The Art of Range

AoR 180: Doug Poole on Integrating Grazing into Cropping Systems for Rangeland & Soil Health

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host Tip Hudson speaks with Doug Poole, a third-generation dryland farmer in Eastern Washington's arid Columbia Basin, about his deca...

AoR 179: Glenn Elzinga, Alderspring Ranch - Grassfed Beef in Wild, Open Spaces

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Storytelling, direct-to-consumer beef sales, animal behavior, grass taxonomy, beavers, water, and wolves. Glenn Elzinga has tried to tackle it all rai...

AoR 178: Flavie Audoin on Animal Geolocation and Virtual Fence Technologies

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Just when you thought you'd heard everything about virtual fence, another podcast episode comes along. But Dr. Flavie Audoin, University of Arizona Co...

IYRP February: Mark Moritz on Pastoralist Mobility, Land & Water Security

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pastoral mobility is crucial for both the sustainable management of rangelands and the economic viability of pastoralism. It is key to livestock produ...

AoR 177: Betsey Boughton on Ranch-Relevant Ecological Research at Archbold Biological Station

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Archbold's mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of Florida, and beyond."...

AoR 176: Gene Lollis with Buck Island Ranch, part of Archbold Biological Station

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gene Lollis has been managing the Buck Island Ranch for both commercial cattle production and research objectives for over 30 years. In this interview...

IYRP January: What are rangelands? Who are pastoralists? Why do they matter? - Igshaan Samuels

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why are rangelands and pastoralists vital to the culture, ecology, and economy of the world? Igshaan Samuels, a rangeland scientist in South Africa an...

AoR 175: Deseret Cattle & Citrus, with Clint Richardson

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the largest cow-calf operation in the United States. Clint Richardson, a graduate of the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management, is up t...

AoR 174: Florida Panthers and Tough Cattle, with Rancher Liesa Priddy

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Liesa and Russell Priddy's JB Ranch was the winner of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Environmental Stewardship Award for Region 2 in 2023. ...

AoR 173: Mike Adams on Florida cattle history and Adams Ranch Brafords

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Adams Ranch was the first to develop a breed of cattle in Florida for Florida, the Braford breed. This Brahman - Hereford cross could handle heat ...

AoR 172: Vence on the J Lazy S Ranch in Idaho, the Sequel with Jay Smith

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New technology takes time to prove its worth. Jay and Chyenne Smith now have three grazing seasons' experience using Vence's virtual fence technology ...

AoR 171: Celebrating Global Rangelands & Pastoralism at SRM's 2026 Annual Meeting

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Larson and Mikie McDonnell encourage you to attend the Society for Range Management's flagship event in Monterey, California to kick off the...

AoR 170: Dr. Jim Sprinkle on The Perfect Range Cow

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cattle growth goals and livestock use of large, topographically challenging landscapes have been at odds for some decades. Weaning weights went up, co...

AoR 169: Peter Ballerstedt on Metabolic Dysfunction - Opportunities for Eaters and Graziers

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Malnutrition should be defined as any diet that results in metabolic derangement. Few Americans suffer from lack of access to calories. But we are unh...

AoR 168: Chuck Jarecki on Ranching "with Your Face in the Ground" in Montana

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chuck Jarecki ranched in Montana from 1961 to the 1990s, using grazing to heal lands broken by the plow that never grew enough to justify continued cr...

AoR 167: Beni Paulson on bucking bull breeding, country music, and good grazing

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Beni Paulson is a North Dakota rancher who breeds, trains, and sells bucking bulls. He also raises beef cattle and produces country-western music that...

AoR 166: Gabe Brown on Regenerative Grazing

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gabe Brown was thinking about and practicing regenerative grazing before it had a name. Grazing management that maintains the productive potential of ...

AoR 165: Virtual Fence Benefits Wildlife - Jay Kehne, Conservation Northwest

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does barbed wire affect wildlife? Is there a better way to manage livestock location that distributes grazing effects and cares for the other anim...

AoR 164: The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management, with Rick Machen

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The King Ranch is considered "The Birthplace of American Ranching". On its 150th birthday, King Ranch partnered with Texas A&M Kingsville to establish...

AoR 163: Stockwater Monitoring Technologies and Natural Capital with Andrew Coppin, RanchBot

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Coppin is the co-founder and CEO of RanchBot, a company aiming to reduce the cost and stress of managing stockwatering supplies in the large pe...

AoR 162: Grazing Lands Expo 2025 with Megan Terry

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Montana Grazing Lands Coalition 2025 Grazing Expo is an event designed to empower land managers with tangible resources while highlighting the Wes...

AoR 161: The 5th "C" of Agricultural Lending, with Zach Ducheneaux

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What would rural finance look like if it truly supported long-term stewardship and resilience? This is the question Zach Ducheneaux has been asking hi...

AoR 160: Dan Dagget on People's Contributions to Nature and Ecosystem Successes in the Southwest

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Dagget was one of the original members of EarthFirst!, one of the more radical environmental activist organizations of the last 50 years. In his e...

AoR 159: Can Creative Arts Affect Public Perception about Rangelands? A Brief Musing by Tip

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes its laws." People think they are primarily 'thinking things', but this quote by a music...

AoR 158: Frank Stick, Splendid Painter of the Out-of-Doors, by biographer Mike Mordell

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Visual arts that draw attention to wild, open spaces have been culturally important in the United States. The outdoors painters of the late 19th and e...

AoR 157: Grazing for Fine Fuels Management and Wildfire Mitigation, with Sergio Arispe

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can we effectively limit wildfire risk or change the fire risk profile using deliberate grazing? Or is this just wishful, simplistic thinking: "Cows e...

AoR 156: 15 Years of Life on the Range with Steve Stuebner & Gretchen Hyde

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over 15 years ago, the veteran journalist Steve Stuebner and Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission executive Gretchen Hyde set out to use the new media...

AoR 154: National Grazing Lands Coalition & Summer Tour in the Pacific Northwest

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The National Grazing Lands Coalition (NatGLC) promotes and supports ecologically and economically sound management of grazing lands for multiple benef...

AoR 155: Roots So Deep You Can See the Devil Down There, with filmmaker Peter Byck

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Does grazing management make a difference? Can we raise livestock and wildlife and take carbon out of the atmosphere and put it in soil on the same pi...

AoR 152: Nathan Sayre on the Genesis and Limits of Carrying Capacity

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The concept of carrying capacity has figured prominently in rangeland ecology and wildlife biology for a century and more. Where did this term come fr...

AoR 153: Back to the Future with American Fibers - Cate Havstad, Daniel Mouw, & Ed Roberson at SXSW

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can Farmer-Founded Fibers Save American Fashion? Cate Havstad-Casad, founder of RangeRevolution leather goods, and Daniel Mouw, president of Duckworth...

AoR 151: Targeted Grazing for Wetland Health - Maria Pacioretty & Chase Carter

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Sterling Wildlife Management Area in southeast Idaho suffered from accumulated dead cattails, bulrushes, and grasses. Wildlife the area is intende...

AoR 150: Bildo Saravia & Lauren Svejcar - Artisanal Mezcal & Ranching in Mexico

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bildo Saravia is the owner and manager of Rancho el Ojo and Origien Raiz Mezcal. His story showcases the ways global marketing and communication can b...

AoR 149: Wildfire Depletes Ecosystem Carbon Storage by >50% (Part 2) -- Germino, Maxwell, & Quicke

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Germino’s latest research, published in the Communications Earth & Environment journal in November 2024, reveals a startling and significant fin...

AoR 148: Targeted Cheatgrass Grazing Research with Sheep -- Kelly Hopping & Riley Kowitz

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A research study in the mountains of Idaho tracked cheatgrass consumption by sheep in the spring and fall. Listen to Kelly Hopping (Boise State Univer...

AoR 147: Wildfire Depletes Ecosystem Carbon Storage by >50% (Part 1) -- Germino, Maxwell, & Quicke

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does wildfire affect soil carbon, the ecological currency of the 21st century? Careful collaborative research involving US Geological Survey scien...

AoR 146: Angus Whyte - Sheep Grazing in New South Wales, Australia

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Angus's family has managed the Wyndham Station near the Anabranch and Darling Rivers in southern Australia for 4 generations. That and the promise of ...

AoR 145: Dr. John Buckhouse, Part 2, Reflections on a Half Century of Thinking in Wholes

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Riparian management, water quality, and livestock grazing used in the same sentence can warm up a room with heated discussion. John Buckhouse has spen...

AoR 144: Jay Wilde, Idaho Rancher, Builds Beaver Habitat to Restore Stockwater

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"We have to think of beavers as our friend instead of our foe; for these watersheds to be healthy, you need beaver.” Rancher Jay Wilde experienced ...

AoR 143: Dr. John Buckhouse, Reflections on a Half Century of Thinking in Wholes, Part 1

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Riparian management, water quality, and livestock grazing used in the same sentence can warm up a room with heated discussion. John Buckhouse has spen...

AoR 142: Understanding Grazing Effects on Soil Carbon, the sequel with Dr. Paige Stanley

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do undergrazing and overgrazing affect soil carbon change? What does "optimal grazing" look like? This sequel episode with Paige Stanley goes deep...

AoR 141: New Rangeland Wildlife Ecology & Conservation reference manual -- Lance McNew & Jeff Beck

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The fields of rangeland and wildlife management are brothers in the same fight for the conservation, protection, and management of wildlife and one c...

AoR 140: Unsung Caretakers of Unseen Land -- Mark & Wendy Pratt, Idaho Ranchers

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Mark and Wendy Pratt, ordinary people doing unglamorous work with extraordinary care. C.S. Lewis said "we delight to praise what we enjoy because...

AoR 139: StockSmart - Sustainable Grazing Starts with Good Forage Production Data

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forage on semi-arid rangelands is finite but variable across space and over time. And grazing decisions start with balancing animal forage demand with...

AoR 138: BOSH Project Restores Sagebrush Sea at Grand Scale - Maestas, White, & Stuebner

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bruneau Owyhee Sage Grouse Habitat (BOSH) project is a collaborative partnership of state and federal agencies, wildlife advocacy groups, and priv...

AoR 137: Art of Range mid-2024 Update

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for your patience as we shift funding sources and work into a slightly different approach to content. This brief piece describes these chang...

AoR 136: "Politics of Scale - a History of Rangeland Science", with Nathan Sayre (re-release)

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nathan Sayre has written a delightful book on the origins and history of rangelands science, public ownership, agency management, and grazing phil...

AoR 135: Are Cows "Tools"? The Effects of Language with Anna Clare Monlezun

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our language both reveals and shapes our internal philosophy about all of the beings and things in the world. And it guides our behaviors and interact...

AoR 134: Contextual Grazing Management & Patterns, with Jim Howell

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe there is no silver bullet, no holy grail of grazing. But there are patterns of grazing impacts that work well for particular plant communities, ...

AoR 133: Ruminating on Soil Carbon with Paige Stanley, Jim Howell, Ariel Greenwood, & Chris Wilson

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Decades of scientific research on grazing and soil organic carbon (SOC) has failed to form a cohesive understanding of how grazing management affects...

AoR 132: Are Agrivoltaics a Viable New Frontier in Green Energy? with Anna Clare Monlezun

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Solar "farms" have met with resistance in Middle America because they often displace food farms, taking arable land out of production. But what if sol...

AoR 131: Society for Range Mgmt Plenary 2 "Change on the Range", with Experienced Professionals

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's been said there is wisdom in a multitude of counselors. But in the same way that not all practice makes perfect, only good practice, it's importa...

AoR 130: Society for Range Management Plenary "Change on the Range" with Young Professionals

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's been said that the only thing that is certain is change. These young rangeland professionals engage in interview discussion around what "Change o...

AoR 129: Rangeland Fire Protection Associations with Basque rancher, Mike Guerry

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neighbors helping neighbors fight fire--this is the goal of Rangeland Fire Protection Associations (RFPAs) according to the Idaho Dept of Lands: "RFPA...

AoR 128: International Rangelands Congress 2025, with Nicole Spiegel & Andrew Ash

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Australia is hosting the IRC2025 in Adelaide, and this is the biggest rangelands event leading up to the 2026 UN International Year of Rangelands & Pa...

AoR 127: Ranch Financial Success is Bigger than Per-Cow Profits, Clay Worden & James Rogers

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Layer something on your dirt that increases revenue opportunities and reduces risk." Clay Worden and James Rogers offer capstone comments on The Art ...

AoR 126: Renewable Energy, Wildlife, & Grazing with Jeff Tayer, Ryan Stingley, & Jennifer Galbraith

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to generate renewable energy, beef, and wildlife habitat in the same space? Long-time collaborators Puget Sound Energy, WSU Extension, ...

AoR 125: The Human Costs of Catastrophic Wildfire, with Dave Daley

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The North Complex Fire of 2020 was estimated to produce more carbon dioxide and pollutants in one week than all of the cars in California in one year....

AoR 124: Jim Gerrish on 50 Years of Grazing Science

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Gerrish is in the top 10 names known to ranchers in grazing management. His career, both as a researcher and as a rancher, spans animal nutrition,...

AoR 123: Virtual Fence in Action on Wild, Open Spaces in Idaho--Jay Smith & Joel Yelich

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Jay Smith, a rancher in Idaho, and Joel Yelich, a University of Idaho researcher, describe their experience managing cattle on a 100,000 acr...

AoR 122: Happy New Year -- What's in Store for AoR?

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are you optimistic about 2024? This brief non-interview provides an overview of upcoming content on The Art of Range and an invitation to become a mor...

AoR 121: Addie Candib, What are Agricultural Land Trusts For?

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Should we keep the farm? Can we afford to keep farming and ranching? How do conservation easements work? How much could an easement help? What do I ha...

AoR 120: Could Virtual Fence Transform Rangeland Grazing? Launchbaugh, deAvila, & Pearson

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if grazed wild, open spaces were actually open? Is barbed wire still useful? Can we afford it? Are there other ways to control livestock distribu...

AoR 119: Change on the Range 2024 in Nevada, with Meghan Brown & Dave Voth

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rangelands and people inevitably change. Managing that change involves people influencing people. The Society for Range Management's international ann...

AoR 118: Safe-to-Fail Experimentation & Regenerative Grazing with Graeme Hand & Kevin Muno

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can grazing be used to help ecosystem function or is 'do no harm' the best we can do? What is meant by the new buzzword "regenerative"? Graeme Hand ha...

AoR 117: Ranching in the Radical Middle with Rick Knight (Reloaded)

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Beef is what's for dinner; open space is what's for dessert." Rick Knight is a wildlife professor who has spent decades bridging ranchers and environ...

AoR 116: Understanding Nature's Contributions to People, with Anna Clare Monlezun

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Clare is a rangeland ecosystem scientist, systems thinker, synthesizer, and collaborative facilitator. This interview continues with one of the m...

AoR 115: Cattle Raising in The Kimberley, Australia, with James & Barbara Camp

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Napier Downs is a million-acre cattle station in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia. They export Red Brahman yearlings live to Indonesia, ...

AoR 114: Best of AoR -- Fred Provenza on Animal-Environment Interactions (re-release)

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a re-release of one of the first episodes on The Art of Range. Fred Provenza discusses ideas from decades of research and experience on how an...

AoR 113: Agricultural Financial Benchmarking with Megan Shroyer, AgWest Farm Credit

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How does your agricultural business compare to similar operations in financial performance metrics? That's the question answered by benchmarking. Mega...

AoR 112: Good Grazing Makes Cent$, with Dave Voth

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is environmentally sound livestock grazing more financially viable than overgrazing or just thoughtless grazing? If so, why? Dave Voth is a rancher in...

AoR 111: Ecosystem Services--Connecting Nature & People, with Lauren Porensky & Jeff Goodwin

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new report published by the Society for Range Management, Connecting Nature and People, outlines key ecosystem services provided by rangelands and t...

AoR 110: Lots of Grass but Little Fire (Yet); 2023 Fuelcasting with Matt Reeves

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Remotely-sensed data products are not new, but applications using these data that are available and useful to landowners are relatively new. Matt Reev...

AoR 109: Atmospheric Water Generation and Rangeland Grazing with David Stuckenberg

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Livestock distribution is the key to good grazing, and water is the limiting factor to distribution. What if you could have water anywhere, produced f...

AoR 108: No Farms, No Food -- Don Stuart & Addie Candib on Farmland Conservation

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Don Stuart is the author of a new book "No Farms, No Food: Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture", a history of Amer...

AoR 107: SRM Keynote Address, "Working Across Borders" with Tammy VerCauteren & the Ollila Family

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Plants and animals and weather patterns do not respect property boundaries, state lines, or national borders. Managing landscapes requires not the obl...

AoR 106: SRM Keynote Address "Working Across Disciplines" with Tip Hudson & Jeanne Pfander

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rangeland science is not a single discipline but a synthesis of numerous scientific topics and lived experiences. Successful management of rangelands ...

AoR 105: Richard and Sharon Kline on Conserving Working Lands in California

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the story of Sharon and Richard Kline, a couple in southern California who became unlikely ranchers by buying an unlikely property. They have ...

AoR 104: SRM Keynote Address "Working Across Eras" with Courtney Taylor & Tim Murphy

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Wise management and conservation of rangelands in the future will require knowledge from the hard-earned experience of those near retirement and the f...

AoR 103: Pasture, Range, & Forage (PRF) Insurance with Matt Griffith

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The PRF program insures against unusually low precipitation during 60-day periods critical to your forage growth, unlike drought insurance, which typi...

AoR 102: Livestock Risk Protection in Practice, with Dick Coon

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dick Coon is a rancher in Eastern Washington who has used LRP insurance for nearly a decade to reduce the significant financial risks of ranching in p...

AoR 101: John Nalivka on Reducing Cattle Marketing Risks

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Reducing financial risk in ranching requires first identifying and defining those risks. John Nalivka, owner of Sterling Marketing and a well-known ex...

AoR 100: 'Defend the Core' Strategy for Invasive Plants, Jeremy Maestas & Dirac Twidwell, Part 2

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Management recommendations for limiting undesirable ecosystem state shifts driven by cheatgrass in the West and Eastern red cedar on central US grassl...

AoR 99: 'Defend the Core' Strategy for Invasive Plants, Jeremy Maestas & Dirac Twidwell, Part 1

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it time to surrender the Western U.S. to cheatgrass and frequent fire or regroup and work smarter? Jeremy Maestas, NRCS National Sagebrush Ecosyste...

AoR 98: Advances in Soil Health at SoilCon 2023, with Molly McIlquham

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trying to stay up on the most recent developments in soil health? SoilCon, a free virtual conference, will address the latest research to help people ...

AoR 97: Livestock Risk Protection insurance, with Jack Field & Clay Worden

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you could insure calf price against catastrophic price drops? LRP puts a price floor under feeder calves, paying for the difference between an...

AoR 96: Charles C Mann, The Americas Before Columbus, Part 2

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" has been a New York Times best-selling book since publication in 2006. Charles C Mann's writin...

AoR 95: Charles C Mann, The Americas Before Columbus, Part 1

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" has been a New York Times best-selling book since publication in 2006. Charles C Mann's writin...

AoR 94: Current Cattle Market Risks & Opportunities with Shannon Neibergs and Jack Field

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The global nature of agricultural trade and market forces makes cattle price cycles less predictable, and this presents a different kind of risk than ...

AoR 93: After 1492, Nature Rebounds -- William Denevan on the Pristine Myth

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Nature’s regeneration was the primary source of the Pristine Myth." --Shawn Miller. The influence of the idea that the American continent was ess...

AoR 92: What Hath Ocean Currents To Do With Colorado Cattle? with Derner, Augustine, and Raynor

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The giant bathtubs off the western and southern coasts of North America contribute large amounts of heat and moisture to the continent, driving much ...

AoR 91: Nathan Sayre essay: "Prospects and Tools for Sustainable Ranching in the Western U.S."

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly are we hoping to sustain in applying the term sustainability to ranching? Without definition, sustainability could just be circular reaso...

AoR 90: Key Performance Indicators to Measure Ranch Financial Health, with Stan Bevers

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Measuring the financial health of a ranch operation is as important as measuring rangeland health. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) combine productio...

AoR 89: Ranch Managerial Accounting with Stan Bevers

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You need a ranch financial team. Keeping ranch financial records for tax purposes is not the same thing as managing the financial health of a ranch. S...

AoR 88: Forage, Fuel, & Fire Forecasts with Matt Reeves

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The summer of 2022 is nearly in the books, as they say, but range managers and graziers should pay attention to increasingly sophisticated tools to ch...

AoR 87: Intro to Ranch Finance, Part 2--Jack Southworth, James Rogers, & Clay Worden

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Financial resiliency requires knowing and tracking costs of production and comparing the costs and revenues of a specific enterprise against other pos...

AoR 86: Intro to Ranch Financial Resiliency--Jack Southworth, James Rogers, & Clay Worden

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many ranchers don't do it for the money, but one cannot ranch for long only losing money. In this first episode in a grant-funded series on ranch fina...

AoR 85: Pastoralists Displaced in Cameroon, Africa -- Mark Moritz & Paul Scholte

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Americans hear news of social conflict and small-scale warfare in Africa and we ignore the news because it's far away and doesn't affect us. It's also...

AoR 84: Perspectives: Memoirs of Habitat and Homesteading in Eastern Montana, with Paul Bechtel

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Bechtel is an almost-centenarian, born 1923, whose family was lured to Eastern Montana by hopes of homesteading good land still free for the taki...

AoR 83: A Synthesis of Ranch-Level Sustainability Indicators for Land Managers, Part 2

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is the second in a two-part series with the authors of a recent article in the journal Rangeland Ecology & Management telling the story b...