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233: Chris and Lyndsey - Solar Grazing
Episode 233
In this episode Jared Luhman speaks with Lyndsey and Chris from Shady Creek Lamb Co., who share their innovative approach to sheep farming through solar grazing. They discuss their backgrounds in agr…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
232: Keith Olsen - Low Input Crop and Cattle Farming
Episode 233
Keith is passionate about low input regenerative agriculture and is exploring both of those avenues on his own operation in SE Minnesota. We discuss how he's focusing on improving his land and pocket…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
231: Sam Fryer - Ranching, Podcasting and Working!
Episode 231
Sam has an awesome story, he shares how he decided to separate himself from the family farm and go out on his own in order to preserve family relationships. We discuss the process of building his ope…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
230: Jacob Gilley - Enterprise Analysis, Real Estate, and More!
Episode 230
Lots of good stuff in this conversation with Jacob. We discuss his path to farming, his decision to leave the off farm job, the many enterprises he has experience with and spend a while on his record…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
229: Ben Minden - Training Cowboys and Buying a Business
Episode 229
Ben is founder and president of Bear Hug Cattle Company which is a non-profit that trains retiring military members on the basics required to work in the cattle industry in the west! And in the secon…
Published on 3 months ago
228: Drew Bruner - Going All in on Sheep
Episode 226
Drew talks about why in this particular market he chose not to invest in stockers and switch entirely to sheep. He discusses his permanent flock as well as his stocker ewe flock experiment for this y…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
227: Matthew Menke - Risk vs. Reward, Leverage and Knowing Your Business
Episode 227
Matthew shares his incredible story of turning down a dream opportunity to take over a family business because he couldn't do so profitably. He shares how he grew an ag business and eventually got ba…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
226: Randal Breen - From Living in a Shed to Full Time Farmer
Episode 226
Randal shares his incredible story of building a farm. He now operates on over 650 acres and direct markets meat and eggs to local individuals and wholesale accounts! A story that highlights the rela…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
225: Alex McKiernan - Car Wrecks Can't Stop This Family!
Episode 225
Alex and his wife have built a diverse farm and ranch business that started with direct to consumer vegetable production through a CSA and has grown to a large ranch that does custom grazing, goat pr…
Published on 4 months ago
224: Caleb Smith - Switching from Dairy to Sheep
Episode 224
Caleb has a unique story to getting into agriculture, he had the opportunity to take on a 40 year land lease from a non-profit and built a dairy farm from scratch. He shares that story and also how h…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago