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Ranching Returns Podcast

Ranching Returns Podcast

On the Ranching Returns Podcast we talk to farmers and ranchers who share how they have improved their returns from ranching including extreme profitability, an improvement to their land resources and creating a priceless lifestyle.

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Dec. 7, 2025

255: Karson Rippstein - Family, Government Leases, Salt and Mineral

Karson ranches with his dad and brother in Utah and we discuss the challenges he deals with working in the mountains on permits as well as his recommendations for successfully partnering with family on a cattle ranch. I learn...
Nov. 30, 2025

254: Lawson Harper - Ranching in Australia

Lawson shares his families story of ranching in the land down under! His parents ranch expansion and exit of the industry and his entrance into the industry, working on multiple large cattle operations and beginning his own. ...
Nov. 23, 2025

253: Caitlin Word - Crossroads of Profitability and Regenerative Management

Caitlin and I discuss ways to improve profitability on the ranch. We discuss impacting it through improving gross margin, and reducing overhead. We discuss regenerative agriculture and how that impacts profitability and so mu...
Nov. 16, 2025

252: Luke Perman - End of Year Preparations

Luke is owner and operator of Rock Hills Ranch in South Dakota. In this conversation we discuss what he does in the 4th quarter to prepare for the end of the year. We discuss his winter feed planning, financial management and...
Nov. 9, 2025

251: Brian Munger, Wally Olson, John Haskell - What is Sell/Buy Marketing

In this podcast episode, ranching experts Wally Olson, John Haskell, and Brian Munger to discuss the intricacies of sell-by marketing in the cattle industry. The conversation covers the importance of understanding market dyna...
Nov. 2, 2025

250: Nick Bailey - Scaling Direct to Consumer

Nick Bailey of Grand View Farming shares his story of starting and growing their direct to consumer meat marketing business. He shares the marketing strategies, meat production and acquisition methods, inventory management st...

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Ross MacDonald-98 Ranch Inc. | Dec. 18, 2024

Episode 208 - Garth Gatson

"Excellent! I would like to hear more from Garth. I think the two of you have wonderful futures in your businesses and as men. Thank You. Jim Kylstad"

James B. Kylstad | Jan. 13, 2025