Ranching Returns Podcast

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103: Jacob Wolki - The Business of Regenerative Ag Jan 23, 2023

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Jacob Wolki brought a unique business perspective from managing several different retail businesses and dozens of employees before starting his farm in the past few years. Those skills have allowed him to scale a regenerative production model and direct to consumer meat business. He shares all of that along with how he set up a 24/7 self serve store, and much more!

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102: Dave Pratt - Retirement and Succession Jan 16, 2023

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Dave Pratt is past owner of Ranching for Profit and author of my favorite book "The Turnaround: A Ranchers Story". In this weeks podcast he gives us a summary on the RFP definition of true profitability in business and then discusses retirement and succession planning from the perspective of both a young individual working into a farm as well as the exiting generation. The topic of succession is vitally important to the ability of a ranch business to pass from one generation to the next and Dave shares many of the secrets for you to get started working on this in your own businesses.

101: Trevor Burian - Cows to Custom Grazing Jan 09, 2023

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Trevor went to Ranching for Profit in February of 2022 and came home ready to make big changes. By the time summer came around he had sold his cows and was custom grazing cattle for somebody else. We talk about what this has meant for him and his ranch business. We talk about entrepreneurship in rural America, and much more!

Resources Mentioned:

Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown

North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition

Ranching for Profit

The Turnaround: A Ranchers Story - Dave Pratt

How Not to Go Broke Ranching - Walt Davis

The Year Around Grazier - Steve Kenyon

Kick the Hay Habit - Jim Gerrish

100: Allan Savory - Holistic Managagement Jan 02, 2023

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Allan Savory has a lifetime of experience developing what he has termed Holistic Management. He shares in this podcast a brief overview of his history and what the management has the potential to do for our businesses and our world if implemented at scale!

99: Dayton Steelman - Genetic Fly Resistance Dec 26, 2022

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Dayton Steelman is a veterinary entomologist responsible for doing the research around genetic fly resistance. He shares in this podcast how over his decades of experience he made observations on how breed and size of animal impacted fly numbers on cows and shares his journey to figure out the cause.

98: Joe Tomandl - Scaling Regenerative Dairies Dec 19, 2022

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Many dairy farms when considering the opportunities to expand a dairy choose to build larger building and grow more feed to bring to the cows, and scale up on one site through infrastructure and technology. Joe Tomandl looked at the opportunity to expand his dairy farm in a little bit different way. He loved the value that grazing brought to his dairy in soil and ecological benefits, as well as the financial advantages of an animal harvesting their own feed through grazing and he recognized that scaling up on a single site would reduce his ability to graze. So he has scaled through replication of grazing dairy farms in close proximity. Listen to this weeks episode to learn how he did it, the advantages of this model and much more!

Many dairy farms when considering the opportunities to expand a dairy choose to build larger buildings and grow more feed to bring to the cows, and com for more information on how to put more fun and profit back into your ranching business!

97: Nevil Speer - Cattle Market Update Dec 12, 2022

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Nevil Speer writes for Drovers magazine and has experience ranging from cattle production, to business management consulting and cattle market data. He joins me to talk about the factors contributing to the cattle market today, and what we should be doing to prepare for the years to come.

96: Cooper Hibbard - Sieben Livestock Dec 05, 2022

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Cooper Hibbard manages his generational ranch in Adel, Montana and shares how his family through grazing management, changes in their calving season, and genetics have managed to increase ranch production even in one of the worst drought years in their history. We discuss his thought process on early versus late weaning and how they have reduced hay feeding to a couple hundred pounds of hay per animal per year. We also discuss their stewardship of water, wildlife and the people involved in the business in addition to just the land and livestock!

Resources Mentioned:

Man, Cattle, Veld - Johann Zietsman

95: Eunice Williams - Stockmanship and Marketing Nov 28, 2022

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Eunice Williams shares the story of how Bud, through observation, learned how animals respond to humans and developed his principles of stockmanship that are so valuable to reducing stress on animals which results in less health issues and increased profits. She also shares how he came to develop sell/buy marketing which has helped countless producers generate profit in marketing livestock.

94: Lance Gunderson - Building Healthy Soils Nov 21, 2022

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Lance Gunderson is owner of Regen Ag Labs and he joins me to discuss soil health, why it's important to test, which tests to perform, how often and so much more!

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