Ranching Returns Podcast
Episodes
74: Colter DeVries - Ranch Land Values
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Colter DeVries is a ranch broker in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado and is host of the Ranch Investor Podcast. Today we discuss the increasing ranch val...
73: Doug Ferguson & Wally Olson - Q&A
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doug and Wally are experienced sell/buy marketers as well as educators. They join me in this episode to answer your questions! You can listen to episo...
72: Dale Strickler - Pasture Can Be Profitable
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dale is a sales agronomist for Green Cover Seeds as well as a speaker, consultant, author and experienced grazier! He shares his experience building a...
71: Ben Beichler - Herd Share Dairy Success
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Beichler always had a dream of being a farmer, but with no farm to inherit, he set out to build one of his own. After apprenticing with Polyface F...
70: Joseph Hubbard - Part 2 Cattle Production, Land Leases and More
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of our conversation with Joseph Hubbard. If you haven't, I would highly recommend going back and listening to part 1 before li...
69: Joseph Hubbard - Part 1 Sheep Production
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weeks episode is part one of my two part conversation with Joseph Hubbard of Olsburg, Kansas. Joseph has a large diversified ranch made up of 450...
68: Kim Maloney - Brylee Farms
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Maloney returned home to her family farm in Quebec, Canada to work as their day-to-day operations manager but also to build a direct marketing ent...
67: Riley Shay - Building A Ranch
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Riley Shay is a friend of mine and inspires and impresses me whenever I hear his story! From a young age Riley has had an entrepreneurial spirit from ...
66: Derek Schmitz - Building a Grazing Dairy
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Derek started his farming journey immediately after high school when he decided he could learn better through experience and self-study than college. ...
65: Jared Luhman - Ranching for Profit School
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I just got home from my week long trip to Oklahoma attending the Ranching for Profit School. Each night I tried to do a quick update on my day to summ...
64: Darrin Drake - Peaceful Pastures Story
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 11, we talked to Jenny Drake. Today we talk to her husband to get more details on their story of moving from Indiana to the mountains of Te...
63: Paul Landrigan - Building a Ranch While Working Full Time
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul always had a love of cattle from a young age! His father recognized it when Paul could put together cattle family lines in a commercial herd when...
62: Tyler Burkey - Finding Opportunities
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ar...
61: Jordan Meyer - Dairy, Beef Cows, Stocker, Hogs, Goats & More!
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Meyer and his wife Rachelle haven't been afraid to dive into new enterprises when opportunities present themselves. Over the years they have ra...
60: Kit Pharo - Q&A
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
59: Jim Gerrish - Best Place to Ranch
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, ever...
58: Landan Fear - Making the Ranch Profitable Again
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
57: Brian Alexander - The Red Hills Rancher
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sou...
56: Andrew Morris - Moving the Ranch to a New State
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
55: Will Harris - White Oak Pastures
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 tra...
54: Jason Salchow - Principles of Successful Cattle Production
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 veterinar...
53: Doug Peterson - Soil Health and Health Grasslands
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
52: Jason Salchow - Growing a Successful Custom Grazing Business
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Salchow is a custom grazier, bull developer and veterinarian from Missouri. We discuss his shift to custom grazing as a primary enterprise for h...
51: Jason Rowntree - Grazing is a Carbon Sink
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Rowntree is a professor at Michigan State University in their Animal Science Department studying low input beef production and regenerative agri...
50: Luke Perman - Rock Hills Ranch
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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/...
49: Louis Martin - Round River Resource Management
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
48: Allen Williams - Profitable Ranching and Soil Health
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Allen has an incredible resume filled with research, production experience and consulting experience world wide which has given him insight into some ...
47: Nathan "Bub" Daugherty - Hard Work Pays Off
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan "Bub" Daugherty and his wife Lakayah have an incredible story of hard work, sacrifice and determination that has resulted in developing a lifes...
46: Pete Bauman - Range and Grassland Management
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 gr...
45: Jared Luhman - Kit Pharo Got Me Fired
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
44: Kat Weinert - Building a Ranch and a Family
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
43: Kit Pharo - Competitive Advantage
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 competi...
42: Ryan Schmid - The Importance of Bugs
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 grassl...
41: Andree and Bianca Soares - Service Based Grazing
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Calif...
40: Taylor Collins - Roam Ranch
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Collins has an awesome story of building a national food brand from scratch, selling and then starting a regenerative ranch from scratch in Tex...
39: Cody McDaniel - From Kansas Farmer to Montana Rancher
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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! Fir...
38: Patrick Robinette - How to Become a Price Maker
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Robinette didn't grow up on a farm but when he had the opportunity to move back to his in-laws family farm in North Carolina he took the oppor...
37: Doug Ferguson - Sell/Buy Marketing Follow Up
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After continuing to hear great feedback on the episodes we have based around sell/buy marketing, I had Doug Ferguson come back on for another episode ...
36: Duke Phillips - Ranchlands
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Duke Phillips built a ranch management business managing nearly 300,000 acres across the American West starting with nothing more than a truck and tra...
35: Brian Munger - 1883 Ranch
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Munger along with his wife and six kids run a diverse ranching business in Nebraska. They own and operate their own cow herd managed in a low in...
34: Ryan Usmar - Pharo Cattle Australia
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Usmar manages Furracabad Station in Australia and is part of the start of Pharo Cattle Australia. Listen to hear about their cattle station, thei...
33: Doug Voss - Not Afraid to Pivot
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years Doug transitioned from a high input commodity dairy farm to a low input grazing based operation with a stop as an organic crop farmer i...
32: Kit Pharo - Make Ranching Fun Again
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today Kit shares how we can reduce the work required to run a ranch and make it more enjoyable! If a business isn't enjoyable it's not sustainable and...
31: Ed Bezett - A New (Zealand) Perspective
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Bezett came to our farm in 1981 as a foreign exchange student and wasn't afraid to tell my grandpa that he thought there was a better way of runnin...
30: Blaine Hitzfield - Building a Food Marketing Brand
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our conversation with Seven Sons we talk to Blaine Hitzfield, CEO of Distribution for Seven Sons. He goes into depth on the transition fr...
29: Blake Hitzfield - Seven Sons Production
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seven Sons is a farm and food brand from Indiana that has focused on raising and marketing grass finished and pasture based meat products. Today we ta...
28: Doug Ferguson - Profitable Cattle Marketing
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Doug Ferguson is a cattle marketing expert, blogger under his blog https://mrcattlemaster.com/ and contributor to Beef Magazine in his column Dougs Ma...
27: Jim Howell - Ranching in Unique Environments
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is our second conversation with Jim Howell, CEO of Grasslands LLC. Check out episode 13 of the Herd Quitter podcast to learn about Jim's story, e...
26: Jon Luhman - My Family's Regenerative Journey
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I might be biased, but this is my favorite episode yet. Every time I talk with my dad about the history of our farm I learn something new! In today's ...
25: Robert Pulliam - Changing Paradigms
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Pulliam has a history of diversified farming in Missouri, beef production in Iowa, 12 years in ministry, and then found himself managing a ranc...
24: Kit Pharo - Building a Network
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever your goals in life, career or business plans, very rarely are we able to accomplish much entirely on our own. Building a network around you o...
23: Jim Gerrish - Western vs. Eastern Ranching
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our two part conversation with Jim we discuss the differences in environment, and management of grasslands in arid Western environments a...
22: Jim Gerrish - Kick the Hay Habit
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Gerrish is an experienced grazing expert and well known author of Management Intensive Grazing, and Kick the Hay Habit. In part 1 of a 2 episode s...
21: August Horstmann - Changing Perspectives
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
August had his eyes set on building a profitable angus cattle operation operating in the old school way of high inputs and labor. After getting starte...
20: Wes Eaton - Ranching in the Desert
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wes ranches in the Chihuahua Desert of Southeast New Mexico. Of all the people I have talked to, his environment might be the toughest to run cattle i...
19: Kit Pharo - Debt in a Ranching Business
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kit and I discuss the role that debt plays in a ranch business. It certainly can have a place to help a business when used wisely. However, Kit believ...
18: Wally Olson Part 2 - Sell/Buy Marketing
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wally joins us for a second week to discuss the Bud Williams sell/buy livestock marketing concept. We discuss how it is applied to stocker enterprises...
17: Wally Olson - Building a Profitable Ranch
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wally Olson says the primary thing an individual needs to be concerned with is profit. In this episode, Wally discusses the many things he has found t...
16: Bobby Thoman - First a Businessman, Second a Cowboy
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bobby Thomans family got out of the cattle business long before he wanted to bring it back, leaving it to him to research and determine the right cour...
15: Joshua and Tara Dukart - Journey Back to the Ranch
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua and Tara never planned on going back to the family ranch. They were told it wasn't a viable option, and Tara wasn't sure that's the life she wa...
14: Kit Pharo - Heifer Development
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kit Pharo and I discuss heifer development programs, and how a low cost program can make heifer development a profitable enterprise despite the percen...
13: Jim Howell - Holistic Land Management Across the Globe
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Howell is co-founder and CEO of Grasslands LLC. In this podcast we talk to Jim about his family ranch in the mountains of Colorado, his experience...
12: Logan Pribbeno - If Grazing Isn't the Answer, You're Asking the Wrong Question
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Logan Pribbeno, manager of the Wine Glass Ranch in Southwest Nebraska, along with his family have developed a business around forage harvesting where ...
11: Jenny Drake - Direct Marketing in Tennessee
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Drake and her husband Darrin have built a diverse pasture based ranch business in Tennessee. Faced with challenges from shortages of labor, to s...
10: Dallas Mount - Ranching for Profit
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dallas Mount is the owner of Ranch Management Consultants and their popular Ranching for Profit School. He travels the country teaching ranchers how t...
9: Kit Pharo - How to Value a Bull
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode we talk to Kit Pharo about how to value a bull. This process involves deciding first of all what your goals for your herd are and s...
8: Scott Assman - From Cows to Bison
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we talk to a rancher who is such a herd quitter, his family left the beef industry entirely and shifted to bison ranching! It's especially inte...
7: Jerry Doan - Diversified Ranch Businesses
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry and his family have built an extremely diverse and profitable ranch with enterprises ranging from cow/calf and bison production to hunting, agri...
6: Kit Pharo - What's Necessary to Run a Profitable Ranch
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I have a conversation with Kit Pharo about what is really necessary to run a profitable ranch. What he says may surprise you! It doesn...
2: Kit Pharo - The Original Herd Quitter
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In todays conversation, we talk with Kit Pharo of Pharo Cattle Company. He shares his history and why he started Pharo Cattle Company as well as how h...
5: Sean Weinert - Starting a Ranch from Scratch
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sean and his wife Kat have been building a ranch from scratch. Hear how they have done this with a focus on minimal inputs, minimal investment in equi...
4: Blake Allen - Switching from Cows to Stockers
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Blake was struggling to make a profit with cow/calf on his ranch. He decided to make a shift out of the cow business and into the stocker business, fo...
3: Clay Conry - From Working Cows Podcast to Working Cows on His Own Ranch
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode we talk to Clay Conry, and hear how he took what he learned hosting the Working Cows Podcast and applied it to his own ranch that h...
1 - Jared Luhman - Intro to the Herd Quitter Podcast
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is shorter than most. I introduce myself and my farm and background and share with you what the Herd Quitter Podcast is all about!&nbs...