

Ranching Reboot
Red Hills Rancher
Ranching Reboot is your go-to podcast for innovative farming practices and regenerative agriculture. We bring fresh stories from today's progressive farmers, ranchers, and food producers, highlighting new ideas and time-tested wisdom. Join host Brian Alexander as we challenge conventional thinking, explore sustainable farming, and strive to reboot our food system for a healthier planet. Tune in for weekly inspiration and insights in agriculture.
Reboot your thinking about farming, ranching, food systems and the people that operate them!
Reboot your thinking about farming, ranching, food systems and the people that operate them!
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Jul 19, 2021 • 1h 19min
#22 Sean Smith, A Robot Milking Grazing Dairy in Canada
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

Jul 12, 2021 • 1h 26min
#21 Joe Tomandl " Disrupting the Dairy industry"
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

Jul 5, 2021 • 1h 47min
#20 Dan Venticher Honey Creek Dairy
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!

Jul 1, 2021 • 1h 8min
Bonus 7 Bob Kinford at the Flying W, after dinner
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!

Jun 28, 2021 • 1h 29min
#19 Loyd Borntrager, All Grass All The Time
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/

Jun 24, 2021 • 37min
Bonus #6 with Karl T and Seth I 'Soil4Climate'
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.

Jun 21, 2021 • 1h 11min
#18 Jeff Ramseyer Organic Valley Dairy Co-Op
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: jrams925@yahoo.com
Jeff's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/514435845799417

Jun 17, 2021 • 1h 35min
Bonus #5 with Dominique "Domo" Woodham "All About Fire"
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.

Jun 14, 2021 • 1h 34min
#17 Rowdy Yeatts All about biochar
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.

Jun 10, 2021 • 20min
Bonus #4 with Brenden Wheelock "Current state of the Cattle Business'
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.