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Jan. 13, 2025

208: Garth Gatson - Creating Value in Cattle

Garth is intentional with his cattle business, focusing on enterprises where he can add value. Because of this he's found great success and is able to be full time in the cattle business, a feat that many folks dream of. …

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Jan. 6, 2025

207: Sean and Kat Weinert - Quitting the Off Ranch Job

We catch back up with Sean and Kat Weinert, previously on episodes 5 and 44 to discuss life after Sean left the off ranch job. We talk about the challenges that it presented, things that caught him off guard and …

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Dec. 30, 2024

206: Duane Thompson - 1200 Cows Profitably in Canada

Duane and his family run a ranch in Canada. They have figured out how to be successful in a northern environment facing challenges like snow, ice, cold temperatures, short growing seasons, etc. In todays episode we dive into ...

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Dec. 23, 2024

205: Cody Kologi - Switching Enterprises to Find Success

Merry Christmas! I pray God blesses your holiday season. Cody shares his awesome story of taking over his in laws ranch in North Dakota and how he went from struggling to finding improved profitability and an improved lifesty...

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Dec. 16, 2024

204: John Maddux - Cattle Risk Management

In Part 2 with John Maddux we discuss some of the strategies he uses for managing risk in his cow/calf and stocker business. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.pharocattle.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more information on how to put more fun and profit bac...

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Dec. 9, 2024

203: John Maddux - Wall Street to Full Time Rancher

John Maddux shares his families story of aggressively purchases land and expanding their ranching operation over the generations. We dive into his very unique breeding and genetics program, his marketing strategy, low cost wi...

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Dec. 2, 2024

202: Brady Wulf - Wide Row Corn, Cover Crops, Cows and Airbnb's

The title doesn't even cover it all! We talk about a bunch in this episode on Brady Wulfs ranch near Starbuck, MN. We cover the airbnb he has on the ranch, hunting leases and ranch tours. We discuss his no-till …

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Nov. 25, 2024

201: Brandon Mace - First Gen Rancher Started Leasing Cows

I have talked to many first generation ranchers but I'm not sure I've talked with anybody who has started leasing cows. Brandon shares his start and how he transitioned to owning cows by replacing the lease cows with his shar...

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Nov. 18, 2024

200: Greg Brown - From 0 to 450 Cows

To celebrate 200 Episodes I will be giving away 4 new Ranching Returns hats, listen to the podcast intro to hear how to enter to win one. But this conversation with Greg Brown is one of the stories that just …

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Nov. 11, 2024

199: Logan Pribbeno - Cashing out of the Cows

Logan shares his strategy to take advantage of what he believes is a predictable cattle cycle and capture value in his appreciated cow herd. My biggest question has been, how do you continue to generate a profit when the mark...

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Nov. 4, 2024

198: Kyle Marshall - Finding Success in Ranching

Kyle shares his ranching story and I love his willingness to recognize the need to change and actually make a change. So many find it easier to go broke doing what is comfortable than to make a change. He also …

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Oct. 28, 2024

197: Kit Pharo - Unexpected DNA Results

Kit and the PCC team has been sending in some DNA on bulls recently and has had some exciting results on both the A2/A2 test and the Tenet Beef test. Listen in to find out what we learned. If you …

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Oct. 23, 2024

196: Jared Luhman - Ranching Returns Podcast

Welcome to the Ranching Returns Podcast, formerly known as the Herd Quitter Podcast! I've been asked a bunch why the change? Are we leaving Pharo Cattle Company? And to settle all of those concerns I wanted you all to know …

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Oct. 21, 2024

195: Eric Bailey - Heifer Development

Eric was last on episode 178 talking about doubling your stocking rate with stocker cattle for half the time. Today we discuss heifer development programs and how by developing heifers in a certain way you can keep them in th...

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Oct. 14, 2024

194: Jarrod and Becca Creasy - Learning through Challenges and Findin…

Jarrod and Becca share their incredibly inspiring story of loss and financial struggles to what is now a large, diverse, successful and growing business that has a focus on minimal debt! So much to take from this conversation...

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Oct. 7, 2024

193: John Haskell and Wally Olson - Building Wealth with Livestock

This is part 2 of my conversation where John and Wally share how you can build wealth with livestock! As always, check us out at Herd Quitter Podcast on Facebook and Instagram as well as at ⁠www.herdquitterpodcast.com⁠. You c...

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Sept. 30, 2024

192: John Haskell and Wally Olson - Managing in a Downward Market

John and Wally join me today in part 1 of a two part conversation in which we focus today on how to manage your livestock inventory in a downward trending market. Part 2 releasing next week is on building wealth …

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Sept. 23, 2024

191: Austin Troyer - Scaling a First Generation Ranch

Austin and his wife are exactly the type of story that inspire me! What they have done to expand and scale their enterprise is fascinating. They manage thousands of acres and sheep and he drops a ton of value while …

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Sept. 16, 2024

190: David Breune - Swath Grazing Sorghum Sudan Grass

For those who deal with snow and ice in the winter, this episode is for you! David and his team at Iowa State are researching swatch grazing of sorghum sudan grass in the Midwest to feed cows through the winter …

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Sept. 9, 2024

189: John Gutzman - Cow/Calf in Wisconsin

John is running a cow/calf and crop operation in Wisconsin. I really enjoyed this conversation where we discuss the best ways we have found to make cow/calf work in this region with high snowfall and crusty snow. I also just …

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Sept. 2, 2024

188: Greg Christiansen and Travis Hampton Part 2

We carry on with our conversation from last week but focus on their operations. We discuss their soil health practices on crop land, livestock integration on that cropland, and how they graze and expand their sheep and goat e...

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Aug. 26, 2024

187: Greg Christiansen and Travis Hampton Part 1

In this episode we talk to Greg Christiansen and Travis Hampton and discuss how Greg has begun the process of transitioning the operating business of their farm to Travis who is not a family member. We discuss how they found …

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Aug. 19, 2024

186: Levi Kokes - Regenerative Ranching, Carbon Contracts and Virtual…

Levi is new to his Regenerative Ranching Journey, having just taken over the family ranch from his dad and other family members. He shares his experience with that transition as well as the changes he's made to his management...

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Aug. 12, 2024

185: Allan Crockett - Profitable Ranch Business

Allan shares his thoughts managing ranch businesses and finding a balance between finances, time, relationships and purpose. He also shares how to utilize profits from the good days, prepare for down times, investing beyond t...

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