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Practically Ranching

Matt Perrier

80 episodes

1 week ago

Don Close is a senior animal protein analyst for Terrain Ag. He’s enjoying serving in leadership roles in the cattle industry and conducting research on a wide range of topics after overseeing the establishment of Terrain as the team’s first leader. Don’s prior experience includes his work as a senior animal protein analyst at Rabobank, and as a market director for the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, where he worked on all economic and market-sensitive policy issues for cattle feeders in Te...

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Don Close is a senior animal protein analyst for Terrain Ag. He’s enjoying serving in leadership roles in the cattle industry and conducting research on a wide range of topics after overseeing the establishment of Terrain as the team’s first leader. Don’s prior experience includes his work as a senior animal protein analyst at Rabobank, and as a market director for the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, where he worked on all economic and market-sensitive policy issues for cattle feeders in Te...

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Practically Ranching

#79 - Don Close, Getting Past the Noise

Don Close is a senior animal protein analyst for Terrain Ag. He’s enjoying serving in leadership roles in the cattle industry and conducting research on a wide range of topics after overseeing the establishment of Terrain as the team’s first leader. Don’s prior experience includes his work as a senior animal protein analyst at Rabobank, and as a market director for the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, where he worked on all economic and market-sensitive policy issues for cattle feeders in Te...

1 week ago

54 minutes

Practically Ranching

#78 - Rich Blair, Staying in Front of the Trends

Rich Blair is a beef producer from Sturgis, SD. The Blair family has grown a cowherd over the last 25 years that is focused on meeting demands for their own ranching operation, their genetics customers, the feeding industry and the beef consumer. In addition to the cowherd, Rich also has a commodity brokerage business, where he provides risk management tools for northern plains producers. www.blairbrosangus.com

1 month ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Practically Ranching

#77 - Jason Kraft; Faith, Freedom, Family, and Agriculture

Jason Kraft is the Founder and CEO of Compass Ag Solutions, a Risk Management firm based in his hometown of Ft. Collins, CO. In addition, his family owns and operates Hilltop Hay and Livestock, a diversified family operation that offers high quality hay, cattle and beef to customers in Colorado’s Front Range. We talk market risk, leverage, fed cattle price discovery and asset protection. Throughout his career, Jason has found ways to find solutions to market challenges. Whether it’s his...

3 months ago

56 minutes

Practically Ranching

#76 - Josh White, Always Be Prepared to Give an Answer

Links: National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Beef Quality Assurance - BQA Masters of Beef Advocacy Environmental Stewardship Award Program Stockmanship & Stewardship Cattlemen’s College Rancher’s Resilience Grant U S Roundtable for Sustainable Beef Josh White serves as the Sr. Executive Director - Producer Education & Sustainability for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). He is a fourth-generation cattleman whose first experiences with cattle trace back to helping with h...

4 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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#75 - Marci Penner, Rural By Choice

Marci Penner has served as executive director of Kansas Sampler Foundation since the formation of the 501c3. She has a unique perspective of Kansas having been to every one of the 627 incorporated cities several times for guidebook research. Having a reason to observe, have conversations, and note common issues and differences led to the PowerUp Movement (empowerment of those 21-39 who are rural by choice) and the access to resources and topics for the Big Rural Brainstorm and We Kan! C...

5 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Practically Ranching

#74 - Logan Thompson, The Emotional Aspect of Food

Logan Thompson is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of Sustainable Livestock Feeding at Kansas State University. He grew up on a registered Hereford ranch in central Texas which instilled a passion to improve the sustainability of beef production by developing practical solutions for producers. Logan started his bachelor's degree at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX prior to completing his degree at Texas Tech University in 2015. Following this he earned a Masters i...

6 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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#73 - Rich Porter, A Stocker's Stockman

Rich Porter owns and operates Porter Cattle Company, a grazing and backgrounding operation, located north of Emporia, Kansas. He receives around 7,000 head of three-weight, high-risk calves from the southeast annually and grows them to roughly 800 pounds. Rich holds degrees in chemical engineering, business and law, but for the last five decades, he has been a student of agriculture. His knowledge and ingenuity in the areas of beef production, conservation and management are an inspiration fo...

7 months ago

51 minutes

Practically Ranching

#72 - Ed Greiman, A Little Better All the Time

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 experience in nearly all segments of the beef industry supply chain. NOTE: This episode was recorded in early February 2025, so some of the references to political landscape and economics may sound a bit dated. Home - Upper Iowa Beef | Upper Iowa Beef

7 months ago

53 minutes

Practically Ranching

#71 - Bill Rishel, From New Trend to New Products

Bill Rishel and his wife, Barb, live near North Platte, Nebraska. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he has always had a passion for Angus cattle and beef cattle improvement. Bill will be honored in November with induction into the Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Gallery, and an in-depth synopsis of Bill's industry accomplishments may be found in this article: Bill Rishel To Be Honored with 2025 Saddle & Sirloin Portrai

7 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

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#70 - Don Schiefelbein, Authentic Matters Most

Don Schiefelbein is President of Schiefelbein Farms, a large seedstock operation near Kimball, MN. He is the past-president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the American Angus Association. In this episode, Don outlines his family's business structure and efforts to sustain their family business for generations. He also shares his hopes and vision for the beef industry leadership in the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. Links: Grappling with the Family Farm - Sports Illust...

8 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Practically Ranching

#69 - Dale Brisby, You Ain't No Cowboy

Dale Brisby is the self-proclaimed greatest bull rider who ever lived. You may know him from the popular Dale Brisby YouTube channel, the Rodeo Time YouTube channel, and other social media platforms. He also has a Netflix original series How to Be a Cowboy. In addition to his rodeo apparel line, he’s a bona fide rancher, cowboy, and rodeo rider who proudly lives the life 24/7. Follow the World’s Greatest Bull Rider on Instagram. Links: www.rodeotime.com

8 months ago

59 minutes

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#68 - Bill Bowman, Genetic Tools and the Methods Behind Them

Bill Bowman works with Method Genetics, LLC, in St. Joseph, MO. Through the years, Bill has worked in a variety of roles within the Angus breed, from the production to association levels. In this episode, we talk about the early days of multi-trait indexes, the move to genomic-enhanced EPDs, how commercial producers can benefit from the use of indexes; and finally, a few trends that Bill envisions as the beef industry moves into the next decade or two.https://youtu.be/uEf7iJRWvSUhttps://www.m...

9 months ago

1 hour 1 minute

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#67 - Sam Hands, Quality Beef and a Quality Team

Sam Hands and his family own and operate Triangle H, a diversified cow-calf, farming and feeding operation near Garden City, KS.Sam and daughter, Marisa Kleysteuber, provide the management and leadership for this progressive, quality-focused beef operation.In this episode, Sam shares some of his outlooks on employee management, working with the younger generation; plus the lessons he has learned from his time at Kansas State University, the military and just careful observation of what motiva...

9 months ago

1 hour

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#66 - Amy Perrier, So I Married a Rancher

Amy Perrier is a Christian, Physical Therapist, Mother to five children...and a ranch wife. In this episode, she discusses the challenges, rewards and learnings that she has gathered over the past two+ decades of trying to balance all of these duties.We talk spousal communication, generational transitions, Retirement (or lack thereof) and community leadership. Like the one I did with Ava last January, we recorded this on Bluetooth in the truck, so get ready for a little road noise a...

10 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes

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#65 - Bull Sale Preview and Breeding Philosophies

Matt takes a solo flight in this episode as he highlights the sires of this year's sale bulls and then gives an overview of the Dalebanks Practical. Profitable. Genetics. breeding philosophy.52nd Annual Bull SaleNovember 23, 2024NW of Eureka, KSmattperrier@dalebanks.comwww.dalebanks.com

11 months ago

34 minutes

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#64 - Dale Woerner, Redoing Red Meat Yield

Dr. Dale R. Woerner, Professor and Cargill Endowed Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech University, is an academic professional and meat and food industry consultant. Dr. Woerner earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Science, Meat and Food Industry Management from Texas Tech University in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. in Animal Science/Meat Science from Colorado State University in 2009. He served on the faculty at Colorado State Univers...

1 year ago

1 hour 11 minutes

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# 63 - Bradley Wolter, From Sows to Cows

Bradley Wolter is a relative newcomer to the beef business, but has certainly been a student of the industry since his move from a successful career in the swine industry.In this episode, we talk about his tenure with Maschhoffs, one of the largest family-owned pork producers in the United States. We talk about data collection, management strategy, operational efficiency and the major differences between pork and beef production systems and cultures.Bradley and his family now own and operate ...

1 year ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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#62 - Kara Lee, Your Link in the Chain

Kara Lee is Director of Producer Engagement for the Certified Angus Beef Program. A native of Indiana, she now resides in northeast Kansas.On the episode, we highlight the many speakers and information shared at the 2024 Feeding Quality Forum, held in Dodge City, KS, last month.Slides and further information may be found at:www.feedingqualityforum.com

1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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#61 - Dave Lalman, Finding Forage-Efficient Cows

Dr. David Lalman is a professor and Extension Beef Cattle Specialist at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Lalman holds the Harrington Endowed Chair with split extension and research appointment. He works primarily in the beef cattle industry focused on cow/calf and stocker cattle production. His extension and applied research program includes beef cattle nutrition and management with emphasis on beef cattle grazing and genetic by environment interactions in beef production systems. His program g...

1 year ago

1 hour 7 minutes

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#60 - Chef Tyler Florence, A Passion for Beef

Tyler Florence has hosted shows on Food Network, Discovery and several other networks for nearly three decades. He owns restaurants in California, Hawaii and cut his teeth in kitchens in South Carolina. He’s a chef, a businessman, a creative mind, an amazingly nice guy and he LOVES beef and the families who raise it.Miller & Lux (millerandluxrestaurant.com)

1 year ago

1 hour 3 minutes