Angus Herd Talk

In this episode I talk with Traves Merrick from Gleondra Angus Farms.  We discuss their 66 year old program, use of feed efficiency and the upcoming production sale. 

In this episode I talk with Vince Santini owner of Shady Brook Angus Farm and co-host of Around the Chute podcast.  We discuss his own podcast, Shady Brook and his upcoming sale. 

In this episode I talk with Rob Thomas from Thomas Angus Ranch.  We discuss the ranch's history, the cow families and their breeding philosophies. 

In this episode I talk with Tyler Musgrave about their program, the Lady Barbara family and the breed changer, LD Capitalist 316

In this episode I talk with Brian and Kim Smith of Smith Valley Angus about their herd, some of the bulls they've used, upcoming sale and a special donation lot for Sacred Selections who helps families afford to adopt a child.

In this episode I talk with Chris Earl about his consulting company CK6, his ranch in New Mexico; Reverse Rocking R and the upcoming Angus Convention. 

In this episode I talk with Klint Swanson about his families ranch, his historical Angus upbringing, owning one of the most influential bulls in the breed and current bull battery. 

In this episode I talk with Justin Spickler from Spickler Ranch North.  We discuss his ranching operations and his bull battery, including Spickler Right Time and Chisum 6175.

In this short, I discuss my discontent with the Angus Association taking money from Bezos Earth Fund and the board of directors.  I call on members to make change by appropriate measures and to remember the reasons they first started raising Angus. 

In this episode I'm joined by Chris Earl to voice our displeasure of the American Angus Association accepting a grant from Bezos Earth Fund for research on methane created by cows. 

In this episode I talk with Jason Meadon from Bucksnort Ranch who immigrated to the United States from South Africa about the murder of farmers in South Africa. 

In this episode I talk with Nathan Spickler from Spickler Ranch South about the origins of the ranch, hid herd, some of the historic bulls used in his program and current bulls being offered. 

In this episode, I talk with Kelly Albrecht and Jeff Penz about their upcoming sale, some of the bulls they have available at Sire Buyer and a few random questions I had for them. 

In this episode I talk with Brian Stoller from Bear Mountain Angus about the origins of the ranch, his upcoming bull sale and bulls he's produced over the last 20 years. 

In this episode I talk with TJ Gabriel from Deep Creek Angus Ranch about the beginnings of his program, breeding philosophy, the bulls he's used and two bulls her currently has with Select Sires and Genex. 

In this episode I'm joined by Cory Crouthamel and Joe Fischer and we discuss the value of indexes, transparency of data and wild rags. 

In this episode I bring in Joe Fischer to co-host as we interview our good friend Cory Crouthamel about putting his program together and some of the bulls he's raised and owned. 

In this episode we discuss their upcoming sale, the merging of two herds into one, their management and the Angus Convention. 

In this episode I talk with Jason Meadon from Bucksnort Ranch about their sale offering coming up on November 1st, the founding of the program and their breeding philosophy. 

In my second segment with Darrell Stevenson, we discuss his role as a board member for the Angus Association, his herd and breeding philosophy at Stevenson Down T. We finish the episode with historical bulls used and owned by Stevenson Ranch and bulls raised by Darrell. 

In this episode I talk to Darrell Stevenson about the deep history of Stevensons in the Angus industry and we discuss his experience with ranching in Russia. 

In this episode Joe and I discuss where we see the cattle industry going, breeding on epds vs pedigree and type & kind. We dive into why we believe seedstock startups leave the industry so quickly and some changes happening at Bruin Ranch. 

In this episode with Matt Lowery we discuss auctioneering, his commercial cattle herd and his bull battery. 

I talk with Bob and Tonya Dodds from Belgrade Nebraska about their breeding philosophy,  donor cows and upcoming production sale. 

I talk with Jeff Penz about their program, their sale coming up on President's Day and some of the bulls they've had in seedstock catalogs. 

In this episode I talk to Kelly Albrecht about his seedstock ranch, the perils of calving ease and KLA Cherokee.

In this episode I talk to Patterson Freeman about Data vs Genomics and our views of the American Angus Association. 

A discussion with Brent Vieselmeyer about Vision Angus, the National Western Stock Show and the Foundation Angus Sale.

A dive into the Gartner-Denowh Angus Ranch with Chad Denowh. We discuss his thoughts on the ideal cow and some of the famous herd sires they've owned. 

A deep dive into feed efficiency and the bull battery at Byergo Angus with Drew and Bryson Byergo.  They have made a commitment to improving the efficiency of the Angus cow. 

A discussion with Jake Tiedeman about his families historic past in the Angus industry and some of the influential cows and sires he and his family have owned and worked with. We also discuss some of the sires in their current bull battery. 

In depth discussion with Joe Fisher from Bruin Ranch about the ranches history, program, bulls used in the past and now currently being used.