Practically Ranching

07/09/2025

Anyone headed to the hayfield? Tractor time = Podcast time!

Check out our two most recent drops with Josh White and Jason Kraft!

Great conversations about marketing, risk management, price discovery, Beef Quality Assurance and lots more!

Listen wherever you download podcasts!

06/03/2025

Fun interview from a few months ago with the folks at WLJ.

Ranching runs deep for Matt Perrier. From his family’s Dalebanks Angus ranch in Kansas to hosting Practically Ranching, Matt is all about preserving tradition, embracing innovation and keeping the conversation going.

05/29/2025

This episode is for all you rural community leaders out there!

Marci Penner is Executive Director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation. Over the past few decades, she has traveled to all 627 incorporated cities across Kansas. In these travels, she has recognized the value of rural communities and especially the people who keep them thriving.

We talk rural development, organizations, paradigms and so much more in this one. As always, thanks for listening...find us on your favorite podcast platform.

04/28/2025

We're a bit behind posting, but we've still been steadily cranking the pods out.
Check out the last two conversations about the beef stocker business with Rich Porter and consumer issues with Logan Thompson.

We're out every other Wednesday, so check us out. Be sure to like/follow/subscribe wherever you listen!

04/04/2025

I often laud the notion of an all-encompassing beef industry mindset, but this episode's guest lives it every day. He and his family own and/or operate in all segments of the beef industry: farming, cow-calf, feeding and packing.
Ed Greiman's experience and story are fascinating, so be sure to give this one a listen!

Ed Greiman is General Manager of Upper Iowa Beef, a mid-sized beef processing plant located in Lime Springs, Iowa.He was born and raised as a typical farm kid in rural Iowa, went to college at Iowa State University, and has had significant experie...

03/18/2025

I tell folks that I like pods that feel like you're eavesdropping on a great conversation at the end of a bar, and that's about how this one felt.

Five minutes into a happenstance conversation with my friend, Bill Rishel, Jerry Bohn came by and said, "This looks like it'd be a great podcast!" So we hit Record, and did just that.

The older I get, the more I like learning from those older than I, so I really enjoyed this one. I'm pretty sure that you will, too.

Check Practically Ranching out wherever you listen!

03/05/2025

We only covered two topics this time, but they were both important ones.

Don Schiefelbein is President of Schiefelbein Farms, Kimball, MN. Given the fact that they have 15 family members who provide labor, management and ownership of this multi-generation business, we had a thorough discussion about estate planning, transition and communication.

And since Don served as president of both the largest breed association and the largest cattlemen's organization within a few years of each other, we then had a thorough discussion about authenticity in leadership, member engagement and his father's belief that "if you aren't willing to put in the time, you don't have a right to say anything."

Check it out wherever you listen! You'll be glad you did.

02/13/2025

If you don’t download this week’s episode of Practically Ranching, then you ain’t no cowboy, ol’ son.

02/10/2025

Fun trip down Memory Lane with Bill Bowman, Method Genetics LLC.
We talk the "old days" of genetic evaluation, multi-trait indexes and lots more!

Check it out wherever you listen!

01/22/2025

Whether it's within the beef industry or his family's business, Sam Hands believes in the power of a team.
Hear how he has helped recruit and retain teams at his family's business, Triangle H, through the years.

Pod link in the comments.

01/16/2025

Some days, it's tough to be married to a rancher. It's even tougher when said rancher has a podcast... and cons you into joining him for an episode!
Listen in as Amy and I talk spousal communication, time prioritization, communication and a whole host of not-so-romantic parts of ranch relationships.

11/09/2024

Yikes, where has the time gone? We've had two great episodes the past few weeks...comparing and contrasting the swine & beef industries and new ways of estimating beef cutability. Check out these great discussions with Bradley Wolter and Dale Woerner wherever you listen!