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Matt Skoglund

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

55 yearlings and 55 two-year-olds.

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

Over the course of the year, I field harvest basically all of the two-year-olds, keep a few replacement heifers because we know I'll have a few open cows.

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

And then June 1 this year, we should have 55 cows,

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

with a calf by their side.

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

And then last year's calves become yearlings.

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

The yearlings become two year olds.

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

We just do it again.

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

Okay.

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

Um, and then, and so basically, and then when we, when we work the animals in the winter, any open non-bred cow immediately becomes a meat animal.

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

Okay.

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

And for, for two reasons or for three reasons, one, we're, we're not Ted Turner.

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

We don't have 110,000 acre ranch.

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

Um, two, we're working to build

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

just a super healthy, self-sufficient herd where they thrive on our landscape.

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

The cows have a calf in April, May, they're bred back in July and August, and they just do it year after year.

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

And if any year they don't get bred,

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

they're out of here.

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

Okay.

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

Yeah.

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

And then the third one is our demand.