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#159 The Total Grazing Academy is now Open: Building the Future with the Land on our Side

Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

Release Date: 06/10/2025

#170 Why Simplicity Wins: “The Infrastructure Myth Most Ranchers Fall For” show art #170 Why Simplicity Wins: “The Infrastructure Myth Most Ranchers Fall For”

Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

Most ranchers believe success in regenerative grazing is reserved for the folks who can write a six-figure check to the fencing company. I get it. We’ve all been told: “If you want to graze right, you’ve got to invest in infrastructure.” But here’s the myth I want to bust wide open today: You don’t need a complex setup to succeed in Total Grazing. In fact, the more complicated you make it, the less likely you are to stick with it. And when you strip it down to the essentials, that’s when grazing starts working for your livestock, your land, and your wallet. Podcast transcript: ...

info_outline #169 I Thought I Needed More Land - But I Was Just Missing This show art #169 I Thought I Needed More Land - But I Was Just Missing This

Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

Sharing my story from my early years, when I sought to make my farm profitable. I bought my 300-acre farm and immediately learned I wasn’t profitable. For sure you can relate to my story. However, I want to share with you something I learned the hard way, which changed everything for me. It wasn’t more land I needed. It was learning how to use the land I already had. Podcast transcript: ►Enroll in the Total Grazing Academy: ►Access other resources here: Follow me on:  ►Instagram: ►Facebook: ►Youtube:

info_outline #168 Why We Teach This - It's More Than About Cows and Grass show art #168 Why We Teach This - It's More Than About Cows and Grass

Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

Why do we pour time, effort, and energy into helping ranchers and farmers around the world change the way they manage their land, their herds, and their futures? Because it’s not just about grazing techniques or growing more grass. It’s not just about increasing stocking rates to increase profits or building soil organic matter, even though those are real and powerful outcomes. No, today I want to talk about the deeper “why.” Podcast transcript: ►Enroll in the Total Grazing Academy: ►Access other resources here: Follow me on:  ►Instagram: ►Facebook: ►Youtube: ...

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These are results being achieved on ranches and farms around the world. No theory, no random ideas - just the results we're getting. There are ranchers and graziers from all around the world — from Texas to Tasmania, from Colombia to Alberta — showing up, learning, applying, and transforming their land through the Total Grazing Academy. And not only that… It’s working. In dry climates, wet climates, cold climates, and tropical ones. It’s working on Bahia grass and Bermuda grass, as well as fescue and native prairie mixes, on Brachiaria grass in South America and veld grass in...

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Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

I’ve taught in many places — from South Texas to Argentina, Europe, the Tropics of South America, and the mountains of Mexico — but what I experienced on this trip left a lasting impression on me. I'd like to share that with you. Because, as much as I came there to teach, I ended up witnessing something just as powerful. Something I have been studying for a long time. Something we may have forgotten here in the U.S. — or maybe never fully understood. And that’s the role of hindgut fermenters like the horse — not as a pet, not as a symbol, but as a working grazer, a functional piece...

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You are likely familiar with the 'take half, leave half' recommendation, which originated from a study conducted by Cridder in the 1950s. The study showed that re-cutting a plant too often can shorten its root system. Well, 70 years later, most grazing gurus and grazing management magazines still adhere to that flawed recommendation, with a few starting to point out that it is not good advice. It took them 70 years to acknowledge the huge mistake of that wrong conclusion, which was that by grazing only half the plant, the roots would continue to grow.  Podcast transcript: ►Enroll in...

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Let's take a look at our minimal and flexible fencing infrastructure Why? Because we often delay building it, we end up paying significantly more in initial costs, maintenance, and ongoing hard work. Remember, we want to work smarter, not harder, and it starts with planning Podcast transcript: ►Enroll in the Total Grazing Academy: ►Access other resources here: Follow me on:  ►Instagram: ►Facebook: ►Youtube:  

info_outline #163 What I Do Before I Move My Cattle (Everytime) show art #163 What I Do Before I Move My Cattle (Everytime)

Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

I will share with you what I do every day when managing my cattle grazing operations and where I focus. How I follow nature and how plant physiology (which is very simple) plays an important part. Podcast transcript: https://www.rwranching.com/blog/163 ►Enroll in the Total Grazing Academy: ►Access other resources here: Follow me on:  ►Instagram: ►Facebook: ►Youtube:

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Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

Have you ever observed, when regenerating your land, that some pastures simply do better than others? It may begin with greener and larger grass growth near manure patties, and then this greener, higher growth of grass starts to spread across your pastures. I was in New Zealand with Andy Bunny, the owner of a large farm in the North Island, and he asked: Why is the grass much taller and greener where there are manure patties in the pasture? Podcast transcript: https://www.rwranching.com/blog/162 ►Enroll in the Total Grazing Academy: https://www.rwranching.com/enroll ►Access other...

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Fat Cows, Fat Wallet! Podcast

Today, we will have a real, heart-to-heart chat about something that’s been on my mind for a long time, and I bet has crossed yours too: What happens when you stop overgrazing and let your soil breathe? Podcast transcript: ►Enroll in the Total Grazing Academy: ►Access other resources here: Follow me on:  ►Instagram: ►Facebook: ►Youtube:  

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