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Matt Skoglund

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The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Um, so yeah, so, so again, and that's like another example of like, people were skeptical of our fencing and now they, they see the bison on the right side of the fence.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

They're grazing.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

They see me field harvesting them and they're like, yeah, we're, we're cool with this.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

So, uh, uh, you know, a big mature bull is, is well over 2000 pounds.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Um, they're, they're, they're, they're massive and their heads.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

I had to, I had to, I had to, I had to field harvest a big bull last memorial last year, Memorial day weekend by myself.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

And, um,

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

It's it, their heads must weigh like 200 pounds, like just they're massive animals and no separate fencing for those.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

No, we just, we, we run it as one herd year round.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Yeah.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Just cause, and the thought process there is from a, from a land health standpoint, if you zoom out, you know, a thousand years ago, you know, we had tens of millions of Buffalo, tens of millions of elk pronghorn.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

So the entire west evolved with grazing animals, removing animals from the landscape.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Totally unnatural.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Yeah.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Like the west evolved with animals.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Full stop.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Can't argue that.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Um, but the way that they, the way that they grazed, like the Gallatin Valley, they, you know, thousands of animals would have come in here and they would have grazed, pooped, peed, wallowed, just, just made a mess of the place.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

And then left for a long time.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 874: How To Start A Bison Ranch

Yeah.