, they reminded me of an expensive learning lesson I had purchasing my first herd of cattle at the high of the market in 2014. I thought I'd embarrass myself a bit here and share some of my early mistakes that turned into valuable lessons in the cattle business.

115: Chris Kerston - Land to Market Apr 17, 2023

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Chris Kerston is CEO of the Land to Market program which is working to create new markets for farmers who are working to improve and regenerate the lands through holistic management. They are actively building relationships with the large players in the food industry and connect farms with ecological outcome verification to those players. Chris explains in this episode the process of getting Ecological Outcome Verification and the work they are doing.

114: Bart Morris - Oxbow Cattle Company Apr 10, 2023

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Bart Morris runs a first generation conception to consumption beef ranch on the edge of Missoula, Montana. We discuss how he built a successful ranch business from scratch in only 9 years. We talk about conservation easements, leasing ranchland, grass efficient cattle genetics, building a brand and marketing business and much more. There is lots to learn from this guest who has been recommended by multiple people!

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