#128 On low stress livestock management | Manejo de bajo estress de tu ganado

Uncategorized Oct 08, 2024

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching. I have enjoyed teaching classes for a long time now. They focus on boosting profits and enhancing land value simultaneously.

We call it the Total Grazing Academy. We manage four programs: the Total Grazing Program, Adapted Genetics and Selection Guidelines, the Optimal Calving Season, and Nutrition When Grazing.

These courses aim to maximize your stocking rate. It is the main factor in your profits, not weaning weights, daily gains, or anything else.

Your profits will depend on how many productive animals you can maintain at a low cost per year.

Now, we need to realize that having a minimum infrastructure in place makes life easier. And, depending on how good your design is, your results will be.

In designing a minimal, electric, and permanent flexible fence, we must consider maintenance, future needs, changing grass growth, herd size, ease of moving them, and our livestock's energy when grazi...

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#127 Your First Step for the Total Grazing Program

Uncategorized Oct 01, 2024

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching. I have been teaching classes for a long time now. They focus on boosting profits while also enhancing your land fertility.

We know that we should not graze young grasses. It would shorten and weaken their roots. That would be overgrazing, and we must minimize it. We want to produce 3-5 times more grass than with continuous or early spring grazing of young grass.

I have been in Vermont and Alberta, Canada this month (September 2024). It is clear that the Total Grazing Program, with its slogan "Fat cows, Fat cows, Fat cows," is the best grazing system.

Why? Because we aim for our livestock's health as our priority. Healthy livestock perform better. Better performance means they will convert each ton of grass into more pounds of sales. We want more production per ton of grass.

But, here it gets interesting. We need to consider our livestock needs. But, we must also consider our grass needs. Our grass will grow soil when pruned at ...

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#126 Another Secret that will Give you Much Higher Profits at a Very Low Cost

Uncategorized Sep 24, 2024

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching. I have been teaching classes for a long time now. They focus on boosting profits and enhancing land value simultaneously.

We call it the Total Grazing Academy. We manage four programs:

  • the Total Grazing Program
  • Adapted Genetics and Selection Guidelines
  • the Optimal Calving Season
  • and Nutrition When Grazing

These courses aim to maximize your stocking rate. It is the main factor in your profits, not weaning weights, daily gains, or anything else.

Your profits will depend on how many productive animals you can maintain at a low cost per year.

These are simple math. The more productive livestock you keep at a low cost, the more you will reduce your annual costs per animal.

Wouldn't you want to have twice or thrice the productive livestock at a lower cost per animal than ever before?

People are usually put off by this larger number of livestock. They think they will need to spend more on hay in the lean seasons to feed them...

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#125 Increase your grass productivity, soil improvement and stocking rate with this simple guideline

Uncategorized Sep 17, 2024

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching. I have been teaching classes. They focus on boosting profits and enhancing land value simultaneously.

We call it the Total Grazing Academy. We manage four programs: the Total Grazing Program, Adapted Genetics and Selection Guidelines, the Optimal Calving Season, and Nutrition When Grazing.

These courses aim to maximize your stocking rate. It is the main factor in your profits, not weaning weights, daily gains, or anything else.

Your profits will depend on how many productive animals you can maintain at a low cost per year.

These are simple math. The more productive livestock you keep at a low cost, the more you will reduce your annual costs per animal

Wouldn鈥檛 you want to have double or triple the number of productive livestock carried at a lower cost per animal than ever?

People are usually put off by this larger number of livestock. They think they will need to spend more on hay in the lean seasons to feed them. But, it is ...

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#124 What to do about rising input costs?

Uncategorized Sep 10, 2024

Hello, I am Jim Elizondo from Real Wealth Ranching. As you may know, I have been teaching classes on how to maximize your profits while improving your land the fastest

We have called it the Total Grazing Academy where we manage the Total Grazing Program, Adapted Genetics and Selection Guidelines, The Optimal calving season, and Nutrition when grazing.

All these courses have a purpose; to maximize your stocking rate while minimizing overgrazing and hay costs. This will improve your land the fastest while your profits go way up!

Why? Because nature is always striving for complexity, biodiversity, higher and higher long-lived soil organic carbon, and productivity

I bet you did not see it this way, but studying nature's processes helps us better understand how to help nature achieve this at a much lower cost. Nature wants to increase productivity per acre, it is that simple.

Now, you may say, that many parts of the country have desertified, and other parts of the country are forest...

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#123 Sea Salt for your Land and Livestock | Sal de mar para el ganado y como fertilizante

Uncategorized Sep 03, 2024

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Hello, welcome to yourFat Cows,聽 Fat Wallet blog. I am Jim Elizondo. I teach:

  • Nutrition when grazing.
  • The Total Grazing Program.
  • Adapted genetics and selection guidelines.
  • Optimal calving season.

Today, I will discuss the importance of sea-derived minerals for your livestock and soil.聽Maybe you have read Maynard Murray鈥檚 book Sea Energy Agriculture
This book made a big impact on me and my understanding of soil life.聽Why?

The rain washes minerals, vital for life, back to the ocean. We must return those minerals to the land.聽Modern man has broken nutrient cycles. These cycles took minerals from the sea to the land to nourish soil life.聽Like: salmon runs, near-extinct whales, and plummeting migratory sea life.聽When salmon migrate upriver from the sea, they gather over 100 minerals from the seawater. They die after spawning. Brown bear scat, bald eagle scat, and other wildlife then feed on the salmon carcasses. Their nutrients go to the soil...

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#122 How Biochar Can Help You Make Money | Las ventajas del biocarbon

Uncategorized Aug 27, 2024

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Hello, I am Jim Elizondo of Real Wealth Ranching, and you may know that I teach classes on the Total Grazing Program, Adapted Genetics and Selection Guidelines, Nutrition, and Optimal Calving Season.

Today, I am going to talk about the nutrition side; I have about 25 years of experience as a dairy nutritionist and I want to talk to you about Biochar, and how to master Biochar. You see when we feed a small amount of Biochar to your ruminants you鈥檙e going to get a big return why? Because biochar, well made biochar, will help your ruminants digest fiber better, have better conversi贸n efficiency, better health, higher daily gains, better absorption of your minerals, so when you supplement minerals free choice, they are going to consume around half of what they usually consumed, and why is that? Because biochar, also, traps or holds ammonia, and ammonia is a gas which is released when we have too much protein in relation to available energy in the fe...

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#121 Biochar and its Benefits | El biocarbon y sus beneficios

Uncategorized Aug 20, 2024

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Hello, how are you? I hope you are well and happy because today I am going to talk to you about a super interesting topic.

Would you like to have healthier livestock? More productive? With less spending on mineral supplements?

Would you like your soil to increase its long-lived organic carbon content to retain more moisture and nutrients that it later releases for your forage plants?

Would you like achieving this to be easy and low-cost?

Well, today I am going to talk to you about a strategy that works at a very low-cost and you will be able to obtain: healthier livestock, with a better conversion efficiency, that is, more kilos of meat per ton of grass, you will improve your land faster with this simple practice.

Have you heard of activated charcoal?

It is charcoal made at very high temperatures and in the absence of oxygen, it is a charcoal that was once used by our grandmothers to cure stomach ailments and they still use it in hospitals ...

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#120 Goals and Objective for your Farm/Ranch | #120 Metas y objetivos para tu finca

Uncategorized Aug 13, 2024

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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.聽

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?聽

Well...

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#119 The Biggest Secret in Grazing | El m谩s grande secreto en el pastoreo

Uncategorized Jul 30, 2024

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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鈥檚 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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