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Jan. 31, 2022

52: Jason Salchow - Growing a Successful Custom Grazing Business

Jason Salchow is a custom grazier, bull developer and veterinarian from Missouri. We discuss his shift to custom grazing as a primary enterprise for his farm, how he began developing bulls for PCC, and what that process looks...

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Jan. 24, 2022

51: Jason Rowntree - Grazing is a Carbon Sink

Jason Rowntree is a professor at Michigan State University in their Animal Science Department studying low input beef production and regenerative agriculture. He shares how they have increased production on their grasslands, ...

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Jan. 17, 2022

50: Luke Perman - Rock Hills Ranch

Luke Perman and his family run Rock Hills Ranch in North Central South Dakota. He shares why they have the diversity of enterprises they do, from cow/calf, to stocker to a custom sheep grazing enterprise and how each of those...

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Jan. 10, 2022

49: Louis Martin - Round River Resource Management

Louis Martin knew very young that he wanted to be a ranch manager, and recognized early on that there is a big difference between managing cows, and managing a business than runs cows. He took every opportunity to learn from …

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Jan. 3, 2022

48: Allen Williams - Profitable Ranching and Soil Health

Allen has an incredible resume filled with research, production experience and consulting experience world wide which has given him insight into some of the most successful farm and ranch businesses around the globe. In this ...

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Dec. 27, 2021

47: Nathan "Bub" Daugherty - Hard Work Pays Off

Nathan "Bub" Daugherty and his wife Lakayah have an incredible story of hard work, sacrifice and determination that has resulted in developing a lifestyle that they enjoy! Bub spent years working overtime in a coal mine savin...

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Dec. 20, 2021

46: Pete Bauman - Range and Grassland Management

Pete Bauman has a range of experience working with grasslands but in his role as SDSU Range Field Specialist he works one on one with producers and grassland managers across South Dakota working to improve the grasslands and ...

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Dec. 13, 2021

45: Jared Luhman - Kit Pharo Got Me Fired

This week I am doing a solo episode to discuss how using the philosophies of Kit Pharo and other regenerative ranchers and farmers we transitioned our farm to a position that didn't require to full time people leading to me …

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Dec. 6, 2021

44: Kat Weinert - Building a Ranch and a Family

Kat Weinert along with her husband Sean, interviewed in episode 5, have an incredibly unique story of starting a ranch from scratch. Today, Kat shares her tips and tricks for managing a ranch while raising 4 kids while her hu...

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Nov. 29, 2021

43: Kit Pharo - Competitive Advantage

Everybody wants to have a competitive advantage in this industry, but most think it's not possible, or don't have time to discover some of the competitive advantages that are available to them. Kit shares how having a cost ad...

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Nov. 22, 2021

42: Ryan Schmid - The Importance of Bugs

Ryan Schmid is an entomologist at Ecdysis where he researches the importance of insects and the roles they play in our ranch businesses and our grassland ecosystems. He shares some pretty cool data and fun facts and shares pr...

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Nov. 15, 2021

41: Andree and Bianca Soares - Service Based Grazing

Andree and Bianca Soares of Star Creek Land Stewards have built a solid service based grazing business where they manage 7200 sheep and goats in California. They strategically graze in highly populated areas as well as along ...

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Nov. 8, 2021

40: Taylor Collins - Roam Ranch

Taylor Collins has an awesome story of building a national food brand from scratch, selling and then starting a regenerative ranch from scratch in Texas along with his wife Katie. He shares a ton of value that should get anyb...

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Nov. 1, 2021

39: Cody McDaniel - From Kansas Farmer to Montana Rancher

Cody has a pretty unique story of doing what many would not be willing to do and moving his family farm and ranching business not once, but twice! First ten miles down the road, and second to another state! Hear …

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Oct. 25, 2021

38: Patrick Robinette - How to Become a Price Maker

Patrick Robinette didn't grow up on a farm but when he had the opportunity to move back to his in-laws family farm in North Carolina he took the opportunity. They immediately began the transition from conventional crop farm, ...

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Oct. 18, 2021

37: Doug Ferguson - Sell/Buy Marketing Follow Up

After continuing to hear great feedback on the episodes we have based around sell/buy marketing, I had Doug Ferguson come back on for another episode to go more in depth on this business plan. We learn how to talk to …

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Oct. 11, 2021

36: Duke Phillips - Ranchlands

Duke Phillips built a ranch management business managing nearly 300,000 acres across the American West starting with nothing more than a truck and trailer, a few horses and twenty cows. Listen in to hear Duke's fascinating st...

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Oct. 4, 2021

35: Brian Munger - 1883 Ranch

Brian Munger along with his wife and six kids run a diverse ranching business in Nebraska. They own and operate their own cow herd managed in a low input, regenerative model, they manage a ranch and cowherd for a non-operatin...

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Sept. 27, 2021

34: Ryan Usmar - Pharo Cattle Australia

Ryan Usmar manages Furracabad Station in Australia and is part of the start of Pharo Cattle Australia. Listen to hear about their cattle station, their rotational grazing system, and how they brought PCC genetics to Australia...

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Sept. 20, 2021

33: Doug Voss - Not Afraid to Pivot

Over the years Doug transitioned from a high input commodity dairy farm to a low input grazing based operation with a stop as an organic crop farmer in between. Hear how he made those transitions and how his focus has …

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Sept. 13, 2021

32: Kit Pharo - Make Ranching Fun Again

Today Kit shares how we can reduce the work required to run a ranch and make it more enjoyable! If a business isn't enjoyable it's not sustainable and there are some very simple changes that we can make to simplify …

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Sept. 6, 2021

31: Ed Bezett - A New (Zealand) Perspective

Ed Bezett came to our farm in 1981 as a foreign exchange student and wasn't afraid to tell my grandpa that he thought there was a better way of running our beef, sheep and cattle operation here in Goodhue, MN. …

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Aug. 30, 2021

30: Blaine Hitzfield - Building a Food Marketing Brand

In part 2 of our conversation with Seven Sons we talk to Blaine Hitzfield, CEO of Distribution for Seven Sons. He goes into depth on the transition from commodity production and marketing farm to a direct, diverse and profita...

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Aug. 23, 2021

29: Blake Hitzfield - Seven Sons Production

Seven Sons is a farm and food brand from Indiana that has focused on raising and marketing grass finished and pasture based meat products. Today we talk to Blake Hitzfield, Chief Ranching Officer for Seven Sons. He talks abou...

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