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Oct. 12, 2025

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 p...

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Oct. 5, 2025

246: Paul, Gavin and Jason - Profitable Cow Production

Paul Landrigan, Gavin Kemp, and Jason Orton join me to discuss how they apply pressure on their cow herds to select the most fertile and low input cows to produce bulls that will improve your cow herds. They discuss heifer de...

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Sept. 28, 2025

245: Tony Munsterteiger - Grazing Farm in Minnesota

Tony is a friend and fellow Minnesotan who is doing an excellent job of developing a cowherd and grazing system to efficiently grass finish beef in central Minnesota in under 24 months. We discuss his genetic selection, grazi...

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Sept. 21, 2025

244: John Locke - Ranching Success

In this conversation, John Locke shares his journey in ranching, detailing his family's legacy and the challenges faced after a significant succession event. He discusses the transformative experience of attending the Ranchin...

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Sept. 14, 2025

243: Ray Archuleta - Soil Health and His Missouri Farm

Ray Archuleta A.K.A. the soil guy has been traveling the country for decades teaching people about soil health! In this episode we discuss soil health and it's importance, and we also discuss his implementation of those princ...

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Sept. 7, 2025

242: Noah Eubanks - Adapted Cows are a Low Input Factory

I love Noah's perspective on buying and breeding cows that may not be as desirable for others but thrive on his ranch and are a low investment but produce acceptable calves with little hassle! He shares this strategy and how ...

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Aug. 31, 2025

241: Henry Burns - Startup Ranch and Virtual Fence

In this conversation, Jared Luhman and Henry Burns discuss the intricacies of ranching, focusing on the use of virtual collars for cattle management. Henry shares his family's ranching history, the challenges faced in South T...

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Aug. 24, 2025

240: Matt Feldhaus - Ranching Sodak

Matt is a first generation rancher in South Dakota. He shares the details of building his ranch, buying and leasing land, growing the cowherd! We also discuss his trials with grazing of standing corn as well as bale grazing f...

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Aug. 17, 2025

239: John Haskell - Trends of Successful Ranchers

John Haskell has an amazing perspective of one who is active in the livestock and ranching world but also works with dozens of other farmers and ranchers regularly. In this podcast we discuss the trends he sees in these opera...

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Aug. 10, 2025

238: Treg Ulmer - Row Crops to Grazing

In this conversation, Treg shares his journey of transitioning from a family legacy in farming to establishing his own sustainable grazing operation. He discusses the challenges he faced, including balancing off-farm work, le...

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Aug. 3, 2025

237: Tim Downing - Building a Multi-Generational Ranch

Tim shares in detail his journey of land acquisitions and trades that led him to the ranch he is on today. He shared the stories and sacrifices he has to make to build a first generation ranch at a scale that can sustain mult...

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July 27, 2025

236: Giovana Benitez - Keeping the Ranch, and Faith!

Wow, this conversation to me was incredibly powerful and inspiring! Giovana and her father faced difficulty that most never would have to losing family and nearly losing the ranch! Through it all she grew in her faith in God ...

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July 20, 2025

235: Seth Pratt - Generational Ranching in Idaho

Seth shares his family's story of building the family business over generations as well as the investments they have made into adding value to their animals by owning them through finish as well as a share in the cooperative ...

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July 13, 2025

234: Rusty Lee - Grazing Grain Milo

Rusty is a University Extension specialist for University of Missouri and also a farmer and rancher with extensive experience grazing grain milo. He shares all the tips and considerations for reducing winter feed costs by gra...

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July 6, 2025

233: Chris and Lyndsey - Solar Grazing

In this episode Jared Luhman speaks with Lyndsey and Chris from Shady Creek Lamb Co., who share their innovative approach to sheep farming through solar grazing. They discuss their backgrounds in agriculture, the challenges o...

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June 29, 2025

232: Keith Olsen - Low Input Crop and Cattle Farming

Keith is passionate about low input regenerative agriculture and is exploring both of those avenues on his own operation in SE Minnesota. We discuss how he's focusing on improving his land and pocketbook in both enterprises a...

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June 22, 2025

231: Sam Fryer - Ranching, Podcasting and Working!

Sam has an awesome story, he shares how he decided to separate himself from the family farm and go out on his own in order to preserve family relationships. We discuss the process of building his operation on his own and also...

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June 15, 2025

230: Jacob Gilley - Enterprise Analysis, Real Estate, and More!

Lots of good stuff in this conversation with Jacob. We discuss his path to farming, his decision to leave the off farm job, the many enterprises he has experience with and spend a while on his record keeping strategy and ente...

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June 8, 2025

229: Ben Minden - Training Cowboys and Buying a Business

Ben is founder and president of Bear Hug Cattle Company which is a non-profit that trains retiring military members on the basics required to work in the cattle industry in the west! And in the second part of the conversation...

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June 1, 2025

228: Drew Bruner - Going All in on Sheep

Drew talks about why in this particular market he chose not to invest in stockers and switch entirely to sheep. He discusses his permanent flock as well as his stocker ewe flock experiment for this year. He shares the main ch...

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May 25, 2025

227: Matthew Menke - Risk vs. Reward, Leverage and Knowing Your Busin…

Matthew shares his incredible story of turning down a dream opportunity to take over a family business because he couldn't do so profitably. He shares how he grew an ag business and eventually got back into farming and ranchi...

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May 18, 2025

226: Randal Breen - From Living in a Shed to Full Time Farmer

Randal shares his incredible story of building a farm. He now operates on over 650 acres and direct markets meat and eggs to local individuals and wholesale accounts! A story that highlights the relationship he has with his c...

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May 11, 2025

225: Alex McKiernan - Car Wrecks Can't Stop This Family!

Alex and his wife have built a diverse farm and ranch business that started with direct to consumer vegetable production through a CSA and has grown to a large ranch that does custom grazing, goat production for weed manageme...

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May 4, 2025

224: Caleb Smith - Switching from Dairy to Sheep

Caleb has a unique story to getting into agriculture, he had the opportunity to take on a 40 year land lease from a non-profit and built a dairy farm from scratch. He shares that story and also how he recently switched from t...

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