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March 30, 2025

219: Craig Ference - Thousands of Cows Grazing Corn!

I really enjoyed discussing Craigs operation and perspectives o things from diversification vs. specialization on a large farm and ranch, to land ownership and more. We also discuss his unique cow program which involves grazi...

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March 23, 2025

218: George Walker - From Direct Marketing to Sell/Buy Marketing

George shares his story of starting his own farm when there wasn't room on the family farm. He also discusses why he moved from a direct marketing model to sell/ buy marketing and how that has improved his business and lifest...

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March 16, 2025

217: Doug Marburger - Developing Bulls in Texas

Doug is the developer of all the bulls being sold at the PCC sale in Texas coming up on April 1. He shares his story of not being raised on a ranch and after years of working on other ranches having the opportunity to lease h...

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March 9, 2025

216: Laura Burandt - Stocker Cows

Laura has been a popular past guest back on episodes 122 and 126. Today she comes on again to discuss their stocker cow enterprise. She discusses what it is, the advantages and challenges and why they choose to have that in a...

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March 3, 2025

215: Casey Toews - Adapting Enterprises as Market Demands

Casey and his family at Fishburn Ranch took what was considered very poor land and have turned it around through management. The number of creative ways they are finding success in their operation is incredible. They import c...

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Feb. 24, 2025

214: Steve Schweitzer - Sharing his Ranching Journey

I have known Steve for years but this is the first time hearing his story of shifting his ranching focus from a high production, high input ranching to a more enjoyable and profitable ranch system. Resources Mentioned: PCC Up...

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Feb. 17, 2025

213: Dean Hunt - Ranching in South Dakota

Dean Hunt shares his story of growing the family ranch while working an off farm job. He had an opportunity to expand at a time that he wasn't sure he could handle it but shares how they made it work. He also shares his exper...

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Feb. 10, 2025

212: Knute and Amanda Severson - Grass Finishing and Successful Marke…

Knute and Amanda are fun! They met working for the Seattle Seahawks and through a long journey ended up back at Knutes family farm in Iowa. It's there that they purchased land, built infrastructure and have created a successf...

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Feb. 3, 2025

211: Kit Pharo - Converting to Low Input Ranching

I had a great listener question asking about how to convert from a high input cow/calf herd and operation to a low input operation. Kit and I discuss making that transition, both in management as well as actually converting t...

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Jan. 27, 2025

210: Mitch Dahl - Very Successful First Generation Rancher!

Mitch Dahl is another one of those guys my age making me feel behind the game and I love it! He had the opportunity to take over an existing ranch from retiring ranchers and took it and ran with it. He now owns hundreds of co...

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Jan. 20, 2025

209: Doug Voss - Expanding the Land Base Through Good Management

Since having Doug on last time back on episode 33, he has expanded his land base significantly. We talk about how he has done this on both public and private land. We discuss his experience grazing on a large piece of publicl...

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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. He s...

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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 how they've m...

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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 wide row corn ...

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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 get me absolutely...

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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 shares that it ...

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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 are looking to add somebody t...

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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 th...

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