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Hello, I am Jaime Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I am going to tell you my experiences with feeding your livestock mainly from the grasses and forages you grow on your own farm or ranch. This is essential to make you self-sufficient in these uncertain times, work less, insulate your property from high prices of inputs and improve your soil faster.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet podcasts. I hope you are well and enjoying the day, today I am going to tell you about how to feed your livestock from grasses and forages produced on your own farm as much as possible.

When we are mostly self-sufficient and are able to do without expensive purchased inputs we become independent of high-priced inputs that are going up every day. At least that is how it feels!

I had to learn this very early in my ranching career and it is the main reason I do not use any chemicals or synthetic fertilizers as they...

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Hello, I am Jaime Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I am going to tell you my experiences with adapted genetics and how it has helped increase my profitability and improve my soil faster.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet podcasts. I hope you are well and enjoying the day, today I am going to tell you the 5 most important points or advantages of having adapted genetics on your farm.

When we spend time with our cattle, we realize that some are better adapted than others. It may be adaptation to heat or cold, it may be nutritional adaptation where they remain in better body condition, on poor pasture than the rest of the herd.

It may also be that some or most individuals do not require de-wormers or insecticides for internal and external parasites.

We must be observers and identify these animals. I have been using adapted genetics with correct selection guidelines for more than 15 years and the...

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Hello, I'm Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I'm going to teach you my experiences in direct planting, by seed, of forage trees directly in your paddocks. By doing this, the cost of planting beneficial trees in your fields is reduced by up to 30 times!

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet podcasts. I hope you are well and enjoying the day, today I want to talk about the direct planting of fodder trees in your paddock or field.

We all know the great advantages of having enough shade for our cattle and for ourselves. What many have not taken advantage of on their farms is having enough forage trees that can be coppiced in the difficult season to feed their cattle with excellent quality forage.

I have learned this in the last 25 years since before this, I used fodder trees but for direct grazing. If you are one of my Total Grazing students, you know that forage trees grow much slower than...

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Hi, I'm Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today I'm going to give you 5 tips to greatly lower your fertilization costs.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat cows, Fat Wallet podcast. I hope you are well and enjoying your day. Today I want to talk to you about how to reduce and eventually eliminate the need to use synthetic fertilizers by using instead foliar fertilizers that cost a fraction of the fertilizer applied to the soil and do not harm soil life. This is very important because if we continue to apply synthetic fertilizers to the soil, the plant is not fed naturally and the soil micro-organisms around the roots become lazy so to speak and stop doing their job of making nutrients available! Nutrients not available from the soil!

The green revolution and cheap fossil fuel made producers forget about traditional methods of production with low external inputs. The goal, step from maximum profitability to...

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Hi, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching, where our goal is to help you maximize your profitability while improving your land as quickly as possible.

Welcome back to another episode of the Fat Cows, Fat Wallet Podcast. I hope you are having a great week. And today we are going to talk about something that is transcendental, like reducing the risk of not having enough grass thanks to using total grazing.

Today I am going to talk to you about what we must do to always have enough grass for our cattle, the importance of using deferred forage in the area, the type of grazing that we must use to avoid overgrazing. This is extremely important to achieve profitability and harmony in our lives. Fortunately, it is also what the land-pasture-cattle complex needs to regenerate the environment for greater productivity.

Much has been said that it is better to harvest only a third or sometimes half of the grass on offer. That comes...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you maximize your profitability while you improve your land the fastest.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet Podcast. I hope you are having a great week. And today we are going to talk about something that is transcendental, improving your land at a low cost with management.

We have learned some important things in this podcast, for example, soil humus is the real fertility of your soils, soil humus was much higher a long time ago which means we are mining the humus of our soils and we are not putting back or creating more of it.

Please invite or share this podcast with others you think could benefit from it as I want to help as many people as possible to regenerate their land to achieve good for all.

Trees are essential for the best health of soil and ecosystems; they help regenerate the land and landscape much faster than other low-cost methods. 

My students of Total grazing know...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you maximize your profitability while you improve your land the fastest.

Welcome back to another episode of Fat Cows, Fat Wallet Podcast. I hope you are having a great week. And today we are going to talk about something that is transcendental, improving your land at a low cost with management.

Today I am going to talk about how to control horn flies with dung beetles in 5 steps, and the importance of not using insecticides on our land or on our livestock. This is essential as there are always unintended consequences when we try to stop a problem (horn fly) with insecticides.

Research has proven that without dung beetles there is a 30% reduction in forage production due to the dung not being buried and its nutrients volatilizing to the air. This means you can increase your pasture productivity and stocking rate just by having a healthy dung beetle population. What does this mean to your bottom line? A huge...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and today we will discuss ways to save money without hurting our profits.

Why is it so important to differentiate between savings that do not hurt your profits and so-called savings that hurt your profits? Have you heard of penny wise and dollar foolish? It means that one can get so enthusiastic about saving that you start losing potential profits!

I have a lot of experience with this as I started my own medium sized business, a cheese and yogurt factory, to be able to buy my first farm. Learning how to calculate if a dollar can give you much more, when wisely invested, than if kept in your pocket can be the difference between profits and losses.

Sometimes this will be easy and plain to see, but other times not so easy. Today we are going through the 5 steps to make decisions, so you are certain it is profitable to spend a dollar on something or if it's better to keep it in your pocket.

Please remember that grazing livestock...

Hello everyone, this is Jim Elizondo of Real Wealth Ranching.

Have you ever wondered about Direct Marketing? Have you seen how the prices of beef have gone up? And the price we receive for beef and other products doesn’t go up as fast and that is crunching ranchers and farmers into a bitter difficult position.

Today, we will interview Kevin Muno from San Diego, California. Kevin is doing direct marketing and the name of his company is Perennial Pastures. He aims to target consumers that care about the regeneration of soil and the environment. And it is what he is doing with his grazing practices, he is practicing total grazing.

On this podcast, Kevin will be sharing with us the 5 tips for direct marketing. Want to know what they are? Listen to this great podcast episode with Kevin as he shares his advocacy to regenerate the land by applying the Total Grazing and Adapted Genetics practice while running his direct marketing business. 

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo, your host at Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you reach maximum profitability while you improve your land the fastest

Today I am going to talk about trees in your pastures.

Depending on the environment, some people believe trees are helpful and some others believe that they deprive their forages of moisture. But, in truth, trees are needed for many reasons and a savanna type of pasture is higher-yielding and more resilient than a pasture without trees.

I have been from Canada to Colombia in America, to Africa and Europe, even Hawaii, and have not seen an environment that could not be made better with the addition of trees in a suitable manner.

Trees act as shade, ambient cooling temperatures by evapotranspiration where the temperature under a tree is much cooler than in the full sun, they can also act as windbreaks of cold or drying winds if planted in rows, they act as mineral pumps recycling nutrients from deeper layers than grasses can...