Ranching Reboot

Our friend Phillip Meece from The Carnivore Bar joins us today to talk about his journey from the theater world of make believe combat to being a combat medic in Afghanistan and why he went on to create the carnivore bar. Buy Carnivore Bars here: https://carnivorebar.com/ https://twitter.com/thecarnivorebar https://www.instagram.com/thecarnivorebar/ https://twitter.com/p_meece https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-meece-14992a119/ https://www.facebook.com/meecep

Tyler Froberg joins us this week all the way from South Texas to share what it's like to farm on the coast. https://www.tiktok.com/@farmer.froberg?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/farmer.froberg/?hl=en https://twitter.com/farmerfroberg https://www.facebook.com/Farmer-Froberg-106511064920107/ https://www.goodlivincompany.com/

Ben Gotschall joins me this week from costal Maine to talk about his migration from the sandhills of Nebraska. A near lifelong Dairyman, Ben's pride is obvious when he's talking about his Jersey milk cows. Ben's passion for the future of the dairy industry is what set him on the path that has him currently in Maine, managing a dairy with 3 apprentices from the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship program we talked about back in Episode #21 with Joe Tomandl. Ben gets a good one in when he asks me to talk about Corrientes in the context of 'Mexican Jerseys' so make sure you catch that toward the end. https://holtcreekjerseys.com/ https://www.wolfesneck.org/ https://workingcows.net/ep-134-ben-gotschall-managing-market-complexity/ https://www.facebook.com/GrassfedPolledA2JerseyGenetics/ https://www.instagram.com/holtcreekjerseys/?hl=en https://globalagnetwork.com/ag-state-of-mind-with-jason-medows/podcast/asom-ep-17-ben-gotschall-holt-creek-jerseys

Join us this week for a great chat with our friend Chris Redman about how to assemble and maintain a killer ranch management team. Chris shares his kick ass proven steps to hire the right person for the job.  

Our friend Jessica Gnad joins us today to talk about Regeneration 2.0, the fragility of complex supply chains and the residual chemical load that many of us are walking around with. Jess leads us on her own personal journey of how she discovered regenerative ag, and what about it makes her so passionate. https://greatplainsregen.org/ https://www.facebook.com/GreatPlainsRegen/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/great-plains-regen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicagnad/ https://www.instagram.com/greatplainsregen/ https://www.dalefamilyfarms.com/ https://regenfarming.news/directory/greatplainsregeneration https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/2021/04/27/great-plains-regeneration-offer-education-mentors-farming-kansas-midwest-agriculture-organic/7348532002/

Our good friend Mike Callicrate joins us again for another trip to through recent history for his unique insight into how things got so screwed up in the beef industry. Today we talk about the Bander and it's different applications, and Mike gives us some tips and tricks to ensure success no matter what application you use it for. 

Hobbs Magaret is the guest this week, we talk about why it's so hard to get people to convert to regenerative practices and his upcoming move to East Texas. We get deep down into the weeds on carbon, fake meat and government regulations. We also unpack his controversial viewpoint about collapse ranching. https://sisterscattleco.com/ https://www.facebook.com/sisterscattleco/ https://www.instagram.com/sisterscattleco/ https://www.tiktok.com/@sisterscattleco https://www.bendbulletin.com/business/land-restoration-one-paddock-at-a-time/article_8bc0014c-1965-11eb-9640-f3838786754a.html

Greg Gunthorp from Gunthorp Farms in Indiana joins us today to talk about raising niche pork on pasture, meat packer concentration, the velocity of money and what we might be able to do as producers and consumers to change the status quo.  https://www.nichemeatprocessing.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/839824556349873/media/ https://twitter.com/GGunthorp https://gunthorpfarms.com/ https://twitter.com/gunthorpfarms

Our friends Liz and Russell join us to talk about everything they have going on from Ag Soil Regen, to Regen Mills, a mobile grain mill serving regenerative growers of heritage grains. We cover soil testing, the differences between the Haney test and other soil tests. Join us in Pratt for the Prairie Food Forum and Soil Health Workshop https://www.agsoilregen.com/event-info/prairiefood-forum-soil-health-workshop Mobile grain mill trailer story https://www.no-tillfarmer.com/blogs/1-covering-no-till/post/10853-milling-grain-on-the-go-for-higher-regenerative-profits Links for Liz:  https://www.agsoilregen.com/ https://www.instagram.com/soilregen/?hl=en https://twitter.com/agsoilregen https://greatplainsregen.org/ Links for Russell https://www.facebook.com/regenmills/ https://www.tiktok.com/@dtfdowntofarm? http://www.seventeentwelvespirits.com/

Our friend Kyler joins us to talk about his regenerative journey and what changes COVID drove him to make in his business. https://www.instagram.com/beefmaker/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@beef_maker? https://www.instagram.com/pnwbeef/?hl=en

Our good friend John C Locke of the Locke Division of JD Hudgins joins us to visit about the history of their ranch and share lessons learned and passed down through the years about succession and people management.

Matt Kleopfer from Harmony Hill Farms joins us to help answer some questions that were posed by a group of local women and mothers. https://www.facebook.com/harmonyhillfarmstead/ https://www.facebook.com/Circle-7-by-Fuller-Farms-802496963110427/ https://www.fullerfieldschool.com/

Kevin Silverman from Grassroots Carbon Joins us to take a deep dive into Carbon credits and how they relate to Farming and Ranching. On the show we decode and define a lot of the terms being thrown around in the media. [email protected]  Email Soilcarbon.substack.com https://weekly.regeneration.works/

Travis Krause joins us to talk about Carbon, Grazing, Cows and how he's staying ahead of supply chain issues down the road. https://grazinglands.com/ https://www.parkercreekranch.com/ https://www.thepastoralist.blog/

Cole Bush joins us this week from the Ojai valley in California to visit us about what it's like to run a contract sheep and goat grazing business in the middle of a fairly densely populated areas where not many are accustomed to livestock. http://brittanycolebush.co/ http://grazingschoolofthewest.com/ https://shepherdesslandl.co/ https://www.instagram.com/shepherdess.land.and.livestock/ http://www.shepherdess.co/

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Dallas Mount joins us again on the show to talk about how to have some of the hard conversations with your business partners. https://www.facebook.com/Ranching4Profit/ https://www.instagram.com/ranching4profit/?hl=en https://linktr.ee/ranching4profit https://ranchmanagement.com/schedule/ https://ranchmanagement.com/generation/

My friend Michael Thompson joins us this week to talk about his operation in Northwest Kansas https://twitter.com/Michael72540562 https://www.facebook.com/groups/560989120582946

Jason Meadows from the Ag State of Mind podcast joins us this week to share what he's learned in nearly 100 episodes of podcasting. https://agstateofmind.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vets-in-ag-podcast/id1549873202 https://www.instagram.com/agstateofmind/?hl=en

Bob Kinford joins us this week to talk about stockmanship, rodeo, grazing and how cows forgot to be cows. 

This week we head up north into Canada and visit with Sean Smith from Clanman Jerseys about how different the Dairy Industry is up there and how they have transitioned to a Grass based dairy that milks with a Robot! https://www.facebook.com/ClanmanJerseys

This week we are joined by Joe Tomandl from the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship program. We keep getting requests, questions and guest suggestions for the more dairy content, so we are going to keep delivering! www.dga-national.org

For part three of the dairy mini series we sat down with Dan Venticher from Honey Creek Dairy in North Eastern Iowa Dan and his brother run a 190 cow dairy with feeding and milking robots!

After a long day in the saddle on the beautiful Flying W Ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas and a wonderful meal, seven of us sat down on the porch in the last light of day to listen to Bob, Jake and David tell cowboy stories. Things got really good after I turned the recorder off! Bob is for sure on the list for future guests, come to our Facebook group and leave a question for him!

This week we are joined by our friend Loyd Borntrager from near Hutchinson Kansas to talk about his multigenerational regenerative grass based Dairy. Loyd Markets nearly everything he and his family produces in an On-Farm store. https://borntragerdairy.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Borntragerdairyfarm/ https://shopkansasfarms.com/business-directory/704/borntrager-dairy/ https://www.localharvest.org/borntrager-dairy-M72954 https://harvesthosts.com/host-locations/

Karl Theidmann and Seth Itzkan joined us to talk about thier work on the policy side of things, the Soil 4 Climate group and movement, plus we talk about the Masaii tribe and how they are healing their land and relearning ancestral herding. We hit rabbit trails about fake meat and the ecosystem benefits of regenerative agriculture. 

This week Jeff joins us to talk about the Dairy industry and kick off a dairy mini series. The https://www.organicvalley.coop/ Website is full of great information Jeff's Farm: https://www.facebook.com/lonepinepastures/ Jeff's Email: [email protected] Jeff's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/514435845799417

Domo Contacted me on social media, which lead to emails, which lead to this wonderful conversation about fires both wild and prescribed, grazing management and the need for more cultural acceptance of fire. 

Rowdy Yeatts from High Plains Biochar joins us this week to chat about biochar, what it is and what I can do for your soil and livestock. 

Season 1 Bonus Episode 4 My Friend Brenden called me and we had a great chat, he let me record it and after a did a little light editing it was too good to not share.

This week Doniga Markegard joins us to share her unique perspective from Ranching around the Bay area in California on the Coastal Terrace Prairie. Instagram @dawn.again

Drew Perrson from Beefchain joins us this week for a great conversation about traceability, and how that helps connect the producers with consumers. www.beefchain.com

CK and I talked to the Hoy Family, winners of the 2020 Kansas Aldo Leopold Conservation Award about their ranch, their cows and their management. As a special extra, on release day, I was with the Hoy family, learning Regenerative Ranching from Horseback. Check them out on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlyingWRanch/ https://www.facebook.com/FlyingWRanchGFB/

Mike Callicrate and I jumped on a phone call to discuss some current events, the state of the cattle markets and what we can all do about it. Link to the mentioned blog post: https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/2021/05/05/lets-meat-challenges-opportunities-in-small-and-mid-scale-meat-and-poultry-processing/

Our friend Jeff Goodwin from Noble Research Institute joins us to talk about what Noble does, what they are doing, and what they can do for you. Connect with Jeff on Instagram @Noble_landstewardship www.noble.org

Today we are joined by Russ Conser, President of Grassfed Exchange and Blue Nest Beef. in a former life, Russ worked for Shell oil and he has a very interesting perspective on Carbon. https://bluenestbeef.com/ https://www.carboncowboys.org/ https://www.audubon.org/conservation/ranching https://bluenestbeef.com/product/bobolinks/  <==== Use the Code BOBOREBOOT for $10 off your first package of BoBoLinks!

My Friend Chad Tuttle from C2T Ranch north of Hays Kansas joins us to talk about how he fell down the regenerative rabbit hole. Last year Chad and his wife were the #1 Hipcamp site in the US and the #2 RV site on Hipcamp as well. Email Chad: [email protected] Visit the website www.c2tranch.com Links to Chad's Hipcamp sites: https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/kansas/c2t-ranch-on-the-saline-river/c2t-ranch-on-the-saline-primitive https://www.hipcamp.com/en-US/kansas/c2t-ranch-on-the-saline-river/c2t-ranch-on-the-saline-rv

Our Friend from South west Colorado Sarah Bangert joins us today to talk about herding goats in the mountains and how prescribed grazing services work. www.rxgrazingservices.com

By listener request, a show all about CK. 

Adam Issacs joins us today from the Texas Panhandle. As usual we take a deep dive into his story and how he got to where he is, what hard lessons he learned along the way that we would pay forward to keep someone from making a costly mistake.  Contact Adam on Instagram: www.instagram.com/needmore_ranching Resources mentioned: GrassSnap App https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/centralsandhills/grasssnap/ Olson Ranch Livestock Marketing School http://olsonranchllc.com/marketing-school-outline/ American Grazing Land Services https://www.americangrazinglands.com/ Kiss the Ground Movie https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

Our guest today Beth Robinette from Lazy R beef joins us to talk about her semi feral childhood and growing up as a second generation Holistic Rancher and what an eye opening experience it was for her to see how the rest of the world eats food. She has a great story to tell about how her younger days have shaped who she is and what drives her to greatness. We delve into what Holistic management is and what it means to her, then we move on to talking about some of the more novel marketing channels that she has developed. https://www.lazyrbeef.com/ http://www.lincfoods.com/ @lazyrranch on Instagram. The New York Times article couldn't be located. https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/livestock/new-cowgirl-camps-expanding-to-keep-up-with-demand/article_11a324e0-cfef-11e9-9082-73375a0f4b92.html

Dallas Mount CEO of Ranch Management Consultants joins us to share lessons he's learned in 20 years in extension service, teaching the High Plains Ranch Practicum and now the Ranching For Profit School. We talk about how the management tools have improved and debate pugging. We discuss how forage is the engine that drives the profit on the Ranch and how we are all in the business of turning sunlight into protein. https://ranchmanagement.com/

The legendary Temple Grandin joined us for a shorter than normal show to talk about the fragility of complex supply chains  and the PAUSE Ballot initiative that's currently pending in Colorado. we discussed the problems relating to people viewing food as too much of an abstraction. "Nothing is free in this world, everything takes energy." We discussed regenerative agriculture and it's potential to transform our food systems. 

My friend Matt Kleopfer had a few things on his mind and we sat down one on one to talk about them. In this Special mid week bonus episode we discuss children, and how we are starting to unlock some of the secrets of how the gut micro biome influences mental health. Everything circles back to the terrain of soil health instead of the pathology. We talk about how Matt transitioned from public school teacher to full time farm school teacher for his four children and how music and backyard butchery are bringing back the sense of community spirit in south eastern Kansas. 

Ariel Greenwood joined us to talk about her journey from North Carolina to California and points beyond. She talks about the crash course she had in the disparity between intention and results. 

Mike Callicrate sat down with us to talk about all manner of things from cattle markets, to public food spaces, the Bander, his feedlot and the pathway he built to market. He shares valuable lessons learned from fighting against the commodity production system and how he's built his own pathway to the consumer. We talk about small community slaughter plants and public meat spaces and what that could look like going in to the future. We discuss environmental challenges, the food police and what it means when a Dollar General comes to town. Links: Mike's Home page https://www.mikecallicrate.com/ Mike's blog https://nobull.mikecallicrate.com/ https://ranchfoodsdirect.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mikecallicrate https://callicratecattleco.com/ https://callicratebanders.com/ https://readingterminalmarket.org/

Ranching Reboot: Conversations in land stewardship with some of today's most innovative ranchers and producers. Join us for episode 3 of Ranching Reboot! We sit down with "Mac" Kincaid, from Kincaid Farms to talk about starting from not much and building a diversified low input operation. Mac was recently named "Regenerative Producer of the Year" and is becoming a sought after speaker. 

Ranching Reboot: Conversations in land stewardship with some of today's most innovative ranchers and producers. Join us for episode 2 of Ranching Reboot!  We sit down with Michael Kinsey, from Reverent Wild Ranch to talk about a variety of topics from how Michael got started, to how we can break out of government subsidies and start supporting local producers. Michael is a man with no product, only truth.

Ranching Reboot: Conversations in land stewardship with some of today's most innovative ranchers and producers. The team sits down with Hobbs Magaret from Sisters Cattle Co. to discuss Hobbs' history, education, and some of his tips for new ranchers. 

Ranching Reboot: Conversations in land stewardship with some of today's most innovative ranchers and producers. In our kick-off episode, the team sits down with Clay Conry from Working Cows Podcast to discuss the launch of Ranching Reboot, and learn more about Clay's operations.