On this podcast, we interview farmers and ranchers who aren't afraid to think for themselves and do things a little bit differently. Because of this they have experienced more enjoyable and more profitable businesses.
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186: Levi Kokes - Regenerative Ranching, Carbon Contracts and Virtual Fencing
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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 both in the cropping side and livestock side. Adding cover crops, adjusting calving dates and more! We discuss his use of ca…
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185: Allan Crockett - Profitable Ranch Business
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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 the ranch and much more! Resources mentioned: Extreme Ownership - Jocko E-Myth Revisited Ranching for Profit Wally Olson and D…
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Kit walks through the process the Pharo Cattle Company team uses to evaluate over 1000 bulls every year. He explains the different traits they evaluate, as well as their importance to selecting good low input maternal genetics. Check out Barn2Door at www.barn2door.com/herdquitter and receive a free academy class ($99 value) if you s…
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183: Steve Kenyon - What You Need to Know to Custom Graze on Leased Land
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Steve Kenyon shares what he does about fence, water and corral infrastructure to manage his several thousand acre custom grazing enterprise in Canada. He discusses his unique calculations to determine how much time he can afford to spend on a particular farm and much more! Check out Barn2Door at www.barn2door.com/herdquitter and rec…
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182: Jeremia Markway - Complimentary Grazing Enterprises
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I really liked how Jeremia has matched his enterprise mix to his unique ranch context. Custom cow/calf that allows him to vary his stocking rate to take advantage of spring flush, sheep to utilize grass and graze cover crops on neighbor cropland without damaging the fields and an owned low input cow herd to utilize stockpiled forage. Listen in to s…
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181: John Wagner - Taking Over a Non Family Ranch
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In the last episode Pete Ferrell shares his experience buying back the family ranch and his perspective on passing on the grazing business to somebody not in his family! Today we talk to that somebody, John Wagner and hear his story of taking over the business and his plans for the future! Resources Mentioned: Cowboy in a Corporate World - Ray Marx…
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180: Pete Ferrell - Continuing a Ranch Legacy to Non-Family
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Pete Ferrell shares his story of building his ranch and buying much of his original family ranch back from other family members after it was split up in the past! He shares his decision to move largely to custom grazing. And he also shares why and how he found a non-family member to take over the operating business of 4L Grazing. Lots to learn in t…
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179: Jared Faubus - Building His Own Ranch
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I often wonder if the best route into agriculture might be to get a job with high income that can then be used to reinvest into land and livestock. Jared followed that route and has been buying land and livestock while working full time off the ranch. Resources Mentioned: The Turnaround - Dave Pratt Thoughts and Advice from an Old Cattleman - Gordo…
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178: Eric Bailey - Doubling Down on Stockers
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Eric Bailey shares his experience and research comparing a full season long stocker operation and a doubled stocking rate for half the season. You may be surprised at the results, we discuss them and all the other benefits from this method of doubling the stocking rate. Resources Mentioned: Moneyball - Michael Lewis Check out Barn2Door at w…
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177: Duane Thompson - Crop/Livestock Integration at Scale
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Duane and his family have done an awesome job of integrating livestock and cropland in a way that benefits both. Piling and grazing crop residue keeps cow winter feed costs low, and rotating cropland into pasture has resulted in organic matters up several percent and significantly reduced inputs. We discuss all that as well as his thoughts on famil…
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176: Dr. Trey Patterson - Padlock Ranch
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Dr. Trey Patterson manages the Padlock ranch, a large family owned diversified cattle and farming operation, in Wyoming. He joins me today to talk about their management and marketing strategies, family ranch ownership dynamics and much more! Resources Mentioned: The Advantage If you are looking to add somebody to your team to help with your farm o…
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175: Tony Malmberg - Ranching Success Story
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Tony Malmberg started his ranching career with with enough setbacks to make most quit forever. He faced bankruptcy, the death of his father and divorce. But after being willing to think differently and ranch differently he ultimately had a very successful career in ranching that many would strive for! He shares his story in this conversation and it…
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174: Rory Londer - Bonus Episode with Crack Addict Who Broke Free
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This is the first bonus episode which admittedly has very little to do with grazing, livestock, farming or ranching. Rory Londer shares his story of dealing with addiction, homelessness, prison and more but breaking free and creating a successful business and real estate investments. He was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and has dedicated his …
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173: Steve Kenyon - Custom Grazing on Leased Land
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Steve Kenyon of Greener Pastures Ranching is somebody I've wanted to get on for a while and finally had the opportunity. He's built a business completely around grazing other peoples livestock on nearly 3000 acres of other peoples land! This has resulted in a great lifestyle and a business with low risk and high profit. Resources Mentioned: Ranchin…
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172: Jared Sorensen - Profitable Steward
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Jared Sorensen is a rancher and host of the Profitable Steward Podcast! He shares his story of building a successful ranch discusses all the enterprises they've got experience with including sheep, cows, custom grazing and direct marketing! Resources Mentioned: Ranching For Profit Savory Institute Understanding Ag Nicole Masters Josh Adams Company …
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171: Rylan Crawford - 600 Cow Ranch by 31 Years Old
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Rylan has built a large successful cow/calf operation on his own at only 31 years old! Currently owning over 600 cows and acquiring his own land base while expanding on leased land. He shares his strategies for cattle production and growth and what has lead to him being so successful at such a young age! Resources Mentioned: Man, Cattle, Veld - Joh…
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170: Nic De Castro - Monetizing Recreation on Your Farm or Ranch
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Nic De Castro is the founder of Land Trust which partners with farmers and ranchers to help them stack enterprises and monetize different agricultural experiences or recreation opportunities on your farm and ranch. For many it could offer the opportunity to generate revenue with resources you already have that are not fully being utilized. Check ou…
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169: James Holz - Livestock on Cropland
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James is an Iowa farmer and cattleman discovering ways to integrate feeder and stocker cattle on cropland in unique and profitable ways! We discuss his turning cropland into grass to background stockers, how he uses crop residue as a cattle finishing area, and how he uses cover crops! Lots to learn in this one! Resources Mentioned: Practical Farmer…
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168: Taylor Moyer - Profit First Grazier
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Taylor isn't afraid to sit down and do the numbers, he looks at each enterprise opportunity and does what makes sense not just what everybody else does. This focus has allowed him to find success starting a farm from scratch on North Carolina farm. In this podcast he shares his career in NASCAR and transition to full time farming. Resources Mention…
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167: Adam Ledvina - Generating Profit on Land Others Can't
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If you are a cattle guy, please don't skip past this episode when I mention that todays guest is a goat producer from Iowa. Adam Ledvina shares how goats can be extremely profitable on acres that cattle and even sheep can't fully utilize on steep slopes with overgrown woods, brush and weeds! He explains how he has developed a low input profitable g…
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166: Cal Hardage - Grazing Grass Podcast
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Cal is a fellow grazing podcaster and farmer/rancher from Oklahoma. We discuss his career and how he's shifted to a low input, grazing management focused grass farmer and has found success in doing that! Resources Mentioned: No Risk Ranching - Greg Judy Noble Research Institute Working Cows Podcast Ranching Reboot Herd Quitter Podcast Just a Few Ac…
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165: Noah Taylor - Profitable Cows in the Midwest
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Noah and his family have a diversified farming operation running 180 cow/calf pairs, several hundred hogs for Niman Ranch, feedlot beef and crops. They do a great job integrating livestock with the cropping enterprise through getting cattle out on the land, or diversifying their crop rotation and putting those harder to market grains through pigs o…
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164: Rachelle Meyer - Running a Farm and Raising a Family
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Rachelle and her family are crushing it at life and farming down in Southeast Minnesota! Rachelle talks about how they manage to run a dairy farm, 500 goats, 800 sheep, stocker cattle, run a direct market business and raise a family with 7 kids! If you want to see more, check out their youtube at wholesome family farms on youtube! Resources Mention…
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163: Allen Williams - Epigenetics and Profitability
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Allen and I discuss how important epigenetic selection is for building an adapted herd of livestock for your farm or ranch. It's when you have a properly adapted herd that you can reduce inputs and significantly improve business profits! We talk about how his cost of production per cow is significantly below national averages. If you are looking to…
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162: Ariel Greenwood - New Mexico Ranching
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Ariel and I discuss her journey to her current ranch in New Mexico. We talk about the differences in the regions and production models they've experienced. How they logistically manage a ranch over tens of thousands of acres and managed a ranch 700+ miles away in another state! Lots to learn from her awesome experience! Resources Mentioned: Quivira…
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161: Aaron Helmick - First Generation Farming Wisdom
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Aaron has an awesome story of finding a way to build a first generation farm capable of supporting his family! He shares his story in this episode with lots of bits of wisdom we can all benefit from! Resources Mentioned:Executive Link and Ranching for ProfitSell/buy marketing schoolsKnowledge Rich Ranching - Allan NationThoughts and Advice from an …
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160: Dr. Richard Watson - 2000 Acre Grazing Dairy
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Dr. Richard Watson started a grazing dairy business in 2007 which has since expanded to 3 sites totaling over 2000 acres with a capacity to milk over 2500 cows. He is now working on developing a milk processing facility to vertically integrate his business to capture the premium that his grazing model offers but has so far been challenging to captu…
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159: Kit Pharo - Building a Business
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Kit Pharo has built an incredibly successful ranch and seedstock business as one of the top ten in the seedstock 100 for several years in a row and serving thousands of customers over several decades! I asked Kit to share with me some of his reflections on that experience and what he sees as important traits and actions for somebody who wishes to b…
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158: Jared Knock & Justin Fruechte - Roots and Ruminants
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Fortunate to have the opportunity to have a collaborative podcast with Jared Knock and Justin Fruechte, hosts of the Roots and Ruminats podcast. We discuss everything from our respective operations, to managing diverse farms, farm succession, improved perennials vs. natives vs. annuals and so much more! Check out Barn2Door at www.barn2door…
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157: Will Harris - A Bold Return to Giving a Damn
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Will Harris is one of those guys who pioneered much of regenerative agriculture, direct to consumer marketing, vertical integration on the family farm level and so much more! It's an honor to get to share some of what he's learned with you through these conversations. You can hear more of his story on episode 55 or better yet buy his new book "A Bo…
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156: Drew Bruner - First Generation Rancher Story
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Stories like Drews are some of my favorite to share on this podcast! Drew didn't grow up on a family ranch, but over the course of the last 15 years or so has built up a successful grazing business which he now does full time and purchased several hundred acres in northern Missouri. To sign up for Wally Olson's online sell/buy marketing class go to…
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155: Gage Iverson - Grazing through the Winter in Montana
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Gage Iverson is a rancher who has successfully grazed his cowherd all winter long for several years in a row in an environment where so many think it's not possible! Take a listen as we discuss his experience, what it's done to improve profitability and his tips for somebody wanting to do the same thing! Check out Barn2Door at www.barn2door.c…
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154: Dallas Mount - How to Make Cows Profitable
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For many, when they look at the economics of their cow/calf enterprise and see the lack of profitability, their assumption is that the cow/calf business is not for them. Dallas shares that the average cow/calf producer is not profitable, however, top producers have found it to be incredibly profitable. So we discuss how to improve the profitability…
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153: Ryan Bruski - Trying it Out with 4700 Stockers
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Ryan and his family have decided to make the shift from cow/calf to stockers to improve the profitability of their Montana ranch and they are jumping all in! He talks about the why, the how, and so much more in this conversation! Resources Mentioned: Dirt to Soil - Gabe Brown Ranching for Profit Herd Quitter Podcast Working Cows Podcast Ranching Re…
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152: Jesse Womack - Getting Paid for Good Management
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Jesse and I discuss tips for managing many different obligations, we discuss his experience with TCU Ranch Management. But most of our time is spent on his ranch enteprises, grazing management and how he is being compensated for his management with carbon credits through Grassroots Carbon. I believe this is the first time I have ever discussed carb…
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151: Trevor Burian - From $100,000 Loss to $39,000 profit
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Merry Christmas!! In episode 101 we discussed Trevors decision to switch from cow/calf to custom grazing. We catch up a year later to discuss how his first year running a large herd of stockers has gone for him. Before we discuss this year, we go into depth on an enterprise analysis on his cow/calf enterprise and why this decision made sense for hi…
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150: Best of the First 150 Episodes
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For the 150th episode I listened back to the top 5 episodes by listens and clipped some of my favorite parts of those conversations. There is so much great stuff in each of these episodes! Check out Barn2Door at www.barn2door.com/herdquitter and receive a free academy class ($99 value) if you sign up.As always, check us out at Herd Quitter Po…
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149: Chad Peterson - Stockers, Grazing, Moving Ranches
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Chad Peterson has a wealth of experience in a variety of different grazing based enterprises now in multiple states. We discuss many of his learning experiences over the years and why he currently runs a stocker operation in Montana. We talk about ultra high stock density grazing, forage utilization, supplement feeding stockers, and so much more! C…
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148: Logan Mannix - Mannix Family Beef
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Logan Mannix along with his father, uncles and several cousins run Mannix Family Beef in Montana. They have a diversified, large scale, vertically integrated beef operation. Currently they run 1250 cows, background calves, and grass finish and market 400 head of beef direct to consumer as well as to several wholesale markets. We discuss everything …
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147: Amos Troester - Cover Cropping for Profit
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Amos and his wife Tina have a diversified business in Northeast Iowa where they crop farm, run livestock, sell cover crop seed and offer custom seeding as a service. In this episode we discuss how cover crops can be used on high value tillable land to increase the profit of the operation, how to integrate them with crops and livestock and much more…
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146: Matthew Menke - Transitioning to Profitable Ranching at Scale
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Matthew ranched like most people in his area but after learning a little about low input ranching and regenerative management and it's potential to help improve production and profitability he began to transition his cow herd and management to improve. He shares many of the learning lessons he experience transitioning over 500 cows to a low input g…
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145: Sage Askin, Vannie Collins, Chris Baggott - Building a First Generation Ranch
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Many say that today it's impossible to become a full time farmer or rancher if you aren't born into it or marry into it. But I've got three past guests Sage Askin, Vannie Collins, and Christopher Baggot on who have each built from scratch their own successful operations within the past 15 years. They come from different starting points but share di…
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144: Connor Laukant - Farming Full Time at 24 Years Old
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Connor is a grazier in Wisconsin who at only 24 years old is already a full time farmer and a land owner. He has a diversity of livestock enterprises including custom grazing, cow/calf and heifer development. We discuss enterprise selection, where to invest capital, accessing land and much more! Resources Mentioned: Gregg Judy NRCS Office Neighbors…
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143: John Innes-Smith - Journey to Farm Ownership
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John spent several years moving from farm to farm taking advantage of opportunities to build equity in land and cows until he got to where he is today. John owns 300 cows and 500 acres and operates his own successful grazing based dairy with his wife in Tasmania, Australia. We walk through his story, discuss the risks associated with debt and growt…
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142: Al DeWit, Weston Walker, Rob Pierce - Heat Tolerant Genetics Program
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I brought back three past guests who all are working to develop composite genetics that will offer adaption to the heat, humidity, and parasite pressure that many ranchers in the US face while not giving up the performance or quality that our purebred angus, red angus and hereford cattle provide. We dive into the different breeds they are using whi…
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141: Joel Salatin - Successful Farming
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Joel Salatin is one of the most popular farmers in the world. He has written 16 books, is the editor of the Stockman Grass Farmer, and owns and operates the popular Polyface Farm. We discuss his farm, how he monetizes agritourism and education on his farm and learn tips to creating a successful direct to consumer enterprise as well as how to change…
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140: Rachel Twogood - Raising Crops, Cattle and a Family
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Rachel and her husband farm and ranch in Nebraska and have a diversified operation consisting of no-till crops, organic crops, cow/calf enterprises as well as a grass finishing and direct to consumer business. We discuss these different enterprises as well as the blessings and challenges that come with raising a family on a farm! Resources Mentione…
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139: Elaine Froese - 3 Conversations Necessary Before Farm Transition
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Elaine is an internationally known farm transition expert! The topic of transition is something that every farmer will have to deal with at some point and very few have a plan. She walks through 3 of the important conversations that need to be addressed before a transition can take place. Resources Mentioned: Dick Wittman - Wittman Consulting Elain…
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138: Tom Krawiec - Ranching Like a 12 Year Old
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Tom is author of the book "Ranching Like a 12 Year Old" where he shares his story of developing a ranch template to help simplify the management of a ranch to improve lifestyle and to allow for the opportunity to scale. He shares how this model allowed him to build a ranch custom grazing thousands of animals and also how to grow more grass than man…
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137: Chris Baggot - Grazing Profitably on Cropland
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Chris is a first generation farmer who has managed to grow a large and successful direct marketing enterprise and grazing based farm on row crop land in Indiana. Just in that statement their are a number of things many would say are not possible or at least are extremely difficult to do. Take a listen to learn how he did this and so much more! Reso…
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