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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
If we have lived for long enough around ranches/farms, and are observant of what is happening around us AND have listened to old cattlemen or ranchers, we can relate to what I am going to tell you.
First, let us picture how the land must have looked like and produced when the first white men came to America. We can find historical records of the abundance of game and the rich deep soils that they encountered. We can also read how the wildlife became depleted and how the soils and grasslands have degraded since then.
Why has this happened? Researchers have blundered in trying to find the reason that explains it. Grazing gurus have made huge mistakes by not considering how the land functioned before modern men and why the land degraded. I mean, they know some parts of the puzzle, but they miss, by ...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
A sponge will hold water and be absorbent, right?
We want our soil to absorb a lot of water and hold it and allow plant growth for a much longer time.
Creating a soil sponge is crucial for microorganisms that allow our forages to produce more, both in quantity and in quality. Besides microorganisms, we know that the gas interchange in our soil with the air above it needs to be enhanced and it is another reason we want a soft or spongy soil.聽When we can walk on spongy soil after walking on compacted soil, if we are good at observation, we will feel it in our feet and will see the huge difference it makes in grass production, biodiversity and soil health.
What happens when we create a spongy soil?
Everything starts to work as nature intended! The natural processes develop unhampered and highly pr...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
Did I tell you I love complex subjects? I really enjoy building new businesses and projects and regenerating ranches or farms with livestock which requires complex and in-depth knowledge for it to work properly.
Today I will speak of the importance of explaining complex subjects in a digestible way.聽Please share this podcast with any person you think may enjoy and benefit from it.聽
I have made podcasts about how to make long-term decisions, how to decide on which livestock species fit our enterprise better, taking into account the whole which includes man, society, profits, land and grass improvement, in-depth goals, family time, etcetera.
To be able to give such advice, it is essential that one has the experience and success record in these matters to show and to give confidence to oneself and ...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
Today, I want to talk about nutritional adaptation.
Nutritional adaptation is a genetic trait that allows certain lines or breeds of livestock to continue consuming low-quality forage and maintain good body condition when other individuals diminish their intake and lose body condition.
It is a very important trait and it is inherited, so we can select for it and reap the rewards!
If you happen to know of someone that would like to increase his or her land productivity with low-cost biological methods, please share this podcast with them.
Is nutritional adaptation something you can train or adapt your livestock to? Or is it a genetically determined trait?
It is a genetically determined trait as its individual appetite, and it is theorized it comes from natural selection when some breeds migrate...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
I have heard a lot of criticism and also good things about a grazing program called Tall Grazing. In it, they try to always allow the grass plants to grow tall before grazing them, and they also want the said plants to remain tall or with a very high residual and trampled after grazing.
While allowing the grass plants to grow tall before grazing is a good thing, allowing the livestock to select the best and leave the rest is not good for the plant鈥檚 energy reserves and very bad for the establishment of new seedlings of the best forage species.
If you know of someone that would like to hear this podcast, please share the link with them.
If you are one of my students in the Total Grazing Program, you know that we need to have our livestock consume the grass as efficiently as possible to get more d...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.聽
聽If you are thinking about your future plans, maybe it is time to start making them become real.
I usually start by managing the way I would manage when I accomplish or reach my goals.
For example: why would I place the ear tags on my newborn calves at birth if it will be impossible to do when I reach 300-400 cows calving in a 45-day long calving season where 90% of them will calve in 30 days? So, I work as if my herd was already that size and diminish my workload in the meantime.
It is important to plan ahead and consider alternatives so that when the time comes we already have the answer and the experience to make it achievable.
The Bible says that a King, before embarking on a war with another kingdom, carefully considers his advantages and stores, before he declares war.
We must do the sa...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.聽
Today, I am going to talk about unintended consequences of our actions and decisions.聽
Every action we make has a reaction, and every decision we take has a consequence. The same happens when we do not act or we choose not to make a decision. Not taking a decision or not acting is in itself of our choosing.聽
What does this have to do with raising livestock and managing our grasses?聽
When we make correct actions and take correct decisions we will be rewarded, and when we take incorrect decisions we will pay the consequences.聽
The implications and effects on our grass health and the vigor of our management will be immediate, medium-term, and long-term. The implications and effects in our genetics thriftiness, resiliency, hardiness, and profitability will also have consequences, immediate, medium...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.聽
Does your livestock come to you when they see you? Or do they try to get away? Or even worse, do they attack you? Today, I will talk about low-stress stockmanship.
Low-stress stockmanship means that your livestock is handled and managed by you, in such a way, that they feel confident and trust you. Their cortisol levels that are called stress hormones, are low and their oxytocin levels that are called content hormones should be high or level.聽
This can be measured by blood samples or can be observed in our livestock demeanor when handled or in our everyday moving them.聽
If you know of someone who can benefit from this information, please share this link with them so they can enjoy this podcast. Thank you!
Did you know that when we manage or handle our livestock in a stressful manner they will ...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.
Last blog, we finished the three-part series called Monitoring for Success. I explained the importance of monitoring your livestock, your grass, and your soil.
If you haven鈥檛 listened to those podcasts I recommend you do as they are essential to your success.
Today鈥檚 topic is Elegant Simplicity as it relates to managing a farm or ranch with livestock.
Anybody can complicate something to make it appear sophisticated or to make him or her look like they know a lot. What not everybody can do, is make a complex matter simple to learn and implement.
Consider some inventions that are easy to use and are common today:
What do they have in common? They are simple, do what they are supposed to do at a low cost, and they basically haven鈥檛 changed much ...
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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching where our goal is to help you achieve maximum productivity while improving your land the fastest.聽
This is the third part of the series: The importance of monitoring for success.
I have explained why monitoring is so important and that you get what you inspect, not what you expect.聽
We know that if we fail to plan, we are planning to fail, but then we need to inspect or monitor to make sure we are getting the results we expected when we planned.
If we do not monitor, we may make huge mistakes, especially when we use methods that contradict nature.
Today we will talk about monitoring your soil, your soil should improve under the total grazing program, if it does not, we need to know why, and to know we need to monitor.
Please share the link to anyone who may benefit from this podcast, thank you for your continued support!
Soil, in your farm or ranch, should be alive with microorganisms, la...
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