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April 11, 2022

62: Tyler Burkey - Finding Opportunities

Tyler Burkey and his wife Megan have a unique story of seeking out new opportunities and not being afraid to change course when those opportunities arise and the numbers make sense. Their start in agriculture was producing ha...

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April 4, 2022

61: Jordan Meyer - Dairy, Beef Cows, Stocker, Hogs, Goats & More!

Jordan Meyer and his wife Rachelle haven't been afraid to dive into new enterprises when opportunities present themselves. Over the years they have raised organic crops, conventional crops, dairy, beef cow/calf, stocker cattl...

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March 28, 2022

60: Kit Pharo - Q&A

On this weeks episode we take questions from listeners and ask them to Kit Pharo. A few of the questions he answers are: - If you were starting from scratch today, what would you do? - Why don't more producers use composite b...

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March 21, 2022

59: Jim Gerrish - Best Place to Ranch

In a recent PCC discussion group there was a conversation around where is the ideal location to run cow/calf pairs in the United States. Overall, every area has advantages and disadvantages, but Jim Gerrish who has a unique p...

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March 14, 2022

58: Landan Fear - Making the Ranch Profitable Again

In 2019 Landan took over his family's ranch which had been managed in a high input, low profit manner for a number of years. He immediately worked to make changes improving grass management, buying low input genetics, reducin...

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March 11, 2022

57: Brian Alexander - The Red Hills Rancher

Brian Alexander, also known as the Red Hills Rancher on social media joins me to discuss his history in ranching and his ranch in the Red Hills of South Central Kansas. We talk about fire, grazing management, succession plann...

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Feb. 28, 2022

56: Andrew Morris - Moving the Ranch to a New State

To often people are convinced that finding success in agriculture is impossible because they can't find opportunity in their back yard. Andrew and his family were unwilling to accept that they couldn't run a profitable ranch ...

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Feb. 21, 2022

55: Will Harris - White Oak Pastures

Will Harris is one of those people that I have looked up to as long as I've been involved in this regenerative world. He's got an amazing story of transitioning his farm over from commodity livestock production to a regenerat...

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Feb. 14, 2022

54: Jason Salchow - Principles of Successful Cattle Production

Jason joined me again to follow up on our conversation from episode 52. We discuss further the idea of reducing inputs and how it relates to veterinarians. We also discuss principles that apply to being a successful cattle pr...

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Feb. 7, 2022

53: Doug Peterson - Soil Health and Health Grasslands

Doug Peterson has an extensive history working in the NRCS for over 32 years, consulting for Understanding Ag, and owning and operating his own grass farm in Missouri. We discuss what he learned through his career, and go in ...

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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 g...

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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 his journey a...

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