Real Wealth Ranching

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Hello! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful day, are healthy and happy; welcome to your podcast Fat Wallet Ranchers where our goal is for you to achieve maximum profitability while improving your farm or ranch faster. 

Have you wondered what it means: to start with the end in mind?

It means setting an objective, before starting. It means creating something towards a clear objective with steps and purpose.

Maybe you know what the Bible says, do not start building a house without knowing if you have everything you need to finish.

And we know it is important to always finish what we start, we must also be sure of what we want, what is it that motivates us.

Why do I say this? Because many times we think we want something, when in reality we are trying to achieve what others tell us is best, but your life is yours and only yours to live. No one else can live it for you.

That is why I invite you to create your own path, in which aspects? 

Well...

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and would like you to keep considering your whole farm or ranch profitability. 

Whenever we look at a business, any business, we need to plan and cover all of the aspects needed to have success, and we know that we need immediate success for cash flow along with medium and long-term success for stability.

If you are like me, in that you are planning to provide for your family today’s and future needs you need to think long-term.

Where do you think you get the most in return for your time on your farm or ranch?

I know we may think of different parts of the equation but the one where you get the most profit per hour of your time is the grazing management part. This is where the money is, for today, for tomorrow and for the next years and the future. Nothing compares to the return per hour of your time with your grazing management.

You also need to know that a high to very high stocking rate is...

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching and would like you to consider your whole farm or ranch profitability.

This is essential for you and your family, then, after maximizing your profits you want to increase your capital. 

Have you considered how important it is for your livestock health, that the different mineral elements they require are balanced? We need to realize that for any given mineral element that your livestock needs for optimum health there are others which can make them unavailable to your livestock. Mineral elements like: calcium, phoshphorous, zinc, sulfur, selenium, potassium, magnesium and others.

I was recently at a ranch in the west where we went from 80 cows with calves under continuous grazing to a potential 800 cows with calves after implementing the total grazing program for two years. This is amazing and a testimony of what can be achieved with this grazing program.

Well, in that ranch there is a huge s...

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo and very happy and grateful to be here today, please pay close attention as today I will reveal something that has been hidden for thousands of years and humans have just recently found about it.

When a secret in nature is hidden it can be due to very different factors but mostly happens because of man’s arrogance.

People, especially those that have a degree and a Masters and a Doctorate believe they know all there is to know about a matter or subject, but they can be totally wrong and it shows.

Today I want to talk to you about long-lived soil organic carbon and how it is really created, but first let’s mention the importance of this long-lived soil organic carbon for your soil health, plant and livestock health and your economic health

Long lived soil organic carbon is different than simply organic matter because organic matter can be separated into short cycle or long cycle carbon.

It is long cycle carbon that ou...

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Hello, I hope you are healthy and optimistic today, welcome to your Fat Wallet podcast. 

We have all heard of the optimistic, the pessimistic, and the realistic, right? Well I much prefer to be realistic but with an optimistic view.  

Why? Because being negative stifles creativity and human creativity is the most powerful force of nature. 

Ever wonder why God gave us the command of being good stewards of the land? I am sure God gave us our creativity to be able to be our best, and we should be our best! 

Why am I talking about this? What am I getting to? 

Well, if you go to any grazing program out there you will see that they all lead to mediocre results, and I say mediocre results compared to potential. Potential we áre achieving with the Total Grazing Program.  

But, what I want to emphasize today is more important that just talking about the differences between grazing styles: non-selective vs selective grazing

Today, I want to tell yo...

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Hello! Welcome back to our Fat Wallet blog where our goal is for you to maximize your profits while your land improves the fastest through your management.

I hope you are having fun, have good health and are striving towards your goals. This is what gives us purpose in our lives.

When we want to be better, we need to be able to measure our progress or lack of progress.

Have you read the Holistic management phrase that says: Plan, observe, adjust and re plan? It is good advice, so let’s apply it to our grazing business.

We know that grazing management is where most of our profits will be made by implementing the total grazing program with adapted livestock and selection guidelines that follow nature and doesn’t contradict it, we can increase our grass productivity 3 to 5 times compared to rotational grazing in any of its forms or names. We need to have some nutrition knowledge when grazing to achieve the highest health levels in our livestock ...

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching.

I hope you are having a wonderful day, with good health and especially with a good attitude as we know that our attitude will have an enormous influence on the results we get when dealing with other people or even with our livestock!

Today I want to invite you to watch two YouTube videos for free.

One is of a student panel interview with Josh Teague of Running T beef farms in North Carolina 

The other is again of Josh Teague showing how the Total Grazing Program works in creating a vigorous regrowth after nonselective grazing when done on well-recovered grass.

This is what a total graze is; a high harvest efficiency grazing or nonselective grazing on well-recovered grass and done in less than 3 days so that your livestock do not regraze the regrowth which would be overgrazing.

Overgrazing is not severe grazing as many people think, overgrazing only happens when we allow our livestock to graze forages before they have recovere...

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo and would like you to consider your whole farm or ranch profitability.

This is essential for you and your family, then, after maximizing your profits you want to increase your capital. If we consider our investments in cattle/livestock, and land, plus machinery needed to run our operation we can look at return on investment. Does return on investment puts you off?

Let me tell you it turns me on! Why? Because it is a real benchmark that can be used anywhere and everywhere and we should use it more to make better decision when investing or spending money on our business.

Now, let me explain before your eyes glaze over:)

Have you considered your perimeter fences maintenance or upkeep? Do you factor in your land taxes or lease cost of the pastures you control, do you consider your machinery depreciation? Even if your machinery is old, it will need to be replaced sometime.

Then, you need to consider labor or wages, did yo...

Hello there, I am Jim Elizondo of Real Wealth Ranching and our goal is to have you reach maximum profits while you improve your land the fastest and at a low cost by following nature.

We have a student panel video that I would like you to watch. Many times we may understand something better when the facts or sources are closer to us, and many times we can relate better if the person explaining is in the same type of environment that we are, or of the same age and experience as we are. 

With this in mind, we started this student panel series with outstanding Total Grazing Academy graduates who have had very good success improving their land while reducing their costs.

Today, I want to share with you the interview of Adam Rabjhons of New South Wales Australia who is in a cool-season forage environment but with acidic soils which makes it more difficult but he has the results now. 

When you start to manage your grazing correctly, applying the 4 pillars of Real Wealth Ranching, you ...

If you have heard about the Total Grazing Program or Real Wealth Ranching or Jim Elizondo, you may have wondered why they make such bold claims. Like, you can double your stocking rate compared to rotational grazing which was already double conventional or set stocking grazing management!

How can they state that long-lived soil organic carbon is our soil’s real fertility? And why does he claim that it is mainly created when stockpiling grasses and NOT when rotationally grazing?

First, we need to know that green leaves produce energy by photosynthesis, and stems consume energy by respiring. This means that the type of grazing will have a huge impact on how many green leaves will be created and how many stems will be left attached to the plant and continue to consume energy from the plant’s reserves which are in the crown and roots.

Okay, this means we need leafy pastures to increase the net energy produced by our pastures.

Then, we need to realize that if we leave stems attached ...